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Earnings Guidance

Earnings & Fundamentals

Earnings guidance is a report given by a publicly traded company as an estimate of its future earnings. It is usually given at the time of an earnings release and provides forward-looking projections for the next quarter or fiscal year.

Guidance is often more important than the earnings report itself. Guidance revisions are disclosed on Form 8-K, so the filing itself is the primary record; read it rather than a summary of it.

Further reading: Wikipedia

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