U.S. Revenues Running Out Of Energy
Ed Yardeni | Feb 24, 2015 12:17AM ET
In the Quant Center of our website, we update, on a weekly basis, tables showing analysts’ consensus expectations for annual revenues growth rates. As of February 12, here is the performance derby for S&P 500 revenues growth rates this year for the sectors: IT (7.3%), Health Care (6.2), Consumer Discretionary (4.7), Consumer Staples (4.0), Telecom Services (2.9), Financials (2.4), Industrials (1.9), Utilities (1.2), S&P 500 (-0.2), Materials (-1.0), and Energy (-24.3). Clearly, Energy is a huge drag on revenues.
The y/y growth rate of S&P 500 revenues is highly correlated with the comparable growth rate of manufacturing and trade sales. The former was up 4.9% during Q3, while the latter was up only 0.9% during December. Excluding petroleum products, business sales rose 5.5% y/y during December
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