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Earnings Trends: Archive

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Can Q1 Earnings Reports Help Retail Stocks?

The Retail sector is the only sector at this stage that has a sizable number of results still to come.

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Detailed Look at Q1 Earnings Season

With results from 85% of S&P 500 and 78% of the small-cap S&P 600 members already out, the bulk of the 2019 Q1 earnings season is now behind us.

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Making Sense of Tech Sector Earnings

For the Technology sector, we now have Q1 results from 80.1% of the sector's total market capitalization in the index.

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Earnings Picture Good, Not Great

The market's favorable reaction to otherwise mixed Q1 results suggests that many in the market feared a much weaker showing.

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Mixed Start to Q1 Earnings Season

Total earnings for the 42 S&P 500 members that have reported results already are down -0.1% on +3.7% higher revenues, with 83.3% beating EPS estimates and 54.8% beating revenue estimates.

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Q1 Earnings Season Gets Underway

The earnings decline in 2019 Q1 will be the first earnings decline since 2016 Q2.

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Is the Earnings Picture Really Weak?

Earnings growth in 2019 Q1 is expected to turn negative, the first earnings decline since 2016 Q2. Driving the Q1 earnings decline are margin pressures across all major sectors even as revenues continue to grow.

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Margin Pressures Weigh on Earnings Growth

Earnings growth in 2019 Q1 is expected to turn negative, the first earnings decline since 2016 Q2. Driving the Q1 earnings decline is margin pressures across all major sectors even as revenues continue to grow.

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Weak Earnings Growth Ahead

Total S&P 500 earnings are expected to decline -3.6% from the same period last year on +4.8% higher revenues. Growth is expected to be negative for 9 of the 16 Zacks sectors, with Technology and Energy as the biggest drags. This will be the first earnings decline since 2016 Q2.

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First Earnings Decline in Three Years

Earnings growth for the S&P 500 index is expected to turn negative in 2019 Q1, which will be the first earnings decline since 2016 Q2.

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Q4 Earnings Season Winding Down

Q4 earnings and revenue growth is tracking notably below what we had seen from the same group of 419 index members in other recent periods. Surprisingly, positive EPS beats have been the lowest in more than 5 years.

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Q4 2018 Earnings Season Scorecard

The strongest year-over-year earnings growth in Q4 is expected to come from the Energy, Transportation, Construction, Finance, Aerospace, and Retail sectors.

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Slowing Earnings Growth Ahead

Estimates for Q1 as well as full-year 2019 have been steadily coming down, with 2019 Q1 earnings growth now in negative territory, the first quarterly earnings decline since 2016 Q2.

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Q1 Earnings Growth Turns Negative

Estimates for Q1 as well as full-year 2019 have been steadily coming down, with 2019 Q1 earnings growth now in negative territory, the first quarterly earnings decline since 2016 Q2.

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Earnings Growth Slowing Down

Estimates for Q1 as well as full-year 2019 have been steadily coming down, with 2019 Q1 earnings growth barely in positive territory at present.

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Mixed Start to Q4 Earnings Season

Total earnings for these 36 index members are up +18.3% from the same period last year on +8.5% higher revenues, with 77.8% beating EPS estimates and 58.3% beating revenue estimates.

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3 Key Charts for Q4 Earnings Season

Q4 estimates have come down sharply, with the current +10.7% rate down from +15.9% at the start of the quarter.

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Previewing the Q4 Earnings Season

Market anxiety about the economic outlook has put a question mark over consensus earnings expectations. Estimates have been coming down lately, reflecting the impact of economic weakness and rising costs.

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Handicapping Q4 Earnings Season

Total Q4 earnings for the S&P 500 index are expected to be up +12.3% from the same period last year on +5.6% higher revenues.

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Handicapping Q4 Earnings Season

Total Q4 earnings for the S&P 500 index are expected to be up +12.3% from the same period last year on +5.6% higher revenues.

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Q3 Earnings Season Scorecard

The Q3 earnings season is now effectively behind us, with results from 488 S&P 500 members out already.

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How Strong Is the Earnings Picture?

Total earnings for the 456 S&P 500 members that have reported results are up +26.2% from the same period last year.

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Taking Stock of Q3 Earnings Season

The earnings picture remains solid, but some points of weakness have started showing up.

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3 Takeaways from the Q3 Earnings Season

The earnings picture remains solid, but some points of weakness have started showing up.

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Weak Spots in the Earnings Picture

The earnings picture remains solid, but some points of weakness have started showing up.

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