How Many S&P 500 Companies Are Seeing a Negative Impact from the Government Shutdown?
Have companies in the S&P 500 commented on the “shutdown” during their earnings conference calls for the fourth quarter?
Earnings Season Update: January 25, 2019
In aggregate, companies are reporting revenues that are 0.2% above the estimates, which is also below the five-year average.
Earnings Season Update: January 18, 2019
To date, 11% of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported actual results for Q4 2018
Are S&P 500 Companies Citing a Negative Impact from China on Q4 Earnings Calls?
Foreign exchange has been cited by more than 60% of the companies that have reported to date. What about China?
S&P 500 Likely to Report Earnings Growth Above 15% in Q4 2018
Over the past five years on average, actual earnings reported by S&P 500 companies have exceeded estimated earnings by 4.8%.
Largest Cuts to Quarterly S&P 500 EPS Estimates Since Q3 2017
How significant is a 3.8% decline in the bottom-up EPS estimate during a quarter? How does this decrease compare to recent...
S&P 500 2019 Earnings Preview: Higher Global Exposure = Lower Earnings & Sales Growth
As of December 21, the estimated earnings growth rate for CY 2019 is 7.9%. All 11 sectors are projected to report year-over-year...
S&P 500 2018 Earnings Preview: Highest Earnings Growth in Eight Years
Several recent records for various earnings and revenue metrics were also broken.
S&P 500 Companies with Lowest Percent of Buy Ratings Are Top Performers in 2018
To analyze the performance, FactSet divided the stocks that were in the S&P 500 on December 31, 2017 into five equal-sized groups...
Where Are Analysts Most Optimistic on Ratings for S&P 500 Companies For 2019?
Overall, there are 11,136 ratings on stocks in the S&P 500. Of these 11,136 ratings, 53.9% are Buy ratings, 40.8% are Hold...
Do Industry Analysts Believe the S&P 500 Will Close Above 3000 at the End of 2019?
How accurate have industry analysts been in predicting the final value of the S&P 500?
Do Industry Analysts Predict the S&P 500 Will Report Record-High EPS in 2019?
Analysts overestimated the final value in 14 of the 20 years and underestimated the final value in the other six years.
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