{"id":8840,"date":"2019-04-06T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:26:29","slug":"first-sequential-increase-in-2019-sp-500-estimate-since-early-december-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundamentalis.com\/?p=8840","title":{"rendered":"First Sequential Increase in 2019 SP 500 Estimate Since early December ’18"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2019 full-year bottom-up EPS estimate for the SP 500 started in early October at $178.45 and ended his week at $167.54.<\/p>\n

Only once during the calendar 4th quarter did the calendar 2019 EPS estimate increase sequentially and that was November 30th’s $176.15 which was then followed by December 7th’s $176.25.<\/p>\n

For the last 6 months, the calendar 2019 EPS estimate has been on a downward trajectory each week.<\/p>\n

But that could be starting to change:<\/p>\n

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As you can see in the attached link, the spreadsheet shows the negative revisions for various time periods for the 2019 EPS estimate are getting “less negative” and as readers can see looking at the actual EPS estimate for 2019, the jump was the first – from $167.53 last week to $157.54 this week – was the first since the aforementioned period noted above.<\/p>\n

With the 2018 EPS estimate now written in stone at $161.93 versus the current consensus EPS estimate for 2019 at $167.54, the expected bottom-up growth rate for SP 500 earnings for 2019 is +3.5%.<\/p>\n

My own opinion is that’s too low, with the Fed on hold.<\/p>\n

SP 500 Weekly Earnings Data: (Source: IBES by Refinitiv)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n