Predicting earnings
Does anyone know a good strategy for finding companies that will beat street expectations? If you do please share
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Short-term earnings guessing isn’t an investable strategy. You might get an edge with significant data resources like credit card purchases, foot traffic (far less relevant now I guess) and job postings on a company’s website / LinkedIn.
Other than that, you might as well put your chips on red or black at the casino.
an earning beat doesn't mean stock up. in fact, nowadays everything is priced in ahead of earning like all saas software. i was able to predict earning beat but they actually going down after er.
Places like Citadel mint money by predicting earnings. Literally making billions every year. Just because you're incapable of doing it doesn't mean others are.
Yeah, that was my reference to "significant data resources"...
To clarify, my post is with regards to the average retail investor, which admittedly was an assumption based on the phrasing of the question. I will fully own that I cannot and will not ever be able to predict earnings before they are announced
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