Q4 Earnings Season By the Numbers

Wendy Soong of Bloomberg has updated the earnings numbers for this season:

Of the 500 companies in the S&P 500, 236 have reported so far. Of that, 143 have beaten expectations, 71 have missed and 22 have matched. That’s a “beat rate” of 60.6%.

Earnings growth is tracking at 2.7%. For financials, it’s -21.6%. When we exclude financials, earnings are growing at 8.0%.

Posted by on February 1st, 2012 at 11:02 am


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