The past few years have been tough times for retailer Sears Holding (SHLD). The company has been steadily losing customers to rivals Target (TGT) and Wal-Mart (WMT), and today announced that following a dismal holiday season, it has decided to close between 100 and 120 of its Sears and K-Mart stores. Critics of the company blame its recent weakness to the company not having invested in remodeling its stores and to ...

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 ...

A few more big names are going to get their chance to impress Wall Street when they report earnings tomorrow. Here are a few of the names that will be reporting tomorrow: Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) : Bristol Myers will be reporting its first quarter results tomorrow. The company is expected to report earnings of $0.51 per share, verses $0.41 during the same period last year. The stock closed the day up ...

The earnings season continues to move along, and a couple big stocks are going to be reporting their earnings tomorrow. Here are a few of the stocks that are going to report earnings tomorrow: DuPont (DD) : DuPont is going to be reporting its first quarter numbers tomorrow. Analysts have forecast earnings of $1.06, verses $0.54 during the same period last year. The company will be announcing earnings before the market ...

Shares of Xerox (XRX) are soaring today, and set a new 52 week high today after posting better than expected first quarter numbers. Going into this mornings earnings report, analysts were forecasting $0.15 per share, verses $0.05 during the same period last year. Actual earnings came in well above estimates, at $0.18 per share excluding special items. Revenues were up by 33% during the quarter to $4.7 billion. Analysts had forecast revenues of ...

Some more big name companies are going to take their turn reporting earnings tomorrow. Here are a couple of the stocks to keep an eye out for tomorrow when they report earnings: Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) : Following tomorrow's market close, online auction giant Amazon is going to report its first quarter results. Analysts are forecasting earnings of $0.61 per share, verses $0.41 during the same period last year. American Express Co. (AXP) ...

A couple more big names are due to report earnings tomorrow as earnings season continues to move right along. Here are a couple of the names to watch out for tomorrow. McDonald's Corp. (MCD) : McDonald's is going to be reporting its first quarter numbers tomorrow with analysts forecasting $0.96 per share, verses $0.83 during the same period last year. The company will be reporting its Q1 numbers before the market ...

Earnings season continues to chug right along, and tomorrow we have some more big names due to report their quarterly earnings. Here are a few of the names reporting tomorrow: Coca Cola (KO) : Coca Cola will be reporting first quarter numbers tomorrow, and analysts have forecast $0.74 per share. During the same period last year Coca Cola had earnings of $0.65. Apple Computer (AAPL) : Apple is going to report fiscal ...

The earnings season is officially under way, and so far earnings have been pretty positive. There are a couple of big names that will be reporting over the next couple days, including search engine giant Google Inc. (GOOG). Google Inc. (GOOG) : Google will be reporting its first quarter numbers tomorrow after the market closes. Wall Street has forecast earnings of $6.57 per share. For the same period last year the ...

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 ...