Some analysts were over optimistic in their estimates of iPad sales at 20 million.
FORBES: Apple's Quarter Was Lousy, But Stock Still Headed To $1,000
Cuadrilla Resources chief executive Francis Egan said the valuation of gas in Lancashire's Bowland basin was not "over optimistic".
BBC: Lancashire's shale gas estimated at ?136bn by Cuadrilla
Some may disagree with me on my basic assumptions, either viewing them as over optimistic or over pessimistic, but I think a discussion centered on growth, profitability and the cost of growth is not only a healthy one but one that we should be having about all young, growth companies.
FORBES: Facebook's IPO: Thoughts On Momentum, Pricing And Valuation (It's Still No Buy)
But investors tend to be carried away by over-optimistic projections of China's markets, and pay over the top to enter them.
Collecting each bank's estimates of its rivals' borrowing rates would help identify any over-optimistic self-assessment.
ECONOMIST: A financial benchmark that badly needs an overhaul
To hope for a continuation of the current good trading levels in such circumstances may be over-optimistic.
FORBES: Richemont Reports Widespread Sales Growth but Cautions on Future Profits
Immediately, critics cried that the deficit would be a lot larger but for an over-optimistic economic forecast.
ECONOMIST: A grimmer economic outlook from Congress��s scorekeeper
When the tax take fell, he kept on assuming the fall was temporary, so his forecasts were over-optimistic.
But the growing shortage of executive talent may make the growth assumptions written into many business plans over-optimistic.
Its report highlighted poor forecasting about passenger demand for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, which had "proved over-optimistic".
For all its "bold" ambitions in 2003, perhaps the Welsh government's targets were based on an over-optimistic picture.
Third they disappointed investors with over-optimistic content negotiation assumptions and wrong subscriber estimates.
But the deal went sour once the extent of one partner's over-optimistic property lending in eastern Germany came out.
ECONOMIST: Bank Austria and Hypovereinsbank: Running repairs | The
On the whole, that is the right approach in a market economy, but the uncertainties make it hopelessly over-optimistic for nanoparticulates.
In the first place, predictions about the growth of renewables in Africa have tended to be rather uncritical and in many cases over-optimistic.
FORBES: More On Africa's Power Problems And Possible Solutions
Suppose that during some periods, investors are over-optimistic, failing to see the potential for conflicts of interest between themselves and the controlling owner.
FORBES: Do Inefficient Stock Markets Drive Bad Corporate Governance?
Although Mr Pucci believes this is over-optimistic, he sees little evidence that analysts themselves have revised their forecasts during the past two weeks.
The Bank's new forecasts make Gordon Brown's look even more over-optimistic.
ECONOMIST: The Bank of England yanks down its growth forecast
It may simply be that both Barclays and investors were over-optimistic.
Worst of all, that estimate is wildly over-optimistic because it ignores the giant, enormous, egregious tax shelters that would allow all moderately clever millionaires to slash their tax liabilities.
The idea was to have an authoritative figure who would speak out if ministers were cooking the books with over-optimistic assumptions about economic growth, or tax receipts, or whatever.
And then, as now, stockbrokers were consistently over-optimistic: price dips were seen as great buying opportunities, and brief rallies were hailed as the resumption of the inexorably upward bull market.
Super Aguri won just four points last season, putting them second to last and Davidson, who joined the team last year, is not over-optimistic about their prospects in the new season.
People do not become more greedy, they become over-optimistic.
FORBES: By Eliminating Failure, The Government Robs Us Of Success
The F-35's critics have long argued that its performance is compromised by having to fulfil too many roles and that an over-complicated design lashed to an over-optimistic schedule was asking for trouble.
This was "over-optimistic" about the future of house prices, even compared to forecasts available at the time, as it suggested that there would be a 5% fall in house prices in 2008.
But this was based on over-optimistic forecasts that unemployment would remain in single digits (it hit 12% in 2009) and the economy would grow by about 5% (economists expect 2.5% growth this year).
Yes, the 2012 London Olympics budget had to be adjusted to account for over-optimistic prediction, but if the human spirit were not optimistic, would there be anyone around to participate in the actual Games?
But it said it was still concerned that future budget assumptions were "over-optimistic" and that risks - such as the cost of bringing back equipment from Afghanistan - had not been fully factored into calculations.
应用推荐