Microsoft Corp. branded shirts sit on display for sale at the company's flagship store in New York, U.S., on Saturday, July 14, 2018. Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 19. Microsoft is scheduled to release earnings after Thursday's close. The stock just hit a record high of $106.50/share and is trading near $105/share. The stock is prone to big moves after reporting earnings and can easily gap up if the numbers are strong. Conversely, if the numbers disappoint, the stock can easily gap down.

GUANGZHOU, CHINA - APRIL 15: (CHINA OUT) Surgeons operate a da Vinci Surgical robot to remove the tumor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University on April 15, 2015 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province of China. Intuitive Surgical Inc. is an American corporation that manufactures robotic surgical systems, most notably the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgery to be performed using robotic manipulators. Intuitive Surgical Inc. is scheduled to release earnings after Thursday's close. The stock just hit a record high of $532.30/share and is trading near $523/share.

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., listens during an interview on The David Rubenstein Show in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. Nadella discussed his much-criticized 2014 comments about equal pay for women. Microsoft is scheduled to release earnings after Thursday's close. The stock just hit a record high of $79.34/share and is trading just below that level. The stock is prone to big moves after reporting earnings and can easily gap up if the numbers are strong.

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 05: An illuminated sign at the Nvidia booth is seen at CES 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 5, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 8 and features 3,800 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 165,000 attendees. Nvidia Corp. is scheduled to release earnings after Tuesday's close. The stock hit a record high of $120.92/share in February 2017 and is currently trading near $104/share. The stock is prone to big moves after reporting earnings and can easily gap up if the numbers are strong.

David VanderWaal, vice president of marketing for LG Electronics USA, left, and Michael George, vice president of Alexa, Echo, and Appstore at Amazon.com Inc., speak about the Amazon Alexa partnership with the LG InstaView Door-In-Door smart refrigerator during the company's press conference at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. LG is seeking automotive alliances to accelerate autonomous driving, as well as acquiring artificial intelligence and robotics acquisitions to speed up its global expansion. Amazon ($AMZN) is scheduled to release earnings after Thursday's close (Feb 2, 2017). The social media giant hit a record high of $847.21 in 2016 and is currently trading near $835. The stock is prone to big moves after reporting earnings and can easily gap up if they report strong numbers. Conversely, if they miss, the stock can easily gap down like it did last quarter.

After releasing its popular new Pixel smartphone and seeing its shares of shares him more than 800 this month, Google parent company Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is expected to reveal steady growth in its third quarter earnings on Thursday. Investors surveyed by FactSet expected the company's C class (GOOG) earnings per share (EPS) to grow slightly to 8.63 from 8.42 in the second quarter and 7.35 for the third quarter of 2015. Citing growth in YouTube's popularity and mobile use of its search engine, Alphabet beat analysts' expectations with its second quarter earnings release in July, with C class earnings per share (EPS) of 8.42 on revenues of 21.5 billion over forecasts 8.04 per share on 20.76 billion. "Video is a huge component of digital content, and YouTube continues to shine," Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said during a conference call following the July earnings report. Pinchai pointed to last quarter's growth in the Android operating system. "Android is thriving," Pinchai said, adding that the past year saw 65 billion app installments.

Analysts expect Tesla Motors (TSLA) to show that it has reigned in its losses when the automaker releases its third quarter earnings Wednesday after more than doubling analysts' loss expectations last quarter. Investors polled by FactSet expected the California-based company, led by South African investor and engineer Elon Musk, to post a loss of 53 cents per share--an improvement from last year's third quarter losses of 1.78 per share and second quarter losses of 1.06 per share. Analysts surveyed by Reuters, however, estimated the company's earnings per share (EPS) would turn positive, hitting 37 cents for the quarter ending in December. Such optimistic forecasts are likely fueled by Tesla's announcement that it saw a 70 percent rise in third-quarter deliveries early in October--welcome news after, two months earlier, it disclosed third quarter expenditure needs of 1.1 billion. The earnings report will come one week after the automaker announced all of its cars currently in production would be self-driving, with "a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."

It's a good time to be Alphabet Inc. (GOOG), the parent company of Google. The holding company that owns Google, YouTube and Android -- as well as so-called moonshots like self-driving cars, the home-networking division Nest and Google Fiber -- is expected to turn in healthy first-quarter results on Thursday, driven by its dominant position in online search and display advertising. On Wednesday, the European Commission is expected to formally charge Google for favoring its own apps and services on its Android mobile operating system, which powers more than 80 percent of the world's smartphones. That will be the latest in a decade of entanglements with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic; Google also got some bad press in Britain earlier this year for having paid just 185 million in taxes over the past decade. Also confronting Google -- and the rest of the tech industry -- is how to manage government and law enforcement requests for information.