Earnings Season So Far

Wendy Soong of Bloomberg has a nice summary of third-quarter earnings season so far. Here are some details:

Of the 500 companies in the S&P 500, 117 have reported so far.

88 have reported higher earnings.

24 have reported lower earnings.

5 have been unchanged.

85 have beaten earnings.

21 have missed earnings.

11 came inline.

The share-weighted increase is 14.7%.

Earnings are tracking at $24.45.

Posted by on October 20th, 2011 at 10:34 am


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