Zacks Earnings Trends Highlights: Meta Platforms and Nvidia

For Immediate ReleaseChicago, IL – July 24, 2025 – Zacks Director of Research Sheraz Mian says, "The combination of a stabilizing macroeconomic backdrop and reassuring management commentary is helping to reverse the earlier negative revisions trend."Q2 Earnings Results Show an Improving Growth PictureNote: The following is an excerpt from this week’s Earnings Trends report. You can access the full report that contains detailed historical actual and estimates for the current and following periods, please click here>>>A positive picture is emerging from the Q2 earnings season, with an above-average proportion of companies beating consensus estimates. More importantly, the combination of a stabilizing macroeconomic backdrop and reassuring management commentary is helping to reverse the earlier negative revisions trend, with estimates for the second half of the year starting to increase again.For the 117 S&P 500 companies that have already reported Q2 results, total earnings are up +8.3% from the same period last year on +5.3% higher revenues, with 87.2% beating EPS estimates and 80.3% beating revenue estimates.The proportion of these 117 index members beating EPS and revenue estimates is tracking notably above the historical average for this group of companies. The Q2 EPS beats percentage of 87.2% for this group of index members compared to the 20-quarter average of 81.9% while the same on the revenues side is 80.3% vs. 70%.For the Finance sector, we now have Q2 results from 53.3% of the sector’s market capitalization in the S&P 500 index. Total earnings for these Finance companies are up +17.3% from the same period last year on +5.5% higher revenues, with 91.2% beating EPS estimates and 79.4% beating revenue estimates.An Emerging Positive Estimate Revisions TrendRegular readers of our earnings commentary are familiar with a persistently negative revisions trend that has been in place since the start of the year, with the unfavorable trend accelerating at the beginning of Q2 with the Trump administration’s tariff announcements.The revisions trend notably stabilized as we have gone through Q2 and has actually started turning positive in recent days.Since the start of Q3 this month, estimates have modestly increased for half of the 16 Zacks sectors, including Finance, Tech, Energy, Consumer Discretionary, Autos, and others.On the negative side, Q3 estimates are still under pressure for the other 8 Zacks sectors, with significant declines to estimates for the Medical, Basic Materials, Construction, Transportation, and other sectors.For the Tech sector, Q3 earnings are expected to be up +6.8% from the same period last year on +9.7% higher revenues.You can look at Q3 estimates for Tech players like Meta Platforms META, Nvidia NVDA and others.Meta, which reports Q2 results on July 30th, is currently expected to bring in $5.92 per share in earnings in Q3. Estimates have been on a steady uptrend for Meta, with the current $5.92 EPS estimate up +1.2% over one week and +2.6% over the past month. Nvidia, which will be the last Mag 7 company to report Q2 results on August 27th, is expected to earn $1.60 per share in Q3, up +0.9% over the past week and +1.8% over the past month.This positive revisions trend is even more notable for the big banks and brokers like JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and others in the Finance sector.Earnings Expectations for 2025 Q2 & BeyondThe positive results from more than 23% of S&P 500 members have helped push the Q2 earnings growth expectation higher, with earnings for the S&P 500 index now expected to increase by +6.9% from the same period last year on +4.5% higher revenues.We have been pleasantly surprised by the aforementioned favorable revisions trend, which validates the market’s rebound from the April lows. 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