Sears Holdings announced Thursday it currently expects that net income for its first quarter ending May 5, 2007 will be between $200 million and $235 million, or between $1.30 and $1.53 per diluted share. In the first quarter of fiscal 2006, the Company reported net income of $180 million, or $1.14 per diluted share. At those numbers we will have 14% to 34% EPS growth. Excluding one time items from 2006 and 2007, the high end range of the estimates gives us 13.5% EPS growth in a challenging quarter.

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