Earnings

Earnings season in the technology space received a welcome surprise from Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) this week, which reported better-than-expected revenue and gross profit.  The semiconductor behemoth pays a healthy three-percent yield and just recently hit new 52-week highs on the...

Technicians cans always come up with reasons to explain movements in stock prices. However, many moves are initiated by changes in the fundamentals of a particular company, with the primary catalyst being earnings. The unofficial start of earnings season begins Tuesday, after the close with...

The Associated Press announced Monday that it will begin using automated technology to write company earnings reports next month. A vast amount of reporters' time and resources is spent on producing approximately 300 earnings reports each quarter, AP Managing Editor Lou Ferrera said in a...

Earnings season is mostly in the books, but everybody knows the next one is never far away. It’s already time to start putting a strategy in place to profit from the next season. It might be time to change your playbook: Stop front running earnings announcements. In honor of California Chrome...

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) will report its first quarter results on Friday, April 11, before market open. The company is expected to earn $1.41 per share on $24.55 billion. The last time JPMorgan reported its earnings was on January 14 when its earnings per share of $1.30 fell short of the...

A number of companies reported Monday morning before the market opened. Here’s a list of how they did and how they opened: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) reported $0.60 per share on revenue of $3.8 billion. Analysts expected $0.56 per share on $3.53 billion. The stock opened flat. Bank...

When a stock drops 11 percent after hours after reporting a revenue beat and inline EPS, it's a bad day for an AMD (NYSE: AMD) executive. The company reported EPS of $0.06 per share—in line with analyst estimates. Revenue was $1.59 billion—a beat over analyst consensus of $1.54 billion.  The...

Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) released second quarter earnings Thursday morning for the three month period ended June 30. EPS came in at $1.09, beating the analyst consensus by 0.93 percent. Conversely, revenue missed estimates by 12 million at 3.65 billion. This is a 2.4 percent increase in net...

Tobacco giant Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) reported second quarter earnings Thursday before the open with a top line miss. EPS and revenue came in at $1.30 and 7.92 billion when analysts were looking for $1.41 and 8.19 billion. Cigarette shipments fell 3.9 percent year over year to 228.9 billion...

Futures Little Changed Ahead of Bernanke, Key Tech Earnings U.S. equity futures nearly unchanged ahead of some key earnings Thursday as well the second day of Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Earnings from Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), and...