Clara Borresen
Clara analyses sector-level earnings trends, estimate revisions, and the margin story running underneath each reporting season.
Articles by Clara Borresen
Simon Property Raises Full-Year FFO Guidance as Mall Metrics Stay Hot
The mall REIT lifted its 2026 funds-from-operations outlook to $13.20 to $13.30 per share on the strength of 13.9% retailer sales growth, and the market's calm response shows what a raise buys this season.
Sector Scorecard: Health Care Posts the Season's Best Beat Rates While Its Profits Shrink
FactSet's sector-level data reveal a strange split in the Q2 tape: health care companies cleared estimates more often than any other group, yet the sector is the only one reporting an earnings decline.
Small Caps Are Winning the Year but Losing the Scorecard to Large Caps
The Russell 2000 has outpaced the S&P 500 in 2026, yet the earnings-season evidence shows small caps clearing estimates far less often than large caps, with roughly 40% of the index unprofitable.
The Guidance Scorecard: Two-Thirds of Q3 Outlooks Are Positive, Inverting the Historical Norm
FactSet data show only 33% of S&P 500 companies issuing Q3 EPS guidance have guided below consensus, versus a five-year average of 58%, as corporate outlooks run unusually optimistic.
Revenue, Not Just Profit: Q2 Sales Growth Hits 15%, the Best Reading Since 2021
FactSet's latest tally puts blended second-quarter revenue growth at 15.0%, with energy and semiconductors doing most of the heavy lifting and all eleven sectors in positive territory.
Analysts Raised Third-Quarter Estimates in July, Breaking a Two-Decade Habit
The bottom-up Q3 EPS estimate rose 0.3% during July, according to FactSet, at a point in the quarter when the twenty-year norm is a 1.9% cut.
A $337 Million Project Charge Forces AECOM to Cut Its Full-Year Guidance
Record backlog was not enough to offset a single troubled construction management job, which pushed the engineering firm to a quarterly loss and knocked nearly $2 off its fiscal 2026 earnings outlook.