The technology giant also said full year profits would be higher than previously expected.
The important Christmas 2011 selling season was very disappointing impairing full year profits.
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The current price-to-cash earnings multiple is neither particularly high or particularly low based on fiscal 2010 estimates (predicting full year profits double) at 12.1x.
It announced a 16% rise in full year profits in April, and its share price has tended to rise on speculation that the deal will be blocked.
In October it said bad debts and a currency hit would impact full-year profits by 2.5%.
Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways, sponsor of Manchester City Football Club, has tripled its full-year profits.
The retailer also forecast that its full-year profits would be at the top end of expectations.
At ABF's sugar business, full-year profits will be "considerably higher" than a year earlier, led by strong sales in Europe and Africa.
Oil giant BP has posted a fall in full-year profits after setting aside money to cover liabilities for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The UK health club chain LA Fitness is predicting strong full-year profits.
British aerospace company Rolls-Royce has reported a higher-than-expected rise in full-year profits.
It said that full-year profits were now likely "to be at the bottom" of analysts' forecasts, sending Ladbrokes' shares down 8% in early trading.
The company reported underlying sales growth of 13% in the third quarter, but said increasing bad debts and a currency hit would impact full-year profits by 2.5%.
The company recently announced record sales and earnings for the second quarter and told investors that full-year profits were likely to exceed the targets it set earlier in the year.
Earlier this month, DaimlerChrysler announced it had quadrupled its full-year operating profits for 2002 to 5.8bn.
Caterpillar added to those worries Monday when it lowered its forecasts for full-year sales and profits because its mining business is slowing.
The company said it expected full-year pre-tax profits to be ahead of last year.
It said this week that it could not give any indication of full-year sales and operating profits.
The company expects full fiscal year non-GAAP profits of 70-90 cents a share, while the Street has been expecting 86 cents.
Record farm profits allowed John Deere to post better-than-expected quarterly profits and raise its full-year outlook.
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In corporate news this week, Dollar General (DG) reported that profits were higher, and raised its full year earnings forecast.
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