Inflation Is Raging, but These 16 Companies Have Pricing Power

MarketWatch2022-04-15

High inflation threatens to end a decade of improving profitability for U.S. companies, but these companies are bucking the trendDow and Advanced Micro Devices are among 16 companies in the S&P 500 ...

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2022-04-15
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Treasury yields climbed higher, and two back-to-back U.S. inflation reports showed sharply rising prices. On Thursday, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose back to multiyear highs, climbing 13 basis points to top 2.8%. For now, investors are weighing the hot inflation data, the Fed’s next steps and first-quarter earnings as they decide how to proceed.
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Interest rate up will be fast and furious very soon.

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Reserve Bank of St. Louis, showing U.S. corporate profits, relative to gross domestic product, from the beginning of 1947 through Oct. 1, 2020:Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisDuring a recent interview, Kimball Brooker, a portfolio manager at First Eagle Investments in New York, said this success came \"to a degree, at the expense of labor.\"Brooker went on to say that recent successes in unionization efforts at Starbucks Corp. $(SBUX)$ stores and an Amazon.com Inc. $(AMZN)$ distribution center \"are indicative of a shift, where labor's real wages may not have kept up.\"With large increases in wages at a time of high inflation for supply costs, the ability to raise prices is critically important for companies to maintain profit margins.Consumer inflation hit a new 40-year high of 8.5% in March, while wholesale prices were up 11.2% from a year earlier.Brooker said corporate gross margins can \"give us a clue about the flexibility of a business. The gross margin mainly reflects the direct costs. The higher the margin, the more flexibility a business has to compete and remain reasonably profitable in an absolute sense.\"A company's gross margin is its net sales, less the cost of goods or services sold, divided by sales. Net sales are sales minus returns and discounts, such as coupons. The cost of goods or services sold includes the actual costs for making the items or providing the services, including labor. It is a useful measurement of pricing power, and a combination of an expanding gross margin and increasing sales is a good sign.Other expenses are captured  in pre-tax operating margins.Brooker said a company's ability to raise prices to cover rising costs might indicate that there are few substitutes for its products or services, or that it has a special competitive advantage.\"The fewer the substitutes, the better the pricing power,\" he said.Pricing-power screenUnderstanding pricing power is complicated. Higher prices may reflect an increase in the price of a commodity, such as oil, as production break-even points are left behind. Then again, oil doesn't dominate the results of the following screen, which is designed to narrow a list of companies that have increased sales while improving profit margins, all the while not diluting shareholders' ownership positions.Starting with the S&P 500 , we narrowed the list to companies that met the following criteria, based on data provided by FactSet:Higher operating income before unusual items for the most recently reported quarter from the year-earlier quarter, from data available at the end of April 13. Any company will have certain costs that are fixed, even within the gross margin. So an increase in sales past a critical level can lead to large increases in operating income.Higher sales for the most recently reported quarter from the year-earlier quarter.Expanded gross margin. 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