RBS H1 earnings to beat forecasts
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Royal Bank of Scotland , the  British bank trying to lead a takeover of Dutch rival ABN AMRO,  said it expects its UK bad debts to fall in the first half of  this year to help it beat forecasts for underlying earnings.
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Stock market bulls are betting strong second-quarter profits will send equities even higher with the earnings reporting season in full swing this week.
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U.S. stocks could rise this week if the first wave of quarterly earnings inject optimism about results for the period and on economic growth that has surprised on the upside.
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update Earnings per share rise compared with a year ago, but company misses analysts' expectations by a long shot.
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H.J. Heinz Co  posted a higher quarterly profit on Friday and said it expects full-year profits to be near the top of its forecast range, helped by new products, the weak dollar and stepped-up marketing.
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Heading into the heart of earnings  season next week the expected results look robust, but a  slowing of future profit growth and the impact of surging oil  prices on the economy could conspire to hold down stocks.
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Pepsico reports earnings in the morning. Will there be fizzle?
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Hewlett-Packard reported solid financial results for its fiscal first quarter, driven by growth in PCs and enterprise hardware. The results prompted HP to raise its forecast for the year ahead.Revenue for the quarter, which ended Jan. 31, was $28.5 billion, up 13 percent from a year earlier, HP announced Tuesday. Pro forma net income was $2.3 billion, or $0.86 per share, up from $1.8 billion, or $0.65 per share, a year earlier.The figures beat the expectations of financial analysts, who had forecast revenue of $27.6 billion and pro forma earnings per share of $0.81, according to Thomson First Call. The pro forma figure excludes one-time items that slightly inflated the results. Using generally accepted accounting principles, HP&#39;s profit was $2.1 billion, or $0.80 per share.HP&#39;s Personal Systems Group, which produces its laptop and desktop PCs, grew its revenue 24 percent from the same period a year earlier, to $10.8 billion, with unit shipments up 27 percent. Notebook sales climbed fastest, up 37 percent, while desktop sales climbed 15 percent.The division had already been doing well. HP extended its lead over Dell in PC sales last year, according to figures from Gartner. HP ended the year with 18.2 percent of the market, compared with 14.3 percent for Dell. The PC market overall grew 13.4 percent.HP may find it hard to sustain that growth rate, in part because it has to make comparisons with increasingly successful quarters in the year before, CEO Mark Hurd said on a conference call. Still, Hurd said, &quot;when you look at 24 percent growth, I think that&#39;s pretty darned strong.&quot;HP&#39;s imaging and printing group performed slightly less well, with revenue climbing 4 percent to $7.3 billion. Printer unit sales declined by 1 percent from a year earlier, thanks to weakness in the consumer market. Revenue from supplies, which includes HP&#39;s profitable ink business, climbed 6 percent, however.Revenue from the servers and storage group climbed 9 percent to $4.8 billion. Sales of blades and industry-standard servers were strong, while HP&#39;s PA-RISC and Alpha chip businesses continued to shrink. Services revenue climbed 11 percent year-over-year to $4.4 billion, while software sales climbed 11 percent to $666 million, HP said.Hurd said he was pleased with the results overall. He attributed them to successful cost-cutting efforts, the addition of 2,000 new HP sales staff in the past year, and a diverse product portfolio.HP generates an increasing amount of its business overseas, he said. Its biggest market continued to be Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where revenue grew 15 percent to $12.3 billion. Asia-Pacific revenue climbed 22 percent to $4.9 billion. Growth in the Americas was a sluggish 8 percent, generating $11.2 billion.&quot;We generated 69 percent of our revenue outside the U.S., with emerging markets driving significant growth,&quot; Hurd said.The company now expects second-quarter revenue of $27.7 billion to $27.9 billion, and pro forma earnings per share of $0.83 or $0.84. That&#39;s above what analysts polled by Thomson had been estimating: pro forma profit of $0.82 and revenue of $27.4 billion.
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Credit Suisse Group (CSGN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) posted forecast-beating third-quarter earnings on Thursday, as solid insurance income and one-off tax gains
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The mortgage giant returns to quarterly reporting with its Q1 earnings.
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McDonald's Corp.  said on Monday it expects to report quarterly earnings before items above Wall Street estimates on its strongest quarterly sales in three years.
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More than a few companies that you know -- and possibly own -- will be reporting earnings in the week ahead.
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James Early shows how earnings can deceive.
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Royal Bank of Scotland , the British bank trying to lead a takeover of Dutch rival ABN AMRO, said it expects its UK bad debts to fall in the first half of this year to help it beat forecasts for underlying earnings.
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Hewlett-Packard reported solid financial results for its fiscal first quarter, driven by growth in PCs and enterprise hardware. The results prompted HP to raise its forecast for the year ahead.
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The retailer reports strong earnings and lifts its outlook.
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H.J. Heinz Co  on Friday forecast quarterly profit higher than analysts' estimates, helped by higher prices and sales volume increases across its businesses.