Banks are relying on deleveraging to survive, as opposed to growing their loan portfolio and actual earnings.
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Again, this is not a prediction of actual earnings, but a representation of the data useful for comparison.
Its PE ratio of about 57 is higher than only a handful of mega caps with actual earnings.
Because valuations were rising at a faster rate than actual earnings, index funds became skewed toward the largest companies.
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Although the charge will affect actual earnings, it is expected that many investors and analysts will ignore it as a onetime event.
Morgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) missed its 60-day-prior consensus estimate of 64 cents per share and reported actual earnings of 58 cents instead.
In the same 25-year time span only two times have the analysts been too bearish compared to actual earnings, and this was in the recovery phase of the business cycle after a recession.
The Law Society stresses paper profits are not the same as actual earnings because equity partners in law firms are not paid a salary and the amounts quoted are often used to fund other parts of the business.
If companies grow faster in future than in the past, for reasons over and above the investment of retained earnings, then actual earnings will grow faster as well, and the earnings yield will prove to have been too gloomy an indicator.
The table below provides release dates, actual Q3 2008 and Q2 2009 earnings, consensus earnings estimates, and earnings estimates provided by Gold Stock Strategist for gold producers in the third quarter of 2009.
You are still looking at the prospect of an earnings recovery rather than an actual recovery.
In early January, Samsung said it had shipped two million tablets but an executive revealed in the company's quarterly earnings call that those figures don't represent actual sales to consumers.
Security analysts are often too optimistic when making earnings forecasts--particularly forecasts made months in advance of the actual report date.
As impressive as the earnings spike is, the real highlight was the sales increase, which is a greater indicator of actual business growth.
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