It is this time of the year ...
The time of the earnings season again.
The part of each yearly quarter where investors always believe that it doesn't really matter whether a company does well or bad!
It is this time of the year that the only thing that really counts is whether a company did better or worse than actually expected or "forecasted."
In plain words, it is fine for a company to get heavy losses, as long as the extent of the predicted, forecasted or expected decline is at least a little less than the analysts had been expecting.
At the same time, a company that does really well deserves to be hardly punished -- punishment = declining stock price -- if its ascent is even marginally slower than what analysts had actually been expecting!
If this sounds stupid to you ...
It does definitely mean that you 100% get it!
IT IS 100% STUPID!
Measuring actual performance against expectations is OK within the context of a feedback process -- a normal and healthy aspect of intellectual activity, which ...
Is NOT OK when it becomes a real psychosis!
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