{"id":17160,"date":"2012-01-04T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17160"},"modified":"2016-09-20T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:56:26","slug":"earnings-season-preview-company-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/earnings-season-preview-company-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnings Season Preview: Company Guidance  :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of companies in the Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index that have made downward profit revisions is at a level not seen since the 2001 economic recession, making sell-side analyst projections look rosy. There were 96 instances where companies revised<!--more--> their fourth-quarter earnings estimates downward, while there were 27 upward revisions. (Here is the list of companies that issued guidance.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB50001424052748703831604577130841658513800.html#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17162\" title=\"guidace\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/guidace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of companies in the Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 index that have made downward profit revisions is at a level not seen since the 2001 economic recession, making sell-side analyst projections look rosy. There were 96 instances where companies revised<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[487],"class_list":["post-17160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earnings","tag-earnings","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}