11.   Analysts considered the deal fairly priced.

12.   Analysts considered U.S. Healthcare an efficient provider of managed-care programs, which cap costs by controlling charges for doctors and hospitals.

13.   An agreement would give Endesa a part of a company that is considered by analysts to be one of the best-managed in Latin America.

14.   Analysts consider a spinoff unlikely.

15.   Analysts consider cash flow a better measure of the performance of indebted companies than earnings because it excludes interest payments and focuses on the underlying operations.

16.   Analysts consider Intel to be a gauge for the entire personal computer industry.

17.   Analysts consider it a better gauge of performance than overall sales, which includes new restaurants that skew results more positively.

18.   Analysts consider now a good time for Seagram to sell its Time Warner shares, which are at all-time highs.

19.   Analysts consider same-store sales a good gauge of how a retailer is performing because they factor out new-store openings.

20.   Analysts have long considered Browning-Ferris a turnaround play.