Because Cisco beat its modest earnings-growth target by a slim two cents a share.
The company's modest beat puts its revenue, on a GAAP basis, up 9percentt compared to its year-ago figure.
Its preceding quarter, the fiscal first quarter, included a modest beat on both the top and bottom lines of its income statement.
Ruhlmann further noted that "a messianic theme ran through many of the videos" like the relatively modest "Beat It," which is about stopping violence, to "Earth Song," in which Jackson restored ravaged rain forests and even brought the dead back to life.
In the US, where the film was released a week ago, it was said by the Hollywood Reporter to have made £42.1m in its opening weekend, beating the relatively modest £15m grossed by George Clooney's much hyped and star-studded movie, The Monuments Men, which opened on the same day.
My own house was a modest, beat-up rancher that my parents had bought as newlyweds in the 1970s.
The electronics provided an understated beat or a few modest effects: a loop of his young son singing, an echo, a sustained tone.
On Thursday, Southwest beat estimates with a modest third-quarter profit, despite higher fuel costs; that profit will probably be the only one at a major airline this fall.
