Chuck Hill
Chuck Hill
cases following gone loss
But for the following year, they have narrowed the loss and in some cases gone to profitability.
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On the earnings front, there's not much on the positive side. ...The fourth quarter is going to be a disaster.
time
Now we'll see if this time it's going to be different.
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Now the big question is what the slope of recovery is going to be. I'm a little afraid it will be more modest than most of what the investment community expects.
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The critical question isn't are we having a lot of negative pre-announcements, but are we having more or less than normal.
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At least for the next month or two, the earnings picture is going to be pretty dismal.
looking
As usual, the analysts are looking through rose-colored glasses.
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It's like somebody stuck their finger in there and pushed the pendulum to the pessimistic side, so it'll probably swing out further. So the back swing is probably going to have a lot more momentum than it would have had otherwise. The negative is the news is going to be worse in the short-term, but we're probably going to get over it sooner.
good
It's going to be an exceptionally good quarter.
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It's going to be an excellent quarter for earnings. A lot of these companies will have some very easy comparisons over last year, which will help, but stronger growth in the U.S. and overseas is really going to make a difference, as well.
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There were no great surprises and the biggest concern is the guidance going forward. We still think it's going to be a difficult time ? we're already down 8.3 percent for the third quarter.
There was way too much stenography going on.
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It puts you in a precarious spot where you have to worry about further losses pushing you into situation where you wouldn't meet the debt covenants.
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It looks like we are going to beat the estimates by less than we normally do. Until we start beating them by more than we used to, there's no silver lining in these reports.