[b]Sapient Corporation[/b] (SAPE) is due to report earnings after the closing bell on November 3, 2011. Below you can see the results of SAPE over the last few earnings periods.
Sapient Corporation helps clients to leverage marketing and technology to transform their businesses in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
[b]52 Week High: $15.90[/b]
[b]52 Week Low: $9.00[/b]
[b]Book Value: $3.58[/b]
[b]Float Short: 6.52%[/b]
Analysts are expecting an improvement of $0.02 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.11. [b]A beat of $0.13 per share[/b], will top the estimated mean earnings. Analyst estimates range between $0.12 and $0.14 per share.
Relative to the earnings, investors have not been as aggressive accumulating shares, as the current trailing twelve months (ttm) P/E ratio is 30.2, while the forward P/E ratio is now 24.2.
Looking at the price movement over the last month, the stock has moved higher in price 32.19%, and changing from last year at this time -6.08%.
With a modest gain compared to stocks in general, the stock is close to the same as the overall stock market. When comparing to the S&P 500, the year up to date change is 2.51%.
For the same fiscal period year-over-year, revenue has improved to $863.52 million for 2010 vs. $666.68 million for 2009. The bottom line has falling earnings year-over-year of $43.81 million for 2010 vs. $88.13 million for 2009.The company's earnings before income and taxes are rising with an EBIT year-over-year of $63.90 million for 2010 vs. $40.42 million for 2009.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue.
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Gross reported revenue compared to the mean estimate (rounded).
[table][tr][td]Fiscal Quarter Ending Month-Year[/td] [td]Revenue Estimates[/td] [td]Actual[/td] [td]$ Difference[/td] [td]Difference %[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Jun-11[/td][td]$ 255.31 M[/td][td]$ 254.62 M[/td][td][color=Red]$ -0.69 M[/color][/td][td]-0.27%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Mar-11[/td][td]$ 231.03 M[/td][td]$ 241.34 M[/td][td]$ 10.31 M[/td][td]4.46%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Dec-10[/td][td]$ 224.68 M[/td][td]$ 222.88 M[/td][td][color=Red]$ -1.80 M[/color][/td][td]-0.8%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Sep-10[/td][td]$ 209.61 M[/td][td]$ 217.06 M[/td][td]$ 7.45 M[/td][td]3.55%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Jun-10[/td][td]$ 195.06 M[/td][td]$ 200.35 M[/td][td]$ 5.29 M[/td][td]2.71%[/td][/tr][/table]M = millions, B = billions
Differences are rounded. (Some onetime items are often excluded in reported EPS)
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Reported earnings per share compared to the mean estimate. Differences are rounded.
The total short interest number of shares for SAPE
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The number of days to cover short interest based on average daily trading volume for SAPE.
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