Pre-Market Stock Notes (Nov. 8, 2006)

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(AAON) Aaon $0.43 EPS vs $0.36e.(ADG) Allied Defense Group filed to sell 1.7 million shares.(AIRM) Air Methods $0.71 EPS vs $0.58e.(AMT) American Tower put revenues at $333.5M vs $323.5M(e).(ARXT) Adams Respiratory $0.44 EPS vs $0.49e.(AUY) Yamana Gold $0.02 EPS vs $0.04e.A(ZPN) Aspen tech $0.07 EPS vs $0.06e.(BA) Boeing getting $2.1 Billion order for 4 AWAC jets.(BEXP) Brigham Exploration $0.08 EPS vs $0.07e.(BIDU) Baidu.com expanding deals with eBay and PayPal in China.(CBI) Chicago Bridge & Iron $0.33 EPS vs $0.29e.(CGPI) Collagenex -$0.59 EPS vs -$0.62e.(COSI) Cosi -$0.05 EPS vs -$0.07e.(CRFT) Craftmade Int’l $0.36 EPS vs $0.43e.(DNDN) Dendreon -$0.29 EPS vs -$0.31e.(EAGL) EGL $0.48 EPS vs $0.47e.(HCP) Healthcare Property Investors filed to sell 29 million shares.(HGSI) Human Genome Sciences -$0.41 EPS/R$6.7M vs -$0.41/$5.9M(e); showed positive tumor studies.(HOV) Hovnanian put 2006 guidance at $4.85-5.25 vs $5.03e.(HTRN) Healthtronics $0.03 EPS vs $0.01e.(IWA) Iowa Telecom $0.25 EPS vs $0.22e.(LAMR) Lamar $0.16 EPS vs $0.17e.(LEAP) Leap Wireless R$287.5M vs $291.4M(e).(LIZ) Liz Claiborne acquiring Kate Spade for some $124 million.(MNST) Monster Worldwide delayed its 10-Q filing over options review.(MRK) Merck trading lower after4 tax disputes over some $4 or $5 Billion.(MRX) Medicis received approval of acne gel from FDA.(MU) Micron gets grand jury subpoena from DOJ probe.(NOVL) Novell disclosed that it would receive $240 million from MSFT as part of SUSE Linux pact from last week.(NSM) National Semi put sequential revenues down 7-8% instead of down 2-5%.(NTBK) Netbank -$1.58 EPS vs -$1.55e.(OSIP) OSI Pharma plans to exit human eye business.(QLTI) QLT announces positive Phase IV trial of Aczone.(RITA) Rita Medical $0.00 EPS vs -$0.05e; stock up 12%.(SIRI) Sirius Satellite -$0.12/R$167.1M vs -$0.14/$167M(e); sees 6.3 million subscribers at year end; put 2006 revenues $615M vs $624M(e).(SYNM) Syntroleum registered 4.7 million shares for holders.(TRLG) True religion $0.37 EPS vs $0.44e.(TWTC) Time Warner Telecom -$0.06 EPS vs -$0.09e.(TWX) Time Warner acquires Relegence.(UBET) Youbet.com $0.02 EPS vs $0.05e.(WFMI) Whole Foods increased its share buyback program from $100 million to $200 million.(WW) Watson Wyatt $0.56 EPS vs $0.48e.(WYNN) Wynn R$318.1M vs $304M(e); EPS were -$0.01 vs $0.07e, but unsure if those were comparable.(XJT) ExpressJet $0.38 EPs vs $0.42e.(XTXI) Crosstex Energy $0.10 EPS vs $0.17e; unsure if comparable or if divested operations.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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