Earnings recaps, sector trends, valuation and index analysis for US stocks, built on company filings and DataPorium market data.
How to use a stock screener step by step: a dividend growth shortlist as of September 18, 2026 that passes Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft and Apple.
Energy stocks and oil prices moved together in 2026: WTI is up 77% to $101.44 as of September 18 and XLE gained 48% by early September, with cash flow, not the spot price, setting the pace.
Walmart fiscal Q2 2027 earnings: revenue up 5.9% to $187.9 billion, adjusted EPS of $0.81, full-year guidance raised, yet WMT fell 9.2% on a soft Q3 operating income outlook.
How reliable are analyst price targets? Research finds them 28 percent above price on average; Microsoft, Nvidia and Alphabet in 2026 show why revisions matter more than levels.
Dividend aristocrats returned 12.35% through August 2026 while the S&P 500 yield fell to a record low 1.06% and the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.80%; here is how the trade-off looks.
Nvidia fiscal Q2 2027 earnings: revenue up 106% to $96.2 billion, Data Center up 117% to $89.0 billion, 75% gross margin, $108 billion Q3 guidance, and NVDA up 8.7%.
Debt-to-equity and interest coverage in 2026: Boeing covers interest only 0.26 times, Verizon 3.6 times and Coca-Cola 12.7 times, while ExxonMobil and Alphabet carry little risk.
Pharma stocks are the one S&P 500 group with falling earnings in Q2 2026, yet Lilly grew revenue 48% and Merck raised guidance; the sector trades at a trailing P/E of 22.1.
Amazon Q2 2026 earnings: net sales up 20% to $200.6 billion, AWS up 37%, operating income up 43% to $27.5 billion, a $53.4 billion Anthropic gain, and AMZN up 15.3%.
The 52-week high effect says stocks near their highs keep outperforming; as of August 21, 2026 the measure favors Nvidia and Apple and counts against Meta.
Bank stocks entered the second half with record Q2 2026 profits: JPMorgan earned $21.2 billion, net interest income grew 5% to 13% at the big four, and charge-offs stayed contained.
Apple fiscal Q3 2026 earnings: revenue up 16% to $109.4 billion, EPS up 29% to $2.02, iPhone up 22%, yet AAPL fell 7.4% after a 21% run into the report.
Value vs growth stocks in 2026: large growth names gained 18.1 percent on average from April 7 to August 12 versus 3.9 percent for value, but value is not uniformly cheap.
Utility stocks have lagged in 2026 even as EIA projects U.S. electricity sales rising to 4,130 billion kWh this year and 4,251 billion in 2027 on data center demand; XLU is up just 2.0%.
Microsoft fiscal Q4 2026 earnings: revenue up 18% to $90.0 billion, Azure up 43%, backlog of $678 billion, GAAP EPS of $4.81, and a 15.5% one-day jump in MSFT stock.
Quality stocks in 2026: Microsoft and Nvidia pass the ROE, margin and debt test most cleanly, Apple, Alphabet and Coca-Cola pass with caveats, ExxonMobil does not.
AI capital spending by Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft is running at record levels in 2026, with Alphabet guiding to $195 to $205 billion; here is what it means for chip and utility stocks.
Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings: revenue up 24% to $119.8 billion, Google Cloud up 82%, EPS of $9.11 inflated by a $98 billion equity gain, and capex of $44.9 billion in one quarter.
How to read a 10-Q in 20 minutes: a step-by-step checklist applied to the 2026 quarterly reports of Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Alphabet, with the numbers that matter.
The Q2 2026 earnings season shows a blended S&P 500 earnings growth rate of 37.9% and an 86% EPS beat rate as of July 24, with Energy, Communication Services and Technology leading.
Tesla Q2 2026 earnings: revenue rose 26% to $28.2 billion on record deliveries, but operating margin fell to 1.4%, free cash flow turned negative, and TSLA dropped 14.5%.
Insider buying earns about 40 basis points a month of abnormal return in academic studies; June 2026 purchases at Summit, Nuvectis and 51Talk show how to read it.
Russell 2000 vs S&P 500 in 2026: small caps returned 22.6% in the first half against 9.6% for large caps, the widest gap since 1991, driven by chips, rates and cheaper valuations.
JPMorgan Chase Q2 2026 earnings: net income of $21.2 billion, EPS of $7.70 with a $4.6 billion Visa gain, revenue up 28% to $57.3 billion, and JPM up 2.5% on the day.