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Battered EDO Corp Take Financial Blow With 3rd Quarter Drop

analyst | 02.11.2006 18:52 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | London | South Coast

For the third quarter in a row troubled US warmongers EDO Corporation have failed to meet their expected financial targets, citing 'substantial challenges' of 2006. Today its share price took another plunge into the abyss losing several million dollars in market value
after investors reacted to poor results.

Since March 2006 EDO have lost a major High Court suit against anti-war protesters in Brighton UK, which caused the resignation of EDO MBM Managing Director David Jones, have been implicated in a high level Pentagon sleaze and corruption scandal involving EDO Director and former CIA man Dennis Blair who was also forced to resign, have been named in a bribery scandal involving Hilary Clinton over govt 'earmark' contracts, have been sued for Racial Discrimination by an african-american competitor over work in occupied Iraq, and have lost vital orders from the US military for its flagship Warlock counter measure system that appears to have serious security flaws. All this and they continue to face the unrelenting pressure of a protest campaign against them which aims to see them shut down in the UK.

US Govt see EDO Corp as 'security threat.'

Rumours of infiltration into EDOs workforce by whistle-blowing anti-war activists in both US and UK ,who are determined to shut down the company after its recent tyrannical behaviour are increasing EDO's profile as a security threat for US military interests. EDO has recently bought up several companies that supply US intelligence agencies with cumputers and technologies, but this has failed to make their name any less suspect for US Govt procurement committees as contracts are directed to competing corporations.

For EDOs financial plunge see todays NYSE chart :

 http://finance.google.com/finance?q=EDO


Meanwhile the protest campaign in Brighton against the company contines to grow.

See Smash EDO website  http://www.smashedo.org.uk

For more information on the company see Wikipedia entry 'EDO Corporation'
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDO_Corporation

analyst

Additions

EDO President announces UK EDO MBM Rugged Systems To Close

02.11.2006 20:56

EDO Corp CEO , President and Chairman James Smith announced Thursday a major review of all its business units starting next week, to decide on future strategy of the company which he said was not performing as expected and had produced disappointing results this quarter. In a routine phone in Q&A with investors available on the EDO Corp website, Smith revealed that it had already been decided that the company would pull out of the EDO rugged computer business, which includes EDO MBM RUGGED SYSTEMS in Brighton.  http://www.edombmrugged.co.uk/. Rugged computers are used to help in targeting for infantry missile launchers as well as coordinating with air strikes, but EDO have decided the further investment required to keep the business afloat is not worth the risk as there have not been enough orders.

Three months ago EDO Corp sacked 400 workers at one of its Californian factories after losing orders for its flagship Warlock countermeasures sytems to rival companies that do not have such problems with 'externalities' (anti-war protest campaigns, corruption scandals etc). It is not known how many jobs at EDO MBM will be axed as yet. EDO MBM also produce other equipment such as aircraft armament and release units, which form the mainstay of its business, but production of this equipment could be moved to the US where other units of EDO are already producing the equipment. Meanwhile EDO chief James Smith was named as one of the biggest corporate executive profiteers of the 'War on Terror' this summer after it was revealed he had doubled his own
wages since 2002.

Meanwhile EDO lost one of its most distinguished directors this summer when former military commander and CIA man Dennis Blair was forced to resign from the company, and a govt think tank, IDA ,over a 'conflict of interest' scandal concerning a huge multi year contract for the F22 Raptor program. EDO still managed to win a govt contract despite the scandal, and the F22 program was approved by Congress despite opposition from two heads of US Govt procurement committees as well as Donald Rumsfeld and even President Bush. The influnce of Lockheed Martin and insiders within the US military were seen to override even this high level political opposition, and the scandal of the EDO Corp director corruption was quickly forgotten. Many US pundits have described this as evidence to the overwelming power of the military industrial complex in the US.

EDO President James Smith told investors on the Q&A phone in today that he could not talk about the F22 program.

See Wikipedia 'EDO Corporation' for more details on Dennis Blair and the F22 scandal.



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EDO Has Now Lost 1/3rd of entire Market Value since Feb 06

06.11.2006 09:36

EDO corp has dropped 33.19% since Feb 18th 2006 according to Google finance charts. That's well over 200 Million US Dollars lost and they are still losing..

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  1. EDO Corp hits 52 week low today as investors sell shares — y
  2. hooo fuckin ray!!!! — masked bandit

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