Stocks to Watch: Duke Energy, Estee Lauder (Update 1)

NEW YORK -- Duke Energy (DUK) reported first-quarter earnings Friday of $295 million, or 22 cents a share, down from year-earlier earnings of $511 million, or 38 cents.

Adjusted earnings for the latest quarter were 38 cents a share.

Analysts expected a profit of 36 cents a share on revenue of $3.62 billion.

Estee Lauder (EL) reported Friday third-quarter earnings of $130.4 million, or 33 cents a share, up from year-earlier earnings of $124.7 million, or 31.

Analysts anticipated the company earning 33 cents a share in the period.

Shares of Estee Lauder fell 1.01% in premarket trading Friday to $63.50.

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LinkedIn(LNKD) , the business social networking company , topped Wall Street's expectations for its first quarter.

The company also gave a bullish forecast for the current quarter and said it has agreed to acquire privately held SlideShare, a service that allows professionals to share presentations, for $118.75 million in cash and stock.

Shares of LinkedIn rose 9.7% in premarket trading Friday to $120.02.

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American International Group (AIG) reported after-tax operating income of $3.1 billion, or $1.65 a share, as sales of once-toxic subprime assets and a rebound of its property-casualty unit lifted profitability.

Analysts were looking for AIG to earn $1.12 a share compared with $1.30 a share a year earlier.

Shares of AIG ticked down 14 cents, or 0.41%, to $34 in premarket trading Friday.