Dow Jones 1Q profit declines to $22.6M |
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Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:49
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NEW YORK (AP) - Financial news publisher Dow Jones & Co. reported a sharp drop Tuesday in first-quarter earnings from a year-ago period that included a large accounting gain, but the latest adjusted income topped analyst expectations.The New York company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Dow Jones Newswires and other publications, earned $22.6 million, or 27 cents per share, versus $61.5 million, or 74 cents per share, a year earlier.However, the year-ago period included a net gain of 60 cents per share, mostly from an accounting gain relating to litigation over its former Telerate data delivery service. Dow Jones booked a tax benefit of 2 cents per share in the latest period.Excluding these items, earnings rose 71.4 percent to $20.5 million, or 24 cents per share, from $11.4 million, or 14 cents per share, last year. Analysts, whose estimates discount items, were looking for profit of 19 cents per share, according to Thomson Financial.Revenue rose 18 percent to $507.2 million from $430.1 million, mainly because of the acquisition of the other half of the Factiva news database business that the company didn't already own. The company's indexes services, which publish the Dow Jones Industrials average, also boosted sales. Analysts were expecting revenue of $508.2 million.The U.S. edition of The Journal reported a 1.8 percent decline in advertising revenue, hurt by a sharp drop in technology ads.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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