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B R E A K F A S T W I T H T H E F O O L Tuesday, November 21, 2000 benjamin.rogers@enron.com _________________________________________________________________ REGISTER TO BECOME A FOOL -- GET FREE STUFF! http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=205552 _________________________________________________________________ Sponsored By: Ameritrade You're headed to Wall Street in style. Get 2 round-trip tickets to Hawaii, Mexico or London when you open a cash account with just $500. Click here for Ameritrade. http://www.lnksrv.com/m.asp?i=205553 "It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion." -- Anatole France AGILENT EARNS ITS "A" Agilent tops estimates and moves to the head of the class. By Rick Aristotle Munarriz If there were truth in ticker symbols, Agilent (NYSE: A) would be holding up its "A" report card proudly. With quarterly estimates pegged at $0.53 a share, the electronics testing equipment maker powered up expectations with a $0.69-a-share showing. That was a 77% surge in bottom-line growth before charges on $3.4 billion in revenues for the September period. That's welcome news for a company that has seen its shares fall sharply since peaking at $162 back in March. However, a slowdown in microchip testing equipment as well as weakness in the wireless market has the company warning of slower growth ahead. With a healthy backlog of orders, Agilent still expects to meet estimates of $0.45 for the current quarter. Spun off by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP) last year, Agilent will be deploying new capital into areas where it sees higher growth: communications and life sciences. I guess that gives the company an "A" for effort too. _________________________________________________________________ NEWS TO GO Chipped off the old block, semiconductor distributor Avnet (NYSE: AVT) announced that earnings for the current quarter would come in between a nickel to a dime below the $0.85-a-share forecast. While acknowledging the cyclical ways of the chip industry, the company believes that earnings for the rest of the year will remain on track. Attention holiday shoppers, Nieman Marcus (NYSE: NMG.A) reported stronger-than-expected profits but warned of slow action at the registers so far this month. That's critical as the upscale department store chain heads into the important buying season. Nobody wants to see the Grinch steal Christmas (well, OK, it did top the box office this past weekend, but that's another story). EDGAR Hoovered? The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) site for electronic financial filing and data retrieval will go down on Friday for a "major upgrade." The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system -- thankfully better known as EDGAR -- will be back up on Monday morning. http://www.lnksrv.com/m.asp?i=205554 Has Ozzy Osbourne bitten off more than he can chew -- again? The legendary showman is suing Hughes Electronics (NYSE: GMH) and MCY.com (Nasdaq: MCYC) for broadcasting an Ozzfest 2000 concert tour stop to Hughes' DirecTV subscribers. Osbourne claims that tour sponsor MCY.com only had rights to a Web cast of the rock event. Mr. Crowley will not be his legal counsel. Deere (NYSE: DE) John? An epic Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL)? Hit the Fluor (NYSE: FLR)? These questions and more will be answered as the companies get set to release earnings today. 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