All Star Analysts Portfolio Highlights: Anteon Int'l, EMC Corporation, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, and QUALCOMM.CHICAGO -- Zacks.com just released its latest additions and deletions to its proprietary All Star Analyst portfolio. Members on this exclusive list include Anteon International Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ANT), EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. (NYSE:EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. ), Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) and QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :QCOM QCOM Qualcomm, Inc. (stock symbol) ). View the entire list of stocks on the All Star Analyst portfolio at http://at.zacks.com/?id=510 This exclusive portfolio represents all stocks with a Strong Buy rating from at least five analysts with a 5-Star All Star ranking. These are the brokerage analysts whose stock recommendations proved to be the most profitable for investors. Since July 2002, this portfolio has generated an annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. return of 12.92%, exceeding the S&P 500 by a margin of more than 50%. Here is a synopsis of why these stocks are in the All Star Analysts Portfolio: Anteon International Corporation (NYSE:ANT) is a leading systems integrator, providing information technology and engineering solutions to the U.S. Federal government and international customers. Anteon Int'l reported a solid third quarter performance late last month, including earnings per share of 55 cents that topped the consensus by almost 8%. Furthermore, revenues advanced 17.3% to $382.1 million from $325.6 million year-over-year. But the All Star analysts were especially impressed with the company's guidance. Thanks to a strong trend line, and confidence in the fourth quarter performance, Anteon Int'l raised its guidance for 2005 and now expects earnings per share to meet or exceed $2.10 on revenue between $1.486 billion and $1.501 billion. EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) reported third quarter earnings per share of 13 cents, excluding a tax-related benefit, on total consolidated revenue of $2.37 billion. The earnings result improved year-over-year and eclipsed the consensus by more than 8%. Meanwhile, revenue advanced 17% from $2.03 billion in the third quarter of 2004. The company stated that the quarter's growth was driven by its expanding services business, market-leading mid-tier storage systems, software for enterprise content management and backup, recovery and archive, and VMware's virtual infrastructure software. EMC stated that few companies in its industry have been able to match the record of consistency and execution that EMC has achieved so far this year. Several All Star analysts agree and continue to recommend this company. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) remains one of the All Stars' favorite companies in the hotels industry. Starwood called its third quarter performance 'outstanding.' Excluding items, the company posted earnings per share from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of 58 cents, which improved year-over-year from 40 cents. The result also marked a positive earnings surprise of more than 11% ahead of the consensus. Revenue per available room (REVPAR) at same-store owned hotels increased 13.2% in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and 11.9% worldwide. QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) recently announced that its Board of Directors approved a new $2.5 billion stock repurchase Stock repurchase A firm's repurchase of outstanding shares of its common stock. program to replace its previous stock repurchase program, which had about $1 billion remaining availability. The company said it is pleased to expand its stock repurchase program which, in combination with its dividend program, enhances stockholder value. For its fiscal fourth quarter, QUALCOMM posted revenues of $1.56 billion, marking advances of 40% and 15% on a year-over-year and sequential basis respectively. Furthermore, earnings per share of 32 cents marked a rise from the previous year. The company stated that its record financial results reflect the accelerating migration to CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. throughout the world, and it expects 2006 to be another strong growth year with new CDMA handset shipments growing by about 30%. Discover all the current All Star Analyst rankings and top analyst recommendations at http://at.zacks.com/?id=511 About Zacks All Star Analyst Survey To learn which brokerage analysts are the best in their field and what stocks they're recommending today, see the Zacks All Star Analyst survey. This exclusive survey, created with Fortune Magazine, reveals the "Best-of-Breed" brokerage analysts. 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