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An earnings surprise, or unexpected earnings, in accounting, is the difference between the reported earnings and the expected earnings of an entity. [1] Measures of a firm's expected earnings, in turn, include analysts' forecasts of the firm's profit [2] [3] and mathematical models of expected earnings based on the earnings of previous accounting periods.
An Earnings response coefficient measures the extent of security’s abnormal market return in response to the unexpected component of reported earnings of the firm issuing that security. [1] and [2] The relationship between stock returns to profit to determine the extent of the response that occurs to as the Earnings Response Coefficient (ERC).
The stock gained more than $10 during the two weeks heading into the company's earnings release at least in part due to the expectations of the upside surprise, but on Friday, February 29, 2008, shares of Deckers Outdoor traded down approximately $10 after missing the whisper number by a penny.
Your work and earnings history are two components that are intertwined. The SSA will take into account your 35 highest-earning, inflation-adjusted years when calculating your monthly benefit.
One of the simplest investment strategies is to pick a few companies you like, wait for one of them to deliver a lousy earnings report and buy at the dip when the stock price falls. It's a good...
Whenever a company releases quarterly earnings data that beats analyst expectations, an "earnings surprise," the stock will often rise in value to price in the good news.
In financial economics and accounting research, post–earnings-announcement drift or PEAD (also named the SUE effect) is the tendency for a stock’s cumulative abnormal returns to drift in the direction of an earnings surprise for several weeks (even several months) following an earnings announcement.
Equifax (EFX) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.