Results from the four largest U.S. companies by market value highlight a busy week of corporate earnings and could help determine whether the stock market can sustain its recent rally.
What they forecast is “pretty representative of how the economy is doing,” said King Lip, chief strategist at Baker Avenue Asset Management in San Francisco. “If Microsoft comes in and says things are ok, if Google says things are ok, then that represents a significant weight in not just market cap but the overall economy.”
“This week could be very critical to whether we can continue to recover or whether this is just some kind of bear market rally on the way back down towards lows,” said Rick Meckler, partner at family investment office Cherry Lane Investments. With 107 S&P 500 companies reported so far, about 75% have posted earnings above analysts’ expectations, according to Refinitiv IBES data as of Monday. However, that trails the 81% beat rate for the past four quarters.
When Alphabet and Meta report, focus will be on advertising spending after Twitter Inc and Snapchat’s owner Snap Inc last week signaled advertisers had tightened their purse strings in response to a darkening economic outlook.
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