{"id":4636,"date":"2015-03-20T21:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2015-03-20T21:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:52:29","slug":"sp-500-weekly-earnings-update-ex-energy-and-dollar-expect-pretty-strong-q1-15-earnings-from-sp-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"SP 500 Weekly Earnings Update: Ex-Energy, and Dollar, Expect Pretty Strong Q1 ’15 Earnings from SP 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the numbers,<\/strong><\/em> according to Thomson Reuters “This Week in Earnings” as of Friday, March 20, 2015:<\/p>\n

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Forward 4-quarter estimate: $119.38, down $0.40 from last week<\/p>\n

P.E ratio: 17(x)<\/p>\n

PEG ratio: 21.63(x) – yowser, the dollar and Energy revisions have crushed the forward estimate<\/p>\n

Earnings yield: 5.66%, down from last week’s 5.83%<\/p>\n

Year-over-year growth of forward estimate: +0.82%, the same as last week’s y\/y growth rate<\/p>\n

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With just one full week left in the quarter, here is how Thomson Reuters is seeing q1 ’15 sector growth rates<\/strong><\/em> for the SP 500, both as of Friday, March 20th, and as of January 1 2015:<\/p>\n

Cons Disc: +7%, +14.6%<\/p>\n

Cons Spls: -0.6%, +5.3%<\/p>\n

Energy: -63.4%, -32.2%<\/p>\n

Financials: +11.2%, +13.9%<\/p>\n

Hlth Care: +7.2%, +11.1%<\/p>\n

Industrials: +4.2%, +11.5%<\/p>\n

Basic Mat: -1.2%, +17%<\/p>\n

Technology: +4.3%, +10.2%<\/p>\n

Telco: -0.8%, +1.2%<\/p>\n

Utilities: -6.6%, -5.9%<\/p>\n

SP 500: -3.1% +5.3%<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Summary \/ conclusion:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0to be upfront when I saw the reaction to Nike’s earnings today, where the futures orders, Nike’s key metric, that typically gets the most weight in terms of the health of future business was +2%, but when adjusted for currency, or what Nike calls “constant currency” was +11%, and the stock rallied 3.5% today on 5(x) average volume, it was clear to me that “currency” will likely be discounted when companies report q1 ’15 earnings.<\/p>\n

Looking at the above ranking of the sectors in terms of growth rates, if we assume Energy is 10% of the SP 500 by earnings weight, then Energy alone is a 6.3% drag on the SP 500 and “operating earnings” of -3.1% should be 6.3% higher or +3.2%. If we take Stabdard & Poors, Howard Silverblatt’s estimate that Energy’s operating earnings weight within the SP 500 is 4% – 5%, (let’s use 5%), then after adjusting for Energy’s drag, the current estimate of q1 ’15 earnings growth for the SP 500 is flat or 0%, and none of this includes the dollar influence since it can only be identified by individual company.<\/p>\n

If I stretch or extrapolate the math or logic a little more, and tell readers that for “most” of the companyies I own within client accounts, which are primarily the top half of the SP 500 by market cap, the “average” dollar drag in q4 ’14 and q1 ’15 (given management guidance) is between 4% – 7%, thus if I further factor that into the above “-3.1%” SP 500 growth rate with 10 days left in the quarter, I can confidently tell readers that it is probably a safe bet that the SP 500 as a whole will report a pretty strong earnings quarter starting in mid-April, 2015.<\/p>\n

My “forecast” or prediction for 2015 for readers (and clients, I tell clients exactly what readers see here), was for:<\/p>\n