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Mix-Ansicht- AT&T warnt für das 2. Quartal (Aktienkurs steigt leicht) - Sascha, 24.04.2001, 16:58
AT&T warnt für das 2. Quartal (Aktienkurs steigt leicht)
AT&T warns about 2Q
AT&T's 1Q profit drops but edges target as revenue misses goal
April 24, 2001: 9:54 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - <font color="#FF0000">AT&T Corp. reported sharply lower first-quarter profits Tuesday that edged past Wall Street forecasts, but the nation's biggest long-distance phone company warned that it expects second-quarter results well below current estimates.</font>
<font color="#FF0000">The warning marked the third straight quarter that AT&T, also the biggest U.S. cable operator, has warned of lower than expected results in the upcoming quarter.</font>
The New York-based company, which plans to break into four separately traded companies beginning this summer, <font color="#FF0000">earned 6 cents </font>Aa share excluding special items, <font color="#FF0000">down from 34 cents </font>a share a year earlier. Analysts were looking for 5 cents a share, according to First Call, which tracks Wall Street profit forecasts.
With special items, AT&T reported a net loss of $366 million, or 10 cents a share, compared with profits of about $1.7 billion, or 54 cents a share, a year earlier.
Sales rose 5.4 percent to $16.76 billion as growth in its wireless and broadband operations offset shrinking sales in its core consumer and business long-distance operations. Analysts had forecast sales of $17.3 billion for the quarter.
The company said it is looking for second-quarter earnings of 1 cent to 4 cents a share, well below forecasts of 8 cents a share.
The company saw somewhat better than expected revenue at its AT&T Wireless Group unit, which has its own tracking stock. The wireless unit saw revenue rise 46.2 percent to $3.21 billion. First Call had been forecasting revenue of $3.16 billion for the unit.
The company said broadband, including cable television and high-speed Internet service, is growing revenue at a 10 percent annual rate. And it said business data services revenue continued to grow at about 20 percent, despite pricing pressures.
But the company's core long-distance service continued to have problems, as its consumer business revenue fell 16 percent and its business service revenue slipped 1 percent.
"Our business, along with others in the industry, continues to feel the impact of declines in long-distance voice revenue," CEO Michael Armstrong said in a statement.
<font color="#FF0000"> AT&T stock, one of 30 in the Dow Jones industrial average, rise 15 cents to $22.13 in early trading. </font>
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