Earnings Expectations

Earnings from the Hewlett-Packard spin-offs highlight the holiday-shortened week. Expectations are low for Deere on the top and bottom lines. Earnings are seen doubling from at least two others reported this week. While many investors and analysts will be focused on the Thanksgiving...

Big-box retailers will highlight the week's quarterly earnings reports. Expectations are low for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE: BBY), but somewhat higher for Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) and Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT). Bottom line growth is expected from some other...

Big retailers begin to report quarterly results this week, including J.C. Penney and Macy's. Other highlights will include reports from tech giants Applied Materials and Cisco Systems. Bottom line growth is expected from most of the week's other prominent reports. If the current earnings season...

It will be a busy week again on the earnings front, with many blue chip companies reporting. Results from Facebook and Disney are among the most highly anticipated and forecast to be strong. Expectations are lower for Sprint, Tesla and Visa, perhaps offering them wiggle room to surprise...

It will be a busy week on the earnings front, with many blue chip companies reporting. Results from Apple are among the most highly anticipated and forecast to be strong. Expectations are also high for Alibaba, Gilead Sciences and JetBlue Airways. This week will be one of the busiest of the third...

Overall, Wall Street expectations are muted for this week's earnings reports. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) will buck that trend with strong results, if forecasts are accurate. Expectations are also high for earnings from American Airlines Group Inc (NASDAQ: AAL), Eli Lilly and Co (...

The third-quarter earnings crunch begins this week. Many big banks are scheduled to report, but expectations are muted for them overall. Well Street expectations are low for others as well, including Dow components GE and Intel, as well as Netflix. The quarterly reporting crunch begins...

The third-quarter earnings reporting period kicks off this week. PepsiCo, Yum Brands and Alcoa are first into the third-quarter earnings spotlight. Monsanto is also expected to share its latest results this week. The new earnings season begins this week, providing a look at how companies fared in...

Few earnings reports are scheduled for this week, ahead of the third-quarter reporting kickoff. Costco and Micron Technology are the highlights of the week, but expectations for them are quite different. Others reporting this week include Paychex and Walgreens. One calendar quarter ends and...

As the calendar quarter winds down, it will be another fairly quiet week on the earnings front. Wall Street analysts by and large expect to see at least a little growth in earnings from packaged foods giants ConAgra Foods Inc (NYSE: CAG) and General Mills, Inc. (NYSE: GIS) when they share their...

A couple of retailers and two software giants, as well as an ostensible bellwether of the U.S. economy, will highlight an otherwise quiet week on the earnings front. Wall Street analysts by and large expect to see sharp drops in earnings when Ascena Retail Group Inc (NASDAQ: ASNA) and Rite Aid...

Traders and investors will come back from their holiday breaks or summer vacations to find just a few earnings reports of note for the rest of the week. The week's highlights may be the most recent quarterly results from Kroger Co (NYSE: KR), the second-largest U.S. retailer, and from...

The week's economic calendar is highlighted by the Federal Reserve's next Beige Book report and a look at the employment numbers for August. Also throughout the week will be a scattering of off-season earnings reports. There are only a handful of companies on deck to share their latest quarterly...

Like the summer, the retail earnings season is beginning to wind down. Quarterly reports from the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF), Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE: BBY) and Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) will be among the highlights this week, but there is no clear trend in the...

Big-box retailers are in the earnings spotlight this week. The largest of them all, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), will show declines on the top and bottom lines, if Wall Street analyst projections are on target. The consensus forecasts are for earnings gains at Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) and...