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Earnings Est	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Avg. Estimate	1.02	1.55	5.93	6.12
No. of Analysts	18	9	14	15
Low Estimate	0.97	1.41	5.87	5.60
High Estimate	1.11	1.68	6.00	6.40
Year Ago EPS	0.65	1.62	4.76	5.93

Next Earnings Date: 27-Jan-10 -

Revenue Est	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Avg. Estimate	15.13B	14.48B	60.98B	58.42B
No. of Analysts	12	7	11	14
Low Estimate	14.67B	14.03B	60.44B	54.70B
High Estimate	15.33B	15.02B	61.70B	63.06B
Year Ago Sales	15.07B	15.14B	61.25B	60.98B
Sales Growth (year/est)	0.4%	-4.4%	-0.4%	-4.2%

Earnings History	Dec-08	Mar-09	Jun-09	Sep-09
EPS Est	1.36	1.25	1.43	1.38
EPS Actual	0.65	1.62	1.50	1.78
Difference	-0.71	0.37	0.07	0.40
Surprise %	-52.2%	29.6%	4.9%	29.0%

EPS Trends	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Current Estimate	1.02	1.55	5.93	6.12
7 Days Ago	1.02	1.55	5.93	6.10
30 Days Ago	1.02	1.53	5.90	6.09
60 Days Ago	1.03	1.57	5.88	6.14
90 Days Ago	1.17	1.52	5.67	6.04

EPS Revisions	Current Qtr Dec-09	Next Qtr Mar-10	Current Year Dec-09	Next Year Dec-10
Up Last 7 Days	1	0	0	0
Up Last 30 Days	1	0	1	2
Down Last 30 Days	0	0	0	1
Down Last 90 Days

Growth Est	WLP	Industry	Sector	S&P 500
Current Qtr.	56.9%	5.1%	5.8%	41.0%
Next Qtr.	-4.3%	5.9%	10.2%	18.8%
This Year	24.6%	8.9%	10.6%	29.7%
Next Year	3.2%	12.5%	11.6%	21.5%
Past 5 Years (per annum)	10.578%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Next 5 Years (per annum)	10%	11.59%	8.11%	N/A
Price/Earnings (avg. for comparison categories)	11.24	14.77	13.07	14.6
PEG Ratio (avg. for comparison categories)	1.12	1.27	1.61	N/A

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