Investors can expect to see a lot of financial results in the next few weeks, as corporate America starts to ramp up for third-quarter earnings season. Already, market participants have had a chance to respond to the latest results from some of the biggest banking institutions in the country, and now the focus will shift to other segments of the economy.

One company that a lot of market participants wanted to look at closely was Johnson Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), as the healthcare giant offers a pulse on what's becoming an increasingly important sector of the market. Yet even though J's share price moved slightly lower on its latest financial report, the decline paled in comparison to what shareholders in VMware (NYSE: VMW) had to endure Tuesday morning. Here are all the details.

Shares of Johnson Johnson were down almost 1% Tuesday morning. Yet even though some shareholders apparently didn't like the healthcare company's results from the third quarter, there were plenty of good things to see in the report.

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