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Earnings and Revenue Following Economic and Market Accounts

By Jeffrey P. Snider|2016-02-24T18:02:13-05:00February 24th, 2016|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets, Stocks|

Back in September 2015, FactSet estimated that EPS for the S&P 500 would grow by almost 5% in Q1 2016. Their latest update is now -6.9%. Energy, of course, gets most of the blame but according to their latest breakdown it is widespread if of a smaller magnitude. For Q4, earnings are on track to contract by about 4%, and [...]

Earnings Outside the Vacuum

Since it has been a slow week in terms of economic data, we can take some time to review corporate earnings season. The current estimate for Q1 2013 operating earnings on the S&P 500 (with 465 companies reporting so far) is for 6.2% Y/Y growth. That is up from -2.44% and -5.10% the previous two quarters. The growth has again [...]

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