Justin Lahart

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Corporate Profits Could Be Weaker Than They Seem · 1 Jun 2018 podcast

It gives you an idea of sort of the scope of how much the tax cut has boosted results. matched

And also, it's important to, you know, if you're thinking just about the profitability of the operations, you want to be able to account for that tax cut somehow. matched

The first quarter was a big surprise on the upside when it comes to profits. matched

We're really much better than analysts had expected. matched

A lot of that came down to the tax cut, that they hadn't maybe properly accounted for how much of a boost the tax cut would give. matched

So it's very interesting because the stock market, you would have thought with great earnings that you would have seen stocks do really well. matched

But stocks haven't done really well lately. matched

They've just kind of muddled along. matched

One thing that you're seeing in the government's data is it looks like we're past peak on corporate profits. matched

So when you're past peak on corporate profits, things can get a little more challenging for the stock market. matched

Right. matched

That's typically what happens as you get sort of further along in the profit cycle. matched

We see costs go up. matched

And then for investors, the challenge is to find the companies that are able to keep on, keep profit growth going. matched

Right. matched

So it becomes a real sort of haves and haves not situation in the stock market. matched

It's not sort of matched

the death knell for the stock market. matched

But it's just a lot of times investors in that situation will gravitate towards these companies that can keep on delivering growth, right, even as costs are rising. matched

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