Famous Quotes & Sayings

I still prefer technology stocks. The tech sector is still the place were the earnings momentum is.

Michael King

I think people were pleasantly surprised by the near-term strength in earnings growth. This is a great company. I just think it needs a little more time before I get super-excited.

Kate Warne

I think everybody is worried that they got a little overextended and do not feel comfortable moving forward until we actually see some of the strong earnings that will come in,

It doesn't matter. Earnings could be doing anything.

I still think earnings reports are going to be very good. I think we're getting to the end of rate hike situation on the part of the Fed.

Terence

I still think earnings reports are going to be very good, ... I think we're getting to the end of rate hike situation on the part of the Fed.

Price is fact. Earnings on the other hand are estimates. You restate earnings. You never restate price.

Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

People have been worried for the last several quarters that earnings were going to slow down. If in fact they don't slow down and if it looks as if there's no resumption of inflation ... it'll be interesting to see how people respond to that.

Stay with the big stocks with the big backlog and big trend of earnings and with management that have been there before,

Some of the good earnings reports and good guidance are reversing market psychology. In general, we're probably heading for a good earnings season.

I expect the revenues to increase enormously over the next three to five years -- maybe at a pace of 10 percent a month at least. But the earnings will remain under pressure, and I think there will be quarters when they will not be able to make money.

I don't think it's going to temper earnings that much. But it isn't going to be a positive, that's for sure.

I think investors should be focused on several key areas, because at the end of the day you really want to be focused on earnings momentum,

I think it's going to be a quiet week heading into the long weekend. Through the summer, people are going to be focusing on the next earnings period, monetary policy, and if we are going to see more strong economic growth, as well as payrolls.

Roger Enrico

With a much sharper focus on the marketplace, we're generating healthy volume gains, better returns and higher earnings growth,

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

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.

With some US quarterly results robust, expectations for Japanese firms' earnings results to be strong are also growing.

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.

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 prevailing sentiment tends to be somewhat negative after the earnings reports.

While inventory levels rose in the first quarter, investors are likely to be encouraged that management increased its revenue guidance from the low 50s to the 50-60 percent range, with earnings per share guidance increasing by 2-to-5 cents.

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.