For Pfizer, the news is bleak, as no other experimental drug is likely to replace torcetrapib's sales potential on its own.
Eventually, Pfizer bought Warner-Lambert largely for Lipitor's sales potential.
Last week led Deutsche Bank to ease back on its share price target for Starbucks based upon potential loss of coffee sales to McDonald's.
It would double the size of HP's sales force and broaden its customer base, providing more potential clients for its services and consulting arms.
In addition, the market is not adequately discounting the sales, profit and cash flow potential stemming from last year's acquisition of the North American bottling business.
Still, Wal-Mart's size, together with the longtime acceptance of same-store sales as a yardstick of a retailer's health, makes for potential fireworks every time the company's executives put out the latest monthly number.
Shapiro, who maintained a "buy" rating on Cablevision shares, also said potential asset sales, including all or part of the company's Rainbow media property, could generate future cash.
Hiro estimates that the potential market size for sales of virtual items in the U.S. is in the billions of dollars, but that issues like too many virtual currencies are roadblocks for potential customers.
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In Virginia, GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell recently won approval for overhauling his state's highway maintenance system by raising diesel and retail sales taxes and creating a mechanism for a potential future gasoline tax hike.
The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.
"Know what's coming, " says Sellers, who suggests homeowners and their realtors help appraisers identify potential comparable sales.
Early sales of the ATS in the U.S. isn't a fair indicator of the brand's potential, Mr. Ferguson said, because they reflect a failure to supply enough all-wheel-drive models in a segment where roughly half the cars sell with the feature.
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