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Below is a weekly earnings calendar of the most important upcoming quarterly reports scheduled to be released by publicly traded companies. However, we have also provided expanded earnings previews for select companies.
Please check back often. This earnings calendar is updated weekly.
Monday (8/16)Tuesday (8/17)Wednesday (8/18)Thursday (8/19)Friday (8/20)
(Editor's Note: Earnings dates in tables are tentative. However, companies featured in “Earnings Spotlights” have officially announced their earnings dates.)
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MONDAYNoteworthy Earnings Reports
| Company | Symbol | Earnings estimate |
| AcelRx Pharmaceuticals | ACRX | -$0.08 per share |
| Fabrinet | FN | $1.21 |
| Geron | GERN | -$0.09 |
| Roblox | RBLX | $0.12! |
| Tencent Music Entertainment | TME | $0.09 |
| XpresSpa Group | XSPA | -$0.03 |
TUESDAYEarnings Spotlight: Home Depot
Home Depot (HD, $334.65) is slated to report earnings ahead of the Aug. 17 open. The retaileris facing tough year-over-year comparisons, considering the shutdown in Q2 2020 left many people with ample time for home improvement projects.
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“The home and land improvement retailers are clearly facing tough comparisons for the remainder of 2021, but valuation levels have come back down some relative to this spring,” says Raymond James analyst Bobby Griffin, who maintains an Outperform rating (equivalent of Buy) on HD shares.
Even with the difficult comps, “U.S. housing demand and the key fundamentals of the home improvement industry are highly attractive,” Griffin adds. “And the U.S. consumer has a higher than typical level of excess savings that continues to be a tailwind for demand.”
He notes HD's “solid cash flow” that can be used for ongoing buybacks, and expects “momentum to remain favorable across the period and to be driven by all product categories posting solid gains.”
The majority of Wall Street is bullish on Home Depot and it's easy to see why, considering shares of the Dow Jones stock are up almost 26% for the year to date and are trading less than 4 percentage points from their mid-May record high of $345.69.
And for the retailer's second quarter, the pros are calling for adjusted earnings per share (EPS)of $4.43 +10.2% year-over-year (YoY)and revenues of $40.7 billion, a 6.8% improvement from the year prior.
Earnings Spotlight: Walmart
Walmart(WMT, $150.80) will also unveil its second-quarter results before the opening bell on Tuesday.
Overall, analysts are expecting WMT to post earnings of $1.56 per share! for the ! three-month period, unchanged from the year prior. Revenues of $136.7 billion are forecast for the retailer's second quarter, which represents a 0.7% decrease from what itbrought in this time last year.
Jefferies analyst Stephanie Wissink (Buy) is encouraged by Walmart's e-commerce initiatives, which were a notable mark on the company's Q1 results (+37% YoY). This includes expanding its marketplace and providing additional delivery options, which “should drive continued robust e-commerce growth, especially in today's environment,” she writes in a note to clients.
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“We expect WMT to report a slight second-quarter beat,” Wissinkadds. “Inbound interest has increased as of late, which we attribute to investor focus on expected benefits of the broader WMT model resiliency through inflation and economic cycles, a pandemic beneficiary, transforming omni-channel ecosystem and recent data points supporting a grocer share recovery.”
Sharing this optimism toward Walmart's earnings is Deutsche Bank analyst Krisztina Katai, who has a Buy rating on the retail stock.
“We are constructive on WMT into the print as we see upside to both the top-line and EPS given the overall strength of the consumer, pent-up demand for back-to-school shopping season, sustained food at home consumption and the tailwind of child tax credit payments in the back half of July,” she says.
Other Noteworthy Earnings Reports
| Company | Symbol | Earnings estimate |
| Agilent Technologies | A | $0.99 per share |
| Amcor | AMCR | $0.22 |
| America's Car-Mart | CRMT | $3.49 |
| Cree | CREE | -$0.24 |
| Krispy Kreme | DNUT | $0.13 |
| La-Z-Boy | LZB | $0.55 |
| Pandora | PANDY | $0! .29 |
| QuickLogic | QUIK | -$0.15 |
| Sea Ltd. | SE | -$0.49 |
WEDNESDAYEarnings Spotlight: Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems (CSCO, $56.12) is one of a handful of non-retailers reporting earnings this week, with the network equipment specialist unveiling its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the Aug. 18 close. The stock has put in a solid performance on the charts this year, up 25% so far to trade at levels not seen since mid-2019.
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Analysts are projecting modest improvement from the year-ago period. On the bottom line, the pros are calling for a 2.5% YoY rise to 82 cents per share. As for revenue, the average estimate is for $13.0 billion, up 7.2% on an annual basis.
Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold says recent internal checks on Cisco were variedbut tilted toward the positive. “The more bullish checks described a positive inflection back toward data center and campus upgrades delayed by the pandemic,” he writes in a note to clients.
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However, Leopold, who has an Outperform (Buy) rating on CSCO, suspects the company's recovery phase will be extended into next year.
At CFRA, analyst Keith Snyder will be keeping an eye on the results from Cisco's network security space.
“With $23.58 billion in cash and short-term investments on hand as of May 1, 2021, Cisco has been able to build out its security offerings through acquisitions,” he says.
“Our Buy opinion reflects not only our view that the security segment will continue to be a bright spot for the company, but also our expectation the spending on infrastructure platforms will begin to recover after being impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.”
Other Noteworthy Earnings Reports
| Company | Symbol | Earnings esti! mate |
| Analog Devices | ADI | $1.61 per share |
| Bath & Body Works | BBWI | $1.03 |
| Brinker International | EAT | $1.72 |
| Children's Place | PLCE | $0.31 |
| Nvidia | NVDA | $1.02 |
| Lumentum Holdings | LITE | $1.06 |
| Lowe's | LOW | $4.00 |
| Keysight Technologies | KEYS | $1.44 |
| Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | RRGB | $0.00 |
| Synopsys | SNPS | $1.78 |
| Target | TGT | $3.49 |
| TJX | TJX | $0.58 |
| Vipshop Holdings | VIPS | $2.32 |
| ZTO Express | ZTO | $1.49 |
THURSDAYNoteworthy Earnings Reports
| Company | Symbol | Earnings estimate |
| Applied Materials | AMAT | $1.77 per share |
| Baozun | BZUN | $1.93 |
| Bilibili | BILI | -$2.96 |
| BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings | BJ | $0.63 |
| Estee Lauder | EL | $0.51 |
| Gold Fields | GFI | $0.47 |
| Kohl's | KSS | $1.21 |
| Macy's | M | $0.20 |
| Madison Square Garden Sports | MSGS | -$0.76 |
| Newcrest Mining | NCMGY | $0.75 |
| Petco Health & Wellness | WOOF | $0.20 |
| Qiwi | QIWI | $32.18 |
| Ross Stores | ROST | $0.98 |
| SeaDrill | SDRLF | -$2.09 |
| Tapestry | TPR | $0.68 |
| Victoria's Secret | VSCO | $1.59 |
FRIDAYNoteworthy Earnings Reports
| Symbol | Earnings estimate | |
| Buckle | BKE | $0.51 per share |
| Deere & Co. | DE | $4.57 |
| Foot Locker | FL | $0.98 |
Reporting schedules provided by Briefing.com and company websites. Earnings estimate data provided by Thomson Reuters via Yahoo! Finance, and FactSet via MarketWatch.10 High-Quality Stocks With Dividend Yields of 4% or More
