HIBL - Summer 2023 Snapshot Of Expected Future S&P 500 Earnings
2023-08-22 08:30:00 ET
Summary
- Expectation for the S&P 500 Index's future earnings per share through the end of 2023 has decreased from $203.50 to $200.27.
- Standard & Poor's projections through the end of 2024 also showed a small decline in the index's earnings per share.
- An earnings recession exists if either earnings decline over at least two consecutive quarters or if there is a year-over-year decline over at least two quarters.
Every three months, we take a snapshot of the expectations for future earnings in the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) at approximately the midpoint of the current quarter, shortly after most U.S. firms have announced their previous quarter's earnings.
Since our last update three months ago , expectations for the S&P 500 has dimmed slightly. Expectation for the index's future earnings per share through the end of 2023 has decreased from $203.50 to $200.27.
Nevertheless, that's still high enough to indicate a full recovery from 2022's earnings recession is still on track for the fourth quarter of 2023.
The following chart illustrates how the latest earnings outlook has changed with respect to previous snapshots:
Standard & Poor's projections through the end of 2024 also showed a small decline in the index's earnings per share. They show the S&P 500's earnings per share decreasing to $222.93 from the $226.88 expected three months ago.
About Earnings Recessions
Depending on who you talk to, an earnings recession has one of two definitions. An earnings recession exists if either earnings decline over at least two consecutive quarters or if there is a year-over-year decline over at least two quarters. The chart identifies the periods in which the quarter-on-quarter decline in earnings definition for an earnings recession is confirmed for both the Pandemic Earnings Recession (December 2020-December 2021) and the new earnings recession (March 2022-December 2022) according to the first definition. The regions of the graph shaded in light-red correspond to the full period in which the S&P 500's earnings per share remained below (or are projected to remain below) its pre-earnings recession levels.
Our next snapshot of the index's expected future earnings will be in three months.
Reference
Silverblatt, Howard. Standard & Poor's. S&P 500 Earnings and Estimates. [ Excel Spreadsheet ]. 16 August 2023. Accessed 16 August 2023.
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Summer 2023 Snapshot Of Expected Future S&P 500 Earnings