{"id":19611,"date":"2026-05-22T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/en-eu\/?p=19611"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:06:22","slug":"the-earnings-bedrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/en-eu\/insights\/the-earnings-bedrock","title":{"rendered":"The earnings bedrock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n      Anyone who has fixated on the recent U.S. stock market rally without\n      paying attention to other news might have assumed that all is right with\n      the world.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      The S&amp;P 500 has surged 17 percent since the late March Iran war low\n      and is up 8.6 percent year to date through May 20.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>This impressive run has materialised despite a barrage of challenges:<\/p>\n    <ul class=\"list-spaced\">\n      <li>\n        Ongoing energy and fertiliser supply problems along with uncertainties\n        about whether the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran could reignite, further\n        damaging the region\u2019s infrastructure\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Another domestic and global inflation wave linked to high energy prices\n      <\/li>\n      <li>Treasury yields jumping to multiyear highs<\/li>\n      <li>\n        Market-based expectations about Federal Reserve policy shifting from a\n        forthcoming rate cut to at least a long pause, and even the small\n        possibility of a rate hike later this year\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Consumer sentiment in the U.S. dropping to the lowest level since\n        records began in 1978\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Americans\u2019 poor attitudes about the economy in multiple opinion polls\n      <\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>Is the stock market living on another planet?<\/p>\n    <!-- SECTION -->\n    <h2>AI buildout gets most of the credit<\/h2>\n    <p>\n      From our vantage point, the market is grounded where it normally is, on\n      corporate profits. This is why it has defied the challenges thus far:\n    <\/p>\n    <ul class=\"list-spaced\">\n      <li>\n        S&amp;P 500 earnings growth is pacing at 27.6 percent year over year in\n        Q1\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        This is more than two times higher than the 12.4 percent consensus\n        forecast just before the earnings reporting season began in mid-April\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Outside of post-recession rebounds, earnings growth rarely exceeds\n        expectations by such a large magnitude \u2013 in other words, it\u2019s an\n        eye-popping difference\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        The ongoing AI infrastructure buildout is by far the main reason\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Within the S&amp;P 500, the AI basket of stocks saw its Q1 consensus\n        earnings growth forecast surge from 23.6 percent in early January to\n        nearly 66 percent recently\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Inside the AI group, semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment\n        stocks have led, delivering 85 percent year-over-year earnings growth in\n        Q1\n      <\/li>\n    <\/ul> \n    <!-- EXHIBIT 1-->\n    <h3>\n      AI stocks\u2019 upward Q1 2026 earnings revisions have outshined the rest of\n      the market\n    <\/h3>\n    <h4>\n      Change in Q1 2026 year-over-year consensus earnings growth estimates from\n      early January through mid-May\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"row mb-4\">\n      <div class=\"col-lg-10 col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-10 col-xxs-12\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\"\n          src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/global\/earnings-bedrock-en-chart-1.png\"\n          alt=\"Change in Q1 2026 year-over-year consensus earnings growth estimates from early January through mid-May\"\n          class=\"img-fluid mb-1-half\"\n          aria-describedby=\"ex1desc\"\n        \/>\n        <ul class=\"rbc-legend\">\n          <li class=\"rbc-legend-item\">\n            <div class=\"rbc-legend-line c-warm-yellow\"><\/div>\n            AI stocks*\n          <\/li>\n          <li class=\"rbc-legend-item\">\n            <div class=\"rbc-legend-line c-dark-blue-tint-1\"><\/div>\n            S&#038;P&nbsp;500\n          <\/li>\n          <li class=\"rbc-legend-item\">\n            <div class=\"rbc-legend-line c-tundra\"><\/div>\n            S&#038;P&nbsp;500 excluding AI stocks\n          <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n        <p class=\"footnote\">\n          * Represents Bloomberg Intelligence\u2019s S&amp;P 500 \u201cAI Theme Basket\u201d of\n          stocks mostly in the Information Technology and Communication Services\n          sectors and some stocks from other sectors.\n        <\/p>\n        <p class=\"disclaimer\">\n          Source &#8211; RBC Wealth Management, Bloomberg; data through 5\/15\/26\n        <\/p>\n        <p class=\"sr-only\" id=\"ex1desc\">\n          The chart compares the year-over-year change in consensus earnings\n          growth forecasts for AI-related stocks in the S&#038;P 500 based on the\n          Bloomberg \u201cAI Theme Basket,\u201d the S&#038;P 500 Index as a whole, and the S&#038;P\n          500 Index excluding AI-related stocks from January 9 through May 15,\n          2026. The AI stocks line started at 23.6% and steadily rose to 28.2%\n          by April 24. Thereafter it surged and ended at 65.9% on May 15. The\n          S&#038;P 500 line started at 11.9%, then drifted down a bit, and then\n          drifted up somewhat to 13.7% by April 24. Thereafter it jumped and\n          ended at 27.5% on May 15. The S&#038;P 500 excluding AI stocks line began\n          at 8.1%, then moved down to a low point of 6.0% on March 6, before\n          rebounding to 8.8% on April 24. Thereafter it rose above 12% and ended\n          at 14.4% on May 15.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p>\n      When AI stocks are excluded from the S&amp;P 500 data, at first glance the\n      earnings growth rate looks much less impressive at 14.4 percent year over\n      year.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      Investors should keep in mind, however, this non-AI profit growth rate is\n      above the S&amp;P 500\u2019s long-term average level. And it is rather high on\n      a historical basis when the fastest-growing area of the market is excluded\n      at any given time, especially outside of post-recession rebounds.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      Seven of 11 sectors are on pace to grow earnings at double-digit rates in\n      Q1, including Materials at 44 percent and Financials at almost 23 percent\n      year over year.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      The S&amp;P 500\u2019s overall 27.6 percent earnings growth rate in Q1 is also\n      impressive compared to most years since 2014. It\u2019s the strongest growth\n      rate outside of the highly unusual post-COVID period, which followed\n      abrupt and deep earnings and economic recessions and included\n      unprecedented fiscal stimulus.\n    <\/p>\n    <!-- EXHIBIT 2-->\n    <h3>\n      Q1 2026 earnings growing at the strongest pace outside of the post-COVID\n      rebound\n    <\/h3>\n    <h4>\n      S&amp;P 500 earnings per share growth on a quarterly basis\n      (year-over-year)\n    <\/h4>\n    <div class=\"row mb-4\">\n      <div class=\"col-lg-10 col-md-8 col-sm-8 col-xs-10 col-xxs-12\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\"\n          src=\"https:\/\/www.rbcwealthmanagement.com\/assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/global\/earnings-bedrock-en-chart-2.png\"\n          alt=\"S&amp;P 500 earnings per share growth on a quarterly basis (year-over-year)\"\n          class=\"img-fluid mb-1-half\"\n          aria-describedby=\"ex2desc\"\n        \/>\n        <p class=\"disclaimer\">\n          Source &#8211; RBC Wealth Management, Bloomberg; Q1 2026 data is preliminary\n          as of 5\/20\/26 and will be finalised at the end of the reporting season\n        <\/p>\n        <p class=\"sr-only\" id=\"ex2desc\">\n          The chart shows year-over-year S&#038;P 500 earnings growth from Q1 2014\n          through Q1 2026. It began Q1 2014 at 5.4% and peaked the next quarter\n          at 10.3%. It then moved steadily lower, reaching -6.7% in Q1 2016. It\n          then started to move higher, reaching 25.4% by Q3 2018. It then moved\n          lower, reaching a low point during the entire period of -31.1% in Q2\n          2020, which was during the COVID-19 earnings recession. It started to\n          improve and then jumped a lot, reaching 96.1% in Q2 2021, during the\n          post-COVID earnings rebound. That was the highest level during the\n          entire period. After that, it tapered off and turned negative in Q4\n          2022, and then reached a low point of -5.8% in Q2 2023. Since then it\n          has been in positive territory, most of the time between 4.5% and\n          13.2%, however it has jumped to 27.6% in the most recent Q1 2026.\n        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <!-- SECTION -->\n    <h2>Mindful of Middle East risks<\/h2>\n    <p>\n      As long as S&amp;P 500 earnings growth has the potential to rise at a\n      respectable clip over the next 12 months or more, we think the bull market\n      can persist, notwithstanding some turbulence along the way.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      A strong relationship between earnings growth and stock market returns has\n      historically played out over time.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      When profit growth rises over a number of quarters or years, the stock\n      market tends to remain elevated or push higher. Conversely, when earnings\n      growth falls during periods of economic weakness or recession, the market\n      tends to wobble or decline.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      The consensus forecast currently calls for double-digit profit growth in\n      each of the next six quarters, driven by the AI infrastructure boom amid a\n      non-recessionary environment. At this stage, RBC Economics forecasts U.S.\n      GDP growth of 2.1 percent in 2026 and 1.9 percent in 2027.\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      Risks to this scenario, in our view, largely centre on the Middle East:\n    <\/p>\n    <ul class=\"list-spaced\">\n      <li>\n        Whether the region\u2019s energy and chemicals infrastructure is further\n        damaged due to a renewed military clash, and\/or\n      <\/li>\n      <li>\n        Whether Strait of Hormuz commodity flows remain constrained for a\n        prolonged period\n      <\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>\n      While the consensus earnings growth prospects look attractive to us, the\n      chances that shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could remain\n      throttled for additional months are too big to ignore. We would continue\n      to hold U.S. equities up to, but not beyond, a Market Weight allocation.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. stock market has challenges coming from all sides yet continues to rally. At first glance the market may seem disconnected from reality. 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