Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, May 13, from AP Financial News:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday said first-quarter profits rose 6.9 percent, but issued a cautious outlook for the current quarter and warned that the economy will be a "critical factor" in 2008.
NEW YORK (AP) _ Gold-mining company Iamgold Corp. said Tuesday its first-quarter earnings soared on higher production and higher selling prices.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Investors scouring for hints of a housing upturn won't find much evidence in the second-quarter preliminary sales results of luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc.
NEW YORK (AP) _ Shares of Consolidated Water Co. sank in Tuesday trading after the company said its first-quarter income dropped more than 50 percent due in part to a large loss from an investment in the British Virgin Islands.
KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) _ Shares of Hoku Scientific Inc. fell nearly 4 percent Tuesday after the solar products maker reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss and the end of a financing deal with Merrill Lynch.