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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by lowercased on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:47AM (#34518839)
Some analysts were expecting $18b in operating profits - can't you see how much loss MSFT just incurred?
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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by p0pcult on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:04AM (#34519060)
Youre getting downvoted, but perhaps you meant this as satire? Poe's Law and all...
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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by eweise on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:39AM (#34519510)
Seems obvious to me that its satire.
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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by p0pcult on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:46AM (#34519637)
Thanks, but I didn't ask you, because you didn't write it. I think it is satire, but sometimes one can't really know. It is undoubtedly a position that some people hold that missed revenue/profit estimates are akin to losses. Hence, Poe's Law.
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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by shapefrog on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:38AM (#34530476)
Its not actual satire though ... Missing analyst expectations is a massive failure of management, they set the guidance and the expectations for the market; thus missing it by 2bn is actually a pretty poor performance.
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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by lowercased on Thursday January 26, 2023 @08:13AM (#34531220)
Say company X issues guidance of $1.34/share

Analysts expect $1.40/share.

Company X releases earnings of $1.45/share.

Things still tank, because... the "real" expectation was 5% over analyst expectations, which was already over guidance.

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Re:Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to W... by petrocrat on Sunday February 05, 2023 @10:36PM (#34672993)
Why is nobody questioning the analysts methods and models? Are they using DSGE economics models? I'm sure there's plenty of angles of criticism for their tools if one digs a bit.
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