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However, S&P senior index analyst Howard Silverblatt cautions, "You have to look at those companies and see if they will truly make those earnings." If the denominator of the equation falls short, then the P/E ratio doesn't look so hot after all. And there is reason to think projected earnings might be overstated. An ongoing survey of stock analysts by Thomson Reuters projected as of Nov. 21 that next year's earnings growth of S&P 500 companies would be 11.7%. Three weeks earlier, that projection...
...chief economist David Wyss, who looks at GDP and employment and other broad indicators of the economy, is that S&P earnings could end up about 50% lower, or $63 per share. Stocks analyst are typically more optimistic than economists, but only by a few bucks, says Howard Silverblatt, an index analyst at S&P. "Traditionally, when you get these big discrepancies, it is the economists who end up being a lot closer to reality," says Silverblatt...
...spread between operating and GAAP earnings really got out of whack from 2000 to 2002. Fortunately, the GAAP gap is narrowing. The spread was 13% for 2003, compared with an astonishing 75% in the fourth quarter of 2002, says Howard Silverblatt, market equity analyst at Standard & Poor's. That convergence bodes well for earnings quality, he says, although profits posted don't always tell the whole story...
...dividends at the lower capital gains rate (rather than as ordinary income) prodded a wave of companies to initiate payouts. Dividend payers in the S&P now number 370, and the average yield is 1.6%. Those remain well below historical levels. "We're just turning the corner," says Howard Silverblatt, an analyst...
...Research is a very lonely job,” says Irene Silverblatt, an anthropology professor at Duke University who was a Radcliffe fellow last year. “It’s something that you usually just do by yourself...