The results included a charge of about 25 cents a share resulting from the health reform law.
AT&T said it would take a charge of about $600 million in the fourth quarter related to severance costs.
Cisco said it would take a charge of about 2 cents a share for the purchase of privately held PixStream, of Waterloo, Ontario.
Third-quarter profit will be 39 cents to 42 cents a share before a charge of about 4 cents for an accounting change, General Electric said.
As a result of the acquisition, Cree will take a charge of about $3.5 million in its fourth quarter, which will end in June.
The company, in Owings Mills, Md., said it would take a charge of about $11 million in the first quarter for the revamping.
The company said it took a charge of about $130 million, or 4 cents a share, in accounting charges because of the acquisition.
AltaVista, which has about 900 employees, will take a charge of about $7.5 million in the quarter ending Oct. 31 for the job cuts and for consolidating its four offices into one location, said Rod Schrock, AltaVista's chief executive.
The Lockheed Martin Corporation said yesterday that it would take a charge of about $110 million in the fourth quarter because it lost a legal dispute over work cleaning up nuclear waste in Idaho.
The company also announced that it would eliminate about 1,700 jobs as part of a continuing restructuring and would take a charge of about $75 million to pay for the cuts.
GLOBAL MARINE INC., Houston, the second-largest United States oil drilling company, said it would take a charge of about $3.6 million in the first quarter to pay for office closings and 45 job cuts.
