The Reader's Digest Association had a fiscal first-quarter loss as sales fell 9.8percentt.
Cisco released a fiscal first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday that was better than most of Wall Street had expected.
Toys RR" Us reported a fiscal first-quarter loss here today, saying it sold fewer outdoor toys and spent more to renovate stores and train employees.
Sony, which said in April that it expected an operating loss in the period, did not elaborate on expectations for a fiscal first-quarter group operating profit.
Shares of Hovnanian Enterprises, the home builder, fell 4percentt after it reported a fiscal first-quarter loss that exceeded analysts' estimates.
Deere, the world's largest maker of agricultural equipment, reported a fiscal first-quarter profit of $243.2 million, or 57 cents a share, up from $203.9 million, or 48 cents a share, a year earlier.
Pathmark Stores Inc., a grocer that emerged from bankruptcy in September, had a fiscal first-quarter profit and said it expects second-quarter same-store sales to rise as much as 2.5percentt.
In other news, Smithfield Foods, the hog producer and pork processor, said Tuesday it swung to a fiscal first-quarter loss partly because of a $20.1 million write-down in the value of commodities contracts.
Shares of the Hyperion Solutions Corporation fell as much as 44percentt after the company, a software maker, said it had a fiscal first-quarter loss on lower-than-expected license revenue.
Barnes & Noble, citing higher litigation costs, reported a fiscal first-quarter loss yesterday that was almost triple that of a year earlier, although still better than what analysts had expected.
Verity Inc., a maker of search-engine software that had been forecasting a fiscal first-quarter profit, said it now expects a loss as a result of reduced orders by its customers, which include AT&T Wireless and Verizon Communications.
