Tekelec
What analysts say:
- Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts think investors should stand pat on Tekelec with eight of nine analysts rating it hold.
- Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $102 million in revenue this quarter. That would represent a decline of 5.8% from the year-ago quarter.
- Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is earnings of $0.14 per share.
What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are solidly behind the stock with 97.4% awarding it an "outperform" rating. The community at large concurs with the All-Stars with 94.7% giving it a rating of "outperform." Fools are bullish on Tekelec, though the message boards have been quiet lately with only 43 posts in the past 30 days. Even with a robust four out of five stars, Tekelec's CAPS rating falls a little short of the community's upbeat outlook.
Management:
Revenue has fallen for the past three quarters. The company's gross margin shrank by 13.4 percentage points in the last quarter. Revenue fell 7.1% while cost of sales rose 28.7% to $51.7 million from a year earlier.
Quarter | Q1 | Q4 | Q3 | Q2 |
Gross Margin | 52.0% | 53.7% | 55.3% | 63.0% |
Operating Margin | (24.4%) | (14.6%) | 0.4% | 11.6% |
Net Margin | (14.8%) | (8.9%) | (0.1%) | 8.6% |
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