Note: The following is an excerpt from this week’s Earnings Trends report. You can access the full report that contains detailed historical actual and estimates for the current and following periods, please click here>>>Here are the key points: Total Q1 earnings for the 469 S&P 500 members that have reported results are up +11.5% from the same period last year on +4.3% higher revenues, with 74.2% beating EPS estimates and 62.5% beating revenue estimates. Companies struggled to beat consensus estimates this ...