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Earnings Preview: Archive

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Shell (RDS.A) Gears Up for Q1 Earnings: What's in Store?

Shell's (RDS.A) Q1 upstream production is estimated between 2,400 and 2,475 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) due to the Texas winter storm.

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Previewing Big Tech Earnings

Technology stocks have been less than stellar performers this year. Will tech turn things around during first quarter earnings season?

MSFTPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change TSLANegative Net Change FBPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change SPOTPositive Net Change

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Big Banks Foreshadow the Improving 2021 Earnings Picture

The positive bank results aren't just reflective of business conditions in the first quarter of 2021, but rather a function of growing optimism about the coming quarters...

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Looking Ahead to Big Banks' Q1 Earnings

The large money-center banks have enjoyed an amazing run this year, with these stocks handily outperforming not only the broader market but also many of last year's hot stocks.

JPMPositive Net Change NKENo Net Change FASTPositive Net Change DALPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change WFCPositive Net Change TSLANegative Net Change

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A Very Strong Q1 and 2021 Earnings Picture

This improving trend in estimate revisions accelerated over the last few months, as the chart below highlighting the evolution of 2021 Q1 earnings growth estimates shows...

JPMPositive Net Change NKENo Net Change MUPositive Net Change MCKPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change LULUPositive Net Change WBANegative Net Change BBPositive Net Change

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What Will Q1 2021 Earnings Season Show?

As the chart above shows, the expectation is for total S&P 500 earnings to increase +18.5% in Q1 from the same period last year on +5.3% higher revenues...

JPMPositive Net Change NKENo Net Change GMENegative Net Change COSTPositive Net Change ADBEPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change GISNegative Net Change

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Previewing The Q1 2021 Earnings Season

As the chart above shows, the expectation is for total S&P 500 earnings to increase +18.5% in Q1 from the same period last year on +5.3% higher revenues...

JPMPositive Net Change NKENo Net Change ORCLPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change ACNPositive Net Change

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Where Are We with Small-Cap Earnings?

For the S&P 600 index, we now have Q4 results from 551 companies or 91.7% of the index's total membership. Total earnings for these companies are up +0.6%...

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Market Shrugs Off Strong Retail Earnings

In terms of the Retail sector scorecard, we now have Q4 results from 78.8% of the retailers in the S&P 500 index...

TGTNegative Net Change HDNegative Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change WMTPositive Net Change EBAYPositive Net Change GPSPositive Net Change COSTPositive Net Change KSSPositive Net Change KRNegative Net Change

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Earnings Start Growing Again

It's a pleasant surprise that 2020 Q4 is on track to show a +3% earnings growth when the pre-season expectation was for an -11% decline...

NVDAPositive Net Change HDNegative Net Change BAPositive Net Change CRMPositive Net Change MPositive Net Change BYNDNegative Net Change ABNBPositive Net Change DASHNo Net Change

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Earnings Estimates Keep Going Up

Earnings growth was expected to resume in the first quarter of 2021 after the pandemic-driven declines of 2020. But positive growth has arrived a little earlier...

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Q4 Earnings Growth Turns Positive

Positive growth has arrived a little earlier, with earnings in the ongoing Q4 earnings season now modestly above the year-earlier period...

BAPositive Net Change DISPositive Net Change KOPositive Net Change TWTRPositive Net Change UBERPositive Net Change

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Earnings Strength and Market Weakness

Market volatility notwithstanding, we have to acknowledge that the fundamental backdrop, as reflected in the outlook for earnings and interest rates, remains very favorable...

IPPositive Net Change BAPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change PFEPositive Net Change UPSNegative Net Change GMENegative Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change SPOTPositive Net Change

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Q4 and 2021 Earnings Estimates Keep Going Up

We are off to a great start in the Q4 earnings season, with a historically high proportion of the reporting companies not only beating consensus EPS and revenue estimates, but also providing positive guidance and commentary...

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Positive Start to Q4 Earnings Season

We are off to a great start in Q4 earnings season, with the big banks coming out with a notably improved profitability picture relative to what they were able to show in preceding periods.

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Big Bank Q4 Earnings Preview

The large money-center banks that will kick-off the Q4 2020 earnings season for the sector this week have suffered a significant hit to profitability as a result of the pandemic...

JPMPositive Net Change NKENo Net Change CPositive Net Change ORCLPositive Net Change DALPositive Net Change ADBEPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change WFCPositive Net Change

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Q4 Earnings Season Preview

The consensus expectation is for total S&P 500 earnings to decline -11% in Q4 from the same period last year on essentially flat revenues. This would follow the -7% decline in Q3 and -32.2% decline in Q2...

JPMPositive Net Change PAYXPositive Net Change CTASPositive Net Change ORCLPositive Net Change FDXPositive Net Change KMXNegative Net Change

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The Retail Sector's Strong Earnings Performance

The common view about the Retail sector is a space that has been particularly hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. But that's hardly the full story...

WMTPositive Net Change TGTNegative Net Change MPositive Net Change LOWPositive Net Change KSSPositive Net Change HDNegative Net Change GPSPositive Net Change DEPositive Net Change BBYPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change ADSKPositive Net Change APositive Net Change

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Earnings Preview: What to Expect from the Retail Sector

The Retail space had been experiencing a secular transition over the last few years, with consumer dollars steadily shifting to the online medium and traditional malls suffering falling foot traffic...

WMTPositive Net Change WDAYPositive Net Change TSNNegative Net Change TGTNegative Net Change NVDAPositive Net Change MPositive Net Change KSSPositive Net Change HDNegative Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change

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Tech Leadership Reflects Earnings Power

These companies may not be monopolies, in the legacy legal sense, but they are nevertheless as sustainably profitable as if they were the Standard Oil of the past.

MSFTPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change FBPositive Net Change DISPositive Net Change CSCOPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change AMATPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change

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Are Technology Companies Losing Their Earnings Power?

The market appears to be reevaluating its position on the big technology stocks, with the trend becoming even clearer after Thursday's quarterly releases from Apple, Amazon, and others...

MSFTPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change FBPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change

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Previewing Big Tech Earnings

Technology stocks have lost some of their shine in recent weeks, as some previously ignored groups appear to be finally catching a bid. But tech remains the undisputed leader in the market...

MSFTPositive Net Change INTCPositive Net Change GOOGLPositive Net Change FBPositive Net Change AMZNPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change

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Early Q3 Results Show Earnings Recovery in Place

With results from 49 index members already out, we will have seen Q3 results from 27% of the index's total membership by the end of the coming week.

TSLANegative Net Change PGNegative Net Change NFLXPositive Net Change KOPositive Net Change INTCPositive Net Change

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Are Bank Stocks Cheap or Value Traps?

Driving this underperformance is the group's cyclical exposure, with the demand for credit and other banking services strongly correlated with GDP growth...

WFCPositive Net Change SLBNegative Net Change JPMPositive Net Change JNJPositive Net Change FASTPositive Net Change DALPositive Net Change CPositive Net Change BACPositive Net Change

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Previewing the Q3 Earnings Season

The expectation is for total S&P 500 earnings to decline -22.8% from the same period last year on -2.9% lower revenues...

PAYXPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change DPZNegative Net Change