Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ron Hill

The key thing here is, we're sort of short on liquidity, so we don't have enough money to raise everything. Investors have to focus on good sectors with leading stocks especially with good earnings revision profiles, and where there's support for rising profit and expectations going forward,

Carl Icahn

Their earnings are way down. It's time for management to go,

The retail earnings are likely going to be strong and that helps the market.

Robert Morgan

Once all the results are in, I think this is going to be a positive earnings season. Some of the headline names have disappointed.

On balance, the earnings period so far has been very reasonable, even better than expected.

Once interest rates start to rise, the present value of developers' future earnings will start to decrease.

The negative pre-announcement season has been relatively light. That should bode well for the earnings season over the next two weeks. Oil prices are falling back. That's also helping ease some of the inflationary concerns.

Any type of earnings impact, would, therefore, simply be moving their revenues to a later time period.

I like stocks that have potential earnings possibilities. Those are the ones that could someday be market leaders.

I like Merck, in particular, because here's a stock that's retreated dramatically from its high, but still has its earnings growth-rate intact, ... This company, I think, can grow about 13 to 15 percent. And its price-to-earnings ratio now is getting down to a level that I think is very reasonable relative to its long-term growth rate.

Inflation is tame. Economic growth continues. Earnings are great. It really doesn't get any better than this. The one problem in the market is valuation, which has gotten pretty high.

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.

There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done. It means that the economy is going to get weaker, and that may put pressure on earnings in the second half.

We'll see earnings surprises for most of the rest of the major brokers.

We are more optimistic about growth recovery, and have taken a fresh 5-year look at our earnings forecast for the company.

We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue),

We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue),

This may prove that their policy barring preannouncement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

This may prove that their policy barring pre-announcement and giving earnings guidance may not be the wisest policy. It's not as if providing guidance is a sign of poor governance.

This market needs real earnings and an economy that looks like it is turning around. The market is extremely volatile right now, but on thin volume, so it doesn't take too much to move it.

Roger McNamee

This March quarter earnings season was, without a doubt, the finest first- quarter season I have ever seen in 18 years in the business, ... In the Money.

This is where the earnings growth is. This is where people perceive the opportunities are to make money.

This is the wakeup call. We're going to go through a test here where we're going to have a period of turbulence in the market as we report second-quarter earnings and get forward-looking guidance for the third quarter.

This is the wakeup call, ... We're going to go through a test here where we're going to have a period of turbulence in the market as we report second-quarter earnings and get forward-looking guidance for the third quarter.

Investors' expectations of steelmakers' earnings are high. Steel producers may lead the market this week.

Investors are waiting for earnings releases, the peak of which will come next week.

Investors are taking stock of earnings and questioning whether they should be as optimistic as they are.

Investors are going to be surprised when we get a string of stronger economic stats. But we might have to get through earnings season before that happens.

(I)n Washington Mutual, you're getting in there at less than 10 times this year's earnings estimate. Earnings are going to be growing if not 10 percent, 15 percent, over the next two years. If you're in there at less than a double-digit multiple, and you've got 15-percent earnings growth going out, I don't see how you get hurt.

In-zone markets will probably have slower earnings growth.

In the past, I think there had been low expectations for Kyocera's electronics parts business, so I think investors had gradually started to view it as one of the losers in the tech sector. In that sense, these earnings are a positive surprise.

Mark Watson

Interest rates, to me, matter more than earnings growth. The prospect that rates are going up will revalue the whole market.