For reference purposes, below are two charts depicting quarterly Operating Margins and quarterly Sales Per Share for the Industrials Sector of the S&P500, as depicted. Each chart begins in the third (September) quarter of 2010 and extends through the first quarter of 2013. The first quarter of 2013 data is estimated, as shown.
The underlying data is from Standard & Poor’s earnings estimates for the S&P500, from the update of June 6, 2013:
Companies in the Industrials Sector include:
| ADT Corp (The) |
| Boeing Co |
| Caterpillar Inc |
| C.H. Robinson Worldwide |
| Cummins Inc |
| Rockwell Collins |
| CSX Corp |
| Cintas Corp |
| Deere & Co |
| Danaher Corp |
| Dun & Bradstreet |
| Dover Corp |
| Equifax Inc |
| Emerson Electric |
| Eaton Corp Plc |
| Expeditors Intl,Wash |
| Fastenal Co |
| FedEx Corp |
| Fluor Corp |
| Flowserve Corp |
| Genl Dynamics |
| Genl Electric |
| Grainger (W.W.) |
| Honeywell Intl |
| Ingersoll-Rand Plc |
| Illinois Tool Works |
| Jacobs Engr Group |
| Joy Global |
| Lockheed Martin |
| Southwest Airlines |
| Masco Corp |
| 3M Co |
| Northrop Grumman |
| Norfolk Southern |
| Pitney Bowes |
| PACCAR Inc |
| Precision Castparts |
| Parker-Hannifin |
| Pall Corp |
| Quanta Services |
| Ryder System |
| Robert Half Intl |
| Rockwell Automation |
| Roper Indus |
| Republic Services |
| Raytheon Co |
| Snap-On Inc |
| Stericycle Inc |
| Stanley Black & Decker |
| Textron, Inc |
| Tyco Intl |
| Union Pacific |
| United Parcel’B’ |
| United Technologies |
| Waste Management |
| Xylem Inc |
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