Hey, Ross here:
Stocks have had a rough few days.
But as today’s charts show…
The companies themselves are doing much better than expected.
Chart of the Day
This chart shows how far actual results are coming in above analyst estimates.
The median S&P 500 company beat earnings estimates by 6% this quarter.
That’s the largest median earnings surprise since Q1 2022.
Sales are beating too.
The median sales surprise is 1.6% – also around a four-year high.
In other words, companies aren’t scraping past estimates by a penny or two.
The typical company is coming in well ahead of what Wall Street expected.
And there’s another part of earnings season I’ve been watching closely.
This tracks the net share of companies raising guidance versus lowering it.
And that number has climbed to its highest level in more than four years.
That’s a pretty strong combination.
Companies are beating the numbers analysts already had on the books…
And more of them are also telling Wall Street to expect better numbers going forward.
I pay special attention to that second part.
I explain the reason below.
Insight of the Day
Raising guidance is management raising the bar on itself
Beating an earnings estimate is obviously good.
But raising guidance is a different kind of decision.
Once management raises its outlook, analysts adjust their models.
Expectations go up.
And next quarter, the company gets judged against a higher number.
So executives aren’t exactly making life easier for themselves when they raise guidance.
They’re putting a better forecast on the record…
Then giving Wall Street a new target to hold them to.
That’s why the latest guidance data got my attention.
We’re not just seeing companies report a good quarter.
A growing number of management teams are confident enough to tell investors they expect the strength to continue.
But there’s an even stronger signal I like to watch:
When the people running the company start putting their own money behind that confidence.
Management can say it expects business to improve.
But when they reach into their own pockets to put money behind those words…
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