{"id":4916,"date":"2026-08-19T04:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:58:00","slug":"q1-earnings-surprise-stock-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/2026\/08\/19\/q1-earnings-surprise-stock-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Should a great earnings season change how you pick stocks right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The June quarter surprised everyone. Nifty 50 profit grew about 18 per cent, the best in ten quarters and eight percentage points ahead of what analysts expected, while revenue rose 19.4 per cent, the fastest in eight quarters. Growth showed up across large, mid and small companies, so brokerages are busy publishing fresh buy lists. <\/p>\n<p>Read those lists carefully. Financials and metals did well while chemicals and oil marketing companies missed, which tells you the strength was uneven. A single strong quarter can come from low base effects, better prices or one time gains. Check whether the gain came from real volume growth before you act. <\/p>\n<p>Fifty ideas cannot all suit one person. Your portfolio needs eight to twelve holdings at most, matched to your goals and holding period. So use such lists as a starting point for research, buy only what you understand, and let SIPs handle the rest of your equity allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June quarter surprised everyone. Nifty 50 profit grew about 18 per cent, the best in ten quarters and eight percentage points ahead of what analysts expected, while revenue rose 19.4 per cent, the fastest in eight quarters. Growth showed up across large, mid and small companies, so brokerages are busy publishing fresh buy lists.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/2026\/08\/19\/q1-earnings-surprise-stock-picking\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should a great earnings season change how you pick stocks right now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxiomwealth.com\/askguru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}