Earning Surprises

The 2012 housing market boom has been a blessing for Louisiana Pacific (LPX.N), sending demand for its lumber products soaring – and causing analysts to embark on a string of upward earnings revisions that stretch right into 2013. One of the most impressive market phenomena of 2012 has been the revival of the housing market, [...]

Earnings at JetBlue Airways (JBLU.O) were flying high in the second quarter, but may face a bumpy return to earth in Q3, thanks to the soaring cost of jet fuel. At first glance, JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU.O) seems to be flying high. The discount airline has continued to expand its capacity while other carriers cut [...]

StarMine models accurately predict earnings surprises for 60% ofsecond-quarter candidates. Toward the end of each quarter, the StarMine research team at Thomson Reuters examines corporate earnings forecasts in search of a group of companies that it believes are most likely to report earnings that either beat or fall short of the consensus forecast for earnings [...]

Already, it is clear that companies in the S&P 500 companies are likely to post the slowest annual revenue growth rate in the last decade (barring the 2008/2009 financial crisis) and the trend seems to be getting worse, with more disappointments in store. Released: September 12 2012 Length: 3 Minutes Two quarters of corporate earnings [...]

Finding growth by tapping into the wants and wishes of a new generation of Asian consumers has proven profitable for many U.S. companies – but the economic slowdown could eat into future returns. As earnings growth has slowed within the United States, many companies have begun to look overseas in search of revenue – and [...]

Where’s the growth? In general, corporate management teams are even more bearish than analysts heading into the final weeks of the third quarter – except, that is, in the consumer staples sector. With only four weeks left in the third quarter, and analysts and corporate CEOs and finance officers taking a decidedly bearish view of [...]

Technology companies have bucked the trend in recent quarters, as their CEOs and financial managers have remained relatively bullish about earnings growth. But within weeks of the end of the third quarter, all that is changing, as economic uncertainty and the headwinds from sluggish growth in Europe, China and the United States take a toll [...]

Looking for a company likely to post a positive earnings surprise in Europe these days is akin to identifying a needle in a haystack. Nonetheless, Continental AG’s tire business is helping it race toward higher growth ahead of its counterparts. Given all the headwinds confronting European businesses these days – even those located outside of [...]

Assessing the future prospects for earnings growth for S&P 500 companies means looking at what’s happening in their overseas market – and in the case of Europe, the trends don’t look very encouraging. The second-quarter earnings season is drawing to a close in the United States, and one of the most striking messages delivered by [...]

Interest rates at rock-bottom levels is bad news for Deutsche Boerse, whose interest rates derivatives trading platform is a key part of its business; little wonder, then, that the company appears poised to report a negative earnings surprise for the third quarter. One of the major European market trading platforms, the Deutsche Boerse (DB1Gn.DE), has [...]