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Tag: Quarterly Earnings Guidance

Five Big Questions for 2021

Five Big Questions for 2021

Five Big Questions for 2021

If you had asked us what to expect from the year 2020 last January, suffice it to say that we would have been wrong. So we’re staying out of the prediction business this year. Instead, we’re just going to pose five big questions that should...

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Issuers Get (Halfway) Back Into Spending, Guidance Game

Slowly melting row icicles in a row

As citizens emerge from shelter-in-place orders and the frozen economy thaws, issuers too have begun a return to normalcy (whatever that is). Some public companies have loosened the spending controls they implemented at the start of the pan...

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Navigating short-term goals with a compass above a thin book

Will COVID-19 Be the End of Quarterly Earnings Guidance?

Navigating short-term goals with a compass above a thin book

All investors are familiar with the time-honored practice of earnings guidance, in which publicly traded companies issue projections of their future results. The forecasts give the market hints as to what management thinks about the company...

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