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  • Why Analysts Are Dead Wrong On Immunogen [View article]
    Help me understand the "Analysts are usually correct" statement. Do you mean in general or specific to IMGN?
    Jan 31 08:36 AM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Why Analysts Are Dead Wrong On Immunogen [View article]
    Analysts are dead wrong on most...
    Jan 30 04:18 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Facebook (FB): Q4 EPS of $0.17 beats by $0.02. Revenue of $1.59B (+40% Y/Y) beats by $60M. Shares -7% AH. CC at 5PM ET (webcast). (PR[View news story]
    whisper number was 17 cents:
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    Jan 30 04:14 PM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Ford [View article]
    While it really does not make any sense, at least the numbers are consistent. As we stated in the article, Ford is an 'opposite reactor'. Beat expectations and it tends to see weakness. On a positive note, the average price movement is only -1.4% within 30 trading days. On a negative note it's already down 7.2% from today's open.
    Jan 29 11:53 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Ford [View article]
    Any thoughts on the 30 cents now?
    Jan 29 08:43 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Ford [View article]
    Good call.
    Jan 29 08:43 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Ford [View article]
    Not sure what you mean by "I bet it's no more than the average analyst est. of 26 cents". Do you mean the actual earnings Ford will release will be no more than 26 cents? And what makes you 'highly suspicious' of the number 29? Have you had a bad experience with that number in the past? (The whisper number is 30 by the way.)
    Jan 28 09:34 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Starbucks [View article]
    Yes, moved against average.
    Jan 24 01:29 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Celgene [View article]
    Herein lies an issue with that so-called guidance: CELG reported 1.32, correct? Thomson Financial (see Yahoo finance) has the analysts estimate at $1.31, so they 'beat' that number. However, if you look at Market Current update here on SA, they say 'Q4 EPS of $1.32 in-line' (with analysts). So that is obviously another analysts estimate (probably Capital IQ). Zacks has the estimate at $1.18. Bloomberg also has it at a $1.18. So apparently not all 'analysts' were at that meeting. And as for the whisper number, that was $1.33. The company beat, met, beat, and beat the analysts (depending on your source), and missed the whisper.

    That aside, while they did offer guidance on annual earnings, they did not (as far as I could see) give guidance on this quarters earnings (I may be wrong here, but I couldn't find it).

    So yes, it may all be completely meaningless from a technical point of view, but when dealing with market psychology, the expectations may give traders a moment of pause during the run up in the stock. Will that happen? Well, even our data (as stated in the article) indicates a positive price reaction no matter what this company reports.
    Jan 24 08:52 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Apple Earnings Expectations Showing Confidence [View article]
    But would anyone go to crowdsourcedestimates dot com? ; )
    Jan 23 04:34 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Apple Earnings Expectations Showing Confidence [View article]
    AAPL earnings $13.81
    Jan 23 04:33 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Apple Earnings Expectations Showing Confidence [View article]
    Thanks jazz. Overall the comments this quarter (for this article) have been very useful and specific.
    Jan 23 03:37 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Apple Earnings Expectations Showing Confidence [View article]
    We agree with you, but we do like to present both the long and short term analysis of our data. Overall we believe the micro views are more significant (at least for now).
    Jan 23 03:35 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For RF Micro Devices [View article]
    Appreciate the second part of your post, but don't whine on our article board about your issues with SA. The last five paragraphs in all our articles was REQUIRED by SA. We don't want it there. It took about thirty days of back and forth before they approved that information. They (SA) thought it was needed to explain to readers what we do and how we do it because its unique. If you see no value in the historical price movement data we provide then don't read it, pretty simple.

    And I see you have no articles posted - so either you aren't very good at writing or you just haven't taken the feedback provided by SA and made the necessary changes to get an article posted. Sounds like a problem on your side, not theirs. (And based on your initial attack ("i smell a rat"), I can see why you've had issues).
    Jan 22 01:15 PM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whisper Number Impact: Earnings Preview For Verizon Communications [View article]
    What are you sorry for?
    Jan 22 08:10 AM | Likes Like |Link to Comment
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