Dr. David Kelly and the JP Morgan research team publish a quarterly “Guide to the Markets” which I’ve always thought was an excellent 70-odd page summary of economics, capital markets, style boxes, and all manner of investment-related information in one … Continued
Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S Data by the numbers: Forward 4-quarter estimate: $131.39 versus $131.50 last week P.E ratio: 18(x) PEG ratio: 2.3(x) SP 500 Earnings Yield: 5.59% vs 5.68% from prior week Year-over-year Growth of Forward estimate: 7.93% vs last week’s … Continued
Updating this article from the last week of December, 2016 and this article from early, 2017, here is an update to the three favored sectors as Q4 ’16 earnings season began: FC – sectorupwardrev122516 (The spreadsheet is dated 12/25/16, but the … Continued
Let’s take a quick look at revisions within the SP 500. fc-eps-estimate-revisions Hopefully this spreadsheet, which has been updated weekly for years, is helpful to readers. Note how just within the last week, 412 of the SP 500 companies have … Continued
Thanks to Thomson’s David Aurelio (and Greg Harrison) for updating this data today. 3 months ago, we posted to this blog SP 500 earnings and revenue estimates “Ex-Energy”. Today, Thomson provided the updated numbers here: FC – SP500exEnergy5516 The bottom line … Continued
The Weekly Earnings Update is already done, but this comment on the Energy sector takes precedence in my opinion in terms of the weekly earnings commentary. There are a couple of reasons I think Energy remains the key to this … Continued
Most investors can talk valuation until they are blue-in-the face, but I’ve learned to ignore the charts at significant peril. The above link is the weekly chart of the SP 500, and as readers can see, the SP 500 … Continued
The one stat that jumped out at me from this blog’s earnings update this weekend weekend was the SP 500 Earnings Yield at 6.59%, the highest print for that metric since the 2nd week of October, 2014 or the bottom of … Continued
A friend of mine was driving from Chicago to Springfield, Illinois, 4 – 5 years ago, during one of the famous Illinois winter cold-snaps, in his big, honking, 4-door Lexus, and he hit some black ice on I-57 about halfway … Continued
In a word (or words), “Yes, yes it does” and we can thank the weekly Bespoke Report for the background and analysis. Several times on this blog, I’ve written about Bespoke’s excellent “below-the-radar” research, even though as a frequent guest … Continued