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January 24, 2026 | Tech Talk for Saturday January 24th 2026
Don Vialoux
The Bottom Line
Economic focus this week is on the FOMC decision on interest rates released on Wednesday at 2:00 PM EST.
Quarterly earnings focuses this week are on Microsoft and Meta Platform on Wednesday, Apple and Amazon on Thursday and ExxonMobil and Chevron on Friday.
Earnings and Revenues Consensus for S&P 500 companiesSource: www.factset.com
Analyst earnings and revenue estimates recorded small changes last week: 13% of companies have reported quarterly results to date. Another 103 companies (including twelve Dow Jones Industrial Average companies) are scheduled to report this week.
- Consensus for fourth quarter 2025 earnings gains remained at 8.2%. Consensus for revenue growth remained at 7.8%. For all of 2025, consensus for earnings gains was unchanged at 12.4%. Consensus for revenue gains was unchanged at 7.2%.
- Consensus for first quarter 2026 calls for an 11.2% earnings increase, down from a 12.2% increase last week. Revenue gains remained at 8.3%.
- Consensus for second quarter 2026 earnings gains slipped to 14.5% from 14.6%. Consensus for revenue gains remained at 7.5%.
- Consensus for third quarter 2026 earnings remained at a 14.8% gain. Consensus for revenue gains increased to 6.8% from 6.7%
- Consensus for fourth quarter 2026 earnings remained at an 18.4% gain. Revenue gains increased to 7.4% from 7.3%.
- For all of 2026, consensus for earnings gains slipped to 14.7% from 14.9%. Consensus for revenue gains remained at 7.3%.
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Don Vialoux January 24th, 2026
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