Dorothy Lakner at Caris lowered her third quarter profit estimate to 66 cents per share from 82 cents.
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General Dynamics (GD) announced that third quarter profit fell by 8 percent due to higher costs offsetting an increase in revenue.
Fifth Third reported profit of 40 cents a year ago, but the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of 39 cents this time around.
AeroVironment (AVAV), a maker of unmanned aircraft, announced that fiscal third quarter profit increased by 32 percent, due to stronger sales and increased gross margin.
In earnings news, Toll Brothers (TOL) said that third quarter profit was up 46 percent as the luxury homebuilder saw a sharp increase in new orders.
United Technologies (UTX) reported that third quarter profit was higher.
Shares in discount retailer Dollar General gained Monday after the company reported higher-than-expected third quarter profit and raised its guidance for the full year, saying that more shoppers turned up and spent more in the third quarter.
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Of those that remain, about one third will make a profit, another third will break even, and the balance will continue to lose money.
Goldman Sachs and Citigroup blew past third-quarter profit expectations Thursday, helped by big one-time gains.
Lenovo, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, has unveiled a third straight quarterly profit.
Meanwhile growth in the smartphone market helped Korea's LG Electronics to a third-quarter profit.
Specifically, they liked the look of Kohl's after the company undershot Wall Street expectations with a 14% decline in third-quarter profit.
Time Warner reported a 21 percent fall in its third-quarter profit Wednesday due to costs related to debt and increased programming expenses.
After the close of trading last night, Starbucks Inc. ( SBUX) reported that its third-quarter profit surged 34% due to rising traffic in U.S. stores.
At that time, Deutsche Telekom had announced that third-quarter profit had dropped 20% and cited an increasing number of defections by fixed-line customers and fierce competition in Germany.
Wal-Mart reported an increase in third-quarter profit Tuesday boosted by strength overseas, but a 1.3% decline in domestic same-store sales led revenue to come up short of estimates.
The maker of Huggies, Kleenex, and Depend undergarments recovered a bit, only to get pounded even worse in November, after the same factors caused a third-quarter profit shortfall.
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Specifically, they liked the look of Kohl's (nyse: KSS - news - people ) after the company undershot Wall Street expectations with a 14% decline in third-quarter profit.
PetMed Express posted a surprise fiscal third-quarter profit increase, the first bottom-line growth for the online-focused pet-medicine purveyor in more than a year, with revenue jumping 12% on a 29% surge in new orders.
The decline in profit in the third quarter followed three straight quarters of year-over-year profit growth.
The profit decrease in the third quarter came after two straight quarters of rising profit.
The profit dip in the third quarter came after three consecutive quarters of rising profit.
The fall in profit in the third quarter broke a three-quarter streak of year-over-year profit growth.
The decrease in profit in the third quarter broke a streak of three consecutive quarters of year-over-year profit increases.
The increase in profit in the third quarter broke a streak of two consecutive quarters of year-over-year profit decreases.
The increase in profit in the third quarter broke a streak of three consecutive quarters of year-over-year profit decreases.
Profit rose in the third quarter, breaking a streak of two straight quarters of falling profit.
BYD, the Chinese carmaker backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, reported a 94 percent slide in third-quarter net profit due to a slumping domestic market and its money-losing solar energy business.
Third-quarter net profit of KRW 157 billion (USD 138.57 million) with operating profit recording KRW 221 billion (USD 195.06 million) showed significant improvements from the loss in the same period last year.
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The rise in profit in the third quarter came after two consecutive quarters of decreasing net income.
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