July 23--Locally based companies to report2Q earnings

It's earnings-palooza day for three of the major publicly traded companies headquartered in Columbus.

Aflac, Synovus and TSYS are scheduled to release their second-quarter financial data today, but not in that order.

Regional bank Synovus Financial Corp. kicks off first this morning before the New York Stock Exchange opens at 9:30, with analysts who follow the company anticipating net income of two cents per share. If that occurs, it will mark the fourth quarter in a row the bank has posted a profit following three straight years of losses. A year ago in the April-June period, the company lost 7 cents per share.

Both supplemental health and life insurer Aflac and credit-card processor TSYS will make public their quarterly data after the markets close at 4 p.m.

Aflac, a steady-as-she-goes earnings machine through the years, should again reward investors with a profit of $1.61 per share, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial. That's up from $1.56 per share in the second quarter last year.

TSYS, which last week unveiled a major processing contract with Bank of America, is expected to report net income of 32 cents per share. That's better than the 28 cents per share a year ago.

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