Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 5 - American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO)

Most of the S&P 500 have already posted their fourth-quarter results. But a few of them are scheduled to report fiscal quarterly results this week. These include Altera, Brown-Forman, H&R Block and Pall Corp. Also, earnings reports from retailers continue to roll out this week, as they have for the past two weeks. Those on tap include American Eagle Outfitters, Dicks Sporting Goods, Kirland's, Men's Wearhouse, Williams-Sonoma and a number of others.

S&P 500 Reports

Fiscal second-quarter earnings from

Pall Corp.PLL

are estimated to total $0.74 per share on revenues of $684.6 million in Wednesday's report. In the same quarter of last year, this supplier of filtration, separation, and purification technologies posted $0.68 per share earnings and sales of $645.2 million. Analysts so far expect sequential and year-over-year growth of both EPS and sales in the current quarter. Pall Corp. only missed consensus earnings estimates in one of the past five quarters. The company has posted double-digit year-over-year percentage revenue growth for the past four quarters.

Analysts expect that Louisville, Ky.-based

Brown-Forman

's (NYSE:

BF-B

) fiscal third-quarter EPS will have risen four cents year over year to $1.00 per share. That estimate has not changed over the past 60 days. But this maker and exporter of such alcoholic beverages as Jack Daniel's and Korbel fell short of analysts' EPS estimates by a penny or two in the previous two quarters. The revenue forecast for the quarter calls for $1.0 billion, or 4.1% higher than in the same period of last year. The company said in its Q2 report that it anticipates net sales growth for the full fiscal year in the high single digits. Tax preparer and business services purveyor

H&R BlockHRB

is expected to say Wednesday that its fiscal third-quarter earnings came to $0.05 per share. That forecast compares to a loss of $0.01 in the same period of last year, but is down from a profit estimate of $0.12 a share some 60 days ago. And revenues for the quarter are expected to have fallen 17.8% to $700.0 million. Analysts have overestimated the company's per-share earnings results in the past four quarters. Their long-term EPS growth forecast for H&R Block is 11.0%

On Thursday,

AlteraALTR

is expected to say that its fiscal first-quarter earnings totaled $0.37 per share on revenues of $426.8 million. That would be down from $0.68 and $535.8 million in the same period of fiscal 2011. That EPS estimate has slipped over the past 60 days from $0.42. So far, analysts expect sequential growth in both EPS and sales in the current quarter. Note that this San Jose, Calif.-based of programmable logic devices is one of the most cash-rich companies in the tech sector. But it has a dividend yield of 0.8%.

Retail Earnings

Here's a peek at what analysts expect from retailers scheduled to report fourth-quarter results this week:

Aeropostale ARO: EPS down 61.2% to $0.38 and sales down 3.6% to $808.9 million
American Eagle Outfitters AEO: EPS down 20.5% to $0.35 and sales up 14.2% to $1.1 billion
Body Central BODY: EPS up 32.5% to $0.37 and sales up 20.1% to $80.6 million
Bon-Ton Stores BONT: EPS down 27.8% to $3.19 and sales down 3.0% to $1.0 billion
Brown Shoe BWS: EPS up 60.0% to $0.20 and sales up 6.5% to $643.5 million
Children's Place Retail Stores PLCE: EPS down 27.0% to $0.89 and sales up 5.5% to $478.1 million
Citi Trends CTRN: a net loss of $0.20 per share and sales up 4.2% to $179.4 million
Dick's Sporting Goods DKS: EPS up 13.6% to $0.88 and sales up 6.1% to $1.6 billion
Express EXPR: EPS up 19.1% to $0.68 and sales up 8.8% to $676.4 million
Fresh Market TFM: EPS up 26.3% to $0.38 and sales of $319.6 million
Hibbett Sports HIBB: EPS up 21.4% to $0.56 and sales up 11.1% to $192.5 million
Hot Topic HOTT: EPS up 10.0% to $0.20 and sales down 1.5% to $209.1 million
Kirkland's KIRK: EPS up 10.8% to $0.74 and sales up 6.4% to $148.5 million
Men's Wearhouse MW: a net loss of $0.13 per share and sales up 3.9% to $563.2 million
Stage Stores SSI: EPS up 19.6% to $1.07 and sales up 3.2% to $468.2 million
Williams-Sonoma WSM: EPS up 4.4% to $1.13 and sales up 4.3% to $1.3 billion

And Others

The week's other prominent quarterly reports include those from Anheuser-Busch Inbev

BUD

, Analogic

ALOG

, Coca-Cola Bottling

COKE

and Cooper Companies

COO

, which are expected to report year-over-year earnings growth of more than 15%. Analysts expect per-share earnings from executive recruiter Korn/Ferry International

KFY

to be the same as a year ago, but that Smithfield Foods

SFD

and Vail Resorts

MTN

will say their earnings declined year over year. A loss is expected from tech company Ciena

CIEN

and from homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises

HOV

, but analysts think those losses will be smaller than a year ago.

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