Earnings Watch

A sampling of companies expected to report quarterly earnings today, ranked by year-over-year earnings-per-share (EPS) growth, compiled by First Call/Thomson Financial:

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Ticker Analysts’ Year-ago Predicted Company symbol estimated EPS quarter pct. chg. Texas Instruments TXN $0.61 $0.44 +39% Southwest Airlines LUV 0.26 0.20 +30 Microsoft MSFT 0.32 0.25 +28 Times Mirror TMC 0.55 0.43 +28 Amgen AMGN 0.44 0.36 +22 Schering-Plough SGP 0.36 0.30 +20 Ameritech AIT 0.62 0.53 +17 SBC Communications SBC 0.56 0.49 +14 Johnson & Johnson JNJ 0.80 0.73 +10 Wells Fargo WFC 0.50 0.47 +6 Philip Morris MO 0.79 0.79 0 Lockheed Martin LMT 0.51 0.71 -28 Occidental Pet. OXY -0.21 0.25 NM Sprint PCS PCS -1.29 -0.97 NM PepsiCo PEP 0.24 NA NA

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Notes: NA= not available, NM= not meaningful. A loss in any period makes percentage change not calculable. Year-over-year growth and percentage changes are based on earnings-per-share figures and may differ from percentage changes based on total profit.

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