• VMware Inc. (NASDAQ: VMW): $0.20 per share (-13.0%) on revenues of $462.6 million (+29.3%)
• Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN): $0.44 per share (-15.4%) on revenues of $3.4 billion (-7.3%)
• Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO): $0.09 per share (-18.2%) on revenues of $1.4 billion (+6.9%)
• LM Ericsson Telephone Co. (NASDAQ: ERIC): $0.13 per share (-35.0%) on revenues of $6.8 billion (+5.8%)
• NetGear Inc. (NASDAQ: NTGR): $0.26 per share (-40.9%) on revenues of $176.9 million (-7.7%)
• Seagate Technology Holdings (NASDAQ: STX): $0.22 per share (-68.1%) on revenues of $3.2 billion (-3.7%)

Also, Wall Street is looking for fiber optic network operator Level 3 Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) to narrow its loss to $0.09 per share, on revenues of $1.1 billion, from $0.11 per share in the same period of the previous year. But analysts recommend holding LVLT.

Pessimism remains, though, for the financial sector this week. Insurers Aflac Inc. (NYSE: AFL) and Torchmark Corp. (NYSE: TMK), as well as New Jersey-based bank OceanFirst Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: OCFC), are just about the only financial companies expected to report earnings gains. Analysts are looking for $1.00 per share (+15.0%) on revenues of $4.2 million from Aflac, for $1.50 per share (+8.0%) on revenues of $873.1 million from Torchmark, and for $0.36 per share (+25.0%) on revenues of $17.9 million from OceanFirst. Again, these companies (like so many others since the markets tumbled) are closer to their 52-weeks lows than their highs. Aflac is the only one of these three with a consensus recommendation to buy.

Asset manager BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), fund manager T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW), and Omaha-based TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) are among financial companies expected to post modest profit declines, to $2.06 per share (on $1.4 billion in sales), $0.56 per share (on $553.7 million in sales), and $0.30 per share (on $604.8 million in sales), respectively. Here's a look at what are expected to be some of the biggest earning decliners in this sector when they report this week.

• U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB): $0.47 per share (-24.2%) on revenues of $3.8 billion (+8.6%)
• American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP): $0.59 per share (-34.4%) on revenues of $7.3 billion (+5.2%)
• SLM Corp. (NYSE: SLM): $0.36 per share (-39.0%) on revenues of $863.0 million (-8.9%)
• M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB): $1.07 per share (-41.5%) on revenues of $745.5 million (+3.5%)
• Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL): $0.80 per share (-48.1%) on revenues of $6.3 billion (-29.7%)
• SunTrust Banks Inc. (NYSE: STI): $0.60 per share (-49.2%) on revenues of $2.1 billion (+5.3%)
• Northern Trust Corp. (NASDAQ: NTRS): $0.39 per share (-58.1.8%) on revenues of $946.0 million (+6.0%)
• The Travelers Companies Inc. (NYSE: TRV): $0.74 per share (-59.1%) on revenues of $6.3 billion (+3.6%)
• Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACGL): $1.04 per share (-64.0%) on revenues of $705.7 million (-18.6%)
• Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB): $0.18 per share (-70.5%) on revenues of $1.7 billion (+11.6%)
• KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY): $0.16 per share (-71.9%) on revenues of $1.2 billion (+7.8%)
• Wachovia Corp. (NYSE: WB): $0.05 per share (-94.4%) on revenues of $7.5 billion (-14.3%)

Analysts expect online broker E*TRADE Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC), rival of the above mentioned TD Ameritrade, to have widened its loss to $0.26 per share on revenues of $149.7 million, from a loss of $0.14 per share a year ago. Not surprisingly, the consensus recommendation is to hold ETFC.

And to wrap things up, here's a look at what analysts are expecting from some other "bellwethers" scheduled to report this week:

• ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP): $3.06 per share (+36.6%) on revenues of $73.2 billion (+58.8%)
• Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN): $0.26 per share (+26.9%) on revenues of $4.3 billion (+31.4%)
• McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD): $0.97 per share (+14.4%) on revenues of $6.2 billion (+4.8%)
• General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD): $1.51 per share (+11.3%) on revenues of $7.4 billion (+8.1%)
• Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL): $0.74 per share (+10.8%) on revenues of $4.6 billion (+18.1%)
• Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE): $0.60 per share (+3.3%) on revenues of $12.0 billion (+0.4%)
• Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT): $1.42 per share (+1.4%) on revenues of $12.5 billion (+8.8%)
• Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB): $1.01 per share (-5.6%) on revenues of $5.0 billion (+8.1%)
• United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS): $0.89 per share (-15.2%) on revenues of $13.0 billion (+6.5%)
• Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA): $0.99 per share (-30.8%) on revenues of $14.7 billion (-11.2%)
• New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT): $0.04 per share (-60.0%) on revenues of $691.7 million (-8.3%)
• Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO): $0.45 per share (-62.8%) on revenues of $4.2 billion (-57.6%)

In what might be a bit of good news for the housing sector, Pulte Homes Inc. (NYSE: PHM), one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S., is expected to lower its loss to $0.37 per share from $3.12 per share in the year-ago quarter. United Airlines parent UAL Corp. (NASDAQ: UAUA), on the other hand, is expected to have swung to a loss of $2.48 per share from a profit of $1.96 per share a year ago. However, while both of these stocks are trading nearer 52-week lows (saw that coming, didn't you?), it's UAL that gets the buy recommendation.

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