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Alcoa’s Q1: big year-over-year growth for company

Seeking Alpha | April 11, 2011 | 7:15 pm Base Metals Energy Aluminum

Alcoa Inc. (AA) has kicked off another earnings season with its first quarter posting of 27 cents earnings per share (EPS) on revenues of $5.96 billion. This met the Zacks Consensus Estimate on the EPS side, but was down slightly from the $6.112 billion expected on the revenue side.