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American Medical Systems Warns, Shares Stumble

...During a conference call Tuesday evening, the company's chief executive Marty Emerson said supply and inventory problems were at the root of the company's most recent troubles.

MORE ON STOCKS FROM SMARTMONEY.COM Investors Lose Faith in Jeans Maker True Religion Vonage Struggles as Courts Squeeze its Business Sporting-Goods Chain May Get Pop From Short Squeeze American Medical, which is slated to report its first-quarter earnings on April 30, said its preliminary revenue estimate for the quarter is now about $108.4 million, compared with an earlier estimate of $113 million to $118 million.

Earnings projections for the first three months of the year were also ratcheted lower to between five and seven cents a share, less than half the average Wall Street estimate of 14 cents a share, according to Reuters Research.

"This quarter, vendor quality issues, combined with performance shortfalls in our internal manufacturing and demand planning efforts, resulted in an inability to consistently meet demand for several key product lines," said Emerson, who noted that without those challenges, the company would have been able to report revenue within its initial range of guidance.

For the full year, American Medical now expects revenue to fall between $475 and $500 million.

That's well below its previous range of $490 to $515 million, which the company reiterated as recently as Feb.

15.

Wall Street analysts expected revenue of $496 million.

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