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Earnings Est	Current Qtr Feb-10	Next Qtr May-10	Current Year Aug-10	Next Year Aug-11
Avg. Estimate	0.71	0.66	2.90	3.21
No. of Analysts	22	21	26	24
Low Estimate	0.66	0.57	2.76	3.01
High Estimate	0.76	0.72	3.05	3.36
Year Ago EPS	0.55	0.52	2.57	2.90

Next Earnings Date: 4-Mar-10 -

Revenue Est	Current Qtr Feb-10	Next Qtr May-10	Current Year Aug-10	Next Year Aug-11
Avg. Estimate	18.45B	17.40B	77.26B	82.23B
No. of Analysts	18	17	19	17
Low Estimate	18.13B	16.78B	76.17B	80.89B
High Estimate	18.85B	17.81B	78.68B	86.13B
Year Ago Sales	16.84B	15.83B	71.42B	77.26B
Sales Growth (year/est)	9.5%	9.9%	8.2%	6.4%

Earnings History	Feb-09	May-09	Aug-09	Nov-09
EPS Est	0.59	0.53	0.77	0.60
EPS Actual	0.55	0.52	0.85	0.60
Difference	-0.04	-0.01	0.08	0.00
Surprise %	-6.8%	-1.9%	10.4%	0.0%

EPS Trends	Current Qtr Feb-10	Next Qtr May-10	Current Year Aug-10	Next Year Aug-11
Current Estimate	0.71	0.66	2.90	3.21
7 Days Ago	0.71	0.66	2.90	3.21
30 Days Ago	0.70	0.65	2.88	3.20
60 Days Ago	0.71	0.67	2.89	3.22
90 Days Ago	0.70	0.66	2.86	3.20

EPS Revisions	Current Qtr Feb-10	Next Qtr May-10	Current Year Aug-10	Next Year Aug-11
Up Last 7 Days	2	2	2	2
Up Last 30 Days	5	5	6	4
Down Last 30 Days	1	0	0	0
Down Last 90 Days

Growth Est	COST	Industry	Sector	S&P 500
Current Qtr.	29.1%	12.3%	21.4%	41.0%
Next Qtr.	26.9%	14.8%	20.9%	18.8%
This Year	12.8%	12.9%	21.5%	29.7%
Next Year	10.7%	14.6%	15.9%	21.5%
Past 5 Years (per annum)	7.759%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Next 5 Years (per annum)	13.22%	12.16%	12.54%	N/A
Price/Earnings (avg. for comparison categories)	20.25	15.44	15.7	14.6
PEG Ratio (avg. for comparison categories)	1.53	1.27	1.25	N/A

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