whole foods

Based on the strong results, the company raised its full-year earnings forecast to $1.91 to $1.92 per share from $1.87 to $1.90 per share previously.

Whole Foods Market has a potential upside of 4.4% based on a current price of $64.36 and an average consensus analyst price target of $67.22.

Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFM) reported Q3 EPS of $0.50, better than analyst estimates of $0.48 per share. Revenues in the quarter rose 11% to $2.4 billion, in line with analyst estimates.

WFMI is seeing a wide bid/ask gap so far in pre-market trading.

A USA Today report Monday says Whole Foods Markets (WFMI) will open in-store bars, serving craft beers and other products, in certain markets.

On the call side, Checkpoint Software is seeing more than 16 times the normal call volume after the company announced a share repurchase program. Shares of the company are up 2.5% today. Also topping the list of active call optio

Good Morning. It's Thursday, February 10, 2011. At this hour, U.S. equity futures are down. Overseas, the Asian markets declined, while the European markets are lower.

On Monday, Humana, Hasbro, Lorillard and Sysco all report their earnings and you can also expect economic data on Consumer Credit.

On Tuesday, look for earnings from Martin Marietta, Sara Lee, NYSE Euronext, Walt Disney, OpenTable, Take-Two Interactive and Evergreen Solar.

Wednesday, Intercontinental Exchange, Coca-Cola Co, Polo Ralph Lauren, Akamai Technologies, Allstate Corp, MetLife, GSI Commerce, Terex, Activision Blizzard, Whole Foods and Cisco Systems all make their quarterly

Looking ahead at next week, it's looking to be filled with plenty of earnings reports and economic data.