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Earnings Preview: Archive
Breaking Down Earnings Amid Fed Tightening, Economic Slowdown Fears
by Sheraz Mian
There are some in the market that can't see the Fed getting on top of the inflation problem without pushing the economy into a recession. Yet, a recessionary outcome for the economy is neither the consensus view, nor what the Zacks economic team is projecting at present...
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Breaking Down the Earnings Outlook After Retailers Disappoint
by Sheraz Mian
The stock market has been merciless in response to disappointing Q1 results, with Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) the most recent victims. Here's how the earnings outlook is shaping up near the end of the Q1 earnings season...
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Previewing Retail Sector Earnings as Inflation Climbs
by Sheraz Mian
With respect to the Retail sector's 2022 Q1 earnings season scorecard, we now have results from 21 of the 34 retailers in the S&P 500 index. Here's how the companies are performing so far and what to expect...
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The Energy Sector is Surging: How Sustainable Are Earnings?
by Sheraz Mian
There is no surprise why these companies are enjoying the sunshine, given what's been happening to oil and natural gas prices lately. But what's next?
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Making Sense of Tech Sector Earnings After a Big Week of Results
by Sheraz Mian
Total Q1 earnings for the 'Big 5 Tech' players are down -8.4% from the same period last year on +11.4% higher revenues, with a 421 basis-points (bps) compression in net margins
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Previewing Tech Earnings After Netflix's Fiasco
by Sheraz Mian
The rude shock from the streaming giant has put the spotlight on other Tech leaders that are on deck to report March-quarter results next week.
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Making Sense of Bank Earnings Amid Market and Economic Uncertainty
by Sheraz Mian
For the Zacks Major Banks industry, which includes Citi and JPMorgan and accounts for roughly 40% of total Finance sector earnings, total Q1 earnings are on track to be down -32.9% from the same period last year on +0.6% higher revenues.
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Can Bank Stocks Get Their Mojo Back with Q1 Results?
by Sheraz Mian
For the Zacks Major Banks industry, which includes these major banks and accounts for roughly 45% of the Finance sector's earnings, 2022 Q1 earnings are expected to decline -36.2% on -1.4% lower revenues.
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Making Sense of the Earnings Uncertainty
by Sheraz Mian
With respect to estimate revisions, Q1 estimates would have come down since the start of the period had it not been for the offsetting upward revisions to Energy sector estimates.
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Breaking Down the Outlook for S&P 500 Margins
by Sheraz Mian
Revisions to the 2022 Q1 estimates are mixed, with estimates for 9 of the 16 Zacks sectors going down since the start of January, with the Consumer Discretionary, Transportation and Aerospace sectors suffering significant estimate cuts...
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A Cloudier Earnings Outlook
by Sheraz Mian
The outlook for earnings had started easing even before the recent geopolitical developments. We saw this in the revisions trend, which had been mixed at best.
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What to Expect from the Q1 2022 Earnings Season
by Sheraz Mian
The expectation currently is for 2022 Q1 estimates to be up +3.7% from the same period last year on +9.8% higher revenues...
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Previewing the 2022 Q1 Earnings Season
by Sheraz Mian
The outlook for earnings had started easing even before the recent geopolitical developments. The expectation currently is for 2022 Q1 earnings to be...
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Focusing on the Retail Sector as Q4 Earnings Season Winds Down
by Sheraz Mian
Total Q4 earnings for these retailers are up +53.6% from the same period last year on +7.5% higher revenues, with 80% beating EPS estimates and an equal proportion beating revenue estimates...
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Tech Earnings Impress in the Face of Economic Headwinds
by Sheraz Mian
For the quarter, these Big 5 Tech companies combined earned $98.6 billion in earnings on $408.6 billion in revenues, representing year-over-year growth rates of +26.7% and +15.3%, respectively...
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The Outlook for Tech Stocks in a Rising Rate Environment
by Sheraz Mian
Under this new monetary policy regime of shrinking liquidity and rising interest rates, high growth stocks in the Technology sector become less attractive. You can see this play out in the chart below...
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3 Things to Know About the Q4 Earnings Season
by Sheraz Mian
It is this margins outlook that will determine how the revisions trend evolves through this earnings season, though estimates for the current period (2022 Q1) are holding up a lot better than was the case at the comparable time in the preceding quarter...
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Banks Provide Mixed Start to Q4 Earnings Season
by Sheraz Mian
We now have results from 17.6% of the sector's market capitalization in the S&P 500 index. Total earnings for these Finance sector companies are up +3.6% from the same period last year on +1.8% higher revenues...
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Q4 Earnings Preview: What to Expect from JPMorgan and the Big Banks
by Sheraz Mian
Bank stocks have perked up lately, as the outlook for interest rates has become more favorable to the group's business. Here's what to expect from big banks such as JPMorgan's Q4 FY21 results...
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Q4 Earnings Season Gets Underway
by Sheraz Mian
The aggregate quarterly earnings estimate has been coming down, after 'peaking' in mid-October...
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The Retail Sector Margin Squeeze
by Sheraz Mian
All of the big retailers had to spend more to keep shelves stocked, with freight expenses a major drag on margins and outlook...
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What's Going on with Earnings in Q4 and Beyond?
by Sheraz Mian
Even as estimates for 2021 Q4 have modestly come down, they continue to move up for next year...
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Are Earnings Estimates Going Down?
by Sheraz Mian
Earnings and revenue growth has come down in the ongoing Q3 earnings season from the first-half's breakneck speed, but...
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Even Big Tech Has Supply Chain Problems
by Sheraz Mian
A recurring theme this earnings season has been supply-chain woes and shortages of essential inputs, as well as labor, with not even the mighty Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) immune from the issues...
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Previewing Big Tech Earnings: Apple, Microsoft and Other Giants
by Sheraz Mian
The chart below shows the earnings and revenue picture for this group of 5 companies in the aggregate, on a quarterly basis, with expectations for 2021 Q3 highlighted...
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