Posts Tagged ‘2009’

Strength within their Frito-Lay division along with currency benefits should lift Pepsi’s fourth quarter results.

Coca Cola is expected to report another solid quarter driven by improving consumer sentiment.

Amazon has established itself as the face of ecommerce and has delivered impressive growth despite the severe economic recession.

It appears that McDonald’s made a strategic misstep as they began pushing premium products like their Angus burgers and McCafe drinks instead of focusing consumers on their value options.

Strong search volumes should lead to a fairly easy earnings beat for Google this quarter.

Investors should be encouraged that IBM’s management team is openly optimistic that these strong earnings performances will continue this quarter and into 2010.

Wall Street still appears to be quite skeptical of Bank of America’s ability to get back on the right track in the near term.

Improving consumer credit trends will be the key going forward given Citi’s large consumer loan exposure.

An improving credit environment will result in strong earnings from JP Morgan in the fourth quarter that will exceed Wall Street’s expectations for the eighth consecutive quarter.

After four consecutive quarters of y/y revenue declines, Intel is expected to return to positive sales growth this quarter.