The SP 500 closed within one point of September, 2018 all-time last Friday. You’d have to think “everyone” is watching what happens this week. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a pullback here since the SP 500 usually takes a … Continued
First, for the first time in a while, the number of “positive revisions” to SP 500 estimates outnumber “negative revisions: Here’s the data and the graph: The above is a spreadsheet kept weekly on the number of positive and … Continued
Love this graph IBES by Refinitiv puts at the bottom of the first page of “This Week in Earnings” every week. That’s about all you need to know right now: Q1 ’19 earnings growth “expectations” for Q1 ’19 earnings … Continued
IT all started in 2015 with UTX, when the conglomerate wanted to divest Sikorsky which they eventually did to Lockheed Martin in late 2015, but United Technologies (UTX) struggled somewhat after that sale, trying to reinvest the sales proceeds and … Continued
Every Thursday night, Bespoke publishes a YTD return for all 11 sectors of the SP 500, and last Thursday night’s bar chart shows that the Health Care sector was now negative for 2019 YTD, dramatically under-performing the SP 500 YTD. … Continued
A focus on the Health Care sector and historical revenue and earnings growth will come this weekend. The sector has been absolutely crushed the last few weeks. SP 500 Earnings (by the numbers): Source: I/B/E/S by Refinitiv Fwd 4-qtr est: $172.14 … Continued
This blog post addressing Financial-sector earnings came out Thursday night, which didn’t help readers, so i wante dto do one more dissection of expected SP 500 2019 earnings and make the case for Financials from a different perspective. The above … Continued
Sourcing Bloomberg / Barclays data, are the YTD returns for the bond market asset classes as of Friday, April 12th, 2019: US Corp HiGrade: +5.13% US Corp High Yld: +8.14% Mortgages (MBS): +1.89% Municipals: +2,67% US Treas: +1.32% US TIPS: … Continued
Corporate high yield as symbolized by the HYG ETF, outperformed the SP 500 this week, returning +0.61% vs the SPY’s +0.51%. I would think that would bode well for forward returns for the SP 500, as the key benchmark is … Continued
JP Morgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC) and PNC Bank (PNC) kickoff Q1, 2019 SP 500 earnings tomorrow, and then next week another 50 – 60 companies across the 11 SP 500 sectors report their Q1 ’19 results. However, Financials usually … Continued