earnings
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The reason for the recent drop in valuation is also unusual: The E part of the PE ratio, companies’ expected earnings, has soared.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
These macroeconomic forces are important to investors, but once earnings season begins, investors have microeconomic data to parse through.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 19, 2026
Big drops in valuations were bad news: Until now they’ve always been because earnings expectations soured even more than share prices fell, often because of a recession.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Slimmon said that investors were selling their positions after scrutinizing the companies’ free cash flows, despite their strong quarterly earnings.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 19, 2026
Those sorts of earnings flashes are to the news business what vanilla is to the ice cream business—a basic commodity that actually can be made anywhere in the flat world.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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Century 21 Accounting, 9e, Chapters 11-14
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