Alcoa (AA) Set to Kick-Off Q2 Earnings Season

With its earnings report after the close tonight, Alcoa (NYSE: AA) unofficially kicks off second quarter earnings season. While the company is no longer the bellwether it once was, investors will be paying attention to any guidance from the aluminum producer that may be applied broadly to the economic recovery in the U.S. and globally.

Analysts on average are looking for Alcoa to report earnings of $0.12 on revenues of $5.88 billion, representing growth of 71% and -3%, respectively. Last quarter the company beat on EPS but missed on revenue. Shares have rallied 17% since that time.

Beyond Alcoa, earnings will be flooding in from the mega-banks early next week with Citigroup (NYSE: C) reporting Monday (7/14), JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) on Tuesday (7/15), and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) on Wednesday (7/16).

Also next week, Yahoo! ((Nasdaq: YHOO) and Intel ((Nasdaq: INTC) report on Tuesday (7/15) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) on Thursday.

The following week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will report results on July 22 and Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) on July 23.

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) will report on July 29.

Investors can track all this earnings season action at StreetInsider.com's EPS Insider.

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