My quest for small-cap growth stocks often turns to companies reporting big earnings surprises.
The stocks of companies reporting earnings surprises often jump up on the day of the report.
The desperate search for upside earnings surprises even embraces mining properties covering coal, iron ore and copper.
First, lots of companies have reported robust first-quarter earnings, and positive earnings surprises easily outweigh negative ones.
The trick is to figure out which companies are likely to report big positive or negative earnings surprises.
The company has a long history of positive earnings surprises, averaging about 6.8% for the last 11 quarters.
Earnings surprises are great hunting grounds for misunderstood and undervalued growth stocks.
They will sell on bad earnings results, buy on earnings surprises, and generally throw their original portfolio construction plan away.
Going forward, there will have to be massive earnings surprises overall or in specific products that foretell bigger things to come.
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Safeway ( SWY) has been consistently delivering positives earnings surprises as it continues to grow its margins and the market share.
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Currencies riffle out of alignment, foreign markets turn more chaotic than ours and downside earnings surprises sound like staccato drum beats.
The chart shows that consensus estimates have been trending significantly higher since 2011, as the company has delivered 10 straight positive earnings surprises.
It's a momentum strategy, essentially: He buys shares of companies with strong price and profit growth and a record of positive earnings surprises.
Still, even with the clouded short term earnings picture, investors should note that RRGB has a stellar record when it comes to earnings surprises.
But Scavone finds that misleading: Negative earnings surprises have occurred in three of the last five quarters, with analysts' estimates down 7% for fiscal 2001.
Certainly, other industries look more likely to deliver nasty earnings surprises.
Perhaps the earnings whispers are to blame for the selloff or positive earnings surprises from other tech bellwethers made this report just par for the course.
Bullish chart patterns and the potential for upside earnings surprises this week mean that investors should be looking to play the long side on these four energy stocks.
Positive earnings surprises will probably also be greeted with equanimity.
If the analysts were simply inaccurate, we would see more sell ratings and a larger number of negative earnings surprises (only 25.4% of reported companies have missed profit forecasts).
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Penske Automotive Group ( PAG) continues to deliver positive earnings surprises thanks to commendable performances in the U.S. and in overseas markets, as well as its fruitful diversification strategies.
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Deutsch: AHL VereinslogoWith excellent underwriting results and solid investment portfolio returns , Aspen Insurance ( AHL), a property and casualty insurer and reinsurer has been consistently delivering positive earnings surprises.
Finally, many traders look to establish long straddles prior to earnings announcements on the notion that certain stocks tend to make big price movements when earnings surprises occur, whether positive or negative.
The Lists function has a set of 24 screens, some unusual, such as stocks most below analysts' target prices and a watch list of companies that have had positive earnings surprises in the past.
To find them, I run a weekly quantitative screen that seeks out stocks with a combination of analyst upgrades and positive earnings surprises to identify rising analyst expectations, a bullish signal for stocks in any market.
The falling prices are bad news for memory chip manufacturers like Micron (MU), but they could set the stage for some upside earnings surprises at Apple (AAPL), Dell (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), as they bring down the cost of producing PCs and other devices.
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We are hard pressed to believe that outside of the property sector there can be exceptional earnings or surprises.
Over the subsequent several weeks it was the very stocks that were reporting the best earnings and upside surprises that ran into the most profit-taking and largest declines.
Those in financials, energy and information technology reported the biggest surprises in their earnings.
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