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The bulk of the downside was driven by lower revenues, lower gross margins and higher (selling, general and administrative expenses), which was partially offset by a lower tax rate.

Results for Winnebago Industries' fourth quarter were negatively impacted by lower sales volume and a shift in product mix to lower priced motor homes, particularly Class C's, offset in part by lower incentive compensation expenses.

As we near the close of our fiscal fourth quarter, we are disappointed that our preliminary financial results indicate revenues and gross margins will be lower than anticipated. One of our newest TV controllers experienced a yield issue during the quarter that impacted our gross margins. Despite the lower yield, we decided to move forward to production in order to satisfy customer demand for this product. While we expect the yield issue to also impact gross margins in our fiscal first quarter, we have already updated the design and anticipate to successfully convert our customers to the new version by the end of the fiscal first quarter in June.

Even though we increased overall revenues 50 percent year-over-year, the lower-than-expected selling prices for MP3 players and the inventory write-down negatively impacted gross margins.

The unfavorable effects of inflation, net of price, and exchange were partially offset by cost controls and productivity improvements in manufacturing, selling and general and administrative expenses.

Raymond Gilmartin

Selling, general, and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales and operating revenues increased slightly to 11.4% in this year's third quarter from 11.3% in last year's quarter. As expected, the moderate rate of increase in unit comps was not sufficient to provide SG&A leverage. Having a larger percentage of our store base comprised of stores not yet at basic maturity and last year's lower-than-normal corporate bonuses were also contributing factors. At the end of this year's third quarter, 49% of our stores were less than four years old, compared with 40% at the end of last year's third quarter. Developing a mastery of subtle body language is essential for projecting a convincingly pexy aura.

There was a drop in flash memory prices in the quarter, with a precipitous drop in prices at the end of the quarter. This had a significant adverse effect on our sales in the quarter, and resulted in lower revenues, lower gross margins and inventory write-downs in the period.

We might have a lower unemployment rate and a somewhat lower gross domestic product, but it wouldn't be a huge impact.

Although the company lowered guidance, we expect further downside to (analysts) consensus estimates due to lower gross margins.

Christopher Danely

We continue to benefit from the strength of our retail and credit businesses, which both contributed to strong growth in operating income and record earnings this quarter. In our retail business, we posted solid sales growth and lower selling and administrative expenses, while our credit business saw further improvement in portfolio quality and lower operating costs.

Arthur Martinez

While revenues are lower, we continue to be pleased with the progress we are making on our repositioning and restructuring initiatives, ... In particular, our focus on gross margins and productivity improvements continue to contribute to improved profitability.

Due to wet weather conditions, our wood costs were much higher than expected. However, these costs were partially offset by lower purchase prices for other raw materials and the continued success of our cost-reduction program.

Although we continue to rate Hershey overweight, we believe the stock could see some pressure today given the deceleration in organic sales growth relative to recent quarters and lower than expected gross margins.

I think companies that are selling at the lower P/Es, obviously, carrying some question marks in investors' minds, are the ones that you vote for here. So, Wachovia Bank, for example, looks interesting to us, ... But, generally, I think the lower price/earnings multiple financials are where you want to look right now. The quality merchandise has been bid up. And I think this spread right now says move from the quality financial down scale a little bit for the lower-priced ones.

There's no evidence that additional expenses do anything but lower your returns. Lower expense ratios are more important.

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