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Strategies & Market Trends : Guidance II -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (1509)	10/14/2011 12:31:52 AM
From: 2MAR$	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2077

Google Crushes Estimates, Stock Soars Apparently, despite the economic angst and financial-market drama of the third quarter, people kept on Googling. Probably searching for “a job.” The Internet giant earned $9.72 in the third quarter, crushing Wall Street consensus estimates of $8.77. Analysts have been ratcheting up their estimates for Google for weeks, but Google still managed to clear the bar. This company’s earnings are notoriously hard to predict, however. Google net revenue jumped $7.51 billion, compared with estimates of $7.31 billion. Traffic acquisition costs were $2.21 billion; without those, Google had gross revenue of $9.7 billion. The stock is soaring after hours, jumping 6% to $593 immediately after the release. John Letzing reminds that after all the back-slapping over the headline numbers is done, some key questions will remain: Google’s spending may remain an issue for Wall Street. GOOG says it added 2,585 employees in the quarter, compared to 2,452 the previous quarter. That brings total hiring to 6,953 for the first three quarters of 2011. Google announced in January that 2011 would be a record year for hiring. Wall Street has generally been wary of GOOG’s spending on hires… Here’s more detail from Dow Jones Newswires: Total costs jumped 41%, higher than the latest quarter’s pace of revenue growth and the expense increase in the previous quarter as well. Recently, Google’s surging investment in new products, advertising, hiring and worker compensation have hurt profitability. The pace of growth abated somewhat in the second quarter, and Chief Executive Larry Page reassured investors that the spending would balance short-term and long-term results in July. U.S. paid clicks, a measure of how frequently consumers click on its ads, increased 28% compared with a year earlier and 13% sequentially. That was the strongest momentum in more than a year. The average cost that advertisers paid Google per click rose 5% from a year earlier but fell 5% from the previous quarter.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (1509)	10/17/2011 5:30:28 AM
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Top Earnings Oct 17th ....C, IBM, AAPL, BAC, KO, GS, INTC, JNJ, SCCO, YHOO, AXP, T, MSFT, GE, HON, MCD, VZ, HAL, SLB Monday, October 17 Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) will report Monday morning. It was hit with the banks this last Thursday after the J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) report and again we want to stress that the book value discussions for this last quarter effectively do not matter for the time being. Thomson Reuters has estimates for the former DJIA component of $0.82 EPS and $19.25 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.90 EPS and $19.32 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $28.40, its 52-week trading range is $21.40 to $51.50 and analysts have a consensus price target of $45.77. International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) after the close. Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $3.22 EPS and $26.25 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $4.63 EPS and $30.31 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $190.50, effectively an all-time high and analysts have a consensus price target objective of almost $192.00. Tuesday, October 18 Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is due Tuesday afternoon and its estimates are $7.28 EPS and $29.45 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $8.98 EPS and $36.63 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $422.00, its 52-week trading range is $297.76 to $422.86 and analysts have a consensus price target of $498.80. Apple rallied on the heels of Google, the news of Steve Jobs has been absorbed, and shares went within one-dollar of the all-time high. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is due Tuesday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.20 EPS and $25.95 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.19 EPS and $24.16 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $6.19, its 52-week trading range is $5.13 to $15.31 and analysts have a consensus price target of $10.44. Keep in mind that this trades at a huge discount to the book value because investors worry that the book value is only going to drop through time. Is it fair to ask if estimates have come down enough over the last ninety days? The Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) is due Tuesday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $1.02 EPS and $12.02 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.80 EPS and $11.05 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $67.85, its 52-week trading range is $59.74 to $71.77 and analysts have a consensus price target of $76.69. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( NYSE: GS) is also due Tuesday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates of -$0.15 EPS and $4.59 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $2.97 EPS and $7.99 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $96.73, its 52-week trading range is $84.27 to $175.34 and analysts have a consensus price target of $147.41. After the Citi downgrade to expect a loss for the quarter, we cannot help but say that the bar has been set extremely low here. A week earlier the estimate was close to $0.50 EPS, and the estimate was well above $1.00 EPS a month ago. Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) reports Tuesday after the close and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.61 EPS and $13.9 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.65 EPS and $14.3 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $23.50, its 52-week trading range is $18.90 to $23.96 and analysts have a consensus price target of $25.55. With all of the slowing PC woes and with Intel still not full swing into the tablet and smartphone segments, it has been surprising that shares are this close to a 52-week high. Still, its dividend is above 3.5% and it trades at a solid discount to the market. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) reports on Tuesday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $1.21 EPS and $16.02 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $1.11 EPS and $16.47 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $64.70, its 52-week trading range is $57.50 to $68.05 and analysts have a consensus price target of $72.08. Southern Copper Corporation (NYSE: SCCO) is due on Tuesday and won’t be a market mover but could give more insight into copper after the reports of China copper inventories being so high. Thomson Reuters has estimates of $0.83 EPS and $1.88 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.74 EPS and $1.67 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $28.30, its 52-week trading range is $22.58 to $50.35 and analysts have a consensus price target of $37.64. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is due on Tuesday afternoon and Thomson Reuters has estimates of $0.17 EPS and $1.07 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.22 EPS and $1.22 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $15.90 on hopes of a buyout, its 52-week trading range is $11.09 to $18.84 and analysts have a consensus price target of $17.54. Earnings estimates have not come down much at all even since the Carol Bartz firing. We find that odd because the timing of her ouster would logically mean that the quarter was awful. With the mayhem here, we have no further color to add on the hoped-for buyout, Alibaba, Yahoo! Japan, and other issues. Wednesday, October 19 American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) will be the only DJIA component we saw due on Wednesday afternoon. Thomson Reuters has estimates of $0.96 EPS and $7.58 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.97 EPS and $7.95 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $46.00, its 52-week trading range is $38.75 to $53.80 and analysts have a consensus price target of $56.90. Thursday, October 20 AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is due Thursday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.61 EPS and $31.62 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.58 EPS and $31.71 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $29.15, its 52-week trading range is $27.20 to $31.94 and analysts have a consensus price target of $32.33. With the current bias being against approval of the T-Mobile operations, we will be looking for guidance on that front. Other than that, investors have close to a 6% dividend yield. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is due Thursday afternoon and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.68 EPS and $17.25 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.84 EPS and $21.21 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $27.27, its 52-week trading range is $23.65 to $29.46 and analysts have a consensus price target of $31.90. The dividend is now close to 3% but investors are still concerned about the PC market causing a slower upgrade cycle for Windows. Friday, October 21 General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is due Friday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.31 EPS and $34.86 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.40 EPS and $39.54 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $16.60, its 52-week trading range is $14.02 to $21.65 and analysts have a consensus price target of $21.00. Friday’s closing price was the highest adjusted closing price since August 3 and shares have recovered more than $2.58 from the lows of October 4. Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) is due Friday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates of $1.00 EPS and $9.26 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $1.08 EPS and $9.64 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $49.50, its 52-week trading range is $41.22 to $62.28 and analysts have a consensus price target of $58.47. McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is due Friday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $1.43 EPS and $7.01 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $1.27 EPS and $6.73 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $89.95, its 52-week trading range is $72.14 to $91.22 and analysts have a consensus price target of $97.90. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) is set to report earnings on Friday morning and Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component of $0.57 EPS and $27.91 billion in revenues; next quarter estimates are $0.58 EPS and $28.29 billion in revenue. Shares are trading around $37.33, its 52-week trading range is $31.60 to $38.95 and analysts have a consensus price target of $38.61. The only issues we can really bring up worth addressing here is whether or not the labor strike had any impact at all on operations. Read more: Top Earnings Previews For the Week Ahead (C, IBM, AAPL, BAC, KO, GS, INTC, JNJ, SCCO, YHOO, AXP, T, MSFT, GE, HON, MCD, VZ) - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2011/10/16/top-earnings-previews-for-the-week-ahead-c-ibm-aapl-bac-ko-gs-intc-jnj-scco-yhoo-axp-t-msft-ge-hon-mcd-vz/#ixzz1b1uPoQhn