Alcoa Q3 Adj. EPS $1.82 Beats $1.47 Estimate, Sales $3.704B Miss $3.785B Estimate

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) reported quarterly earnings of $1.82 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $1.47 by 23.81 percent. This is a 9200 percent increase over losses of $(0.02) per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $3.704 billion which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $3.785 billion by 2.14 percent. This is a 23.67 percent increase over sales of $2.995 billion the same period last year.