{"id":12353,"date":"2021-12-31T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=12353"},"modified":"2021-12-31T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T21:01:34","slug":"sp-500-earnings-revenue-update-q4-21-and-a-look-at-2022-growth-rate-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=12353","title":{"rendered":"SP 500 Earnings \/ Revenue Update: Q4 &#8217;21 and a Look at 2022 Growth Rate Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the table on how &#8220;expected&#8221; Q4 &#8217;21 SP 500 revenue has changed by sector in the last 90 days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sp500revenueQ421revisions123121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12354\" src=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sp500revenueQ421revisions123121-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sp500revenueQ421revisions123121-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sp500revenueQ421revisions123121-150x119.png 150w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sp500revenueQ421revisions123121.png 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SP 500 expected revenue growth for Q4 &#8217;21 has ticked higher from 10.6% to 12% over the last 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>The 3 sectors with downward revisions are Communication Services, Industrials and Technology, which comprise about 49% of the SP 500 market cap.<\/p>\n<p>The sectors with the strongest upward revisions over the last 90 days are Basic Materials, Energy and Real Estate, which 3 sectors comprise 8% of the SP 500.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick quiz for readers: Since Q4, 2011, what&#8217;s the &#8220;average&#8221; quarterly EPS growth rate for the SP 500, through Q3 &#8217;21 (or 40 quarters) ?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: 11.1%<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the &#8220;average&#8221; SP 500 quarterly revenue growth rate since Q4 &#8217;12 ?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: 4.5%<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the 2022 estimated EPS and revenue growth rates for the SP 500 by quarter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022estepsrevgrorates123121.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12357\" src=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022estepsrevgrorates123121-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022estepsrevgrorates123121-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022estepsrevgrorates123121-150x118.png 150w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022estepsrevgrorates123121.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The average, expected, SP 500 EPS growth rate as it stands today for the 4 quarters of 2022 is 8.6%, while the average, expected, revenue growth rate is 7.3%.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re back to seeing average years, but in reality it can be anything but ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>(All data sourced from IBES by Refinitiv)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>SP 500 key data:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The forward 4-quarter estimate this week is $216.14 vs $216.08 last week. Next week, with the quarterly roll from Q4 &#8217;21 through Q3 &#8217;22 to Q1 &#8217;22 &#8211; Q4 &#8217;22, the forward estimate will jump to the $222 area or what is otherwise the calendar 2003 current estimate.<\/li>\n<li>The PE ratio on this week&#8217;s forward estimate is 22x, or on next week&#8217;s expected estimate it&#8217;s 21.4x.<\/li>\n<li>The SP 500 earnings yield using 4,780 since the market is not yet closed is 4.52%, vs last week&#8217;s 4.57%.<\/li>\n<li>The final Q3 &#8217;21 bottom-up quarterly EPS estimate was 453.71 vs the starting estimate on 10.1 of $49.11 for an &#8220;upside surprise&#8221; factor of 9%. These upside surprise factors will continue to shrink in Q4 &#8217;21 and Q1 &#8217;22 since the SP 500 will be &#8220;comping against the strongest rebound quarters of the initial shotdown in late 20.<\/li>\n<li>Q1 &#8217;21 will be a very tough comp for the SP 500 when the overall EPS growth was 52.8% and the SP 500 revenue growth was 13%.<\/li>\n<li>Q4 &#8217;21 earnings releases start in two weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Summary \/ conclusion:<\/strong> <\/em>Thanks for reading this year. I&#8217;d expect 2022 SP 500 EPS growth to be at least 10% &#8211; 12% and more in line with the longer-run averages after we lap Q3 &#8217;22, which is lapping the ridiculous numbers from Q2 &#8217;21. Guidance with Q4 &#8217;21 earnings which start in two weeks will likely be conservative given more uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>The revenue revisions in the commodity sectors like Energy and Basic Materials remain very strong.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreens reports next week. WBA is a consumer staple, and I&#8217;m a loyal fan of the retailer but the stock has some headwinds for sure.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long year. Thank you for being a loyal reader.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciate all the discussions about SP 500 earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Take everything you read here with healthy skepticism, and not just here but on every blog.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading. Happy New Year !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the table on how &#8220;expected&#8221; Q4 &#8217;21 SP 500 revenue has changed by sector in the last 90 days:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,114,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-269","category-sp-500-revenue-growth","category-weekly-earnings-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12363,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12353\/revisions\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}