That is about the same as last year and 700,000 acres below the analysts' average estimate.

The average estimate for annual maintenance since its inauguration has been about $7 million, a number considered high by many standards.

On that basis, the company met the average estimate of Wall Street analysts.

The service's average estimate now calls for profits of $8.85 a share this year and $10.63 a share in 1988.

The average estimate, according to First Call, was 12 cents a share.

The average estimate from Wall Street is 67 percent higher this year, at $2.40, and $3.30 in 1998.

He said the average published estimate jumped to more than $2 a share from $1.85 a share a couple of weeks ago.

The company says it offered more than the house's market value; several appraisals produced an average estimate of $456,000.

In 1973, the first year of his study, the average estimate was off by 31 percent from actual earnings.

But its revenue fell short of the average estimate of $7.92 billion.