Linux wird gerade nachbörslich zerlegt!

Akt. bei 5,74$ = - 2,01$ oder - 26%.

Düsterer gehts ja wohl auch kaum.

Tuesday February 20 4:34 PM ET
     VA Linux to Cut 25 Percent of Staff As Loss
     Widens

     FREMONT, Calif. (Reuters) - VA Linux (news - web sites) Systems Inc.
     (NasdaqNM:LNUX - news) on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss that
     exceeded Wall Street's lowered forecasts, and said it would cut 25 percent
     of its work force in its drive to eventually turn a profit.

     The Fremont, Calif.-based company, which develops software and products
     for the Linux computer operating system, said that it recorded a pro forma
     net loss for its fiscal second quarter of $13.4 million, or 28 cents per diluted
     share, compared with a loss of $6.3 million or 20 cents a year earlier.

     The results excluded acquisition costs and other expenses.

     Wall Street had expected the company to lose 26 cents per share, according to First Call/Thomson Financial,
     which calculates the average of analysts surveyed.

     Revenues for its fiscal second quarter more than doubled, to $42.5 million from $20.2 million a year earlier, the
     company said.


Gruß Dampf

jetzt heißt es nicht mehr welche Sau wird morgen durchs
Dorf getrieben,

sondern

Welche Sau wird morgen zur Schlachtbank geführt.

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Agilent Beats Estimates But Warns of Rough Second Quarter
By Aileen Gallagher
Editorial Assistant
2/20/01 5:00 PM ET  

Earnings Scorecard
Actual Estimated* Year-Ago
$0.51 $0.50 $0.31


Agilent reported first-quarter 2001 earnings that beat analysts' expectations Tuesday but warned of a rough second quarter.

The company, a Hewlett-Packard (HWP:NYSE - news) spinoff that makes test and measurement equipment, posted earnings of $237 million, or 51 cents a share, up from $143 million, or 31 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Ten analysts queried by First Call/Thomson Financial were expecting earnings of 50 cents a share.






Agilent reported revenue of $2.8 billion, up 26% from the year-ago period.

The company, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., said the economic slowdown could make the second quarter difficult. ``We expect the second quarter to be especially challenging, given the current economic situation and over-capacity and inventory adjustments in many of our key markets,'' the company said.

Revenue growth for the year will be between 10% and 15%, with earnings margins of 5.5% to 7.5%, executives forecast.

Analysts are expecting full-year earnings of $2.39 a share vs. earnings of $1.76 a share posted for the last fiscal year, according to First Call/Thomson Financial.

Agilent lost $6, or 12%, to close at $44 during regular trading on the New York Stock Exchange. In after-hours Island trading, shares were recently trading at $43.56.