Earnings Season Numbers

It’s still early but here are some numbers about this earnings season. The current consensus is for the the S&P 500 to earn $25.18 which is an increase of 6.1% over the Q4 from 2011.

For all of 2012, the S&P 500 is expected to earn $98.85. That’s only a slight increase over the $96.44 from 2011. For 2013, the current consensus is for the index to earn $112.49.

The current divisor for the S&P 500 is about 8.93 billion, so just multiply that to any of the figures I’ve given above and you can see the total dollar amount.

Posted by on January 22nd, 2013 at 12:46 pm


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