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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have posted stellar results, but earnings season rolls on. Here is a quick day-by-day rundown of what analysts are expecting from some of this week's most prominent earnings reports. Monday Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Watson...

Lots more earnings are on the schedule for this week, even as the calendar page turns. Look for quarterly results to come from Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Hershey (NYSE: HSY), Kellogg (NYSE: K), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS). Analysts expect...

Halloween and the Day of the Dead arrive this week. If analysts' forecasts are correct, there are only a few earnings reports that may scare investors. For instance, Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) earnings are predicted to have fallen 93.1% year over year to $0.58 per share. Allstate (NYSE:...

Quarterly reports of note scheduled for this week include those from Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM), General Motors (NYSE: GM), MasterCard (NYSE: MA), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), all of which are expected to post earnings growth, as well as Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)...

At its first analyst day in over a decade, Allstate (NYSE: ALL) unveiled a 13% consolidated targeted 2014 ROE, Bank of America reports. “The key drivers of the ROE improvement are better returns in the homeowners and the life operations,” Bank of America writes. “Capital management should continue...

J.P. Morgan is out with its report today on Allstate (NYSE: ALL), maintaining Overweight after ALL's investor day. In a note to clients, J.P. Morgan writes, "The investor day and more tangible financial targets signal, in our view, improved management conviction in its ability to deliver...

Copart (NYSE: CPRT) is scheduled to report third-quarter fiscal 2011 results after the closing bell on Wednesday, June 1. The effects of the Copart's deal for a nationwide exclusive arrangement with Allstate (NYSE: ALL) will be on investors' minds. Analysts expect the online auto reseller to...

J.P. Morgan is adjusting down its 2Q and FY 2011 EPS estimates for Allstate (NYSE: ALL) by $1.53 and $1.53 to a per share loss of $0.51 and EPS of $2.15, respectively, “to reflect the significant weather losses that affected the US in the month of April.” “The company recently preannounced total...

Sterne Agee, which initiated coverage of The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL), is providing some color on the stock. “We believe earnings have the potential to benefit from several factors,” Sterne Agee writes, “including: 1) “Improvement in auto combined ratio (addressing PIP loss issues in NY...

RBC Capital markets has initiated an Outperform rating on the following companies: Progressive (NYSE: PGR) $24 price target Allstate (NYSE: ALL) $38 price target

Oppenheimer writes about The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) that "with today's note we are not updating our estimates or changing our rating on shares of Allstate. The purpose of today's note is to highlight the fact that we think at least two positive catalysts could help to support Allstate's...

The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) is having its price target raised by Citigroup to $35, and is expected to see solid Auto trends coupled with repricing/rundown of the Homeowners and Life book to drive up cash flows and a return to buybacks, Citigroup reports. The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE...