Excluding charges for severance and a discontinued operation, profit was $1.67 a share.
Excluding charges for stock-option compensation and one-time items, Cisco earned 40 cents a share.
Barnesandnoble.com expects to break even in the fourth quarter of 2004, excluding charges for interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Excluding charges for restructuring and other items, Sun missed the consensus analyst forecast for its net income by 5 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters.
Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 66 cents a share, excluding charges for past acquisitions and other costs, on revenue of $9.38 billion.
Excluding charges for closing plants and dismissing workers and losses from discontinued operations, the loss was $18.6 million, or 36 cents a share, compared with $16.1 million, or 31 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding charges for a tentative agreement to settle litigation in California, store closing and relocation costs, executive severance costs and professional fees, the company said it had a loss of 26 cents a share for the quarter.
The company, which is based in Irving, Tex., said that earnings in the quarter ending July 31 would be 14 cents to 17 cents a share, excluding charges for severance paid to departing executives.
Excluding charges for stock-option compensation, acquisitions and one-time items, Cisco earned 31 cents a share, beating the forecast of 29 cents a share by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters.
The JDS Uniphase Corporation, a fast-growing maker of components for fiber optic networks, reported fourth-quarter earnings today that exceeded analysts' estimates when excluding charges for the company's wave of acquisitions.
Excluding charges for previously announced cutbacks, PeopleSoft said its earnings would be 13 to 14 cents a share, beating the consensus estimate of 10 cents by analysts polled by Thomson First Call.
