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Alcatel-Lucent Pulls a Rabbit Out of Its Hat on Earnings (ALU)

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Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) is surging after earnings.  Amazingly enough, the short sellers greatly lightened up in the new data that came out of the NYSE last night.  There was a drop of about 40% in the short interest.  Alcatel reported adjusted fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.25, which is more than double what the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.11 EPS.  The company is also reorganizing its work force and that will include bringing back outsourced jobs.  Another issue is that it will license patents through a third party. 

Shares closed at $1.94 on Thursday and the 52-week trading range is $1.39 to $6.63.  There is almost 90 minutes left of pre-market trading and we already have close to 4 million shares traded in the pre-market and the stock is surging by almost 15% to $2.23. 

After many disappointments, this one feels like it came a bit out of the blue when you consider the woes of Europe and that it is now based in Europe when so many other tech and communications outfits have been reporting bad numbers.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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