Sector Earnings Trends highlight the number of companies in that sector that have reported, and shows whether they've Beat, Met, or Missed their consensus estimates.

Sectors with a higher percentage of companies that have Beat (Positively Surprised) usually means that something good is happening to that group as a whole for so many companies to be positively surprising. And studies have shown that companies that positively surprise have a greater likelihood of positively surprising in the future (or missing if they've recently missed).

For this reason, looking at sectors with the highest percentage of Positive Surprises (Beats) can be a great aid in forecasting which sector could have the highest probability of positively surprising in the future.