China search leader Baidu (BIDU) reports Q2 earnings after the close Monday. Analysts expect the company to continue to feel pressure on its profit margins in the wake of a weak showing in Q1. Baidu stock fell sharply in April after the company reported Q1 revenue below Wall Street expectations and gave soft Q2 guidance as it spent heavily to advance its mobile business in the face of competition from China e-commerce leader Alibaba Group (BABA)
In the midst of investing heavily on new products, Facebook (FB) is set to report earnings after the market close Wednesday. The consensus estimate is for Facebook to report Q2 revenue of $3.97 billion, up 36% from Q2 2014. But those results would mark the fifth quarter in a row of slower growth. The consensus on earnings per share minus items, based on analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, is 47 cents, up 12%. It would be the company’s slowest
Twitter (TWTR) reports Q2 earnings after the close Tuesday, and Wall Street is looking for signs that the microblog’s strategies to boost user growth and profit are kicking in. But Brean Capital analyst Sarah Hindlian, in a research report Thursday, said, “We expect foreign exchange to remain a 6% headwind to year-over-year growth in both Q2 2015 and Q3 2015, similar to headwinds seen in Q1 2015.” About 34% of the microblog’s revenue in Q1 came