Windstream Q4 Earnings USD 1.25 Per Share Vs 25 Cents
NEW YORK — Windstream Corporation emphasised Friday its fourth-quarter profit totaled USD 583.6 000 000, or USD 1.25 per share, from USD 117.7 000 000, or 25 pennies per share, in the same quarter a twelvemonth before. The Little Rock, Ark.-based company stated revenue for the fourth was USD 827.8 000 000, nigh flat from the USD 827.6 000 000 recorded a twelvemonth ago. Psychoanalysts polled by Thomson Financial existed expecting on average, lucre of 24 pennies per share on receipts of USD 823 000 000. Windstream articulated it anticipates 2008 receipts to come USD 3.16 000 000 000 to USD 3.29 000 000 000, equated with the 2007 result of USD 3.26 000 000 000. Windstream besides said its board of managers adopted a USD 400 000 000 share repurchase plan that will run out at the terminal of 2009.