Preparing for Dow 30 Earnings

All 30 Dow stocks will report earnings by May 20th, and below we highlight just a few of their earnings statistics that Bespoke Premium members have access to for all US stocks. For each stock, we highlight its expected report date, its EPS estimate for the current quarter, the 4-week change in that estimate, the percentage of the time it has beaten EPS estimates since 2001, and the average 1-day percent change in response to earnings since 2001.

We highlighted in green those Dow stocks that have beaten quarterly estimates more than 80% of the time since 2001. Stocks highlighted in red have beaten estimates less than 50% of the time.

GE and MCD have the lowest EPS "beat" rates, but they generally report right inline with estimates. In the Dow, JNJ and UTX both have EPS "beat" rates above 90%, and they have also averaged gains on the first trading day following their reports. UTX averages the best returns on report days, while INTC averages the biggest declines.

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Comments

[thinking ahead:]

good stats. Thanks

2008 Apr 10 10:42 AM

[Urbane Gori...:]

Great stuff... I'll keep this chart as my desktop just so I can compare it as earnings come through ...

Thx jegan ;-)

2008 Apr 11 10:37 AM