Trading glossary · fundamentals

miss

When a company's results come out worse than the experts guessed.

The fuller meaning

Results below analysts' estimates. Because expectations are already in the price, the reaction depends on the size of the surprise and on guidance: a miss with guidance cut often falls, while a miss with guidance raised can rise.

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adoption · analyst estimate · balance sheet · Bank of Japan · beat · bond · book value · business cycle · cash flow · central bank