In the period ended December 31, 2008, the Las Vegas-based company earned $0.59 a share, which was $0.04 north of what analysts had been figuring on. Improvements in both gross and operating margin helped gas the results.

In conjunction with its numbers, it offered fiscal ’09 guidance of $2.15 to $2.35 a share. Some may have a problem with that. After all, it’s a narrowing from the $2.15 to $2.45 a share its guidance gave out back in November 2008 along with its first-quarter results.