Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
- Apollo Group Inc. (NYSE: APOL) posted its third straight quarter of growth as enrollment soared.
- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) earnings prospects will pick up after the first quarter, predicts Jim Cramer.
- Coach Inc. (NYSE: COH) lowered its guidance due to slower traffic and sales during the holiday season.
- EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) reaffirmed its revenue and earnings guidance and announced job cuts.
- Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was upgraded as Wall Street's Q4 and full-year estimates came down.
- KB Home (NYSE: KBH) failed to narrow its loss as much as expected but beat revenue estimates.
- Logitech International (NASDAQ: LOGI) withdrew its guidance and said it was cutting its global workforce.
- Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) posted strong Q2 results that easily beat earnings expectations (is it a buy?).
- Navistar International Corp. (NYSE: NAV) 2009 outlook fell short of estimates but it predicted 2010 growth.
- Premier Exhibitions Inc. (NASDAQ: PRXI) worse-than-expected Q3 numbers resulted in an downgrade.
- Satyam Computer Sciences Ltd. (NYSE: SAY) admited that it had been inflating earnings for years.
- Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) was downgraded after preliminary results missed estimates.
- Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) now expects a loss in 2008 rather than the profit in its previous guidance.
- WD-40 Co. (NASDAQ: WDFC) topped Q1 expectations but also lowered its guidance, sending shares lower.
For more earnings highlights, see Intel, Walmart, Chevron, Family Dollar, Monsanto and others
Upcoming earnings releases include Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY), Linear Technologies (NASDAQ: LLTC) , Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX), Genentech (NYSE: DNA), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Marshall & Ilsley (NYSE: MI), Sealy (NYSE: ZZ), Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI).
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