{"id":231448,"date":"2010-01-26T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stocks-have-destroyed-q4-earnings-so-far-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:11:00","slug":"even-with-a-high-bar-companies-are-destroying-q4-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/231448","title":{"rendered":"Even With A High Bar, Companies Are Destroying Q4 Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks trounced analysts&#8217; earnings forecasts in both Q2 and Q3 of 2009, each time forcing analysts to become more bullish with their numbers. Q3 in particular set the market&#8217;s expectations bar pretty high after 68% of companies&#8217; earnings exceeded consensus forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet so far Q4 is delivering an even stronger showing. A full 70% of the 150 companies who have reported earnings have beaten their numbers this earnings season according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bespokeinvest.com\/bespoke\/2010\/01\/earnings-beat-rate.html\">Bespoke Investment Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b5f1f240000000000e4687f\/chart.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stocks-have-destroyed-q4-earnings-so-far-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mcgraw-hill-doubles-earnings-after-purging-businessweek-500-staffers-2010-1\">McGraw-Hill Doubles Earnings After Purging BusinessWeek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-q1-earnings-analysis-2010-1\">Apple Mac Sales Soar, iPhone Misses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/goldman-fears-of-chinese-tightening-are-overwhelming-positive-earnings-2010-1\">Goldman: Fears Of Chinese Tightening Are Overwhelming Positive Earnings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ag31-KKmlPs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stocks trounced analysts&#8217; earnings forecasts in both Q2 and Q3 of 2009, each time forcing analysts to become more bullish with their numbers. Q3 in particular set the market&#8217;s expectations bar pretty high after 68% of companies&#8217; earnings exceeded consensus forecasts. Yet so far Q4 is delivering an even stronger showing. A full 70% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}