S&P 500 Sectors & Industries Profit Margins

S&P 500 Sectors & Industries Profit Margins (quarterly)

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November 2, 2020

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Table Of Contents Table Of Contents

S&P 500 Operating Profit Margins

S&P 500 Profit Margin

3-6

S&P 500 Sectors Operating Profit Margins

7

S&P 500 Sectors Forecasted & Actual Profit Margins

8

Communication Services

5-6

Consumer Discretionary

7-8

Consumer Staples

9

Energy

10

Health Care

11

Industrials

12

Information Technology

13

Materials

14

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S&P 500 Profit Margin

Figure 1.

14

14

S&P 500 PROFIT MARGIN

12 (percent, quarterly)

12

10

10

Q2

8

8

6

6

4

4

2

2

0

0

-2

-2

-4

Operating (8.9)

-4

-6

Reported (5.6)

-6

-8

-8

-10

-10



-12

-12

94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Source: Standard & Poor's Corporation (revenues and reported EPS) and I/B/E/S data by Refinitiv (operating EPS).

Figure 2.

13

13

S&P 500 PROFIT MARGIN

12 (percent, trailing four-quarter average)

12

11

11

Q2

10

10

9

9

8

8

7

7

6

6

5

5

4

4

3

Operating (10.6)

3

2

Reported (7.2)

2

1

1



0

0

94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Source: Standard & Poor's (revenues and reported EPS) and I/B/E/S data by Refinitiv (operating EPS).

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S&P 500 Profit Margin

Figure 3.

15

S&P 500 OPERATING PROFIT MARGIN (percent)

Quarterly (8.9)

Trailing four-quarter

10

average (10.6)

5

15

10 Q2

5



0

0

94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Source: Standard & Poor's Corporation (revenues) and I/B/E/S data by Refinitiv (operating EPS).

Figure 4.

15

S&P 500 REPORTED PROFIT MARGIN (percent)

10

5

15 10 Q2 5

0

0

Quarterly (5.6)

-5

Trailing four-quarter

-5

average (7.2)

-10

-10



-15

-15

92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Source: Standard & Poor's Corporation.

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S&P 500 Profit Margin

Figure 5.

14

S&P 500 PROFIT MARGIN (percent, dividing forward earnings by forward revenues)

13

14

20

21

13

22

12

12

11

10/22

11

10

10

9

9

8

Consensus Forecasts

8

Annual

52-week forward* (11.1)

7

7



6

6

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

* Time-weighted average of the consensus estimates for current year and next year. Monthly through December 2005, then weekly. Source: I/B/E/S data by Refinitiv.

Figure 6.

13

S&P 500 PROFIT MARGIN MEASURES (percent)

12

11

10

13

12

10/22

11

Q2

10

9

9

S&P 500 Operating Profit Margins

8

Forward*

8

Actual (trailing 4Q average)

7

7

6

6



5

5

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

* Forward earnings divided by forward revenues. Source: I/B/E/S data by Refinitiv and Standard & Poor's.

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