AbitibiBowater Inc. (ABH) Earnings Preview For Thursday
AbitibiBowater (NYSE:ABH) is nearing the of release last fiscal quarter's results before the opening bell on February 09, 2012. We can review how AbitibiBowater has executed for investors recently.
Who They Are:
AbitibiBowater Inc., a forest products company, manufactures and sells newsprint, coated mechanical and specialty papers, market pulp, and wood products Abitibibowater shares trade an average of 547,000 shares per day and has a marketcap of $1.5 Billion.
52 Week High: $30.54
52 Week Low: $13.70
Book Value: $38.27
Float Short: 7.90%
What To Expect:
On average, analysts are expecting a drop of $-0.03 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.53. A beat of $0.50 per share will top the estimated mean earnings.
Analyst estimates range between $0.48 and $0.52 per share.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue for AbitibiBowater. 
Recent Stock and Valuation Performance:
In the last month, the stock has increased in price 3.39%, with a change from a year ago of -40.19%.
The stock has done about the same compared to the overall market. When comparing to the S&P 500, the year to date difference is 2.06%.
Management has provided an improvement of year-over-year revenue. Revenue reported was $4.75 billion for 2010 vs. $4.37 billion for 2009. The bottom line has rising earnings year-over-year of $2.61 billion for 2010 vs. $-1.55 billion for 2009.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are rising with an EBIT year-over-year of $-160.00 million for 2010 vs. $-375.00 million for 2009. Rising revenue along with rising earnings is a very good sign and what we want to see with our companies. Be sure to check the margins in the earnings release to make sure the bottom line is keeping up with the top line.
Here is the last few quarters to get an idea how well they perform compared to estimates 
Reported earnings per share compared to the mean estimate. Differences are rounded.
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