The mean analyst forecast for Sherritt's earnings sits at $ 1.13 per share for 2011, up from 84 cents last year.
Not exact matches
They measure changes in
analyst earnings
forecast dispersion (standard deviation divided by
mean) based on data from I / B / E / S as the difference between current dispersion and dispersion two months ago.
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.
Operating profit was 3.48 billion Swedish crowns ($ 428 million), up from 2.13 billion a year earlier but below a
mean forecast of 4.37 billion in a Reuters poll of
analysts.
Analysts should incorporate the concept of
mean reversion in their model, tempering the optimism inherent in their
forecasts.
Analysts had expected 2002 FFO of between $ 3.05 and $ 3.29 per share, with a
mean forecast of $ 3.23, according to Reuters.