FactSet Earnings Insight - 03-September-2021

FactSet Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters provides a final review of the key metrics for the second quarter earnings season for the S&P 500, as almost all of the companies in the index have reported actual results for the second quarter. He then discusses earnings estimate revisions by analysts for S&P 500 companies for the third quarter. After four straight quarters of increasing EPS estimates, have analysts continued this trend so far in the third quarter?