Most, brokerage price targets are based on forecast earnings or cash flow.
Gross domestic product in the 17-nation region will fall 0.3 percent this year, compared with a November prediction of 0.1 percent growth, the Brussels-based commission forecast today.
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Barclays based its forecast on four different economic scenarios.
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Share prices have risen by 400% in just over two years, and average price-earnings ratios based on historic profits are around 50 (based on forecast 2008 profits they are a still-racy 30).
As you know, many of the private forecasters upped their forecast based on what was in the tax deal, and most of that is not in the forecast.
Based on this forecast, 3D will grow from 2% of all flat panel TVs shipped in 2010, to 41% in 2014.
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This forecast is based on the behavior behind typical semiconductor cycles without accounting for the Thai floods.
However, it is important to remember that the supply forecast is based on what is technically feasible today.
Even that forecast was based on prices slightly lower than they are now.
MFG.com released the latest MFGWatch 2013 manufacturing forecast today based on a survey of 8, 840 sourcing professionals in North America.
And we actually do that prior to our mandatory evacuation, which, based on the current forecast, mandatory evacuations will go into effect tomorrow at 6 PM.
In its September Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook, the USDA notes an overall milk production reduction for 2012 based on a lower forecast for milk yield per cow.
We expect some residual claims in the coming years, but our long term forecast is based on the assumption that there will be no major catastrophes like Sandy and Irene in the coming years.
We believe that continued high levels of population growth, demographic shift and growing middle-class in Asia Pacific region will continue to offer DuPont an expanding market for its Agricultural based products over our forecast period.
First, hydrocarbons supply 85 percent of what America and the rest of the world consumes, a share that will change little for decades to come based on every credible forecast including our own Department of Energy.
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The VIX An options-based measure of the forecast for volatility in the stock market, the VIX fell to a relatively low of 15 in April of 2010 and 2011, suggesting that investors may have become too complacent and risk being surprised by a negative event.
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The Dallas-based company focused its earnings forecast to between 50 cents and 54 cents per share, from its previous per-share range of 48 cents to 54 cents for the fourth quarter.
This sunny forecast is largely based on an expected decline in crude oil prices combined with higher gasoline inventory levels and a continuing drop in demand due to increased small-car sales and other factors.
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Management increased its earnings forecast for fiscal 2011 based on this higher than expected performance.
Kidron lifted his FY 2012 profit forecast for the company based on higher expectations for sales of both iPads and iPhones.
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But shares rose as the company raised earnings forecast for the year based in part on strong results from its retail energy business (a trend we wrote about here).
Based on this information we have consistently forecast SSD adoption more accurately than anyone in the marketplace.
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Public-sector workers were given a pay rise for this year of 2.5%, based on the government's inflation forecast of 2%.
The Kiel-based Institute of World Economics cut its forecast for this year to 1.3%, considerably lower than the German government's projection of 2%.
Mervyn King, the Bank's chief economist, promised to continue to publish the Bank's forecast of inflation two years ahead based on the assumption of unchanged interest rates.
Unfortunately, consensus expectations were based on the 45-50 million Q4 production forecast that we and others had been seeing for some time.
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Earlier this month, the Osaka-based firm issued a lower-than-expected profit forecast.
Based on the settlement, he ups his 2011 EPS forecast for Nokia by 2 Euro cents to 22 cents, and for 2012 by 3 Euro cents to 22 cents.
Inflation then falls back to the target in 2009, which is why the report indirectly indicates that cuts in interest rates are on the way: the forecast, like the one for growth, is based on market expectations.
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