Online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) will get its chance to impress Wall Street this afternoon when it reports its first quarter results after the closing bell. Going into this afternoon's quarterly report, analysts are expecting to see Amazon post earnings of $0.61 per share on revenues of $9.55 billion. During the same period last year the company had earnings of $0.66 per share with earnings of $7.13 billion. Why Amazon Earnings Are Important: Since Amazon ...

Shares of financial giant State Street (STT) are trading sharply higher this morning after the company posted better than expected results for its first quarter this morning. Going into this morning's first quarter earnings report, analysts had been expecting to see State Street report earnings of $0.85 per share, but actual earnings came in above estimates at $0.88 per share. During the same period last year the company had earnings of $0.75. Revenues ...

Search engine giante Google Inc. (GOOG) will be reporting its first quarter results tomorrow following the market close, with analysts expecting to see the company report earnings of $8.11 per share. What makes tomorrow's conference call all the more interesting to investors is that it will mark the first time that Larry Page will make public comments since he assumed his original role as the company's CEO. Page, who was one of ...

Shares of auto retailer CarMax (KMX) are trading sharply lower today following this morning's fourth quarter earnings report. As we noted yesterday in our CarMax earnings preview, analysts were expecting to see the company post fourth quarter earnings this morning of $0.38 per share. Earnings were higher than expected, at $).39 per share, marking the 9th straight quarter of analyst beating earnings for the company. During the same period last year CarMax ...

Strong first quarter earnings from Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) have helped pushed the market higher to start off the week. Shares of Caterpillar are up 4.5% on the day to $71.91, up $3.13 following better than expected results this morning before the market opened. Analysts were forecasting $0.39 per share, and the company easily outpaced those estimates with a reported $0.50 per share. Revenues were a bit shy of analyst estimates, but the stock ...

Home furnishing retailer Pier 1 Imports (PIR) is trading slightly higher today ahead of tomorrow's fourth quarter earnings report. With hopes building that the economic recovery is on solid footing, Wall Street will be looking for Pier 1 earnings as an indicator of just how much money people are putting back into their homes. For the quarter, analysts have forecast Pier 1 to report earnings of $0.31 per share. During the same ...

All of the major index's were higher today, following a strong round of earnings report this morning. The DOW closed the day up 0.7%, NASDAQ up 0.8% and the S&P rose 0.5%. Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) reported fiscal fourth quarter earnings last night following the market close, and easily outpaced analyst estimates. Analysts had been expecting to see the company report 41 cents per share, but the actual report was much higher ...

This afternoon entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings, and posted strong numbers that easily outpaced analyst estimates for the quarter. Going into this afternoon's earnings report, analysts had been expecting the company to post earnings of 41 cents per share. The company's actual earnings came in higher, with a reported 47 cents per share. For the same period last year the company had 40 cents ...

The market ended the day in the red, but several companies went against the trend and rose to new 52 week highs today. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rose to a new 52 week high today of $125.68 and ended the session up 5.2% to 124.6399. The company is still riding high on last week's solid earnings report. The company was expected to show earnings of 33 cents per share, but came in ...

The DOW closed above the psychological 10,000 mark today for the first time in a year, and ended the day up 1.47% to 10,115.86. The first time that the DOW rose above the 10,000 mark was all the way back in 1999, and at that time investors celebrated, and drank champagne, but this time it was not so much a reason to celebrate as a reason to relax a bit, as ...