71. Analysts considered U.S. Healthcare an efficient provider of managed-care programs, which cap costs by controlling charges for doctors and hospitals.
72. Analysts consider a spinoff unlikely.
73. Analysts consider cash flow a better measure of the performance of indebted companies than earnings because it excludes interest payments and focuses on the underlying operations.
74. Analysts consider it a better gauge of performance than overall sales, which includes new restaurants that skew results more positively.
75. Analysts consider same-store sales a good gauge of how a retailer is performing because they factor out new-store openings.
76. Analysts consider Strong a sober-minded and effective manager.
77. Analysts considered a higher offer unlikely.
78. Analysts considered Fortis the safest buyer because it has very little activities yet in merchant banking.
79. Analysts consider the Pacific-North rail line the second-most important railroad in Mexico.
80. Analysts consider U.S. Healthcare an efficient provider of managed-care programs, which cap costs by controlling charges for doctors and hospitals.