Companies are beating Wall Street profit forecasts by 15 percent but beating revenue projections by just 0.8 percent.
Industrial production in Japan rose 1.5percentt in December, beating economists' projections.
"Hellboy II," for instance, is beating sales projections by about 10percentt, according to Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
The parent company reported a 72 percent gain in first-quarter net income, to $498.9 million, beating analysts' projections, aided by its U.S. and Singapore businesses.
A spectacular pink diamond, the largest of its kind to ever appear at auction, has been sold for US$28.5m£18.8m/€26.6m6m), narrowly beating auctioneers' projections.
It's what the Chicago Cubs left-hander believes is the beginning of another year of beating the projections.
Roku, meanwhile, benefits from this position – beating sales projections, growing ad revenue, and increasing its active user numbers, as it did in its first earnings.
Telephone equipment maker Tellabs tlab posted earnings of 52 cents per share in the first quarter, beating average projections of 49 cents per share.
Smoak has hit 63 home runs over the past two seasons, beating many projections, but he is now 32 has only a middling glove at first base.
Telephone equipment maker Tellabs tlab fell in tandem with other tech stocks after posting earnings of 52 cents per share in the first quarter, beating average projections of 49 cents per share.
Following in the footsteps of its former parent, which also posted strong results for Q1, PayPal posted revenues of $2.544 billion with non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.37, rising 19% and 28% respectively on a year ago and both beating analysts' projections of $2.5 billion and $0.35 EPS.
