The fourth quarter earnings season kicks into excessive gear this week, with Large Tech outcomes from Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Tesla (TSLA), and Apple (AAPL) headlining the earnings calendar.
An optimistic consensus is forming: As of Jan. 23, 13% of S&P 500 (^GSPC) firms have reported fourth quarter outcomes, in line with FactSet information, and Wall Avenue analysts estimate an 8.2% enhance in earnings per share for the fourth quarter. If that charge holds, it will signify the tenth consecutive quarter of annual earnings progress for the index.
Heading into the reporting interval, analysts have been anticipating an 8.3% bounce in earnings per share, down from the third quarter’s 13.6% earnings progress charge. Wall Avenue has raised its earnings expectations in latest months, particularly for tech firms, which have pushed earnings progress in latest quarters.
Though Large Tech continues to set the tone, this earnings season guarantees to check the improved inventory market breadth that has emerged firstly of 2026. Plus, the themes that drove the markets in 2025 — synthetic intelligence, the Trump administration’s tariff and financial insurance policies, and a Ok-shaped shopper economic system — will proceed to offer loads for traders to parse.
Along with the studies from 4 of the “Magnificent Seven” tech shares, Wall Avenue will obtain updates from a large swath of firms throughout the economic system, together with UnitedHealth (UNH), Boeing (BA), Basic Motors (GM), IBM (IBM), Starbucks (SBUX), Levi Strauss (LEVI), Visa (V), American Categorical (AXP), Mastercard (MA), Caterpillar (CAT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), AT&T (T), and Verizon (VZ),
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