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The past week’s earnings were bordering on the negative, impacting trader sentiment, and the focus now shifts to the unfolding week that would see the release of a slew of tech earnings reports.
The Week That Was: Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), Intel, Inc. (NASDAQ:INTC), and Texas Instruments, Inc. (NASDAQ:TXN) were among the high-profile disappointments of the past week. The Elon Musk-led company’s quarterly report underlined the fundamental challenges of the electric vehicle industry. Weak forward guidance from Intel and TI underlined the chip industry’s woes as most end markets, except AI servers, experienced softness.
On the other hand, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) warmed the Street with its strong net paid subscriber additions and outlook.
So far, about 25% of the S&P 500 companies have reported earnings, according to financial data analytics company Factset. Of those that have reported, 69% have reported positive earnings per share surprises and 68% reported positive revenue surprises.
The blended earnings of S&P 500 companies are expected to decline by 1.4% in the fourth quarter, FactSet said, as it updated the numbers following the past week’s earnings. This is an improvement from the previous week’s 1.7% drop in forecast.
S&P 500 companies issuing negative earnings per share guidance for the first quarter outnumbered those issuing positive guidance by a 14:9 tally. That said, analysts see an inflection in earnings growth in the first quarter, with the momentum building over the year. The Street models earnings growth of 4.6% in the first quarter, 9.4% for the second quarter, and 11.6% for the full year.
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