That figure still tops the average forecast of Wall Street analysts polled by Thomson Financial.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect earnings of 51 cents per share for the period.
According to Thomson Financial, analysts on average had expected a loss of 10 cents per share.
Wall Street had expected a reading of 56.5, according to a poll taken by Thomson Financial.
Analyst polled by Thomson Financial had expected to the index to register at 0.
The accompanying table shows same-store-sales growth from January 2006 through January 2007, as tabulated by Thomson Financial.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial foresee 31% annual earnings growth for the next three to five years.
Economists polled by Thomson Financial had expected sentiment to rise a touch to 56.9 in late June.
Citigroup is seen reporting 56 cent-a-share profits, down from the earlier 86 cent estimate, according to Thomson Financial.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expect Apple to post an earnings jump of 58% over the-year ago quarter.
According to Thomson Financial, a research firm, independent boutiques advised on 55% of the 20 biggest mergers announced last year.
UA's initial offering last November scored the hottest one-day run-up by a U.S. company in five years, according to Thomson Financial.
By Thomson Financial's count, for example, 22 analysts cover Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ).
Goldman Sachs , Warburg Pincus and Carlyle Group have been among the most active U.S. buyout firms in the country, according to Thomson Financial.
"The views expressed by Atticus are not representative of the feedback that we have received from shareholders, " a spokesman told Thomson Financial.
"We don't think that events in the market have meaningfully changed anything for the housing market, " he told Thomson Financial News.
After Thomson bough First Call in 1986, Parker headed up Thomson Financial.
Excluding special items, earnings were 35 cents per share, ahead of the analysts' average forecast of 31 cents, according to Thomson Financial.
The profit margin for an underwriter arranging a municipal bond issue is razor-thin, about a quarter of a percent, according to Thomson Financial.
Thomson Financial reports that 30 insiders sold into the rising stock price over the last six months, while there was no insider buying.
Analysts, on average, had expected the New York-based banking company to lose just 95 cents per share, according to a Thomson Financial survey.
It has yet to crack the top five among underwriters, either globally or in the U.S., according to year-end 2004 data from Thomson Financial.
Venture Economics Information Services, a research firm owned by Thomson Financial Securities Data and based in Newark, Ner Jersey, did the calculations for us.
The energy sector (which also includes oilfield suppliers and refineries) accounts for 14 new issues so far this year and 9 more in registration, says Thomson Financial.
The Associated Press and Thomson Financial News contributed to this report.
Thomson Financial, the data company that keeps a well-watched list of top deal advisers, assigned lead-banker status to Goldman as adviser to Archipelago and to NYSE.
Despite wanting to be among the top ten in North America, it does not even rank in the top 25, according to data from Thomson Financial.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had predicted Sallie Mae would post a profit of 72 cents per share under this system, so the miss was substantial.
Thomson Financial Datastream expects a slight recovery in the second half with revenue rising 1% for the year as a whole and net declining by the same proportion.
According to Thomson Financial, there have been only three in America in the second quarter so far, compared with a peak of 127 in the third quarter of 2000.
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