Bally Technologies (BYI) Earnings Preview For Upcoming Quarterly Earnings Release Date
Bally Technologies Inc. (NYSE:BYI) is expected to report last fiscal quarter's results after the closing bell on February 01, 2012. Let's review how Bally Technologies has performed in recent quarters.
Bally Technologies, Inc. operates as a diversified gaming company. The company designs, manufactures, operates, and distributes technology-based gaming devices, systems, and server-based solutions worldwide. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
52 Week High: $42.84
52 Week Low: $24.74
Book Value: $4.66
Float Short:   9.00%
Analysts are expecting an improvement of $0.06 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.45. Investors will be looking to top $0.51 per share , based on the estimated mean earnings. Analyst estimates range between $0.48 and $0.53 per share.
The P/E ratio has trended lower, as the current trailing twelve months P/E ratio is 22, while the forward P/E ratio is now 17.27. An upside earnings report may put a lot of wind in the sails.
From a month ago, the stock has increased in price 7.05%, and changing from last year at this time 3.67%.
For the same fiscal period year-over-year, revenue has declined to $758.16 million for 2011 vs. $778.19 million for 2010. The bottom line has falling earnings year-over-year of $98.26 million for 2011 vs. $137.48 million for 2010.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are falling with an EBIT year-over-year of $151.54 million for 2011 vs. $184.11 million for 2010. Lower revenue along with a drop in earnings is often one of the last signs to get out of the way of a falling stock price.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue. 
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.
The total short interest number of shares for BYI 
The number of days to cover short interest based on average daily trading volume for BYI 
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