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 citing sluggish sales of consumer-electronics goods,
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net income dropped 3.3% for the first quarter 
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ended Sept. 30.
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 which represented the fifth consecutive quarter of flat-to-lower earnings for the big electronics retailer,
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 disappointed analysts and traders. 
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Tandy's stock fell $1.375 a share 
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to close at $44 
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in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
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 Net for the quarter was $62.8 million, or 73 cents a share, down from $64.9 million, or 72 cents a share, a year earlier. 
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The company said
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if it hadn't been actively repurchasing its shares, 
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thus increasing its interest expense 
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and reducing its interest income.
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 Tandy had 86.3 million shares outstanding at Sept. 30, down from 90 million a year earlier.
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 Revenue rose 5% to $986 million from $937 million.
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 Tandy said 
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consumer electronics sales at its Radio Shack stores have been slow,
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 partly because of a lack of hot, new products.
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 Radio Shack continues to be lackluster, 
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said Dennis Telzrow, analyst with Eppler, Guerin & Turner in Dallas.
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Tandy has done a decent job 
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increasing sales 
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by manufacturing computers for others 
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and expanding sales of its Grid Systems Corp. subsidiary, which sells computers to bigger businesses, 
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but it's not enough 
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to offset the problems at Radio Shack.
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 Sales at Radio Shack stores open more than a year grew only 2% in the quarter from a year earlier,
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 Mr. Telzrow said 
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he cut his fiscal 1990 per-share earnings estimate for Tandy to $4.05 from $4.20.
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 Tandy earned $88.8 million, or $3.64 a share, in the year 
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ended June 30.
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 Barry Bryant, an analyst with Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., said 
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Tandy also has suffered from lethargic sales of its computers 
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aimed at the home and small-office market, 
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which are less-advanced and cheaper than computers 
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aimed at the corporate market.
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 Tandy has added several new products to that line, 
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including a laptop computer 
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priced around $1,000, 
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and is focusing its advertising on the easy-to-use software 
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that is packaged with its machines. 
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Mr. Bryant and other analysts hope 
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all those moves will combine 
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to help Tandy's results improve in the important Christmas quarter.
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 They've been promising 13% to 15% growth 
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based on the strategic moves 
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they've made, 
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that should be the quarter.
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