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Fourth Quarter 2008 Guidance Report: CAST, CEDU, CFSG, CSR, BJGP

Thursday, March 26, 2009, 8:00 AM ET - www.GeoInvesting.com

The GeoTeam(R) would like to alert investors to the following companies who have recently released positive guidance:

GeoManaged Guidance Tables

ChinaCast Education Corporation (NASDAQ:CAST)

"We remain confident about our business and the growth of the education industry in China. Our strategy going forward will be to focus on further expanding our post-secondary degree programs and e-learning services and reducing our operating costs to improve margins while looking for strategic acquisitions that will further expand our footprint in China. While the global economy is experiencing a sharp downturn, we believe the post-secondary education sector in China continues to grow at a healthy pace and we look forward to increasing our market position in 2009," concluded Mr. Chan.

Full Year Fiscal 2009 Guidance Ending December

2009 Guidance 2008 Reported Period Change
GAAP Revenue $49 to $51 million $42 16.67% to 21%
*Non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income $14 million to $16 million $12.0 million 16.67% to 33.33%
**Non-GAAP EPS $0.46 to $0.52 $0.39 17.95% to 33.33%

*EPS Figures exclude non-operating gains and losses. Non-GAAP information should not be viewed in isolation or as a substitute for reported, or GAAP information. For a more complete explanation of the company's definition of non-GAAP please refer to their Fourth Quarter financial press release.

**The company did not provide EPS guidance.  The GeoTeam calculated an implied EPS guidance figure using the 2008 outstanding share count. 

ChinaEdu Corporation (NASDAQ:CEDU)

 'We are pleased to report healthy revenue growth for the fourth quarter of 2008, completing the fiscal year of 2008 with 19.9% total net revenue growth. We also made a conscious effort to invest in our future growth,' said Ms. Julia Huang, ChinaEdu's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. 'Although our fiscal year 2008 GAAP results were impacted by non-cash goodwill and intangibles impairment charges in our non-core business segments, we are pleased with our operational results for the year. Our online degree program services demonstrated significant enrollment growth. We successfully executed the build out of our learning center network from one operational learning center in 2007 to our current network of 47 learning centers. In addition, in the past year we continued to invest in courseware and technology development for our online degree programs, our online tutoring program as well as Anqing School in order to be well positioned for future growth. We believe our investment in the selected business areas will contribute to the future growth of our revenue. Looking ahead, we will continue to focus on the growth of our online education services through business development, improving operational efficiencies and improving our quality of services to university partners and students.'

First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Guidance Ending March

First Quarter 2009 Guidance First Quarter 2008 Reported Period Change
GAAP Revenue $11.0 to $11.4 million $9.9 million 11.11% to 15.15%

China Fire & Security Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFSG)

 Despite general concerns of challenging times for the iron and steel industry, we are actually witnessing strong demand for our total solutions in this vertical, as some of our Tier-1 customers are receiving more government-subsidized funding, pickup in demand from the end of last year, and extra government support for consolidation. As China continues to invest in upgrading the country's infrastructure, we are seeing real spending initiated by the government in the iron and steel, nuclear, power, petrochemical, and transportation sectors. We believe that most of these infrastructure investments will directly benefit China Fire, as they all require fire protection products and services. As such, we continue to be excited with the growth prospects in our core iron and steel market, and we continue to command firm pricing for our total solutions. We also are excited with our success in winning sizeable contracts in the nuclear, power, petrochemical, and transportation verticals, as well as notable contract wins in the international market. We are delighted with our strong financial position, which includes a growing cash position, no debt, and healthy cash flows. We believe that we are in an excellent position to capture new revenue opportunities and benefit from strategic consolidation opportunities."

Full Year Fiscal 2009 Guidance Ending December

2009 Guidance 2008 Reported Period Change
GAAP Revenue $88 to $95 million $69.1 Million 28% to 38%
GAAP EPS $0.93 to $1.00 $0.88 5.68% to 13.64%

 China Security & Surveillance Technology (NYSE:CSR)

Mr. Guo Shen Tu, Chief Executive Officer of China Security, commented, ''In the fourth quarter, we continued to see significant demand from government Safe-City contracts, and we continue to have excellent success in winning ever larger contracts, due to our strong brand and comprehensive product and services offerings. While our pricing and profitability remain firm in the government sector, we nevertheless experienced price erosions in our corporate segment, due to higher emphasis on cost controls by many of our corporate customers. As such, while we continue to project healthy demand and revenue growth over the next 12 months, we are focused on further integrating our operations and generating greater synergies across our portfolio of technologies, products, and subsidiaries. We are also focused on increasing our manufacturing and administrative efficiencies through targeted cost savings initiatives.''

Full Year Fiscal 2009 Guidance Ending December

2009 Guidance 2008 Reported Period Change
GAAP Revenue $600 to $630 million $427 million 40.52% to 47.54%
*Non-GAAP Adjusted Net Income $108 to $113 million $76 million 42.11% to 48.68%
*Non-GAAP EPS $2.16-$2.26 $1.67 29.34% to 35.33%

*Non-gaap EPS Figures exclude non-operating gains and losses. Non-GAAP information should not be viewed in isolation or as a substitute for reported, or GAAP information. For a more complete explanation of the company's definition of non-GAAP please refer to their Fourth Quarter financial press release.

Bmp Sunstone Corp. NASDAQ:BJGP)

'Our 2009 financial guidance reflects sales and marketing expansion in China resulting from continued performance at all of our business units, especially at Sunstone, and reflects operational synergies resulting from acquisitions the Company completed in 2008. In 2009, we expect all of our business units to be profitable and to outperform the market growth. Importantly, we expect our in-license business at Beijing Medpharm will start contributing to the Company's bottom line in 2009, which will mark a significant milestone in the Company's development.'

Full Year Fiscal 2009 Guidance Ending December

2009 Guidance 2008 Reported Period Change
GAAP Revenue $150 to $160 million $108 million 38.89% to 48.15%

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