Earnings In This Week: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)

The forecast for Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) calls for a minuscule gain in its profit to $10.17 per share, as well as for revenue of $43.55 billion, or essentially flat compared to the same period of last year. Note though that 60 days ago, the consensus EPS estimate was just $10.13. The iPhone maker shares its results Wednesday afternoon. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares after opening at $ 520.00 moved to $527.76 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $524.94. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 2.69 and price to cash ratio as 11.50. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) showed a positive weekly performance of 0.28%.

Analysts are looking for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) to post EPS for its first quarter that are double a year ago to $0.24. Revenue is expected to have risen more than 61 percent to $2.35 billion. The social media giant is also scheduled to share its results after the closing bell. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) shares fell -1.31% in last trading session and ended the day on $58.94. FB return on equity ratio is recorded as 11.30% and its return on assets is 9.40%. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) yearly performance is 129.43%.

The earnings of the General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) will be declared through a conference call on April 24, 2014. However, there is a keen possibility to uplift the moral of the shareholders of the company. The annual meeting of stockholders will be held on June 10, 2014. Anyhow the complete situation depends on 1Q2014. General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) shares moved up 0.03% in last trading session and was closed at $33.98 while trading in range of $33.80 – $34.09 – General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) year to date (YTD) performance is -16.12%.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) is slated to report first-quarter earnings next Friday, but has averaged a one-week post-earnings loss of 0.9% over the past eight quarters, and fell 7.4% in the five sessions following its last earnings report. Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) weekly performance is 2.37%. On last trading day company shares ended up $16.00. Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 3.54%. Analysts mean target price for the company is $17.80.