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======================== THE MOTLEY FOOL ======================== B R E A K F A S T N E W S Wednesday, April 25, 2001 benjamin.rogers@enron.com ================================================================= IN THIS ISSUE --------------------- - TOP STORY: VERIZON: LONG-DISTANCE BUSINESS RISIN' http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397702 - NEWS TO GO: DISNEY, FLEXTRONICS, AND BMC SOFTWARE http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397703 - HOT TOPICS: IBM, DELL, AND BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397704 ================================================================= SPONSORED BY: IBD Sign up for two FREE weeks of Investor's Business Daily and learn how to use this valuable source of investor information with an online tutorial from the Fool. http://www.lnksrv.com/m.asp?i=397705 "Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements." -- Mary Schmich ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOP STORY ----------------------------------------------------------------- VERIZON: LONG-DISTANCE BUSINESS RISIN' Telecommunications services giant Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said first-quarter profits from operations were $0.72 per share, up from $0.69 a year ago. The company, formed when Bell Atlantic bought GTE last summer, turned in revenues of $16.3 billion for the quarter. The EPS figure was a penny better than the consensus expectation of Wall Street analysts. <<FULL STORY: http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397706 ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS TO GO ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shrewd cost-cutting at Disney (NYSE: DIS) helped the company turned in fiscal second-quarter profit growth even as the top line took a dip. Revenues fell to $6 billion from $6.3 billion. Analysts were expecting an uptick to $6.4 billion. However, higher margins propped operating profits to $0.19 a share, well ahead of analyst estimates and last year's $0.14-a-share showing. Look for more coverage of Disney in Fool News & Commentary later today. Contract electronics manufacturer Flextronics (Nasdaq: FLEX) said fiscal Q4 EPS was $0.22, up from last year's $0.17 but down $0.02 from Wall Street's projections. The company is cutting about 7,000 jobs, or 10% of its workforce, and trimming production capacity 15% in the face of slowing demand. Mainframe software company BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) said it earned $0.26 per share in fiscal Q4, beating the Street's $0.24 consensus estimate and its own preannounced $0.23 to $0.25 range as revenues fell year-over-year to $422.8 million. The company pointed investors toward full fiscal-year sales growth of between 12% and 15%. http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397707 Pay-for-performance Web search service GoTo.com (Nasdaq: GOTO) announced first-quarter losses of $0.13 per share, better than the year-ago $0.20 per-share loss and well ahead of the $0.31 to $0.33 range Wall Street was looking for. Revenues jumped more than 200% to $50 million for the quarter. ----------------------------------------------------------------- HOT TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------- IBM GOES SHOPPING What's a billion, give or take? That's what Big Blue is spending to acquire Informix, and Fools are offering their thoughts on this latest purchase. http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397708 WHAT DOES DELL KNOW? So far it's the only computer maker who has not guided earnings lower. Does Dell know something about the current environment that other boxmakers don't? http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397709 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PREDICTABLE A Fool on the Berkshire Hathaway board takes issue with Buffett's "predictability of earnings" approach to investing. http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397710 <<MORE HOT TOPICS http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397711 ================================================================= SPONSORED BY: IBD Sign up for two FREE weeks of Investor's Business Daily and learn how to use this valuable source of investor information with an online tutorial from the Fool. http://www.lnksrv.com/m.asp?i=397712 ================================================================= My Portfolio: http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397713 My Discussion Boards: http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397714 My Fool: http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397715 Fool.com Home: http://www.fool.com/m.asp?i=397716 My Email Settings: http://www.fool.com/community/freemail/freemaillogin.asp?email=benjamin.rogers@enron.com 25 INVESTING IDEAS FOR A DOWN MARKET Our Rule Maker team has picked out 25 high-quality companies with realistic valuations. 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