The Paxson Communications Corporation said quarterly results would be below its earlier forecast, setting off a 39percentt decline in its share price yesterday.
Pathmark Stores has warned that its fiscal fourth-quarter results were lower than the company had forecast, setting off a 23percentt decline in its share price yesterday.
Conceptus, a maker of a form of permanent birth control, said Friday that its quarterly results fell short of forecasts, setting off a 20 percent decline in its share price.
Spain's biggest bank, Banco Santander Central Hispano, said its profit in 2000 swelled 43percentt, but the bank lowered its 2001 profit forecast, setting off a sharp decline in its stock.
The Archer Daniels Midland Company, the nation's leading producer of ethanol, said yesterday that its quarterly profit rose 4percentt but fell short of forecasts, setting off a 5percentt decline in its share price.
The German software maker SAP estimated that software license sales rose by 8percentt in the second quarter, falling short of analysts' forecasts, setting off a 7percentt decline in its share price.
Europe's third-largest tour operator, MyTravel, warned for the third time in five months that its profit would fall short of its forecast, setting off a 62percentt decline in its already battered share price.
The Nvidia Corporation, whose computer graphics chips help run Microsoft's Xbox video game console, said yesterday that its second-quarter sales might top forecasts, setting off a 33percentt gain in its share price.
The RadioShack Corporation warned yesterday that poor margins on mobile phones, satellite television and computers would cause its first-quarter earnings to fall below those a year earlier and miss forecasts, setting off a 26percentt slide in the company's stock.
BAE Systems said today that it would take charges related to two airplane programs and warned that it would not meet its profit forecast, setting off a 25percentt decline in its share price.
