EdgeWater 10/26/2010 11:01:56 PM
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Earnings to Watch (SHW, LXK, TLAB)

Earnings to Watch

Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW) dropped 5.90% to $70.17. For the July-September quarter, the company earned $175.3 million, or $1.60 a share, compared with $175.2 million, or $1.51 a share, a year ago.

Analysts on an average were expecting the company to earn $1.68 a share, on revenue of $2.17 billion.

The company forecast full-year EPS in the range $4.12-$4.22, down from its previous view of $4.12-$4.52.

The stock went up more than 13% year-to-date.

Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE:LXK) plunged 19.20% to $38.56. Lexmark reported third-quarter net income of $72 million, or 90 cents per share, up from $10 million, or 13 cents per share from a year earlier.

The company also announced that its chief executive, Paul Curlander plans to retire in the spring of 2011.

The company's revenue rose 6.4 percent to $1.02 billion but fell short of analysts' average estimates of $1.04 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Over the past 52-week, the stock traded within the range of $24.46-$48.07.

Tellabs, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLAB) slumped 13.38% to $6.98. The company said its third-quarter earnings rose to $56.5 million, or 15 cents a share, from $29.3 million, or 7 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

Wall Street analysts expected earnings of 14 cents a share, and revenue of $421.7 million, according to a survey by FactSet Research. Tellabs expects fourth-quarter revenue of $410 million to $430 million, below the Wall Street target of $441.2 million.

The stock opened at $7.10 and is trading within the range of $6.91-$8.08.

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