While that was a good start — it raised a woman's
average earnings from 62 % of a man's to almost 80 % by 2004 — the goal has not yet been achieved.
Matt Barasch, Canadian equity strategist at RBC Capital Markets, noted that Canadian banks, which account for nearly a quarter of the weighting in the benchmark equity index, generate approximately half of
their average earnings from net interest margins.
Other official labour cost data based on wage - bill measures, such as average weekly ordinary time earnings and
average earnings from the national accounts, paint a similar picture, identifying firm wage outcomes but giving little indication of an acceleration of aggregate wages growth.
Not exact matches
BLS announced earlier this month that real
average hourly
earnings for all employees increased.2 %
from May to June, partially causing real
average weekly
earnings to rise.5 % that month.
This represents an annual increase of approximately 9 cents in real
average hourly
earnings, according to BLS,
from $ 10.68 in June 2016 to $ 10.77 in June 2017.
In January 2016, for instance, a year before Trump took office, BLS announced real
average hourly
earnings for employees increased.4 %, and real
average weekly
earnings had increased.7 %, higher figures than those
from June 2017.
Average weekly
earnings over that time period increased $ 24.30,
from $ 881.33 in June 2016 to $ 905.63 in June 2017.
Our 2013 year - end target of 1600 implies a 10 % price return, where most of the appreciation can be attributed to
earnings growth of 7 % next year, along with modest multiple expansion
from 14.2 x to 14.7 x on trailing
earnings, still below an
average PE of 16x.
A recent report
from Bank of America Merrill Lynch said that households with an annual income below $ 50,000 spent an
average of 21 % of their
earnings on energy costs,
from home heating oil to filling their gas tanks.
Analysts, on
average, now believe the stock will reach $ 54.84, up
from $ 48.96 on Tuesday, before the company reported
earnings.
The wages here represent the
average hourly
earnings for employees paid by the hour, measured in Canadian dollars, also available
from Trading Economics.
The S&P 500's forward price - to -
earnings ratio has slid
from 18.6 on Jan. 26 to 17 on Feb. 5 to 16.2 entering this week — and 16.2 also happens to be exactly the five - year
average multiple.
A June 2015 paper by professors
from Emory University and Duke University found, in a survey of 400 CFOs, that, on
average, chief financial officers believe that 20 % of companies «intentionally misrepresent their
earnings,» even though they are following the accounting rules.
While he thinks Starbucks» EPS growth could slow
from the 30 % it has
averaged for the past five years, he still expects
earnings to more than double by 2021, «enough conservatively estimated to get us to a strong double - digit return.»
As a positive
earnings report
from Delta Air Lines boosted the
averages on Thursday, CNBC's Jim Cramer noticed some unusual trading action occurring that he pegged to the bull.
This amounts to the country's top 100 highest - paid CEOs making 171 times the
earnings of an
average Canadian wage — a jump
from 105 times in 1998.
«At 17x
earnings, the
average forward 12 - month return is 13 %, ranging
from 0 % to 31 %.
Then imagine that
earnings drop
from 9.5 % of GDP to 8 % — a figure that's still well above the historical
average.
As can be seen in Figure 1, on
earnings up to one - half
average wages and salaries, the benefits
from Canada's publicly administered programs meet the commonly used replacement rate target of 70 per cent of pre-retirement
earnings.
He notes that the stylized individual with
earnings that track the YMPE closely over an entire working career are rare and that replacement rates for people who have lifetime
average earnings close to the YMPE often have replacement rates
from OAS and CPP well below 40 %, as a result of fluctuations in their
earnings in relation to the YMPE.
Based on data
from the American Community Survey, there is a racial and ethnic pay gap as well: Asian Americans reported the highest
average earnings in STEM occupations, while non-Hispanic whites also had above
average earnings; black and Hispanic professionals earned below
average wages in 2012.
Even with the 0.3 percent
average hourly
earnings gain, consensus is somewhat tainted by the downward revision to the prior month
from 0.2 percent to 0.1 percent, leaving the year - over-year gain at 2.5 percent.
The Republican tax bill, which seeks to lower the corporate tax rate to 21 percent
from 35 percent, would lead to an
average 14 percent in
earnings growth for seven of America's largest banks next year, according to a Monday note
from Goldman Sachs analyzing the plan's implications.
Strong
earnings from Netflix after the bell, up as much as 7 % premarket, boosted what began as an unenthusiastic breakout on lower than
average volume due to the session already gaining 1 %.
The graph traces the monthly percentage gain in
average hourly
earnings from the previous year, starting in January 2007 and moving through to the most recent figures.
Solid
earnings performances
from Corporate America and an in - line update
from the Federal Reserve did little to spur a recovery
from softness in the first part of the week, with the Dow Jones Industrial
Average diving about 200 points into the red as the closing bell approached.
Average hourly earnings rose more than expected, at 2.2 %, which helped lessen the blow of a worse than expected headline number and the July number was revised to 2.0 % from 1.9 %; average weekly hours increased to 34.5 from 34.4; and manufacturing added 14,000 workers after a revised 16,000 loss i
Average hourly
earnings rose more than expected, at 2.2 %, which helped lessen the blow of a worse than expected headline number and the July number was revised to 2.0 %
from 1.9 %;
average weekly hours increased to 34.5 from 34.4; and manufacturing added 14,000 workers after a revised 16,000 loss i
average weekly hours increased to 34.5
from 34.4; and manufacturing added 14,000 workers after a revised 16,000 loss in July.
The
average annual return for each portfolio
from 1926 through 2015, including reinvested dividends and other
earnings, is noted, as are the best and worst one - year and 15 year returns.
Because our Margin - Adjusted CAPE already adjusts for cyclical variations in the embedded profit margin, it does not suffer
from similar «dropoff» artifacts when extremely elevated or depressed
earnings fall out of the 10 - year
average.
«During the latter stage of the bull market culminating in 1929, the public acquired a completely different attitude towards the investment merits of common stocks... Why did the investing public turn its attention
from dividends,
from asset values, and
from average earnings to transfer it almost exclusively to the
earnings trend, i.e. to the changes in
earnings expected in the future?
Accounting
earnings may have rebounded
from 2015 lows, but economic
earnings — which reverse accounting distortions and account for the weighted
average cost of capital (WACC)-- remain in a persistent downturn.
The Dow Jones Industrial
Average midday Tuesday was trading sharply lower, with only a trio of companies in the green as Wall Street investors awaited the Federal Reserve's policy update on Wednesday and an
earnings later in the day
from Apple Inc..
Right now, investors and traders
from Wall Street to Main Street, whether optimists or pessimists, are assuming an economic recovery that's much faster and much more robust than that... A period of lower - than -
average economic growth would lead to lower - than -
average earnings growth.
Average hourly
earnings for private - sector workers rose to $ 26.82 in March
from the previous month.
It calculated by taking the current price of the S&P 500 and dividing by its
average inflation - adjusted
earnings from the previous 10 years.
Real
average weekly
earnings are unchanged
from a year earlier, giving many consumers little additional spending power.
The share price has fallen considerably
from when we eliminated the position in the second quarter of 2014 when the business was valued at over 15x 2014
earnings, and we believe the business is now attractively valued at a below -
average multiple of 11x expected 2015
earnings.
Average hourly
earnings for all private - sector workers rose 2.7 % in March
from a year earlier — in line with annual gains in recent months.
A separate report Thursday showed inflation - adjusted
average weekly
earnings fell 0.5 % in December
from the prior month.
The February report, however, did contain some less encouraging news on wages, with
average hourly
earnings weaker than forecast, sliding 0.1 % month - on - month compared with January's 0.5 % expansion, and the annual rate falling 0.3 %
from the previous month to 2.2 %.
Average hourly
earnings disappointed, coming in unchanged versus the prior month, and rising at a 2.4 % rate year over year, down
from 2.8 % last month.
The major
averages are likely to get a boost today
from corporate
earnings and some merger and acquisition activity, including more developments in the long talked about possible merger of Sprint (S) and T - Mobile (TMUS).
Every year, women around the world celebrate (angrily) the day their
average full - time, full - year
earnings have caught up to men's
average full - time full - year
earnings from the year before.
Average hourly
earnings remained somewhat sluggish, up 0.2 %
from the previous month, although that rise was enough to push the annual figure back up,
from 2.5 % to 2.8 %.
Earnings reports
from some of the biggest U.S. companies at a decline in the ten - year treasury yield combined to send the major
averages sharply higher.
Since the
earnings season kicked off last week, shares have returned, on
average, a loss of 0.12 percent on the trading day immediately after companies posted their quarterly results, according to data
from Bespoke Investment Group.
This upbeat picture is a bit of a puzzle because the department's separate monthly measure of
average hourly
earnings was up just 2.1 % in the first quarter, not much different
from the trend that's been in place since 2009.
Bristol - Myers expects 2018
earnings of $ 3.35 to $ 3.45 per share, up
from its prior view of $ 3.15 to $ 3.30 and well ahead of
average Wall Street estimates of $ 3.26 per share.
Despite the respectable economic performance and the stunning surge in company profits, the major
averages are little changed for the year and stumbled around Friday, despite a massive
earnings beat
from Amazon.
This recovery is most evident in
earnings from service exports, which rebounded strongly in the September quarter, to be about 3 1/2 per cent higher than the
average level since the 2000 Sydney Olympics (Graph 45).