There's no point in spending your money on a trade if you don't know how well a company is doing. And just because a company may seem like it's "too big to fail" doesn't mean it can't.
No matter how large and popular a business may seem, it simply cannot survive if its growth is dwindling or stagnant.
There's no point in spending your money on a trade if you don't know how well a company is doing. And just because a company may seem like it's "too big to fail" doesn't mean it can't.
No matter how large and popular a business may seem, it simply cannot survive if its growth is dwindling or stagnant.
Every investor needs to know how to analyze earnings reports.
Earnings reports are one of the most important tools an investor has. They measure a company's financial health and help investors gauge whether or not a stock is worth their money.
Here's our guide for analyzing earnings reports...
Earnings season unofficially begins on Wednesday, April 8, when Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) reports Q1 earnings after the bell.
Now, most Wall Street prognosticators are bearish this earnings season. Countless headlines of “earnings recession 2015” have caused retail investors to wonder if they should exit the markets.
An “earnings recession” happens when earnings results decline for two consecutive quarters on a year-over-year basis.
It’s true, earnings are expected to disappoint across the board this quarter.
But this is not the time to flee the markets…
We're in the middle of the first earnings season of 2015 and investors are anxious and confused. But Wall Street likes it that way.
The more confused you are, the more profitable they are. Investors who chase innuendo tend to trade more.
The beginning of January marks the start of Q4 earnings season.
Among the first ones up this year include an aluminum producer, a tech giant, and a few massive banking firms.
Here’s a look at each company on next week’s calendar of earnings releases.
This morning (Thursday), General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) reported second-quarter earnings. The market didn't like what it saw - GM stock sank by 4.46% to close at $35.74 per share.
2014 earnings calendar for Q2 reports is full of can't-miss releases in July and August.
Editor's Note: Bill Patalon's readers enjoy inside access to his regular consultations with Money Map Press editors. We're sharing this conversation with you today because the subject happens to lie at the intersection of several high-profit trends now. Here's Bill...
Last Wednesday, the Milpitas, Calif.-based SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) reported first-quarter results that smashed analyst expectations, and the company's shares shot up 6% in after-hours trading.
But our Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald saw that beat coming and put readers out in front of it.
It's earnings season. And for company players, the game is about trying to beat analysts' estimates, to get your company's stock to pop so you look better than your reflection.
But the game is rigged. And like high-frequency trading and so many other "institutionalized" games on the Street that are sucking the life out of other people's dreams, it's not illegal.
Here's how earnings are manipulated, and why it should be stopped...
It hasn't been an easy year for JPMorgan: There was the London Whale scandal, which cost the Big Bank more than $6.2 billion. Fallout from the mortgage crisis brought a $13 billion fine. And just recently JPM had to shell out another $2 billion in fines for its role in the Bernie Madoff scheme. So earnings had to be awful, right? Not exactly.
Somehow, CEO Jamie Dimon pulled another rabbit out of his hat...
