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IHS: Lower profile, higher earnings

Investors/readers know that higher-profile companies obtain most of the business and financial world's headlines. Still, that's not to say that lower-profile means lower profits, and there's no better proof of this than IHS.

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) publishes technical documents for clients in the energy, defense, aerospace, construction, electronics, and automotive sectors, and distributes documents in several formats (Internet, intranet, extranet, CD-ROM).

Analysts really like IHS's energy unit (53% of revenue) which provides data on exploration, development, production, and transportation activities. As one might sense in an oil-hungry world, energy data has taken on added importance with oil's rise in value. The Reuters FY 2008/FY 2009 EPS consensus estimates for IHS are $1.94 to $2.37.

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