To date, 171 of the 204 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q1 2023, representing 84% of the index. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results, 77% announced profits that beat analysts’ expectations, while 2% delivered on-target results and 21% reported earnings that fell below estimates. The Q1 2023 blended earnings growth estimate now stands at 33.6%. The blended revenue growth estimate for the 204 companies in this index is 4.6% for Q1 2023. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 74% announced revenue that exceeded analysts’ expectations and

To date, 151 of the 204 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q1 2023, representing 74% of the index. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results, 79% announced that profits beat analysts’ expectations, while 1% delivered on-target results and 20% reported earnings that fell below estimates. The Q1 2023 blended earnings growth estimate now stands at 32.3%. The blended revenue growth estimate for the 204 companies in this index is 4.4% for Q1 2023. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 75% announced revenue that exceeded analysts’ expectations and

To date, 173 of the 201 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q4 2022, representing 86% of the index. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results, 66% announced that profits beat analysts’ expectations, while 3% delivered on-target results and 31% reported earnings that fell below estimates. The Q4 2022 blended earnings growth estimate now stands at -21.6%. The blended revenue growth estimate for the 173 companies that have reported is 5.7% for Q4 2022. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 65% announced revenue that exceeded analysts’ expectations and

To date, 179 of the 204 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q3 2022, representing 88% of the index. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 70% announced that profits beat analysts’ expectations, while 1% delivered on-target results and 29% reported earnings that fell below estimates. The Q3 2022 blended earnings growth estimate now stands at 3.8%. The blended revenue growth estimate for the 204 companies in this index is 9.2% for Q3 2022. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results so far, 66% announced revenue that exceeded analysts’

Over the past decade the S&P 500 has seen a total return of 252.2% (12/31/09 through 12/17/19), which translates to a compound annual total return rate of 13.5%. Over that time two new sectors were added to the index. The real estate sector was separated from the financials sector and the communication services sector was created by removing the telecommunications services sector and pulling constituents from the information technology and consumer discretionary sectors. The information technology sector posted the greatest compound annual total return of 17.3%. Within the sector, the software & services (17.8%) and semiconductors & semiconductor equipment (17.3%)