Not exact matches
Earnings came in right on
estimates apparently:
analysts were
looking for 13 cents a share and Yahoo did exactly that (after adjusting for a range of one - time bad things).
It's time to
look beyond technical price movements, earnings
estimates, or
analyst opinions.
As a result, Amazon is
looking to add more perks to the program to attract more members, which may number as many as 50 million worldwide, according to one prominent
analyst's
estimate.
Companies want to publish profits that make their stocks
look like good values;
analysts want to stay friendly with the companies they cover to ensure access and future investment banking work; data companies have only
analysts to turn to for earnings
estimates; and the media needs to compare earnings results to expectations, so they turn to data companies.
Looking forward,
analysts estimate EPS growth of only 0.5 % per year for the next 3 - 5 years.
In a recent article for U.S. News & World Report, Jason Gold of the Progressive Policy Institute said that «recent
estimates suggest the agency's balance sheet doesn't
look nearly as bad as many
analysts expected.»
In their October 2017 paper entitled «Mean - Variance Optimization Using Forward -
Looking Return
Estimates», Patrick Bielstein and Matthias Hanauer test whether firm implied cost of capital (ICC) based on
analyst earnings forecasts is effective as a stock return forecast for mean - variance portfolio optimization.
Look, we KNOW forward earnings
estimates are going to be wrong at major inflection points because
analysts generally just extrapolate the existing trend.
In this series, we'll take a
look at Wall Street
analysts»
estimates for AZO's revenue and profit margins.
Looking ahead, the company's projected payout ratio based on
analysts» earnings
estimates and SO's current dividend per share is 79 %, 75 %, and 72 % in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively.
FWDI steers clear of market cap weighting, relying on forward
looking analyst estimates to determine the allocation made to individual securities.
Looking forward,
analysts estimate EPS growth of only 0.5 % per year for the next 3 - 5 years.
All in all, Microsoft's Xbox division is
looking strong and healthy, and will be even more so with the launch of Kinect next week which is
estimated by the company itself and
analysts alike to sell around 3 million units this holiday, a number that is well on its way to being met given the «sold out» signs plastered all over the place, assuming Microsoft can keep up.
Look at the data from Nielsen Gaming, NPD Group, DFC Intelligence or other market
analysts who do research to
estimate the demographic breakdown, there are plenty of gaming articles based on this research data.
They say Apple is currently having a mid-life iPhone crisis in China, as the company can't make the most of the local booming market, but it
looks like despite all the problems, it's still doing better than most
analysts estimated.
«It
looks like everyone was relatively in line with their projected
estimates,» said Jason Lail, senior research
analyst with Charlottesville, Va. - based research firm SNL Financial LC.