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Earnings Trends: Archive

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The Earnings Picture Remains Strong Despite Market Downturn

The picture emerging from the Q4 earnings season is one of continued strength and momentum. Despite the well-known headwinds of cost pressures and logistical bottlenecks, an above-average proportion of companies have been able to beat EPS and revenue estimates...

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Big Wall Street Banks Provide Mixed Start to Q4 Earnings Season

Higher-than-expected costs at JPMorgan (JPM) and Goldman Sachs (GS) haven't turned out to be an industry-wide trend...

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The Q4 Earnings Season Gets Underway

Total earnings for these 20 index members are up +29.3% from the same period last year on +12.8% higher revenues...

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Handicapping the Q4 Earnings Season

The Q4 earnings season has actually gotten underway already, with results from 16 S&P 500 members out at this stage...

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Making Sense of Evolving Earnings Estimates

These margin pressures have been a contributing factor to the recent negative shift in the revisions trend, which consistently remained positive since July 2020. You can see this in the revisions trend for 2021 Q4...

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Previewing the Q4 Earnings Season

Net margins for the index as a whole are expected to expand 80 basis points in 2021 Q4, though they are expected to be below the year-earlier level for 6 of the 16 Zacks sectors...

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Looking Ahead to the Q4 Earnings Season

These margin pressures have been a big contributing factor to the recent negative shift in the revisions trend, which consistently remained positive since July 2020. You can see this in the revisions trend for 2021 Q4...

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Breaking Down the Outlook for Margins

Margin expectations embedded in current consensus earnings and revenue estimates for the coming periods suggest some pressures...

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Making Sense of the Evolving Earnings Picture

There was tangible nervousness in the market ahead of the start of the Q3 earnings season that these headwinds will start weighing on corporate profits through compressed margins...

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Looking at Margins in the Face of Inflationary & Logistical Issues

Rising cost pressures amid supply-chain disruptions and labor/material shortages are keeping trends in margins in the spotlight...

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A Very Strong and Improving Earnings Picture

For the 192 S&P 500 members that have reported Q3 results through Wednesday, October 27th, total earnings and revenues are up +37.6% and +15.3%, respectively from the same period last year...

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A Strong Earnings Picture Amid Global Headwinds

Looking at Q3 as a whole, total S&P 500 earnings are expected to be up +30.3% from the same period last year on +14.1% higher revenues...

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Solid Start to Q3 Earnings Season

For the 26 S&P 500 members that have reported Q3 results through Wednesday, October 13th, total earnings and revenues are up +32.6% and +17.6%, respectively...

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Q3 Earnings Season Gets Underway

Estimates for 2021 Q3, whose early reports have started coming out, have not moved up as much as had been the case in the comparable periods in the last few quarters. That said...

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Previewing the Q3 Earnings Season

Estimates for 2021 Q3, whose early reports have started coming out, have not moved up as much as had been the case in the comparable periods in the last few quarters...

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What Will Q3 Earnings Season Show?

We know that the earnings picture remains strong, even though the growth pace is expected to decelerate significantly in Q3 and beyond. What we don't know at this stage is...

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Earnings Estimates Have Stopped Going Up

We know that the earnings picture remains strong, even though the growth pace is expected to decelerate significantly in Q3 and beyond. What we don't know at this stage is...

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Looking Ahead to the Q3 Earnings Season

We know that the earnings picture remains strong, even though the growth pace is expected to decelerate significantly in Q3 and beyond. What we don't know at this stage is...

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Can Earnings Continue to Improve?

We know that the earnings picture remains strong, even though the growth pace is expected to decelerate significantly in Q3 and beyond. What we don't know at this stage is...

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Strong Retail Sector Earnings

Total earnings for these retailers are up +44.6% from the same period last year on +14.3% higher revenues...

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Taking Stock of the Impressive Earnings Picture

With the bulk of the Q2 earnings season now behind us, we can now say with full confidence that the earnings picture has not been this good in a long time.

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What's Happening on the Earnings Front?

Total S&P 500 earnings are expected to be up +89.7% from the same period last year on +23.5% higher revenues, with the growth rate steadily going up as companies report better-than-expected results...

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The Tech Sector's Enormous Earnings Power

The big 5 Tech companies-Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook-are combined expected to earn +79.4% more in Q2 on +35.7% higher revenues relative to the same period last year...

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All-Around Earnings Strength

The picture emerging from the Q2 earnings season is one of all-around strength, with impressive momentum on the revenue side particularly notable...

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Strong Start to Q2 Earnings Season

For the 30 S&P 500 members that have reported Q2 results already, total earnings are up +244.3% on +14.2% higher revenues, with 90% beating both EPS and revenue estimates...

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