Harley Beats By 10 Cents a Share

Harley-Davidson (HOG) had a huge quarter. The company earned $312.7 million, or $1.20 a share. Wall Street was expecting $1.10 a share. This is a 25% increase over last year’s third quarter when the company made 96 cents a share. Sales rose 14.3% to $1.64 billion.
The stock is up sharply this morning (so we’ll just ignore this). Here’s how the company has done for the past few years:

Year………..Sales (mil)………EPS
1996……….$1531.2…………$0.47
1997……….$1762.5…………$0.57
1998……….$2064.0…………$0.69
1999……….$2452.9…………$0.87
2000……….$2906.4…………$1.13
2001……….$3363.4…………$1.43
2002……….$4091.0…………$1.90
2003……….$4624.3…………$2.50
2004……….$5015.2…………$3.00
2005……….$5342.2…………$3.41
2006……….$4298.1…………$2.96 (nine months)

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on October 12th, 2006 at 9:23 am

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