Look at the earnings forecasts from Thomson First Call, the authoritative database of analyst reports.
Several analysts lowered earnings forecasts as product delays and slowed consumer spending reduced sales.
The Buffetts of the world believe these company earnings forecasts accentuate a short-term focus.
Of course, this analysis depends upon the quality or accuracy of the earnings forecasts.
By comparison, about 63 percent have exceeded earnings forecasts, just above the long-term average.
Worse, earnings forecasts peaked in 2000 just as the stockmarket was about to fall.
StarMine's proprietary metric, Single-stock Estimate Score (SES), measures the accuracy of each analyst's earnings forecasts.
But that sort of thing has been happening all year to firms that failed to achieve earnings forecasts.
The group's overall earnings forecasts for the year to next March were more modest than those of industry experts.
Whatever the case, the decision on earnings forecasts should be left to management, not to Washington politicians or regulators.
Security analysts are often too optimistic when making earnings forecasts--particularly forecasts made months in advance of the actual report date.
Furthermore, HP's outlook runs counter to the broader industry trend of technology bellwethers posting weak results and reducing their earnings forecasts.
Southeast Asia does blow a cloud over our stock market, making earnings forecasts iffy for prime multinationals like Coca-Cola, 3M, Boeing.
The way to analyze the quality or accuracy of earnings forecasts is to look at the health of the underlying business model.
Both companies boosted earnings forecasts recently after surprising analysts with strong profits.
However, despite topping earnings forecasts the bank declined more than 11% due to a weaker outlook than the market hoped to see.
The index trades for 13.4 times 2010 per-share earnings forecasts, compared with an average multiple of 16.4 times reported income since 1954.
What we are seeing here is a correction of overoptimistic earnings forecasts.
They habitually offer extravagant earnings forecasts and rarely live up to them.
The government claimed that analysts were propping up their earnings forecasts to satisfy their corporate investment banking clients and to attract new ones.
For the past three to five years, compare your internal quarterly earnings forecasts with analysts' public forecasts, relative to the subsequently released earnings.
Clarins's stock lost nearly a third of its value in January after several analysts downgraded earnings forecasts, and it has yet to recover.
Julian Mayo, investment director at London-based Charlemagne Capital, points out that emerging markets are trading at about 12 times this year's earnings forecasts.
And in January, the company trimmed its global 2012 earnings forecasts in part to reflect the chance the plant wouldn't reopen in 2012.
The earnings forecasts compiled by investment-bank analysts and stockbrokers are often used as a basis for valuing shares and for predicting long-term earnings.
Last week, Pfizer raised earnings forecasts slightly but also announced it would lay off more than 2, 000 salespeople, a fifth of its marketing force.
Netease got a much better response from Wall Street: its shares rose 8% after the company beat earnings forecasts by a comfortable margin.
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Our data source was StarMine, the independent private firm that tracks the buy and sell recommendations and the earnings forecasts coming out of brokerage firms.
Energy companies struggled to impress investors in the first quarter beating consensus earnings forecasts by just 2.6%, versus 6.2% for the broader index excluding financials.
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Best Buy will have to pay for these restructuring programs in 2011 and 2012, but the price of the programs did not affect earnings forecasts.
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