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A golden age of corporate profits

Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, FactSet; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips; Note: After-tax profit data includes inventory and capital depreciation adjustments. Corporate America is raking in record profits, luxuriating in luscious margins and capturing the largest chunk of the country's income on record. Why it matters: The corporate bonanza is bolstering the stock market, but it may also be playing a role in the persistently sour sentiment among the American electorate. The latest: Tuesday is the unofficial start of third-quarter earnings season as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and others report results. Zoom in: Wall Street expects the members of the blue-chip S&P 500 index to continue to make it rain. Third-quarter earnings per share are expected to grow roughly 29% for the index, compared with the quarter in 2025, according to estimate data collected by FactSet. That's after a massive 50% annual increase in second-quarter earnings that was supercharged by the giant, non-operating gains on valuations of tech investments reported by Amazon and Alphabet. (Amazon, for example, penciled in its stake in Anthropic as boosting its profit by more than $50 billion.) But even without those enormous gains, the numbers were quite strong, thanks to the AI boom that analysts expect to keep powering giant profits. What they're saying: The market is still all about AI, but the gains are extremely concentrated. "At the stock level, AI infrastructure stocks are expected to drive more than half of S&P 500 EPS growth in Q3," wrote Ben Snider, chief U.S. equity analyst with Goldman Sachs. Snider noted that more than two-thirds of the total growth in S&P 500 earnings for the quarter is expected to come from just 10 stocks. What's more, Micron Technology and Nvidia alone are expected to generate more than one-third of the growth in earnings for the blue chips, Snider wrote. The big picture: Broader measures of U.S. corporate profitability captured by economic — rather than stock mark

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