It does not require a merger to plug the immediate gap between earnings and investor expectations by speeding up drug development cycles, improving stock management and launching new products simultaneously in many different markets.
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In the past couple of years, Italian companies have become much more likely to produce quarterly earnings reports, set up investor-relations departments, put genuinely independent directors on their boards, release information in English, and make sales pitches abroad.
At its annual Investor Day United forecast earnings growth of 13% to 16% going forward.
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In this case, releasing GAAP earnings first can result in an investor making a wrong decision since analysts and the press have consistently been reporting non-GAAP (pro forma) earnings estimates as the expected earnings.
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The deceptions Ackman highlighted regarding the ultimate source of the compensation and the likelihood of reaching certain earnings levels are indeed red flags every investor ought to consider.
Her answers on Investor Day and on her recent earnings calls seem sloppy at times.
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This adds to the investor nervousness as we start the earnings season.
Google mistakenly released disappointing quarterly earnings during the trading day, fueling general investor concern over online advertising sales and the shift to mobile.
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Good economic reports, strong corporate earnings and fresh support from central banks helped ease investor concerns about another economic slowdown.
Kingdom Holding now trades at a rich 107 times trailing earnings, not exactly the province of a value investor like the prince.
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For some academics, Talbots could create an interesting case study with regards to investor relations and the timing of an earnings announcement with bad news.
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But just days before earnings and at such a depressed level, does an investor buy?
The lower the cap rate, the more an investor has paid for a future stream of earnings.
The quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor identified the stock right before its recent earnings-related pop.
Collins is a growth investor and likes to buy into companies with accelerating earnings growth.
Companies supply the earnings, and the volume of trading in their shares reflects investor demand for them.
Buckingham is a value investor who likes companies trading at low multiples of earnings, sales and book value.
Small wonder that analysts are easily manipulated into groupthink, guided by conference calls and investor relations people, rarely stepping out of the earnings consensus.
Based on assumptions of 20% growth annualized over the next five years, the stock trades at a svelte price-to-earnings growth ratio of 0.3 that would make legendary investor Benjamin Graham himself drool.
Investors punished Athenahealth Inc. (ATHN) pretty severely on Thursday, after the provider of online health services forecast fiscal 2012 adjusted earnings of 87 cents to 97 cents per share at an investor meeting.
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This means a student gets the money for college from an investor, who in return gets a percentage stake in future earnings for some period of time.
Karey Barker, manager of the Wasatch Mid-Cap Fund and an investor since 1993, thinks Express Scripts can continue to increase earnings at a 30% annual clip without any more acquisitions.
The live webcast can be accessed at the Facebook Investor Relations website at investor.fb.com, along with the company's earnings press release, financial tables and slide presentation.
At the heart of a value investor's analysis is the assumption of an expected stream of earnings to be derived from the net assets of a company.
This week, despite the prospect of strong corporate earnings, the indexes remain trapped in a trading range, partially due to investor concerns that pending government actions are going to take a blunt axe to global economic growth.
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Shares in Tingyi (Cayman Island), one of the largest beverage and snack producers in China, closed up by 0.6% in Hong Kong today on investor hopes that the worst of a rise in costs that hit earnings last year may have passed.
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When all is said and done, however, the amateur investor is well advised to look hard, and think hard, about earnings yield.
With the psychology of the individual investor eroded by both the economic slowdown and market volatility, and corporate earnings reaching a defining low point, or bottom, the backdrop for Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people ) can only brighten.
Such numbers go far in explaining how it is that Groupon managed to overcome dashed investor expectations and suspicious prodding by regulatory authorities with its pretty amazing quarterly earnings report and why companies such as Google, Amazon and American Express, just to name three, are trying to horn in on the market that is widely believed to be oversaturated.
Do you sell before the earnings in fear of an earnings miss, or hold on to the stock in the hope that the report will exceed investor expectations?
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