MON lost a lot of credibility today by not only taking down FY2010 guidance, but also lowering EPS guidance for all future years implicitly. Management should have come clean when they reduced FY2010 and long-term guidance in February; doing this twice in three months ensures that no one will believe anything they say for years to come. All told, a very big ouch.
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