Analysts expect the other leading telephone companies to continue to show mixed earnings results.
Analysts are waiting to see whether the earnings results will prompt other changes, too.
The earnings results were released after the market had closed.
Microsoft today posted its earnings results for the third quarter of financial year 2011.
May said the deal would not materially alter its financial position or earnings results.
Movie Gallery announced earnings results to the public nearly two weeks after the private conference call.
Four big oil companies reported mixed earnings results today.
Two major telephone holding companies yesterday reported opposite earnings results for the second quarter.
The earnings results were released after the market closed on Thursday.
Analysts said today that there was nothing surprising in the earnings results.
It warned that lower-than-expected revenue and earnings would result, at least in the third quarter.
About $29 million of this year's earnings resulted from the sale of some of the company's timber land.
Since women's earnings over a lifetime are on average 17.5% (as of 2008) lower than men's, these lower earnings result in lower pensions.
The better earnings result in the face of declining sales was taken as an indication that the specialty store company's profit margins were under control.
Farmers Group's remaining earnings result from a life insurance company it owns.
The foreign earnings of British colonial America resulted overwhelmingly from the labor of plantation slaves.
The company said the lower earnings resulted from the narrowing of margins between earning rates on finance receivables and the cost of borrowed funds.
The company said that while its sharply higher earnings resulted in part from increased share repurchases in the quarter, PC sales played a large role.
His earnings result from leasing most of his developments to short and long term tenants, with benefits from capital appreciation.
The better-than-expected earnings resulted from cost-control efforts, not good news about new products, they argued.