At&T Industry Analysis

At&T Industry Analysis

  • Submitted By: camjo306
  • Date Submitted: 10/19/2008 5:49 PM
  • Category: Business
  • Words: 2141
  • Page: 9
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Basic Preliminary Indications:



Common Stock


• Earnings per share: 0.63 (2nd Quarter 2008)
• Shares Outstanding: 5.89B
• Number of Shares Holders: 1,649,713
• % of Shares Held by Insiders: 0.06
• % of Shares Held by Institutions: 60.00%
• Past Growth Rate %: 88.61
• Dividend Rate/Share: 1.60
• Dividend Payout: 0.40
• Dividend Date: 8/01/08
• Ex-Dividend Date: 07/08
• Yield: 5.17%
• P/E Ratio: 14.0
• Trailing 12-Month P/E: 14.0
• Forward 12-Month P/E: 9.46
• Market Stock Price Beta: 1.09
• Market Stock Price 52-Week High: 42.97
• Market Stock Price 52-Week Low: 29.72
• 52-Week Change: 1.34
• 52-Week Change S&P 500: -8.59
• 50 Day Moving Average: 32.00
• 200-Day Moving Average: 36.08
• Quarterly Revenue Growth (yoy): 4.70%
• Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy): 29.90%
• Book Value per Share (mrq): 18.995001





Preferred Stock



No Record











Bonds


“The recent bond information that I can find was in 2001. AT&T was expected to launch a $5 billion bond offering in November of 2001. AT&T was expected to issue the bonds in three tranches of 5-year, 10-year and 30-year notes. The telco has been under pressure to refinance about $6.5 billion in commercial paper— essentially an unsecured obligation that a company issues to finance its short-term credit needs. Commercial paper terms usually range from two to 270 days.

Late last month, Moody's Investors Service dropped AT&T's long-term and short-term credit ratings, pushing the company into a lower-tier market from which it is more difficult and expensive to access commercial paper. And on Oct. 29, Standard & Poor's placed AT&T's long-term debt on CreditWatch with negative implications. In a conference call on Oct. 30, S&P credit analyst Richard Siderman said that if AT&T decides to keep AT&T Broadband independent, it could possibly achieve an...

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