Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street brunch, our Sunday look ahead to this week's

market-moving events, along with the weekend's top news and analysis.

Hello, today is Sunday, April 20th, and I'm your host, Kim Kahn.

Welcome to earnings season.

Thank you. your host, Kim Kong. Welcome to earnings season. Two of the Magnificent 7 report this week, Alphabet and Tesla. Google parent Alphabet

announces on Thursday post market. The consensus EPS is

201, with a forecast of a 10.7% rise in revenue to 89.1.8 billion. As always, the search

giants advertising revenue and performance of its cloud business will be in focus. Visible Alpha

Consensus estimates see Q1 cloud revenue of 12.3 billion.

With massive spending on AI having been called into question recently, alphabet guidance and

commentary on estimated capital expenditures will be closely watched. Tesla numbers are due after

the close on Tuesday. Analysts are preparing for a mixed set of results,

reflecting the EV-makers' ongoing challenges and shifting market dynamics.

The consensus is for Tesla to report a modest year-over-year revenue increase

to around $21.7 billion,

but EPS is forecasted to decline to $0.43 down cents down from 45 cents a year ago.

The anticipated drop in profitability is largely attributed to the sharp declining vehicle

deliveries during the quarter to 336,681 units, marking Tesla's weakest quarterly delivery

performance in over two years. Also on the earnings calendar, on Monday, Smart Financial

and Comerica report, joining Tesla on Tuesday are GE Aerospace, Verizon, and Lockheed Martin,

Philip Morris, IBM, AT&T, ServiceNow and Boeing weigh in on Wednesday, P&G, Merck, and Intel

report along with Alphabet on Thursday.

...