While they posted a loss, Research in Motion revealed a 27 cent loss per share, compared with the 46 cents expected by analysts.

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The quarter was break even, versus a 2 cent profit in the same period last year, but better than the three cent per share loss expected by analysts.

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Excluding one-time costs, the firm made a profit of one cent per share, comfortably beating expectations for a three-cent loss.

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The loss compares with 11-cent earnings per share in the year-ago quarter.

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For Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), options expenses would have dropped earnings per share 178% in 2001, to a 38 cents per share loss from the 14-cent loss reported.

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Shares in Foxconn International Holdings slumped nearly 8 per cent today after the kitmaker reported a whopping loss for the first half of the year.

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Its consumer electronics loss in the year to March, of Y84bn, was 60 per cent smaller than it was a year earlier.

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Last week, the company announced that it was expecting a third-quarter loss of 15 cents to 20 cents a share when Wall Street had expected a 12-cent per share profit.

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When Lexis Nexis revealed the massive loss of personal data shares in its parent company, Reed Elsevier, dropped in value by only one per cent.

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