Analysts were expecting ENGlobal Corp. (ENG) [Chart - News - Analysis] to report earnings of $0.03 for last quarter, but ENG missed expectations with actual earnings of $0.00---3 cents below the consensus estimate.

If you compare last quarter's earnings to the $0.13 the company made per share during the same quarter a year ago, you can see that ENG’s earnings are down this year.

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Also, if you compare ENG's 20.00% projected earnings-per-share (EPS) growth rate for the next five years with the projected EPS growth rate of 13.93% for the Technical Services industry as a whole during that same time frame, you can see that analysts expect ENG to outperform the industry in the future---which is a good sign for the stock.

Drilling down a little deeper into the Technical Services industry, you can see how analysts believe ENG will stack up against some of the other stocks in the industry, like SAIC, Inc. (SAI) [Chart - News - Analysis] and CACI International Inc. (CACI) [Chart - News - Analysis], in the future. Analysts believe SAI's earnings are going to grow at a rate of 12.67% while CACI's earnings are going to grow at a rate of 13.00%.

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DARPA's Machine Reading program seeks to advance the ability of machines to understand text by bridging the gap between human textual representations and those used by machine reasoning systems, Science Applications said.

Under the contract, SAIC will design and implement a complete research framework that supports the development of Reading System technologies.

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