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1) Can You Brew Post Earning Profits In Your Portfolio? + Vic Wisemann’s Thoughts on: CAT, GE, MMM, FBN, SBUX, CSX, MRO
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Corporate profits vaulted back last quarter, supported by increased consumer and business demand, stripped down overhead and walk-in-the-park comparisons to last year's grim first quarter.
As the first quarter earnings season winds down, the superlatives are hard to dismiss. Profit growth for members of the Standard & Poor's 500-Stock Index is expected to rise a stunning 87% compared to year-ago results, and effortlessly eclipse the previous record of a 35% year-over-year gain in the second quarter of 1993.
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Tight cost control continues to be key to this earnings growth. With companies running so lean, it's easier for a larger portion of revived sales gains to fall straight to the bottom line. Sales, though, are rising at a far less impressive rate than profits, and that is a concern for future quarters as corporations’ ability to shave more costs wanes.
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Two impressive additions this quarter that were absent in recent previous periods were strong top-line growth and better full-year outlooks from the companies. Recent economic data points to a manufacturing recovery, and we saw it in earnings as well. Industrial companies were among the bright spots with Caterpillar (CAT), General Electric (GE) and 3M (MMM) all posting double-digit percentage gains over estimates.
Read on to find out how you can brew some nice profits in your portfolio.
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