3Q17

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Earnings Calendar

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Note: by 4Q16 I lost a lot of interest in tracking earnings. I'm not sure where I will go with this page. In fact, there are more and more days when ... no, I won't go there. 



November 3, 2017:

• EOG
• 3Q17 net income: $100.5 million vs a loss one year earlier
• EPS: 17 cents/share; adjusted, 19 cents/share
• forecast: 10 cents/share
• revenue: $2.64 billion vs $2.58 billion forecast

October 26, 2017:

• Xilinx: 2Q17 earnings beat; revenues in line. Shares slump.
• COP: 3Q17 EPS of 16 cents beats by 8 cents. Or another way to put it, earnings per share double  what analysts forecast. Double. More at SeekinagAlpha. 
• Hess: shares fall on "slashed" guidance for 4Q17.   
• Whiting: quarterly loss shrinks as oil prices rise. The loss this quarter: 79 cents/share; same period one year ago, $2.47.

October 25, 2017:

Ford shares jump 1.5% pre-market as earnings blow through estimates -- 39 cents/share vs 24 cents/share a year earlier. Adjusted, 46 cents beat by a wide margin the consensus of 33 cents. This is the important take-away:

• the 1.5% is a non-story
• the big story is this: another US success story -- making America great
• for the past three months, nothing but concerns about how Ford might be doing
• folks wouldn't be buying cars, SUVs, trucks if they weren't optimistic; if the economy wasn't doing well
• this story: reflects the health of the US economy
• remember: GM had great quarter also; link here; cost-cutting; shift to higher-margin trucks and SUVs; shares jumped to record high; reduced glut; blew through estimates; $1.32 vs forecast of $1.14;
• in the case of the automakers, U.S. car and light truck sales have so far defied predictions of a significant slump. September sales hit the fastest pace in 12 years as residents of Texas and Florida rushed to replace cars damaged by storms

October 24, 2017:

• CAT: huge earnings report
• GM: beats estimates for eighth straight quarter
• McDonald's: does okay

October 22, 2017:

HAL. Halliburton profit tops estimates on strong North America demand. Reuters even used the word "surged" -- a word we don't often see these days in the oil sector except when combined with production, such as "production surged." Data points:

• revenue surges 91%
• revenue from North America at $3.16 billion
• total revenue rose 42% to $5.44 billion
• profit: 42 cents a share vs 1 cent per share a year earlier
• profit: $365 million most recent quarter vs $6 million one year earlier
• analysts forecast: 37 cents/share

October 21, 2017

• Schlumberger and Halliburton

October 20, 2017

• GE: from Reuters: even before the stock's decline on Friday, GE produced a total return - share appreciation plus reinvested dividends - of just 0.64 percent over the last 16 years. A $1,000 investment on the day former CEO Jeff Immelt started his tenure would be worth $1,006.38 today. Immelt stepped down August 1, 2017
• GE: from same link:  it would generate only about $7 billion in cash from operations, down from $12 billion to $14 billion it had forecast earlier. It left its dividend unchanged
• GE: $1 billion operating cash flow (talking head on CNBC); dividends: $8 billion/year (CNBC)
• GE: "power" division is the big story; it would be interesting to know what percent renewables make up the "power" division
• GE: it seems this, the GE story, is an open-book test

October 19, 2017

• Bank of New York Mellon Corp's better-than-expected profit in the third quarter failed to impress investors, who focused instead on the bank's lower foreign exchange trading revenue.
• Shares of the world's largest custodian bank fell 3.7 percent in morning trading on Thursday.

October 17, 2017

• NFLX (Netflix): down 3.5% after reporting great subscription numbers; profit-taking; traded at new high earlier today
• watching for BK on October 19, 2017, when earnings are reported
• GS, down 2.3% today but surprises with a "beat"; and it was a huge beat; EPS of $5.02 vs estimate of $4.17 (huge; a 20% beat); and revenue of $8.3 billion vs estimate of $7.5 billion (again, huge; an 11% beat)

Oil E&P: see this RBN Energy story here.