Earnings Party
19:23 UTC 12 Oct 2009 
9 Comments
Well even though the earnings season has just started there has definitely been a trend established where the earnings have been received well and stocks have responded in a positive fashion. Of course the rallies in gold and oil have helped as well.
This week has some big boys reporting:
- Intel : Tues Night
- JP Morgan: Wed Morning
- Citigroup: Thur Morning
- Goldman Sachs: Thur Morning
- Google: Thur Night
- IBM: Thur Night
- Bank of America: Fri Morning
- General Electric: Fri Morning
Here is an earnings chart showing some history of the Intel numbers along with a stock price chart in the background:
For some more info on Intel and some charts for the JP Morgan earnings click onto the full post….
On 7/14/2009, INTC reported 2nd quarter 2009 earnings of $0.18 per share. This result beat the $0.08 consensus of the 30 analysts covering the company and missed last year’s 2nd quarter results by -35.7%. This quarter the consensus is $0.27 per share and just look at that lovely earnings uptrend future… I mean can those 5 quarters look any more perfect in terms of continuous uptrend? Its almost like they’re fixed…. nah.
Next is an earnings chart with JP Morgan:
Now this chart is definitely a lot more choppy. And as you can see the stock price has been in big time rally mode since last quarter and some may say that it has gone a bit to far. But it seems that all the uncertaintly has dissolved forever or at least until the week after earnings. Some interesting stats that I threw together about JPM comparing it to its industry and the overall market:
JPM’s P/E ratio is among the highest of any stock in the Investment Services industry and signals that investors have high hopes for this company’s future business prospects. However, during the past year, earnings growth has lagged its historical five year growth rate.
Well thats all for now. Hope that you find this information useful with either way that you go on these trades.
Thanks for the info nicely laid out… It almost looks too easy for these guys to come in with better than expected numbers. And it feels like everyone is expecting that combined with a resulting rally. Could it be that its time for a big pullback instead??? with all the optimism
Good point Sammy… when everyone is on the optimistic train its usually a good idea to get off the train.
I wouldn’t rush on that one Bernie. Your track record hasn’t been all that great on here…ha.
Im just trying to keep up with the NHF portfolio which is kicking my ass
Oh I see .. Your going to hold me to those calls.. huh? Thats okay… i guess at least Im tough enough to post them instead of everyone else that just meanders around on sites…. which is no fun.
I hear you on the NHF portfolio… NHF if your listening you should just lay out the trades somewhere … if your able.
Oh I see .. Your going to hold me to those calls.. huh? Thats okay… i guess at least Im tough enough to post them instead of everyone else that just meanders around on sites…. which is not as much fun.
I hear you on the NHF portfolio… NHF if your listening you should just lay out the trades somewhere … if your able.
We’ve been looking into a simple page where the trades will be put and updated that correspond to the sidebar portfolio… just making sure that all our law ducks are in a row first.
Thanks for the interest
Cool… thanks
Looks like INTC beat as well as CSX. Big shockers
Today was a good day… now Citigroup and Goldman Sachs in the morning will be telling.