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What: Shares of business process outsourcing specialist TeleTech
So what: Revenue was $300.5 million with earnings per share of $0.28, both figures well below the market's expectations of $317.2 million in sales and a $0.39 per-share profit. Guidance looked gloomy too, with fiscal 2012 sales expected to be between $1.15 billion and $1.2 billion.
Now what: The company recently acquired marketing analytics company iKnowtion, which TeleTech sees being accretive to earnings immediately. Restructuring plans are also holding back the company's guidance, which fell short of the $1.28 billion consensus estimate. The one small bright spot in the announcement was that TeleTech increased its share buyback program by $25 million.
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