Beat Street: AnnTaylor and D.R. Horton (NYSE: ANN), (NYSE: DHI)

AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (NYSE:ANN) has posted a Q3 EPS of $0.20, thereby beating the Street by an impressive $0.13. Their revenue was listed at $462M, which is slightly lower than Q3 2008 of $474M and down -12.3% from the previous quarter. AnnTaylor is projecting that Q4 sales will be slightly lower than Q3, likely due to slower a slower than normal holiday season. It seems investors were expecting a better surprise out of ANN as shares are down $0.51 to $13.30 in pre-market trading. (more)

AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (NYSE:ANN) operates as a specialty retailer of women's apparel, shoes, and accessories under the Ann Taylor, LOFT, Ann Taylor Factory, and LOFT Outlet brands in the United States. Its stores offer a range of career and casual separates, dresses, tops, weekend wear, shoes, and accessories.

D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI) listed their FQ4 EPS at -$0.73 and gets beat by the Street, missing by $0.43. DHI had a revenue of $1.01B, down -34.6% from the previous quarter and down only slightly from FQ4 2008 ($1.11B). It seems D.R. has a backlog of 5,628 homes, which is up from 5,297 last year. The company however reported they had a net sales of 5,008 homes, and that is up from 2008’s number of 3,977.   Shares of DHI are taking a beating pre-market, trading down $0.82 to $11.43 a share (-6.69%). (more)

D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI) operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. The company's homebuilding business engages in the acquisition and development of land for residential purposes, and construction and sale of residential homes.

Good luck to investors.

Disclosure: No positions.