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[shapefrog]

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.

[lowercased → shapefrog]

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.

[petrocrat → lowercased]

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.