Alcoa Kicks Off Q3 with Earnings on October 7, Big Names to Follow (AAPL, F, JNJ, GOOG, C, More...)

The third quarter earnings season is officially unofficially starting tomorrow, after the market closes, as aluminum giant Alcoa (NYSE: AA) will be posting their earnings for the quarter. The company is expected to report an EPS of $0.06 on revenues of $4.95 billion.

Earnings for the quarter may have some high expectations out of investors, following one of the most successful September runs that the markets have seen in several decades. Names such as Oracle, AMD, Netflix, Atmel, and MGM all ended the month locking in near or better than 20% gains. The Dow finished up 5.1%, Nasdaq up 8.8% and S&P ended 5.6% better. For the most part, stocks did even better for the three-month period, and job numbers and Fed comments peppered confidence back into the investment community.

In concert with the third quarter, Streetinsider.com will be launching a new portal, in addition to our successful Ratings Central and M&A Central sites: EPS Central. As earnings roll out through October and November, be sure to keep EPS Central bookmarked to get a comprehensive aggregate of all earnings results. Surprise beats and misses, earnings guidance, and an easy-to-follow news feed are just some of the many new features!

Notable earnings dates for the third quarter include:

October 12, 2010:

• Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)

October 13, 2010:

• J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM)

October 14, 2010:

• Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD); and
  
  
• Google, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG)

October 15, 2010:

• Gannet (NYSE: GCI); and
  
  
• Mattel (NYSE: MAT)

The following week gives us:

October 18, 2010:

• Citigroup (NYSE: C);
  
  
• International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM); and
  
  
• Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN)

October 19, 2010:

• Bank of America (NYSE: BAC);
  
  
• Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO);
  
  
• Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS);
  
  
• Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ);
  
  
• Apple, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL);
  
  
• Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO)

October 20, 2010:

• United Technologies (NYSE: UTX);
  
  
• Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC);
  
  
• U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB);
  
  
• eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY)

October 21, 2010:

• AT&T (NYSE: T);
  
  
• McDonald's (NYSE: MCD);
  
  
• Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS);
  
  
• Xerox (NYSE: XRX);
  
  
• American Express (NYSE: AXP);
  
  
• Capital One (NYSE: COF)

October 22, 2010:

• Verizon (NYSE: VZ)
  
  
• KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY)

Looking further ahead:

October 26, 2010: CIT Group (NYSE: CIT), Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), Western Union (NYSE: WU).

October 27, 2010: Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP), Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Visa (NYSE: V)

October 28, 2010: 3M (NYSE: MMM), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)

November 2: BP Plc (NYSE: BP)

November 3: AOL LLC (NYSE: AOL), Centurytel (NYSE: CTL)

November 4: Ford (NYSE: F), Fluor (NYSE: FLR)

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