1.   Analysts and investors said they believe the announcement will focus on an earnings shortfall because the company in recent quarters managed to meet estimates only through one-time events.

2.   Besides prices, there were two reasons for the earnings shortfall.

3.   After two years of earnings shortfalls and market share losses tied to its line of wireless telephones, Motorola has been on an aggressive path to new wireless ventures.

4.   But some analysts also complained that the company had not been forthcoming about its earnings shortfall or about the continuing animosity between its two top executives.

5.   But stock analysts are encouraging investors to brace for volatility and to look for a selloff when companies begin to warn about first-quarter earnings shortfalls in mid-March.

6.   But those declines and an announcement by the company that it would not forecast earnings shortfalls for this quarter led several analysts to revise their outlook for the stock.

7.   Chief Executive Robert Cardy blamed bloated customer inventories and sluggish orders, particularly for stainless steel bar and wire, for the earnings shortfall.

8.   Cohn says the earnings shortfall experienced earlier this year was strictly a second-quarter issue.

9.   Cidco has since disappointed investors with earnings shortfalls in three consecutive quarters.

10.   Companies are beginning to warn investors of earnings shortfalls as the fourth quarter draws to a close.