Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 29

The oil and gas industry will be well represented on this week's earnings stage, with reports due from supermajors

and

, and many others in the field.

and

will be the highlights among the various media companies reporting quarterly results this week, and

is just one of several insurers stepping into the earnings spotlight. Among the many other, various consumer goods and services companies also on deck this week are

and

.

Thursday morning,

is expected to report that EPS came to $1.90 in the second quarter, while revenue totaled $105.54 billion. That compares to $1.80 per share and $127.36 billion in the same period of last year.

and

both step into the earnings spotlight late in the week. The second-quarter earnings forecast for the former calls for $2.96 per share on revenue on $56.01 billion, down from $3.56 per share and $62.61 billion in the year-ago period. Analysts believe that ConocoPhillips will say before the opening bell that its per-share earnings came to $1.29, on $12.75 billion in revenue. That would compare to $1.22 per share and $13.99 billion in the same period of last year. Also on deck this week and expected to offer up earnings growth are

,

and

. But analysts are looking for lower EPS from

,

,

,

,

,

and

.

Reports are due from

Wednesday morning and from

on Friday. They are projected to post per-share earnings of $0.63 and $1.30, respectively. That would be up less than five percent for the former but more than 25 percent for the latter. Revenue for the largest cable company in U.S. is expected to have risen more than five percent year-over-year to $16.01 billion, while that of the operator of MTV and Paramount Pictures is more than 10 percent higher to $3.58 billion. Wednesday after the closing bell,

is expected to say that its EPS came to $0.72 in its second quarter, while revenue totaled $3.52 billion. That would be up from $0.65 per share and $3.47 billion in the same period of last year.

,

and

also are expected to report annual earnings growth on this week. But a decline in per-share earnings is anticipated from

.

is scheduled to step onto the earnings stage Thursday. Analysts are looking for second-quarter revenue that fell more than two percent to $8.62 billion, as well as EPS that fell almost 19 percent from a year ago to $0.86 per share.

,

,

,

and

forecasts call for year-over-year EPS growth. But EPS from

are expected to be the same as a year ago, while a per-share earnings decline is anticipated from

. Furthermore, drug makers

,

,

and

are expected to report lower EPS this week as well.

First thing Wednesday morning comes the second-quarter report from

. Analysts are looking for revenue that rose about 10 percent to $2.00 billion, as well as net income that is more than 10 percent higher than a year ago and comes to $6.30 per share. Then Thursday before the markets open,

is expected to say that its EPS came to $0.77 in the fiscal fourth quarter, while revenue totaled $20.55 billion. That compares to $0.82 per share and $20.21 billion in the same period of last year. This week's other anticipated earnings winners include

,

,

,

,

,

,

,

(quarter on quarter for this recent spin-off),

,

and

. Analysts expect to see earnings declines from

and

, as well as net losses from

and

.