Big Oil Companies Report Record Profits Amid High Oil Prices

We are still in the early innings of the earnings season, with roughly a third of S&P 500 companies having returned their second quarter scorecards. And, it’s shaping up to be yet another bumper earnings season: according to FactSet data, 86% of those companies have exceeded Wall Street’s earnings projections while 80% have beaten revenue expectations. The Energy sector is reporting the highest earnings growth clip of all 11 market sectors at 128.2% Y/Y, well above the S&P 500 average at 37.9%, thanks in large part to higher…