Sort of, "conservatively" would imply "keeping it safe" when predicting earnings...

brown9-2 on Jan 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Bloggers Beat Wall Street

Sort of, "conservatively" would imply "keeping it safe" when predicting earnings, but I was really trying to raise the question of if the firms have anything to gain by deliberately making public predictions that are lower than they truly believe.