When are analysts' estimates released or published for companys' projected earnings growth rates?
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I'm not sure there is any schedule for them.  \n\nEach analyst firm may have their own schedule for review of their analysis on the various companies they have coverage on, but the consensus items would be a combination of all of the different analyst firms' projections.
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I've found a number of claims on the web - the only date I found that looks reasonable to me is March 1, 2006 for US release, with a release roughly now in Japan and first quarter 2006 in Europe.
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They provide a quick way to analyze the general parts of a company.  With various ratios, you can figure out the profitability and possible health of the company.\n\nIt doesn't take into account short-term trends that might distort the numbers.  It doesn't look at the how well the company might do in the future with management or with future products.  There are other factors that should be considered when analyzing a company.
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Any major financial news site or paper will have them.\n\nhttp://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/
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You're looking for their proxy statement and/or annual report.  Most public companies have an investor relations page on their website, from which you can download at least the annual report.  You can visit the SEC website to download them as well, from the Edgar archive:  http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
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when a company reports its earnings and revenue for the quarter, the ceo or cfo would give an informative speech to tell what those earnings and revenue are for the quarter
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The stock price has more to do with expectations than the actual earnings number.  \n\nIf the company beats earnings expectations but misses on revenue of some other metric, the stock price will often suffer.  If the stock price has run up prior to earnings, the earnings report will often trigger selling (and a drop in price) no matter what the news.  \nIf the company makes optimistic statements about coming quarters or raises guidance, the stock price will often go up even if the earnings disappoint.
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reports that are draft version or pending additional information or review
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Public companies are not required to disclose that type of information.  More often than not when a growing company signs a big deal with a major supplier there's a press release.  Do some research into the press releases of the companies that you are trying to analyze.
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They're usually Homework questions with answers that's hidden in the book. Occasionally they're best found by opening it. \n\nCheck out things like a Gross Profit Ration, Rates of return, and Turnover Ratios.... \n\nThere's a couple hints to put you on track.
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I can't give you a breakdown via quarters, but my accountant had mentioned that most companies follow the calendar year - Jan 1 - Dec 31st.
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1st quarter report SEC filing of Yahoo\nhttp://biz.yahoo.com/e/060505/yhoo10-q.html\n\nRevenues:\nOur revenues increased 34 percent year over year to $1.6 billion, with unique users up 8 percent year over year (or up 27 percent excluding Yahoo! China as of March 31, 2005), fee paying users up 49 percent year over year, and page views up 18 percent (or up 24 percent excluding Yahoo! China as of March 31, 2005).\n\nYahoo's income statement http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=YHOO&annual\nBalance sheet http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=YHOO&annual\nCash flow http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=YHOO&annual
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You don't say what you do, so it's hard to give a specific answer.\n\nGoals should be well-defined and measurable. For example, to sell 10% more widgets than last year, to make 5% less mistakes than last month, to help x number of customers per week, etc.
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you gotta get some numbers on what happened in the past and will happen in the future. \n\ne.g. Demand forecasts, effect of advertizing, your costs as a function of output, link between employee compensation and perfomance.
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This sort of information is sensitive and is not freely available in the public domain. \n\nNot many Advisors would publish their earnings for the world to see!
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depends on your accounting standards.  If the gain is unrealized and you keep your books on a cost basis -- you don't account for it.  The only time that you would account for it would be if you were going to sell your business and you wanted to illustrate a pro-forma Balance Sheet based on market price/value of your assets.  If you were doing that then you would increase the value of your assets and your capital accounts.
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Briefing.com or Yahoo Finance will summarize available data. Flyonthewall.com will also provide this information