Closing Bell: Losing the DJIA 10K (AMZN, BIIB, BRCM, COF, DOLE, MSFT, SPWRA)

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) had the best report this week for retail and for tech. It earned $0.45 EPS on a 27% revenue gain of $5.45 billion, Thomson Reuters was at $0.33 EPS and $5.03B in revenues. The guidance was $8.12 to $9.12 billion vs. $8.12 billion estimates. Shares were up big last night, but the last 30 minutes of the day saw above price all-time highs. Shares were up 26% at $118.00 shortly before the closing bell.

Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) was in trouble all day. The culprit is European Union review of TYSABRI for MS treatments because of more PNL cases. Shares were down just under 6% at $44.42 late in the day.

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) also had a dog of an earnings report because the company is not very positive for the coming quarter. It posted earnings of $0.40 in non-GAAP EPS and a 20% revenue jump sequentially and 3.4% lower than a year ago to $1.254 billion, but it also noted that revenues will be flat sequentially. Shares were down 6.5% at $28.71 on the day.

Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) was one of the better performing financial stocks after it reported net income for the third quarter of 2009 of $425.6 million last night. This comes to a whopping $0.94 EPS and income from operations of $1.03 EPS compared to estimates of $0.14 EPS. Revenues were versus $4.11 billion estimates. Shares were up by 6% at $40.65 shortly before the closing bell.

Dole Food Company, Inc. (NYSE: DOLE) was another poor IPO. The largest fruit and vegetable company priced a 35.715 million share IPO at $12.50 per share, under the expected range of $13 to $15 per share. And shares were trading down at $12.29 shortly before the closing bell.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) was far better than expected. The software giant posted $0.40 EPS compared with $0.48 last year. The company has revenue $12.92 billion. Both numbers were well ahead of Wall St. forecasts of $0.32 a share on revenues of $12.4 billion. Shares were up about 5.4% at $28.02 late in the day.

SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWRA) beat earnings with $0.42 EPS as revenues rose 56% to $466 million vs. Thomson Reuters estimates of $0.40 EPS and $420.1M revenue. But gross margin was down 1.9% at 20.7% and the guidance was just not good enough. Shares were down by almost 15% at $28.37 ahead of the closing bell.