National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM), which just turned 50 years old, is scheduled to discuss its fiscal fourth-quarter 2009 results today in a conference call featuring CEO Brian Halla, CFO Lewis Chew, and COO Don Macleod at 4:30 PM ET. You can catch the live webcast of the call on the company's website.
For the quarter in which the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker announced a workforce reduction but also acquired Act Solar, analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect the dividend-paying company to report a loss of $0.42 per share, compared to a profit of $0.34 per share in the same period of the previous year. Revenue for the quarter is expected to have fallen 41.0% to $272.7 million.
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