Q4 Earnings Season Looms: A Preview

The first earnings season of the New Year will get underway on January 10th, with the big banks reporting results for the last quarter of 2024.The expectation is that 2024 Q4 earnings for the S&P 500 index will be up +7.6% on +4.7% higher revenues. This would follow the +8.3% earnings growth in Q3 on +5.5% higher revenues.As we have noted here all along, the revisions trend ahead of the start of the Q4 earnings season has been fairly stable, as can be seen in the chart below that shows how the Q4 earnings g ...