GlossaryEarnings forecast
Earnings forecast
The earnings per share that analysts expected for each quarter, as a line in its own pane below the chart, going back to the late 1990s for many US companies. Each point sits on the day of the quarterly report; hover over it to see the result and how far it beat or missed the expectation.
What is drawn
Each point is the average earnings per share that analysts expected for a quarter, as it stood before the report. It sits on the day of the report, when the expectation meets the result. That way you can see, directly below the candles, what expectation the market took into each report and how the price reacted afterward.
Filled points are reported quarters, hollow points the expectation for upcoming ones, connected by a dashed line; the next one sits on the date of the next report.
Good to know
- Only for stocks with analyst estimates; without coverage, the entry appears in the menu with “no data”.
- The values are adjusted to today's share count: after a stock split, early expectations still match today's prices.
- You read the value from the label on the axis or in the pane header.
- In replay, the line shows only what had been reported up to the replay time.