Earnings outperform expectations by about 4.6% and revenue forecasts by 1.8% without Apple.
The second proposes that market prices are often wrong and that it is possible to consistently outperform by uncovering and exploiting this mispricing.
CenturyTel was downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform by analysts at Oppenheimer following the announcement, yet overall the analyst community remains bullish on the stock.
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The university endowments believe only managers who outperform their benchmarks by deriving a large portion of their returns from their stated investment strategy are likely to continue to outperform their benchmarks in the future.
By incorporating Google searches into forecasting models, the researchers were able to outperform predictions conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Most of these are actively managed funds where managers attempt to outperform a benchmark by selling winners to lock in gains.
He says HANA servers that cost less than 10% that of large-scale disk system outperform their pricier predecessors by as much as 20x.
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The mission of stock pickers in a managed mutual fund is to outperform the overall market by actively trading individual stocks or bonds, with fund managers receiving higher fees for their effort.
But the Santa Clara, California company has always been its mother's child, with Dai supplying a majority of the company's cultural DNA. Marvell, which makes high-speed chips for disk drives and communications gear, has great designs that outperform older chips made by giants like Intel, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
In a prize-winning article, Gorodnichenko and Grygorenko found that Ukrainian firms owned by oligarchs outperform other firms.
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It has managed to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets index by about 100 basis points, however.
An October 2012 Fast Company article reported on a July 2012 Credit Suisse study that tracked the performance of businesses worldwide since 2005 and found that companies with at least one woman on the board outperform companies with all-male boards by 26 percent.
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Stocks that are rated BUY or STRONG BUY by ValuEngine are most likely to outperform the market and these are the potential longs in the model portfolio.
Some analysts have suggested platinum group metals could be among the metals that outperform if sentiment for industrial commodities were not getting dinged by the European debt crisis.
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Elsewhere in the apparel sector, teen surf-inspired apparel producer and retailer Quiksilver ( ZQK) was upgraded by Robert W. Baird from neutral to outperform.
So Freshdesk isolated each customer support tool offered by the retailers to see if some appeared to outperform the rest.
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By definition, a narrowly drawn product will "outperform in some environments and underperform in others, " says Francis Kinniry, a principal in the investment-strategy unit of Vanguard Group.
To give two high-profile examples, Ibbotson and Associates and the academic duo of Eugene Fama and Kenneth French did similar studies that found that value stocks, as measured by low price-to-book ratios, outperform growth stocks over the long run.
According to the Center for Research in Security Prices, microcaps outperform small caps and large-caps stocks over time, although returns deviate by wider degrees.
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Our proprietary stock selection model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor indicates that the stock will continue to outperform over the near term.
The second reason float shrinkers outperform is that insiders who really like their corporate future would be much more incentivized by owning a bigger piece of the pie via aggressive float shrink then by paying dividends.
Investors can also reassure themselves by noting that even if stocks fall, over long periods equities always outperform savings deposits.
"My sector has been underperforming the market this year, but there's a chance it will outperform at the back end of the year and a lot of it will be driven by the elections, " Navarro says.
The stock is also being pressured by the brokerage community, as FBR Capital downgraded V to Market Perform from Outperform.
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Robert W. Baird analyst Mark Bacurin kept his "Outperform" rating, and said Arbitron's post-2008 results will not be affected by the delay.
Thill writes that the company is well-balanced by both geography and customer segment, and adds that security stocks tend to outperform in slowing economic environments as security budgets tend to less vulnerable to IT spending cuts.
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Despite a downgrade from Outperform to Neutral from Robert W. Baird Monday, shares of Apple still ended the day higher by more than two percent.
However, data collected by the Motley Fool CAPS survey suggests they believe 10 of the 11 companies will outperform the indexes (claiming a rating of either 4 or 5 stars).
According to Shawn Achor, researcher and author of The Happiness Advantage, positive employees outperform negative employees in terms of sales, energy levels, turnover rates and health-care costs by as much as 30%.
Believe it or not, the unexciting, less volatile stocks, for the most part, outperform over long term the more exciting but highly volatile shares, such as the growth plays favored by Wall Street.
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