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Earnings Trends: Archive

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What to Look for This Earnings Season

Earnings growth has turned negative for the first half of the year and remains barely in the positive territory in the back half.

GILDNegative Net Change BACPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change

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3 Things to Know About Q1 Earnings Season

The actual results from these early reporters appear good enough in terms of growth rates and beat ratios.

ADBENegative Net Change FDXNegative Net Change CTASPositive Net Change

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Closing the Books on Q4 Earnings Season

With just a handful of reports still to come, the Q4 earnings season has effectively ended.

WMTNegative Net Change NKENegative Net Change ADBENegative Net Change

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Q4 Earnings Season Winding Down

Overall, Q4 Earnings presents a mixed picture.

WMTNegative Net Change JPMPositive Net Change TGTNegative Net Change

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Is Oil's Pain Showing Up as Retail's Gain?

The Retail sector is in full focus.

WMTNegative Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change

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Taking Stock of Q4 Earnings Season

Irrespective of whether we look at the results as a whole or piecemeal, the weakness on the revenue side comes through.

JPMPositive Net Change CATNegative Net Change

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Revenue Weakness Stands Out in Q4 Earnings Season

Q4 results so far are painting a mixed picture.

AAPLPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change

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Q4 Earnings Season: The Apple Effect

Apple's earnings report changed the big-picture view of the Q4 earnings season in a material way.

AAPLPositive Net Change JPMPositive Net Change

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Is the Q4 Earnings Picture that Weak?

The fact is that the issue wasn't so much the Q4 earnings reports, but rather the guidance for 2015.

UTXPositive Net Change MSFTNegative Net Change

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How Good is the Q4 Earnings Season?

The picture emerging from the results thus far is uninspiring and weak.

JPMPositive Net Change

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Banks Provide Shaky Start to Earnings Season

Soft results from the major banks have given the 2014 Q4 earnings season an uneven start.

CVXNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change COPNegative Net Change

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Taking Stock of the Q4 Earnings Season

Earnings estimates for Q4 have come down as the quarter has unfolded.

CVXNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change COPNegative Net Change ARNCPositive Net Change

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Handicapping the Q4 Earnings Season

Q4 Estimates for 14 out of 16 sectors have declined since the middle of Q3.

CVXNegative Net Change XOMNegative Net Change COPNegative Net Change

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Closing the Books on Q3 Earnings Season

We continue to believe that the picture emerging from this reporting cycle is decent enough.

WMTNegative Net Change HOGNegative Net Change TGTNegative Net Change

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Q4 Estimates Keep Coming Down

Low expectations gave most players easy-to-beat hurdle rates.

WMTNegative Net Change TGTNegative Net Change

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Q3 Earnings Season in Final Stretch

It's a mixed bag when Q3 results are viewed in the context of other recent periods.

WMTNegative Net Change GMPositive Net Change HOGNegative Net Change

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Q4 Earnings Estimates Are Coming Down

The picture emerging from this reporting cycle is decent enough; it's not great, but it's not bad either.

PCLNNegative Net Change KORSNo Net Change

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Zacks Earning Trends: Q3 Earnings: The Halftime Report

With the Q3 earnings season now past the halfway mark, we have a pretty good sense of how this reporting cycle is unfolding.

BACPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change

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Q3 Earnings: The Halftime Report

With the Q3 earnings season now past the halfway mark, we have a pretty good sense of how this reporting cycle is unfolding.

BACPositive Net Change AAPLPositive Net Change

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Q3 Earnings Scorecard

The bottom line from this analysis is that Q3 results are broadly in-line with what we have been seeing in other recent quarters.

SPYNegative Net Change BACPositive Net Change DOWNegative Net Change

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Q3 Earnings: Not Great, But Not Bad Either

The picture emerging from the Q3 earnings season thus far is fairly decent.

INTCPositive Net Change BACPositive Net Change DOWNegative Net Change

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Q3 Earnings Scorecard as of October 21, 2014

Including all of today's results, we now have now Q3 numbers from 115 S&P 500 members that combined account for 35.5% of the index's total market capitalization.

INTCPositive Net Change MCHPPositive Net Change IBMPositive Net Change

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Is the Earnings Picture Good Enough?

It wouldn't be wrong to say that the reports thus far don't corroborate the all-around fear and anxiety weighing on the market lately.

PEPNegative Net Change INTCPositive Net Change BACPositive Net Change

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Q3 Earnings Scorecard as of October 16, 2014

The market isn't reflecting developments on the earnings front.

GSPositive Net Change BACPositive Net Change

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Q3 Earnings Scorecard as of October 15, 2014

There is no shortage of examples where investors throw away the baby with the bathwater.

INTCPositive Net Change BACPositive Net Change