January 2025

As Q4 2024 earnings season continued last week we focus our attention on several of the world’s largest corporations such as Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla.

Todays data insights we examine which companies exceeded revenue estimates and which ones fell short as Q4 2024 earnings season continued last week.

In this week’s data insight we focus our attention on the final earnings season of 2024, with financials taking centre stage. Following a disappointing festive season for equity returns, this quarterly earnings report is crucial for the equity market to set a positive tone for 2025.

The S&P 500 achieved a remarkable gain of over 23% in 2024, marking back-to-back annual increases of over 20%. However, when we delve deeper into this figure, it is interesting to see the disparity in returns among individual stocks that make up what is arguably the world’s most important stock index. In our first Seaspray