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Adobe, General Mills, GameStop and JPMorgan are part of Zacks Earnings Preview

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Chicago, IL – March 22, 2021 – Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week’s list includes Adobe Inc. (ADBE - Free Report) , General Mills, Inc. (GIS - Free Report) , GameStop Corp. (GME - Free Report) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM - Free Report) .

What Will Q1 2021 Earnings Season Show?

Regular readers of our earnings commentary know that we started seeing a positive shift in the overall earnings picture in July last year. This improving trend in estimate revisions remained in place over the following months and actually accelerated over the last few months.

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. Today’s +19.4% earnings growth rate is up from +18.5% last week.

Part of the strong growth in Q1 is reflective of easy comparisons, as the last month of 2020 Q1 was weighed down by the pandemic, though the full impact showed up in Q2. Those easy comparisons are notable for the Finance, Consumer Discretionary, Transportation and Energy sectors.

The Q1 earnings season will really get going when the big banks come out with results on March 14th. The wide majority of companies have fiscal quarters that correspond with the calendar quarters, which is March 31st for Q1.

But there are almost two dozen S&P 500 members that have fiscal quarters that ended in February and eight such companies have reported their fiscal February-ending quarterly results. We and other data aggregators club the results from these eight index members as part of the 2021 Q1 tally.

We have another 4 S&P 500 members on deck to report fiscal February-quarter results this week, including Adobe and General Mills. Also reporting February-quarter results this week, but not part of the S&P 500 index, is GameStop, which has been in the news lately for reasons other than its core business

Looked at this way, we will have counted almost two dozen such Q4 results before JPMorgan reports its quarterly results on April 14th.

2021 earnings and revenues are expected to be up +24.4% and +8.6%, respectively, which follows the Covid-driven decline of -13.2% in 2020.

On an index ‘EPS’ basis, the 2021 expectation works out to $169.08, up from $135.93 per ‘Index share’ in 2020.

These full-year estimates have been going up as well.

We envision these favorable revisions to accelerate over the next few months as the vaccination effort reaches a critical mass and greater ‘normalcy’ returns to life.

For a detailed look at the overall earnings picture, including expectations for the coming periods, please check out our weekly Earnings Trends report >>>>Looking Ahead to the 2021 Q1 Earnings Season

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