Trinity will have the Weekly Earnings Update as usual on Saturday, August 1, 2015, but after talking to Thomson Reuters today, I thought I’d share the following Q2 ’15 earnings data with readers: SP 500 Ex-Energy, Ex Apple: +7.6% SP … Continued
Since last September, ’14, the Energy sector has gotten crushed, and basic commodities have followed. When this blog post was written in May ’15, the promise to readers was that you would be kept updated on the trend in Energy … Continued
The most striking aspect to the SP 500 since July 1 is the performance differential between “Growth” and “Value” within the SP 500 and really, within mid-caps and small caps too. The drubbing biotech took this week may start to … Continued
The above chart, cut-and-pasted from MacroTrends, is an excellent pictorial of the price of gold bullion since the early 20th Century. I was in college back in the late 1970’s, early 1980’s when gold was hitting its peak, which … Continued
In 2014, I managed to avoid the Energy sector for clients, almost entirely, owning no Energy (crude oil or natural gas) companies and selling Halliburton near $70 during the summer of 2014. Unfortunately, like a golfer that eagles one hole, … Continued
FC – marketcapvsearningswt There are a couple of good reasons to be bearish on the Sp 500 right now: 1.) Google and Apple account for $1.2 trillion of the approximate $19 – $20 trillion of the total SP 500 market … Continued
The surprising aspect to the many Financial stocks that reported Q2 ’15 earnings this week, is that many beat on revenue, meaning actual revenue for the quarter, exceeded the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate for the quarter. By the numbers: Forward … Continued
My two primary sources of earnings information are Thomson Reuters, “This Week in Earnings” and Factset’s “Earnings Insights”. Greg Harrison of Thomson and John Butters of Factset, are two high-quality individuals that are happy to share their earnings data with … Continued
Last weekend, the updated earnings numbers from Thomson Reuters, “This Week in Earnings” were not published: Forward 4-quarter estimate: $125.63, and up from the prior week’s $121.78. The quarterly bump in the forward estimate came in just as expected. P.E … Continued
In the movie, “Analyze This” with Billy Crystal (Dr. Ben Sobel, a psychiatrist) and Robert DeNiro (mobster Paul Vidi), there is a scene in a Miami hotel room, where Dr. Ben Sobel is talking to Paul Vidi, and the two … Continued