Because the Chicago triathlon season is nearly upon us, and Chicago being a truly summer city, sometimes the Weekly Earnings Updates (during the summer months) will get posted in a sporadic fashion, over a weekend, or maybe not until Monday … Continued
With Walmart’s fiscal Q1 ’17 earnings report of last Thursday now out of the way, it is thought that – officially – the calendar Q1 ’16 earnings season is now over. Per Thomson, 474 of the SP 500 companies have … Continued
The stock market has long been considered a “leading economic indicator” and is thought to discount SP 500 earnings and economic activity 6 – 9 months forward. If you think back to the Financial / Mortgage Crisis of 2007 – … Continued
First this article from Factset on Thursday, I thought was a decent summary on Q1 ’16 financial results YTD. Thomson data “by the numbers”: The forward 4-quarter estimate fell to $123 from $123.01 last week The P.E ratio as of … Continued
Thomson Reuters data “by the numbers”: Forward 4-quarter estimate: $123.01 this week versus last week’s $123.17. P.E ratio: 16.7(x) PEG ratio: 24(x) still volatile based on the volatility of the growth rate and almost completely irrelevant as a metric for … 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