) reported blow out earnings last week. Analysts will be looking for the Washington-based company to earn 56 cents per share on revenues of $16.19 billion. This up from last year, when the company reported 45 cents per share on revenues of $14.50 billion, growing at 11.7%. The stock has been in the dog house for years, and as such, now sports a 2.4% dividend yield, and trades at 9.67 times 2012 earnings. If Microsoft is able to report better than expected earnings, and show that the company isn't just a pile of cash, and can actually innovate, then names like Dell (NASDAQ:

) and Intel should see a little bit of a boost in after-hours trading. The company is also cheap on a price to earnings growth ratio, trading at a 1.00 PEG ratio. It sits on a mountain of cash, nearly $40 billion, and has some $10 billion in debt, so the cash is there to cover the debt and perhaps make a major acquisition or two. Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a range of software products and services for various computing devices worldwide.