414 Quotes About Earnings

People are hesitant to trade high-tech issues and are waiting for their earnings results.

Obviously, as they go down to one fuselage a month from four or five, there are going to be lower levels of operating earnings and margins. It stands to reason that it's an inefficient rate of production.

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

They have met or exceeded earnings estimates -- in some quarters quite substantially -- every quarter since the IPO,

This is material. From what we're seeing, earnings estimates should probably go up for the fourth quarter, and 2005 numbers might come up as well.

But today's main trading theme was earnings reports released the previous day.

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

We expect Alcoa to kick off a relatively strong fourth quarter 2005 earnings season for the metals and mining sector.

Because Amex is so diversified in interacting with the consumer, if they're trying to talk down their earnings expectations, the implication is, 'What does that mean for what's going on in the economy?'