Earnings Growth Charts

I have only one stock from the earnings list reporting last week, so I picked four others that i had not been able to post yet. In the top panel, the red line is quarterly EPS growth rate, the black line is quarterly revenue growth rate. In the middle the red line is quarterly EPS, black line is price, the green line is quarterly revenue, and the blue line is price relative to SPX. At the bottom the black bars are volume. None of these reported the end of a fiscal year, so I did not include annual EPS.

JOSB was the one to report this week, and it did report a quarter of accelerating growth, but that comes after 4 straight quarters of negative growth. This is exhibiting the pattern I mentioned last week, the "head and shoulders" in quarterly EPS. Revenue, however, is continuing to climb, so one or the other is going to give way here. Price has been following revenue rather than EPS, but it does look like it is going to be building a base here.

ALGT reported in early August, and I have not updated the chart since then, so i don;t know where price is right now (the same is true for the next 3 charts).  Price has pretty much followed EPS here, which has been pretty flat (with declining peaks) for a couple of years now. Revenue is still climbing, so eps growth may restart soon.

APEI also reported in early August. It is one of the for profit schools that got hammered when the Dept of Education launched an investigation into them. i mentioned at the time that it was going to be a massive buying opportunity into the ones that were able to come back from it. Unfortunately, I didn't know which ones would, but this was one of them. it is now slowing in growth, and is at a major resistance level, but appears to be forming a base here which could lead to a future breakout.

CKSW reported in late July. I either have bad data for this or this is really behaving strangely. I have seriously dropping EPS but still climbing revenue growth. Price appears to be following revenue. This is one that is difficult to find information on, but it's in a pretty good long term up trend and might start getting Wall Street's attention soon.

HWKN reported in late July, and is now in a hellacious down trend in EPS. That followed a pretty big drop in revenue a year earlier. revenue has bounced back, so it is possible that EPS will as well. it is hard to say is price is in the process of building a base or in the midst of a collapse, but I wouldn;t go near this unless it can stop the bleeding in EPS.