With Wells Fargo (WFC) posting a record profit and builders performing well, one Bloomberg article suggests companies interlinked with homebuilding activity could also experience strong profits.

Given today's results from Wells Fargo, and recent earnings beats at KB Home and Lennar, we suspect the sector is poised to surprise to the upside, by an amount significantly above the average 3.8 percent beat posted by the 32 S&P 500 companies which have already reported.