The guidance is provided ahead of the full announcement of quarterly earningsresults for the convenience of investors and media, before our external audit on the financialresults of our headquarters, subsidiaries and affiliates is completed.
It warns that investors in its IPO should expect its financialresults to fluctuate significantly and that they shouldn't plan on steady earnings growth.
Then Bristol arguably overpaid for a share of ImClone Systems ' (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) Erbitux, and got caught pushing extra drugs to wholesalers to boost earnings, forcing it to restate billions of dollars in financialresults.