Thursday is a busy day for corporate earnings. Over 100 companies will announce their most recent earnings results tomorrow. If your watch to know how the market will do tomorrow, keep an eye on the following stocks. These 5 stocks will determine the direction of the Dow tomorrow. They will give insight into the consumer goods, oil & gas, and technology sectors.
Colgate Palmolive (CL)
Microsoft (MSFT)
Motorola (MOT)
Other notable companies reporting earnings tomorrow are:
Barrick Gold (ABX)
Celgene Corp (CELG)
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME)
Dow Chemical (DOW)
First Solar (FSLR)
Fortune Brands (FO)
Manitowoc (MTW)
MetLife (MET)
Moody’s Corp. (MCO)
Sunoco (SUN)
Paying attention to earnings results is all a part of doing your investing homework. You can learn a lot about a company from its quarterly results. Quarterly earnings can show the effectiveness of the company’s strategy and the popularity of a product with consumers. You can also judge the integrity of the management by how they respond to investors questions during conference calls.
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