Reporting Season Feb '21: Scorecards and insights
About the author:
- Author name:
- By Tom Sartor
- Job title:
- Senior Analyst
- Date posted:
- 01 March 2021, 2:15 PM
- Sectors Covered:
- Junior (Emerging) Resources, Bulk Materials
February was a stunning season. Beats strongly overwhelmed misses by a record margin versus recent history. February was broadly a story of cyclicals outperforming overly-fearful valuations similar to August.
Particularly impressive were large-caps stocks and domestic cyclicals as expected (Retail, Financials, traditional Industrials).
But Beats didn’t drive strong price performance, with many of those stocks running into their results.
"Beats" are up 1% and "Misses" are down 13% on average since their results.
Morgans predictions were strong, but again prices broadly moved well in advance of results.
Themes of note
- Online platforms (cyclical) beating expectations but being sold down
- Packaging (defensive) all beating and being bid up
- IT/Software (cyclical) missing and being sold down
- Mining Services (despite commodities momentum) missing and being heavily sold.
The market is taking notice of valuations. Forward earnings revisions were positive (12mf EPS for XJO likely +4-5%) which they needed to be. Material EPS/EBITDA upgrades outnumbered downgrades by 2:1.
But solid upward revisions didn’t necessarily translate into price performance.
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Key themes as we exit reporting season
- ongoing cyclical rotation/ reflation
- AUD strength
- commodities strength
- renewed rates volatility & fears of inflationary impacts
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