Earnings Season So Far

Wendy Soong at Bloomberg has some stats on earnings season so far.

Of the 134 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported so far, 78 have beaten estimates, 16 have reported inline and 40 have missed estimates. That’s a “beat rate” of 58.2% which is fairly low.

Earnings are tracking at a 4.7% growth rate. Excluding financials, earnings are growing at 14.3%.

Posted by on January 25th, 2012 at 11:41 am


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