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Is the announcement of an earnings conference call a good or bad sign?
It's very common and I doubt it holds any predictive power:
Results from the 2014 Earnings Call Practices Survey conducted by the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), a professional ...
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What's stopping a company from intentionally reporting poor guidance to tank the stock and enabling them to buy-back shares at a massive discount?
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 formed the SEC and granted it the power to oversee all securities as well as the markets, the conduct of brokers, dealers, and investment advisers as well as the ...
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Why do public companies give guidance in quarterly reports?
Basically, because people want it. Shareholders like frequent updates because they like to keep tabs on how their money is doing.
I haven't read the latest op-ed by Buffett and Dimon, but the idea ...
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In the context of corporate profits, what does "back-half" mean?
The back half of the year is the latter half, Q3 and Q4. In the Clorox case, it refers to a fiscal year.
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In the context of corporate profits, what does "back-half" mean?
Since the company had reported results for the first half of the fiscal year (Q2 results), the rest of the year would be the "back half". So "back half" sales would be sales in ...
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Is the announcement of an earnings conference call a good or bad sign?
Most established companies hold a conference call and the existence of such has no predictive value whatsoever. For a list of upcoming conference calls, Google: "earnings conference call calendar". ...
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What's stopping a company from intentionally reporting poor guidance to tank the stock and enabling them to buy-back shares at a massive discount?
This is not that simple. A company's share price is not just based upon guidance, but credibility on accuracy. The market experts then classify it as conservative, aggressive or unreliable. If ...
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Where do people get earnings information directly when it's released?
To get the news 'directly and immediately', you need real time streaming news. The premier service is an expensive Bloomberg terminal.
Many years ago, I used to trade earnings announcements. I ...
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How to know when did company made its quarterly balance sheet public?
To answer the question, financial statements are usually made public between 6 to 8 weeks after the period ends. It takes some time to compile, audit, and release these statements, so you won't find ...
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What happens when a public company fails to file their quarterly earnings reports?
Failure to file a 10-Q report is not a serious violation of SEC regulations. Companies can fail to file these reports for a wide variety of reasons, and not all of them are within the company's ...
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Where is the share price located once Apple releases its Form 10-K? Using for dividend yield calculation and need the price they used
To answer the real question, here's how I would approach the homework problem as a student
Ask the professor what share price to use (or maybe what date's closing price to use).
If you get no answer,...
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Where is the share price located once Apple releases its Form 10-K? Using for dividend yield calculation and need the price they used
In your question:
I need to find dividend yield for apple at the release of their 2020
annual report, form 10-K. That's it. I can't find it anywhere.
You are looking in the annual report for the ...
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Where is the share price located once Apple releases its Form 10-K? Using for dividend yield calculation and need the price they used
Formula for trailing dividend yield: dividend per share divided by share price.
The dividend per share can be found in the financial statements, while the share price can be found from financial data ...
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Does HSBC publish a balance sheet for each of its branch in US, UK and HK?
Yes the non-Group reports all here:
https://www.hsbc.com/investors/results-and-announcements/all-reporting/subsidiaries?page=1&take=20&reporting-type=annual&years=2019
You can filter by ...
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What are those dates of financial reports means?
The quarterly reports cannot be released before the end of the quarter.
Here's a link to the dates for McDonald's earnings announcements. They are within a month of the end of the quarter.
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What's stopping a company from intentionally reporting poor guidance to tank the stock and enabling them to buy-back shares at a massive discount?
"From my understanding, they can say whatever they want in the forward guidance since they are legally protected anyway?"
That is totally incorrect.
they have to add the fine print you mention, ...
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Where do people get earnings information directly when it's released?
Many companies have an investor website where filings will be published and the timing of the announcement will appear there prior to publishing. Here are the investor relations pages for Apple and ...
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Why MSFT Earnings Release FY18 Q4 is missing in the SEC filings?
Q4 ended on June 30th and the 10-K was published on Aug 3. The delay was only a couple days more than a month. However, some of the information was available in the July 19 8-K.
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