Monday
U.S.
Featured Earnings
Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) (Jan.) EPS estimate of 59 cents. Last month, the company announced net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014 increased to $906 million or 6% over the same quarter last year.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Housing Starts (Feb.) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimates there were 11,737 actual starts in January to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 180,248, down from 187,144 in December.
Featured Earnings
Canadian Western Bank (T.CWB) (Q1) EPS estimate of 65 cents, compared to 57 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp. (T.CEU) EPS estimate of 20 cents, compared to five cents in the prior-year quarter.
Tuesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Wholesale Trade (Jan.)
Featured Earnings
Dicks Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE: DKS) (Jan.) EPS estimate of $1.07. Last month, the chain opened three more stores, two in Florida, and one in Louisiana.
Canada
Featured Earnings
Lightstream Resources Ltd. (T.LTS) (Q4) EPS estimate of 18 cents, compared to 55 cents in the prior-year quarter. Next week, the company will pay out a February dividend of four cents a share.
Wednesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
EIA Petroleum Report (Mar. 3-7)
Featured Earnings
Krispy Kreme (NYSE: KKD) (Jan.) EPS estimate of 14 cents. The chain is running a promotion throughout the month, offering New Krispy Kreme Mocha Kreme and Caramel Coffee Kreme doughnuts through March 30 at locations all over North America.
Canada
Featured Earnings
Black Diamond Group Limited (T.BDI) (Q4) EPS estimate of 37 cents, compared to 24 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Crescent Point Energy Corp. (T.CPG) (Q4) EPS estimate of 17 cents, compared to a loss of 26 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Baytex Energy Corp. (T.BTE) (Q4) EPS estimate of 31 cents, compared to 26 cents in the prior-year quarter. Last month, Baytex pulled off a blockbuster deal, buying Aurora Oil & Gas for $2.6 billion.
Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. (T.BXE) (Q4) EPS estimate of eight cents, compared to six cents in the prior-year quarter.
The North West Company Inc. (T.NWC) (Q4) EPS estimate of 35cents, compared to 32 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Thursday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Weekly jobless claims (Mar. 3-7)
Retail Sales (Feb.)
Import, Export Prices (Feb.)
Business Inventories (Jan.)
Featured Earnings
Aeropostale Inc. (NYSE: APO) (Jan.) No projections available.
Dollar General (NYSE: DG) (Jan.) No projections available.
Men’s Wearhouse (NYSE:MW) (Jan.) No projections available. The men’s clothier is in confidential talks with rival Jos. A. Bank about a possible merger.
Canada
Economic lookahead
New Housing Price Index (Jan.) The index rose 0.1% in December, following no change in November.
Featured Earnings
Empire Company Limited (T.EMP.A) (Q3) EPS estimate of $1.23, compared to $1.17 in the prior-year quarter.
Tahoe Resources Inc. (T.THO) (Q4) EPS estimate of a loss of eight cents, compared to a loss of 16 cents in the prior-year quarter. The Vancouver-based company noted in January that its Escobal mine in Guatemala had reached commercial production, ramping towards the 3,500-tonne per day target level.
B2Gold Corp. (T.BTO) (Q4) EPS estimate of three cents, compared to four cents in the prior-year quarter. The company announced last month production figures at its Masbate open pit mine in the Philippines, projected to produce between 190,000 and 200,000 ounces of gold in 2014.
Friday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Producer Price Index (Feb.)
Consumer Sentiment (Mar.) The University of Michigan's Consumer Survey Center questions 500 households each month on their financial conditions and attitudes about the economy.
Featured Earnings
Mitel Networks (NASDAQ: MITL) (Jan.) No projections available. Last week, Ottawa-based Mitel acquired contact centre supplier OAISYS, a leading developer of integrated call recording and quality management solutions
Canada
Featured earnings
Power Corporation of Canada (T.POW) (Q4) EPS estimate of 63 cents, compared to 48 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Stella-Jones Inc. (T.SJ) (Q4) EPS estimate of 30 cents, compared to 25 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Transcontinental Inc. (T.TCL.A) (Q1) EPS estimate of 34 cents, compared to 37 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (T.IVN) (Q4) EPS estimate of a loss of seven cents, identical to the loss experienced in last year’s fourth quarter. The company announced last week that work had begun underground on the company's 20,000-metre diamond-drilling program at the Kipushi copper-zinc-germanium-lead and precious-metals mine on the Central African Copperbelt in southern Katanga Province, less than one kilometre from the Zambian border.
