Last year, analysts forecast smartphone sales of 2.3 billion from 2010-2015 on a global basis.
Analysts forecast 21% annualized growth over the next five years, giving OSK a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.76.
It expanded by 8% in 2002, but some analysts forecast growth may fall to 6.5% this year.
Thus far in earnings season, it appears that companies as a whole are doing better than what analysts forecast.
And growth will likely pick up in the January-March quarter to an annual rate of 1.5 percent, analysts forecast.
The news of tighter supply comes as analysts forecast a rebound in automotive sales, which is expected in 2013 as the global economy is expected to rise.
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As reported in the current issue of Forbes, some analysts forecast that by 2010, Amgen will be as big as Merck, once the largest U.S. drug maker.
Analysts forecast average annual growth of 27.5% over the next five years, giving Cal Dive a price-to-earnings growth ratio of 0.76--substantially lower than the 1.82 PEG posted by competitor Oceaneering International.
Despite a strong showing in many financial stocks Thursday after the plan was announced, analysts forecast slower growth for banks as they come to terms with rising credit costs and a slowdown in their bond divisions.
Analysts forecast 54 cents a share.
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Analysts forecast average annual growth of 27.5% over the next five years, giving Cal Dive a price-to-earnings growth ratio of 0.76--substantially lower than the 1.82 PEG posted by competitor Oceaneering International (nyse: OII - news - people ).
Oil services company Halliburton also gained after its loss wasn't as bad as analysts had forecast.
The offer values Siam Makro at 53 times its 2012 earnings, or 45 times analysts' forecast 2013 earnings.
Without gains from fuel-hedging contracts, Southwest would have earned 7 cents per share, topping analysts' forecast of 2 cents per share.
The quick fixes helped RadioShack to a 29 cents-per-share profit after one-time items, compared with the 13 cents analysts had forecast.
Output climbed a seasonally adjusted 2.5 percent from November but most analysts had forecast an improvement of more than 4 percent.
Mr Khan said that most analysts had forecast that the 787 would be out of service for, perhaps, eight weeks at most.
The Chicago Business Barometer for January came in at 55.6, a higher reading than analysts had forecast, according to data provider FactSet.
The report said crude supplies fell by 800, 000 barrels the end of last week, half the 1.6 million barrel decline analysts had forecast.
Most analysts have forecast a long-term rise in personal savings in the U.S. as well as depressed consumption and slower growth because of it.
Mr. Dhanin's offer, through his CP ALL convenience store, values Siam Makro at 53 times its 2012 earnings, or 45 times analysts' forecast 2013 earnings.
Wall Street analysts had forecast earnings of 64 cents a share.
For the full year, the company is anticipating 75 cents to 83 cents a share thanks to the healthier margins, and analysts had forecast 73 cents.
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Sales of the iPad over the quarter were lower than some analysts had forecast, but up more than 150% from a year ago to 11.8 million units.
The studies in two types of hemophilia both succeeded this fall, and analysts now forecast annual sales of the drugs in the low hundreds of millions of dollars.
However, this outcome was still better than analysts had forecast.
Meanwhile, industrial output and retail sales also rose in January and February, from, a year earlier, though the pace of growth in those sectors was slower than what many analysts had forecast.
As many other analysts have forecast, Trone says he sees "a slow, modest recovery in activity through 2009, but nothing resembling 'normalized' conditions, " though he expects Goldman to fare better than rivals in the long run.
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