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Caroline Purser | Getty ImagesAs investors prepare for the beginning of earnings season, two threats are lurking in the shadows: Toppy corporate profit margins and the threat to a consumer just showing signs of recovery.
Should either specter emerge from the dark it could cast a scary pall over how strong growth will be in coming quarters.
First, margins: Analysts such as Doug Cliggott at Credit Suisse and Nick Colas at ConvergEx believe profit margins and revenue growth, respectively, are showing signs of tiring and that consequently could hit future expectations.
In analysis released Monday, Colas, the chief market strategist at New York-based ConvergEx, warns that revenue expectations are "dangerously near the "?Tipping Point' of 2-3% revenue growth where most companies have trouble showing significant earnings leverage."
This would be a significant trend in that investors are just getting used to the notion that companies have begun to shed the practice of beating earnings expectations on simple cost-cutting and now are hitting an actual growth period.
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