But they said the cost would significantly exceed estimates of $25 billion that were reported today.
Last year, employment growth exceeded earlier estimates by more than 400,000 jobs.
Both sales had similar results, with some works bringing prices that far exceeded their estimates.
By its completion, the total cost of the dam was $5.8 million, which exceeded estimates.
But the results exceeded analysts' estimates, and its shares rose.
The results exceeded estimates of 69 cents a share, but the company's stock still ended slightly lower.
That price far exceeded investors' estimates and helped the company post a $20.9 million profit in 1989.
This exceeds previous estimates by more than three orders of magnitude.
Sure, last week it reported that results for its 2000 third quarter exceeded analysts' estimates by four cents.
Genuine gains now go only to companies that exceed estimates by more than a cent.