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As the exclusive carrier for Apple’s [AAPL
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] iPhone investors are hoping to hear that AT&T will be ringing up profits for some time to come. But right now their numbers are anything but off the hook. This quarter AT&T [T
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What can you expect?
David Barden of Banc of America Securities says he expects AT&T will report its phone lines shrank 8.6 percent compared with a year ago, a faster pace than before.
But he warns that AT&T's results may not be directly applicable to other phone companies, since the weakness in the economy isn't evenly spread across the country. (Historically investors have applied AT&T’s results to other carriers.)
Craig Moffett at Bernstein Research believes fears about the economy and competition are now priced into phone-company stocks, and AT&T's in particular.
"We may now be at a point when near term manifestations of these long-term worries may well be smaller than expected," he wrote in a research report.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial on average expect earnings, excluding items, of 76 cents per share on $31.2 billion in revenue.
The stock looks cheap to me, says Pete Najarian on Fast Money. But you don’t have to run out and grab it. I think you have time.
Jeff Macke sees it very differently. They’re at a 52-week low, he exclaims. I think buying AT&T is buying everything negative about the iPhone, he says.
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Trader disclosure: On July 21, 2008, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC’s Fast Money were owned by the Fast Money traders; Macke Owns (WMT), (HAS), (ATVID), (GS), (DIS); Najarian Owns (AMLN), (TSO); Najarian Owns (AAPL) And (AAPL) Puts; Najarian Owns (FHN) Puts; Najarian Owns (MRK) Calls, (YHOO) Calls, (CSCO) Calls; Finerman Owns (GS); Finerman's Firm And Finerman Own (C) And (C) Leaps; Finerman's Firm And Finerman Own (PDE); Finerman's Firm Owns (GE), (MRK), (MSFT), (PPH), (PFE), (SUN), (TSO), (VLO), (AXP); Finerman's Firm Is Short (IYR), (IJR), (MDY), (SPY)
Terranova Owns (RIMM), (GOOG), (YHOO), (INTC), (VLO), (IYT), (CME), (BNI), (FCX), (XLF), (SU); Terranova Is Long Crude Oil Sept. $154 Call; Terranova Is Short Crude Oil Sept. $130 Call; Terranova Is Short Crude Oil Sept. $130 Put; Terranova Is Chief Alternatives Strategist Of Phoenix Investment Partners, Ltd.,Terranova Is Co-Portfolio Manager Of The Phoenix Diversifier PHOLIO
Phoenix Investment Partners Owns More Than 1% Of (DBV), (RWX(, (LNET), (EXR), (SKT), (DLR), (IGE), (ARE), DBC), (ABD), (OFC), (CLB), (BLV), (CNTY), (FL), (HPC), (PSPT), (ESS), (OIIM), (BIG), (ENG), (PFD), (DRH)
Phoenix Diversifier PHOLIO Owns (IGE), (DBC), (DBV)
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