Fun with Numbers: Financial Quarterlys

The web is a great place.  In less than 24 hours, from idea to beta, I programmed this.  I did it for less than obvious reasons. 

Can you answer me, ‘was the recent surge in stock market prices accompanied by a surge in analysts quarterly earnings estimates?’  I can’t answer that, because I don’t know what analysts were estimating, a month ago.  But, a month from now, the site I programmed will be able to pull up “historic future estimates” from any day.  They change, weekly.  So, I’m looking forward to seeing what comes of this.

I can quickly plot the Earnings Per Share estimates from today’s date:

and this…

And if you want more, check out this. Or you can pick your own sectors and compare, here.