{"id":384,"date":"2017-02-02T13:19:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/articles\/?p=384"},"modified":"2017-02-02T13:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:19:25","slug":"feb-17-sector-spdr-analyzer-first-look-at-2018e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/feb-17-sector-spdr-analyzer-first-look-at-2018e\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. &#8217;17 Sector SPDR Analyzer: First Look at 2018E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>ETF Analyzer, <em>Sector SPDR Edition<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>for February\u00a02017\u00a0is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It\u00a0helps investors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Evaluate the funds\u00a0based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on a variety of forward-looking valuation metrics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><q class=\"text-big shortcode-pullquote wf-cell align-left wf-1-3\">Most sectors should see accelerating EPS growth next year<\/q>This month&#8217;s edition provides our first look at consensus sales and earnings forecasts for 2018 (it&#8217;s never too early!) As the estimates stand now, Energy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/tools\/fund_detail.php?ETF_ticker=XLE\" target=\"_blank\">XLE<\/a>) is likely to have the fastest earnings growth next year at 46%, though down sharply from the anticipated 800+% rebound this year (from very depressed levels in 2016). Most other sectors however are expected to see accelerating earnings growth from this year to next. Detail are on page 6 of the <em>Analyzer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/archives\/Sector_SPDR_Analyzer_020117_ERC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-image-111 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.etfresearchcenter.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/download.png\" alt=\"Note: Link expires after 2 months\" width=\"158\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note: Link expires after 2 months<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition\u00a0for February\u00a02017\u00a0is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It\u00a0helps investors: Evaluate the funds\u00a0based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[4,13,8,9,12,15,23,14,16,11,32],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sector-etfs","tag-spy","tag-xlb","tag-xle","tag-xlf","tag-xli","tag-xlk","tag-xlp","tag-xlre","tag-xlu","tag-xlv","tag-xly","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfrc.com\/articles\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}