Wall Street’s 76 Biggest Earnings Winners

Latest data from financial data firm FactSet said an earnings per share growth of 15 percent or more is already considered an unusually strong result rather than a normal earnings outcome.

Through July 24, 86 percent of the S&P 500 companies that reported second-quarter earnings exceeded analyst expectations, well above the 10-year average of 76 percent. Yet, despite the high percentage, the aggregate earnings surprise—excluding an unusually large individual outlier—was only 12.6...