Visa: Financial Winners and Losers

(Updated with stock price moves.)

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Visa (V Quote) was among the winners of the financial sector Tuesday before the credit-card processor reports quarterly results.

Visa, which was lately up $1.32, or 1.8%, to $74.10, is scheduled to report its quarterly results after Tuesday's closing bell. Analysts expect Visa to notch a profit of 72 cents a share, up from 58 cents a share in the year-ago quarter, on revenue of $1.78 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Among other winners, American Express (AXP Quote) rose 1.4% to $35.38, one day after Stifel Nicolaus analysts upgraded the stock to buy from hold. Among other credit-card issuers, Capital One Financial (COF Quote) climbed 1.1% to $39.90, while Discover Financial (DFS Quote) slipped 1.4% to $14.81.

Turning to earnings reports, TD Ameritrade (AMTD Quote) said its third-quarter profit fell to $156.7 million, or 26 cents a share, from $172 million, or 29 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose 1.3% to $657.9 million. Analysts were looking for earnings of 22 cents a share on revenue of $630.5 million, according to Thomson Reuters.

For the 2010 fiscal year, TD Ameritrade said it expects earnings to fall between $1.10 and $1.40 a share, compared with the consensus target of $1.29 a share. Still, shares were lately down 19 cents, or 1%, to $19.29.

After the end of trading Tuesday, rival E*Trade Financial (ETFC Quote) will release results for the previous quarter, with analysts looking for a loss of 6 cents a share on revenue of $202 million. E*Trade was off by 5 cents, or 3.1%, to $1.55.