Famous Quotes & Sayings

That's not what we expected to see in a year when earnings growth would slow slightly, and we were seeing some of that slowing already.

That kind of news will spook the market and we will hear more of it because we're at the peak earnings reporting season.

It's Motorola. They've been habitual offenders when it comes to earnings warnings.

It's simple: They have to generate earnings growth. They haven't had any in two years.

Earnings momentum bottomed in (the fourth quarter) and will improve in 2000,

Earnings in 2006 will be influenced by a combination of higher rates, energy prices and perhaps even lower demand. The market is not excited with stocks right now.

Earnings have come in mixed and you have to pick your stocks carefully. The overall outlook for the markets is good.

It was pretty panicked this morning, but as the day wore on some bottom-fishers stepped in. Probably what you're going to see next week is the same as this week. It's gonna be that way for a few weeks until we start to see some earnings or get some good news.

The good news is that we think Tyson is at a low point in its earnings cycle.

Robert Barry

We see sizable North American share loss continuing, weighing on earnings and offsetting many restructuring benefits.

Michael Malone

Until investors get an idea as to where rates are going to go from here, that's likely to keep a lid on the equity market, even with expectations of strong earnings in the first quarter.

Unfortunately, disappointing earnings have been a pattern for Magic Software in recent weeks. This is the fourth time in the last six months in which we have reduced our earnings-per-share estimates for the company.

Exporters' earnings are vulnerable to the dollar's losses and the trend for more weakness is hurting shares.

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.

William McKinley

We have seen some really big winners this week. Today was no different. With one-day gains on the earnings picks from four to six percent and momentum picks up as much as eighteen percent, I am quite sure the users were happy.

There is only one thing to do for a man who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it

David Sullivan

The players need to look at themselves and stand up and be counted. Some people aren't playing to their maximum potential. Unfortunately some of them don't see it like that. Some of them aren't earning their money.

When you get rid of the volatility factor the stock option expense creates, the earnings growth was actually very good.

The recent tech gains were supported by a wave of upward revisions to earnings forecasts. But for those shares to go further from here, investors need to know how they are going to perform next year.

Ultimately what we're trying to come to grips with is the fact that we understand that second-quarter earnings are not going to be good but the timing of a recovery is hanging over our head. We'll get some forecasting, looking out, but it's what those forecasts say that puts proof in the pudding.

To an extent, no matter what happens with earnings reports over the next week, the Middle East is still going to hold us back.

What's confounding most people out there is how do you get your hands around earnings, ... there's not that much out there in terms of earnings predictability.

What's all the fuss about in terms of this third quarter earnings warning? By any standard, these are very, very good results.

John Davidson

We're nearing the end of the earnings period, we've already heard from the Fed, and there aren't a lot of big surprises out there for the rest of the month.

We knew it was going to be a rocky opening after yesterday's earnings reports but I think it was a very encouraging day. Valuations are reasonable but the fundamentals are going to get better.

We keep getting earnings reports that are horrific.

We think Wall Street is still underestimating HP's earnings power.

Why pay 30 times earnings for little growth?

We view this as a legal way of artificially boosting earnings by moving expenses to a place where investors generally won't see them.

Chris Dixon

Those worried about 2002 earnings aren't paying attention. The issue is what's going to happen going forward.

We don't mind being the underdogs. We'll take it and ride it. Do we want respect? Yeah, we want respect. But the only way you can get it is by earning it. We don't mind doing that. That's what we've had to do all year.

This will be a nasty spike down in quarterly earnings and hopefully that will be the end of it.

With higher interest rates, fundamentals are starting to erode. We're looking for margins and earnings to be constrained going forward.