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Some analysts were expecting $18b in operating profits - can't you see how much loss MSFT just incurred?

EDIT: /s

Its not actual satire though ... Missing analyst expectations is a massive failure of management, they set the guidance and the expectations for the market; thus missing it by 2bn is actually a pretty poor performance.

Say company X issues guidance of $1.34/share

Analysts expect $1.40/share.

Company X releases earnings of $1.45/share.

Things still tank, because... the "real" expectation was 5% over analyst expectations, which was already over guidance.

Why is nobody questioning the analysts methods and models? Are they using DSGE economics models? I'm sure there's plenty of angles of criticism for their tools if one digs a bit.

Youre getting downvoted, but perhaps you meant this as satire? Poe's Law and all...

Seems obvious to me that its satire.

Thanks, but I didn't ask you, because you didn't write it. I think it is satire, but sometimes one can't really know. It is undoubtedly a position that some people hold that missed revenue/profit estimates are akin to losses. Hence, Poe's Law.

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