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It had previously forecast adjusted earnings would fall by low-single digits or inflect slightly positive compared with $5.31 a share a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

But his new target price starts to value Tesla on earnings potential in 2030 and beyond, which is when he thinks revenue and margin performance will inflect higher following the current period of hefty spending.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

Cat shares, again, typically trade at a discount to the market, although the stock’s price-to-earnings ratio tends to be highest before its cyclical earnings inflect higher.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

If the two producers’ generally dissimilar sounds — Dessner leans pastoral, and Antonoff, synthetic — both inflect the record, it could be anything from folk to indie pop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Jefferies analyst Samad Samana expects that investors will return to application-software names “when growth inflects alongside AI revenues,” he wrote in a Sunday note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

But there’s no denying that his former alter ego Ben Covington inflects his current roles, especially on “Grey’s Anatomy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024

“It’s the absence of God that inflects this great moral responsibility on us,” she told the New Yorker.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

Later, Shelby is again confronted by Beebe, whose mealy-mouthed bureaucratic jargon and weaselly chicanery inflects the entire drama.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2019

An accidental is operative during the bar in which it occurs, and no further, unless it inflects the last note of a bar, and the next bar begins with the same note.

From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Clement A. Harris

Pogacar may be a dominant athlete with an offbeat, silly side—look at his Bee Gees inflected “Stayin’ Alive” social-media post from his hospital bed—he’s as vulnerable as anyone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Lest we forget, the Iraq War–era jingoism that inflected American pop culture at the time was also a fundamental motif of the 2000s internet.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

As a result, Western Digital’s free-cash-flow yield inflected positive at the end of 2024 and has increased ever since.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2025

I think those things are part of it, but they are inflected naturally.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024

Jacob’s was inflected with the rhythms of the Hebrew Bible and the beit midrash where the men of his village studied and argued.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Now, Barclays spots signs of earnings momentum inflecting upwards.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

“We believe the -10 carries a strong pricing profile and will likely be critical for margins inflecting positive in 2027,” wrote RBC analyst Ken Herbert in a preview report.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

“We expect the investor debate to remain very sensitive to inflecting top-line momentum.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

“While economic uncertainty remains, we believe the profit cycle is inflecting higher,” the strategists wrote in a BofA Global Research report.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

Thus, while the Abkhasian of group 1 is still at the agglutinating, the Lesghian of group 2 has fairly reached the inflecting stage, and the Georgian seems still to waver between the two.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various