Top 10 Earnings Estimators Overall

Out of 2,700 analysts covering European stocks, Matthew Lanstone was rated number one for the accuracy of his earnings estimates in 200The London-based Goldman Sachs analyst covers oil and gas companies based in developed European countries. Last year, ***

Millennium BCP Investimento's Nuno Vieira's earnings estimates on the five Portuguese stocks he covered in 2005 put him in the second spot. Last year, he made the best profit predictions on cable and satellite television provider PT Multimedia, industrial ***

Working out of Credit Suisse Europe's London office, Michael Bleakley covers European beverage stocks. His top-rated earnings estimates on Davide Campari-Milano (Italy) and Scottish and Newcastle (U.K.) helped push Bleakley to the number-three spot for earn ***

Ranked fourth, ING Financial Markets' Michael Carter covers transportation and oil stocks. His best estimate of 2005 was on Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone (France), which constructs and maintains motorways in the Paris-Rhin-Rhone region of France. Carter's p ***

Working out of the Netherlands, Fortis Bank's Sebastiaan Schreijen divides his time between covering two unrelated groups: beverage stocks and software and computer stocks. Rated fifth in Europe by StarMine for forecasting earnings, Schreijen made his bes ***

Mehrdad Torbati of Deutsche Bank Securities covers a mix of industries ranging from semiconductors, food, retailers, software and electrical components to print media. He earned the top mark out of nine analysts for his 2005 earnings estimate on Kudelski, ***

Stefan Borscheid received a StarMine four- or five-star rating on all seven stocks he covered in 200The WestLB Capital Markets analyst follows telecommunications and software stocks in Austria, France, Germany and Switzerland. Last year, Borscheid made ***

In addition to being ranked as the number-eight earnings estimator in Europe for 2005, StarMine rated Kepler Equities' Pierre Flabbee as the top estimator in France. Flabbee was the most accurate estimator tracking Credit Industriel et Commercial, which o ***

Michael Steib of Morgan Stanley covers food products as well as household and personal care product stocks. Steib's estimates on Unilever's U.K.- and Netherlands-traded stocks and on Beiersdorf (Germany) earned him five stars. He also received four stars ***

Rounding out the top ten Pan-Europe earnings estimator list is Goldman Sachs' Richard Burden, who covers insurance and specialty finance companies. Burden made his best estimate on Baloise Holding (Switzerland), which provides life and nonlife insurance i ***