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1. While weak earnings forecasts caused many stocks to fall sharply, unexpectedly strong outlooks or actual earnings were rewarded.

2. Microsoft lowered its earnings forecast by 5-6 % after a wave of disappointing results from the computer industry.

3. In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.

4. The drug maker's earnings forecast also disappointed.

5. HP is even mimicking IBM in its earnings forecast.

6. Assumptions, whether they are used to support an earnings forecast or valuation target, need to be reasonable.

7. The paper researches the influence of earnings forecast deviation on earnings management behavior of listed companies.

8. Meanwhile, there is also positive bias in earnings forecast made by domestic analysts, which means the analysts being too optimistic.

9. Earnings forecast is improved according to analysis of the product matrix of the company.

10. Pepsi also stood by its full-year earnings forecast, assuaging some fears that it would take a more negative view on the impact of a stronger dollar on overseas sales.

11. The firm also increased its earnings forecast for the current financial year.

12. FedEx also raised its earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending in May, seeing "a continued modest recovery in the global economy."

13. The future earnings forecast is the foundation of bank financial forecast.

14. Cragg and Malkiel provided evidence that professional analysts were no more accurate than naive earnings forecasting methods over 5-year horizons.

15. Upscale department store chain David Jones sharply downgraded its earnings forecast last week, further evidence the climate outside the mining industry has cooled.

16. Analysts had projected a 7.2 percent rise. The New York-based retailer also boosted its third-quarter earnings forecast by 2 cents, to as much as 80 cents a share.

17. As it is not long since the decision has been implemented, up to now, few papers have been published about voluntary disclosure of earnings forecast information in China.

18. UPS.N), the world's largest package delivery service, beat Wall Street's earnings forecast despite a profit decline but said the outlook for the crucial holiday season remained unclear.

19. Humana Inc. rose 3.8 percent after the health insurer raised its 2011 earnings forecast for the third time since November.

20. Blaming economic uncertainty, Microsoft declined to provide a revenue or earnings forecast for the coming quarter or year.

21. Hannover Re rose 4.3 percent to 38.27 euros. The world's third-biggest reinsurer increased its full-year earnings forecast after quarterly profit rose 66 percent, boosted by a one-off tax gain.

22. Carrefour SA plunged the most in seven months after the world's second-largest retailer cut its earnings forecast.

23. In corporate news, Lowe's Companies Inc. reported a 19 percent rise in profit on tight cost controls, but the home improvement retailer trimmed its full-year earnings forecast.

24. This paper puts forward a paradox of voluntary disclosure of earnings forecast to listed companies.

25. Uncertainty over exchange rates caused Pepsi to trim its full - year earnings forecast.

26. The report came out shortly after retailer JCPenney Co. lowered its earnings forecast for the year,[sentencedict.com/earnings forecast.html] citing expectations that consumer spending will be slow.

27. A target price is an estimate of a stock's future price based upon an earnings forecast and assumed valuation multiples.