{"id":14652,"date":"2023-10-05T12:21:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2023-10-05T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:19:35","slug":"sp-500-eps-and-revenue-growth-compares-get-much-easier-starting-in-q4-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=14652","title":{"rendered":"SP 500 EPS and Revenue Growth Compares Get Much Easier Starting in Q4 &#8217;23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SP 500 earnings kick off with the big banks and financials starting to report next week, with Friday, October 13th, &#8217;23 being the day 4 &#8211; 5 bigger financials report, all of which will be covered this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SP500expectedq323EPSrevgrowth10523.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14653\" src=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SP500expectedq323EPSrevgrowth10523-159x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SP500expectedq323EPSrevgrowth10523-159x300.png 159w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SP500expectedq323EPSrevgrowth10523-79x150.png 79w, https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/SP500expectedq323EPSrevgrowth10523.png 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above spreadsheet table shows what the numbers look like for how Q3 &#8217;23 expected EPS and revenue growth by sector evolved as Q2 &#8217;23 results were reported for the SP 500. (Remember, even though we are in the calendar 4th quarter &#8217;23, we are awaiting results from Q3 &#8217;23 operations.)<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is that looking at the bottom half of the above table, 9 of the 11 sectors for the SP 500 saw positive revisions to expected revenue growth for Q3 &#8217;23, with the notable exceptions of industrials and basic materials.<\/p>\n<p>The utility sector saw positive revenue revisions for Q3 &#8217;23 as Q2 &#8217;23 unfolded, even as the common stocks saw a drubbing.<\/p>\n<p>How did Q3 &#8217;22 look a year ago ?<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd quarter &#8217;22 SP 500 EPS and revenue growth were +4.4% and +11.7%. That revenue growth number for Q3 &#8217;22 was the last double-digit percentage growth for the SP 500, after a string of 7 quarters of double-digit revenue growth for the benchmark starting with Q1&#8217;21.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, comp&#8217;s or compares get much easier for the SP 500 going forward, starting with Q4 &#8217;23. Q4 &#8217;22 saw SP 500 EPS growth drop to -3.2%, while revenue growth was +5.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Looking again at Q3 &#8217;23, technology&#8217;s expected growth even for full year &#8217;23 is still hard to reconcile with the so called &#8220;magnificent 7&#8221; or the top 10 mega-cap names in the SP 500, in terms of their YTD &#8217;23 performance.<\/p>\n<p>The financial sector is still looking for close to 10% EPS growth in Q3 &#8217;23, after printing +9.3% and +7% in Q2 &#8217;23 and Q1 &#8217;23.<\/p>\n<p>All data is sourced from IBES data by Refinitiv.<\/p>\n<p>More to come this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SP 500 earnings kick off with the big banks and financials starting to report next week, with Friday, October 13th,&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":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sp-500-estimate-revision-data"],"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\/14652","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=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14660,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}