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S&P 500 Q3 2026 net profit margin reaches 14.9%, second-highest since 2009, FactSet says

By Public Technologies
  • S&P 500 blended net profit margin is 14.9% for Q3 2026, potentially the second-highest since tracking began in 2009.
  • The record Q2 2026 margin of 17% reflected unusually large valuation gains at Alphabet and Amazon.
  • Excluding those companies, the previous quarter’s margin would have been 15.1%, still a record.
  • Energy led year-over-year margin expansion, reaching 15.4% from 8.1% in Q3 2025.
  • Information Technology margins rose to 32.3% from 27.5% a year earlier.


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