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title: "Watch: Q3 S&P 500 Earnings Season Preview"
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description: "FactSet VP Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters provides a quantitative preview of the Q3 S&P 500 earnings season. He highlights optimistic analyst and company outlooks, higher expected earnings growth rates, sector-level expectations, and long-term index growth estimates for late 2026."
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# Watch: Q3 S&P 500 Earnings Season Preview

With the third quarter earnings season underway, watch FactSet VP Senior Earnings Analyst John Butters share his quantitative analysis of the S&P 500 on MRKT Call. Recorded the morning of October 6, John discusses analysts’ and companies' more optimistic than normal earnings outlooks for Q3, the higher Q3 earnings growth rate for the S&P 500, expectations for sector-level earnings, and analysts' expectations for the index in the second half of 2026 regarding growth and estimates. Watch now. To receive John's earnings analysis every week, subscribe to the Earnings category of the FactSet Insight blog.

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