DirecTV (DTV) Q3 Earnings Beat Analysts’ Expectations

DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV) released its earnings numbers for the three months through September this morning before the market opened on Wall Street. The cable company showed earnings per share of $1.28 for the third quarter of 2013. Revenue for the period came in at $7.9 billion. In this morning's pre-market, shares in the company traded up by more than 3%.

In the run-up to the release of this morning's earnings report, analysts were expecting the company to earn $1.01 per share. The consensus estimate for revenue, which was tabulated by Bloomberg in a survey of...