Earnings Expectations for the Week of August 15

Earnings season is not over yet. Among the companies on deck to report quarterly results this coming week are Deere

, Smucker

and Estee Lauder

. Analysts expect Deere's per-share earnings to be more than 13% higher than a year ago. Smucker's earnings are forecast to be marginally higher, while those of Estee Lauder are predicted to have slipped about a nickel per share. But the real focus will be on retail and tech earnings. Walmart

, Home Depot

and Abercrombie & Fitch

are scheduled to post second-quarter results, and Dell

and Hewlett-Packard

will be stepping into the earnings spotlight as well. Here's a look at what analysts anticipate from these and many others in these sectors this week.

Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, is forecast to post second-quarter earnings of $1.08 per share on revenues of $108.3 billion on Tuesday. That is up from $0.97 per share and $103.7 billion in the same period of last year. Analysts are looking for big-box home improvement chain Home Depot to report Tuesday that earnings are up 13.3% from a year ago to $0.83 per share, while revenues come in at $19.9 billion, an increase of just 2.8%. And Wednesday, hip specialty retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is expected to report per-share earnings up a nickel per share to $0.29, but revenue that jumped 18.0% year-over-year to $880.2 million. Note that none of these three retailers have fallen short of consensus earnings estimates in recent quarters. Here is a look at the consensus earnings forecasts for some of the week's other anticipated double-digit gainers in retail.

Analysts anticipate modest earnings growth from America's Car-Mart

and Target

as well. Staples

per-share earnings are expected to be about the same as in the year-ago quarter, while retailers expected to report declining earnings this week include GameStop

, Gap

, Kirklands

and Urban Outfitters

. And Bon-Ton Stores

, Hot Topic

, Saks

and Sears

are expected to post net losses for the second quarter.

Analysts foresee a report of earnings growth from Dell on Tuesday despite weak growth in PC shipments. The Texas-based computer and smartphone maker is expected to post second-quarter earnings of $0.49 per share on revenues of $15.8 billion. That compares with $0.32 per share and $15.5 billion in the same period a year ago. Things are not as rosy for rival Hewlett-Packard. Its anticipated fiscal third-quarter earnings of $1.09 per share would be about the same as a year ago, while revenues are forecast to be up just 1.5% to $31.2 billion. While analysts underestimated Dell earnings by 25% or more in the past three quarters, HP has only topped consensus estimates by about a nickel or so per share in that time. By and large, expectations for this week's other tech earnings are positive.

Marvell Technology Group's

per-share earnings are predicted to have slipped three cents per share.

The following week, Applied Materials

, Heinz

, Hormel

and Tiffany

will be reporting their quarterly results.