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Earnings Preview: Archive

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Plenty of Positives in Big Bank Earnings: What's Next?

The market liked what it saw in the fourth quarter releases from JPMorgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), and even Wells Fargo (WFC).

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Are We Headed for an Earnings Cliff?

To get a sense of what is currently expected, take a look at the chart below that shows current earnings and revenue growth expectations for the S&P 500 index for 2022 Q3 and the following three quarters.

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Breaking Down Retail Earnings That Highlight Slowing Consumer Spending

It is no surprise that the combined weight of elevated inflation, rising interest rates and uncertainty about the economy have forced consumers to change their spending behavior.

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Previewing Retail Sector Earnings as Inventory Issues Linger

The market seems to believe, based on its treatment of the two stocks, that Walmart is further along in addressing its inventory issue than Target.

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3 Things We Learned from the Q3 Earnings Season

The picture that emerged from the Q3 earnings season wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. To that end, here are the three things we learned from the Q3 earnings season.

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Making Sense of Big Tech Earnings After Amazon and Meta Tumble

The earnings bombshells from Amazon and Meta and sub-par releases from Alphabet and Microsoft have forced us all to revisit our long-held assumptions about the sustainability of these technology leaders' earnings power...

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Here's What to Expect from Big Tech Earnings

Beyond the big 5 Tech players, total Q3 earnings for the Technology sector as a whole are expected to be down -14.1% from the same period last year on +1.8% higher revenues...

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Can Bank Stocks Maintain the Recent Momentum?

The market liked what it saw in the quarterly releases from JPMorgan (JPM), Citigroup (C) and even Wells Fargo (WFC) on an otherwise down day for the indexes.

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Why Is the Market So Down on Big Bank Stocks?

The big bank stocks have been laggards in the ongoing market pullback, though the Finance sector as a whole has held up relatively well on the back of strength in the insurance and regional bank spaces.

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Previewing Q3 Earnings Season After Rough Reports from Nike and Micron

We are starting to look at these early reports from FedEx, Nike, Micron and others for their fiscal periods ending in August as giving us a preview of what likely lies ahead as the banks kick-off the Q3 reporting cycle in about two weeks

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Recession Fears and the Earnings Outlook

The Fed has been in tightening mode for a while now, but the unequivocally tough message since Jackson Hole took concrete shape after the recent FOMC meeting. Everyone in the markets appears to have finally 'received the memo'

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Reading Q3 Earnings Tea Leaves After the FedEx Bombshell

The shortfall in FedEx Ground, the unit that is tied closely to e-commerce deliveries in the U.S., has read-through implications for the U.S. consumer and operators in the digital economy.

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Exploring the Energy Sector's Ongoing Earnings Boom

The sector's expected earnings haul in 2022, as well as current estimates for the next two years, represent all-time records for the space, easily surpassing the previous record set in 2008 when oil prices had gone above $140 per barrel.

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Exploring Weak Retail Sector Earnings and Guidance

The overall trend emerging from the Retail sector's Q2 results has been on the weak side, with most operators suffering from softening sales, rising expenses, bigger than expected inventory builds and lowered guidance for the current period.

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3 Key Takeaways from Q2 Earnings Season

The Q2 earnings season has turned out to be a lot better relative to what the market feared. While some companies did guide lower, most either reiterated guidance or actually raised their outlook.

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Apple, Amazon & Big Tech Showcase Their Earnings Power Once Again

No company is completely immune from cyclical forces. But even after conceding that point, it is hard not to be impressed with the strength of the Apple, Amazon and Microsoft numbers...

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Previewing Big Tech Earnings Ahead of a Huge Week for Wall Street

Beyond the big 5 Tech players, total Q2 earnings for the Technology sector as a whole are expected to be down -8.9% from the same period last year on +2.8% higher revenues...

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Breaking Down JPMorgan, Citi & Big Bank Earnings

Both JPMorgan and Citi showed strength in Main Street banking, helping partly offset weakness in Wall Street activities

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Previewing JPMorgan and the Big Banks to Kick Off Q2 Earnings Season

Bank stocks have been big-time laggards in the ongoing market pullback. This is despite the fact that core features of the economy have been stable and rising interest rates are generally expected to benefit banks since they help expand their margins...

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Looking for Guidance to Reset Earnings Expectations

With respect to the evolution of earnings estimates, we should point out that while estimates have come down a bit, they are nowhere near what would be consistent with a significant economic slowdown...

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Previewing the Q2 Earnings Season as Inflation Soars

If we look at the revisions trend in the aggregate, at the S&P 500 level, we don't see a lot of movement, as you can see in the chart below that plots the evolution of aggregate Q2 earnings growth estimates for the index since the start of 2022.

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Breaking Down Earnings Amid Fed Tightening, Economic Slowdown Fears

There are some in the market that can't see the Fed getting on top of the inflation problem without pushing the economy into a recession. Yet, a recessionary outcome for the economy is neither the consensus view, nor what the Zacks economic team is projecting at present...

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Breaking Down the Earnings Outlook After Retailers Disappoint

The stock market has been merciless in response to disappointing Q1 results, with Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) the most recent victims. Here's how the earnings outlook is shaping up near the end of the Q1 earnings season...

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Previewing Retail Sector Earnings as Inflation Climbs

With respect to the Retail sector's 2022 Q1 earnings season scorecard, we now have results from 21 of the 34 retailers in the S&P 500 index. Here's how the companies are performing so far and what to expect...

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The Energy Sector is Surging: How Sustainable Are Earnings?

There is no surprise why these companies are enjoying the sunshine, given what's been happening to oil and natural gas prices lately. But what's next?

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