Earnings reports: Go head-to-head against the experts

Posted Jan 20th 2007 11:30AM by Trey Thoelcke
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Analyst Reports, Forecasts, Good news, Bad News, Rumors

We at Blogging Stocks are covering more earning reports of our favorite stocks than ever before. And you may have noticed the polls that have started popping up in our earnings previews -- yes, you now have the opportunity to show your stuff.

Before the earnings reports of each of the companies listed below, we'll give you a chance to make your prediction whether they will meet, beat, or fall short of expectations. Take a look at the news and the numbers at the links below, and make up your own mind. But the question is, can you and your fellow Blogging Stocks readers do better than the analysts and market experts? You'll never know unless you cast your votes.

Note: We'll update this post frequently, and point you back here from time to time.

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) reported 1/16. This poll is closed -- 52% of you agreed with analysts that INTC would beat expectations, and it did.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported 1/17. This poll is closed -- 86% of you agreed with analysts that AAPL would beat expectations, which it did.
IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) reported 1/18. This poll is closed -- 75% of you thought IBM would beat analysts' expectations, which it did.
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) reported 1/19. This poll is closed -- 45% of you agreed with analysts that Citigroup would only meet expectations, but it came in just ahead.
Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT) reported 1/19. This poll is closed -- 46% of you agreed with analysts that MOT would fall short of expectations, when in fact they met them.
General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) reported 1/19. This poll is closed -- 59% of you were more optimistic that analysts and though GE would beat expectations, but it didn't.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) reports 1/22. This poll is closed -- 42% of you agreed with analysts that PFE would meet expectations, which it did.
Advance Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD) reported 1/23. This poll is closed -- analysts had low expectations, but 42% thought AMD would miss anyway, which it did.
Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW) reported 1/23. This poll is closed -- a whopping 72% of you agreed with analysts that SUNW would beat expectations, which, no surprise, it did.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) reported 1/23. This poll is closed -- 59% of you agreed with estimates that JNJ would beat expectations, which it did.
Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) reported 1/23. This poll is closed -- sorry but 39% of you thought Yahoo would just meet expectations, when in fact it offered an upside surprise.
McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD) reported 1/24. This poll is closed -- 72% of you agreed with analysts and MCD's own forecast that it would beat expectations, which of course it did.
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) reported 1/24. This poll is closed -- another strong showing, 70% of you, for eBay to beat expectations, and it did.
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) reported 1/25. This poll is closed -- AT&T beat expectations again, as analysts and 72% of believed would happen.
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) reported 1/25. This poll is closed -- a tough call, with 45% of you chosing beat and 40% chosing meet, but beat expectations MSFT did.
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) reported 1/25. This poll is closed -- despite low expectations, you were split 35%, 34%, 31% for beat, meet, and miss, respectively, and Ford did fall short.
General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) reported 3/14. This poll is closed -- 52% of you thought GM will beat expectations, but after weeks of delays it finally came out that GM missed expectations.
Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) reported 1/30. This poll is closed -- 59% of you agreed with analysts that Sony would miss expectations, and despite some good news, it did fall short.
Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK) reported 1/30. This poll is closed -- 68% of you were more optimistic than analysts and voted for beat, but unfortunately Merck's profits fell.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) reported 1/31. This poll is closed -- Google easily beat expectations, as 59% of you predicted.
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ:SBUX) reported 1/31. This poll is closed -- 64% of you voted for SBUX to beat expectations, but earnings were in line with them.
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) reported 1/31. This poll is closed -- 73% of you were more optimistic than analysts, but they called it -- TWX earnings met expectations.
Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) reported 1/31. This poll is closed -- 80% of you looked for Boeing to beat analysts' expectations, and it did.
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) reported 2/1. This poll is closed -- 48% of you looked for Amazon to beat expectations, and it did.
Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) reported 2/1. This poll is closed -- only 43% of you thought XOM would beat analysts' expectations, but it did.
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) reported 2/6. This poll is closed -- 80% of you voted that Cisco would beat expectations, and it has.
Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) reported 2/7. This poll is closed -- 65% of you thought Disney still had the magic, and indeed it did beat expectations.
PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE:PEP) reported 2/8. This poll is closed -- the 87% of you who voted for Pepsi to beat expectations were too optimistic.
Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:KO) reported 2/14. This poll is closed -- two-thirds of you thought Coke would beat expectations again, which it did.
Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD) reported 2/20. This poll is closed -- 57% of you expected HD to fall short, but it met analysts expectations.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) reported 2/20 -- Wal-Mart comes out ahead of analysts' expectations.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) reported 2/20 -- HPQ managed to beat analysts' expectations.
Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ:WFMI) reported 2/21. This poll is closed -- 58% of you expected WFMI to exceed expectations, but it fell short.
XM Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:XMSR) reported 2/26. This poll is closed -- 57% of you thought XM would fall short of the consensus, but it squeaked out ahead.
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ:SIRI) reported 2/27. This poll is closed -- 61% of you predicted Sirius would beat expectations, but results were in line with them.
Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) reported 2/27. This poll is closed -- 67% of you voted for Target to beat expectations, which it did.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) reported 3/1. This poll is closed -- you were split on whether Dell would meet or miss expectations, but miss it did.
Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA) reported 3/1. This poll is closed -- 41% of you thought VIA would disappoint, but it beat analysts' expectations.
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) reported 3/1. This poll is closed -- 62% of you expected BRK to beat expectations, which it easily did.
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) reported 3/20. This poll is closed -- 58% of you expected Oracle to beat expectations, and it did.
FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) reported 3/21. This poll is closed -- 48% of you expected FedEx to beat expectations, but it fell short.