Very mixed results — is the is glass half full or half empty?
Earnings Report Card
April 21, 2008 3:30am by Barry Ritholtz
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Barry, I can’t see the chart. Just a lot of white space. Using MS IE 7.0 browser and XP home OS.
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BR: Its an embedded flash video
“is the glass half full or half empty…?”
The glass is 13/86 full. Why does it have to be exclusively, six of these or half a dozen of the other. Hasn’t anyone ever seen a glass that’s 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, or 3/99 full. Let’s stay possitive. Right….?
Best regards,
Econolicious
Works fine for me. I HAVE A MAC.
On average, the stock market has its best 1 yr returns when the SP500 earnings are between +5 and -20%, yr over yr. When they are greater than +20% or below -20% yr over yr the results are not good at all.
Currently, estimates I’ve read are that SP500 earnings Yr over yr are -13.6%. So right now things are looking promising for investors.
Steve in TN:
Current estimates are likely too optimistic and we’ll see them come down over the next few quarters. caveat emptor. And what earnings are you using? “operating earnings”? as “reported earnings”?, or “as reported diluted earnings”? some can be fudged more than others, so once again caveat emptor.
gotta make sure you are using the same earnings over the length of your comparison period.