#Corporateprofits, markets can double over next 4-5 years: #PrateekAgrawal
http://mybs.in/2UaIgIS

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It would be the second-straight month corporate profits have risen in the S&P 500. But more importantly, if analysts are correct, growth in Q4 would be accelerating. A 4.4% earnings growth rate would be higher than the 4.0% earnings growth reported in Q3 of 2016. But there’s reason to expect earnings, when they’re actually reported, to wind up being even better.

Companies routinely top earnings estimates. Over the past 19 quarters, companies have beaten earnings expectations by an average of 3.5%, according to Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFA. If that happened again in Q4, corporate earnings would be up a more impressive 7.9%.


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Q4 2016 earnings season showing healthy signs
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2017/01/12/q4-2016-earnings-season-showing-healthy-signs/96465172/

#DeutscheBank is still recovering after being hit with billions in fines back in 2015, according to its CEO John Cryan, after the bank posted another year of losses on Friday (Feb 2). The German lender reported a net loss of 2.2bn euros ($2.75bn) in Q4 of 2017. For the year, the German bank posted a 497m euro loss ($621m). This was the third consecutive annual loss for Deutsche Bank. The bank's results were impacted by a drop in investment banking as well as tax changes in the U.S.


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Deutsche Bank is still recovering from 2015 fines, CEO says after it posts third consecutive annual loss
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/02/deutsche-bank-earnings-results-2-point-75-billion-loss-in-fourth-quarter.html

#Germany's biggest bank said Friday (Feb 2) that it had been pushed into the red for a third consecutive year by a €1.4bn ($1.8bn) hit from tax changes in the United States. It also reported falling revenues. Companies around the world have been bruised - in the short run - by the Trump administration's tax overhaul. But the pain is especially uncomfortable for #DeutscheBank, which has been dogged by years of legal battles, regulatory fines and questions over its financial health. The bank posted an annual loss for 2017 of €500m ($625m). The tax charge resulted in a loss of €2.2bn ($2.8bn) in Q4. Revenues fell 12% in 2017, a slide the bank attributed to the sale of some businesses and challenging market conditions.


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Deutsche Bank hasn't made a profit in 3 years
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/investing/deutsche-bank-loss-us-tax/index.html

#Corporateprofits have been stuck in reverse for the last year and a half. They finally look like they're getting back in gear. S&P 500 companies in aggregate haven't seen YoY earnings gains since Q1 of 2015, and judging by the looks of things on the surface, that profit recession could continue. However, if historical trends hold true in this quarter, #corporateAmerica likely will turn a profit.

Current projections are that earnings for the S&P 500 in aggregate will decline 2.1%, according to FactSet. That almost never holds true, though. Companies set the bar low heading into the reporting period, and usually about 68% end up beating analyst projections. So far in the Q3 season, 20 of the 25 companies that have reported beat the Street. If the historical trend holds up, that would take the actual earnings growth to 0.9%, according to FactSet calculations. That would mark the first growth quarter since the first quarter of 2015, when earnings went up 0.5%. The Q2 of 2016 saw a decline of 3.5%.

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The profit recession on #WallStreet is coming to an end
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/10/the-profit-recession-on-wall-street-is-coming-to-an-end.html

Well worth a read . . .

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#Earnings are again in the stratosphere: Consider that in the second quarter, corporate #profits in the U.S. were equal to 9.5% of GDP vs. the long-term average since 1950 of 6.6%. And Wall Street analysts are forecasting that cumulative EPS for the S&P 500 will jump by 11% in 2018 and another 10% in 2019, according to FactSet.

Here’s one problem with that projection: The S&P 500’s #profitmargins are now near all-time highs. Even if they remain elevated, a questionable assumption, earnings can grow only as fast as sales. It’s highly uncertain that profits can even manage to climb in step with GDP. That’s because they’re already highly elevated thanks to those super-rich margins. Put simply, U.S. companies have benefited in recent years from an unusual combination of tailwinds - including flat labor costs, super-low interest rates, and, in 2017, a falling dollar.


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Corporate Profits Are Soaring. Here's Why It Can't Last
http://fortune.com/2017/12/07/corporate-earnings-profit-boom-end/

#Europeancompanies are set to see significant gains from the $1.5tn overhaul of U.S. corporate and individual #tax rates passed last week by Republican lawmakers, although the impact may hit the value of current deferrals that sit on the balance sheets of some of the region's biggest firms.

#RoyalDutchShell, #Europe's biggest oil company, said that it expects the U.S. #taxcuts, which take the baseline corporate rate to 21% from 35%, will be 'favourable to Shell and to its US operations' but won't be able to value the changes until it publishes its full-year earnings in February.


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U.S. Tax Law Set To Give Big Boost to European Corporate #Profits
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14430441/1/u-s-tax-reform-set-to-give-big-boost-to-european-corporate-earnings.html

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