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2 Avril 2015 , Rédigé par Ylan CATTAN Publié dans #Gerant Privé, #Private Banking, #Profits and Benefits, #Family office, #gestion de portefeuille, #Gestion d'actifs, #Gestion Privée, #Allocation d'actifs, #Audit portefeuille, #Banque privée

For Q1 2015, 85 companies in the S&P 500 have issued negative EPS guidance and 16 companies have issued positive EPS guidance.

If 16 is the final number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance for the quarter, it will mark the lowest number since Q1 2006. The number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance for Q1 2015 is above the trailing five-year average (76), but slightly below the trailing one-year average (87) for a quarter.

However, the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance is below both the trailing five-year average (34) and the trailing one-year average (27) for a quarter.

If 16 is the final number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance for the quarter, it will mark the lowest number since Q1 2006 (13).

Six sectors are on pace to tie their record for the lowest number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance for a quarter:

• Consumer Discretionary (4)

• Consumer Staples (0)

• Energy (0)

• Materials (0)

• Telecom Services (0)

• Utilities (0)

However, it is important to point out that four of these six sectors (Consumer Staples, Energy, Telecom Services, and Utilities), have only had one company issue positive EPS guidance on average over the past five years. The Information Technology (-6) and Consumer Discretionary (-4) sectors are recording the largest declines in the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance relative to their five-year averages.