Quarterly earnings analysis: How to spot trends early
The difference between successful investors and the rest often comes down to one skill: reading quarterly earnings before the market fully digests them. With 75-79% of S&P 500 companies beating analyst estimates each quarter, simply knowing whether a company beat isn't enough. The real edge lies in spotting acceleration patterns, interpreting management tone, and understanding why guidance matters more than results. This earnings report guide provides the frameworks, metrics, and 2024-2025 examples you need to identify trends before they become consensus.
Using the right fundamental analysis tools helps Indian investors systematically evaluate these quarterly disclosures when assessing US stocks.
Key metrics to track in quarterly results analysis
Earnings analysis begins with knowing which numbers truly drive stock performance. While headlines focus on EPS, sophisticated investors track a constellation of metrics that reveal business health and trajectory.
Revenue growth is the top-line foundation showing whether demand exists. The S&P 500 achieved 7.8% YoY revenue growth in Q4 2025, marking the 21st consecutive quarter of revenue expansion. But raw growth isn't enough. What matters is the direction. Netflix's 16% YoY revenue growth in Q4 2024, reaching $10.25 billion, demonstrated acceleration. Companies showing decelerating growth often see stock pressure regardless of absolute numbers.
Earnings per share (EPS) come in two flavours that investors must distinguish. GAAP EPS follows SEC-mandated accounting standards. Non-GAAP (adjusted) EPS excludes items management deems non-recurring. The gap is substantial: 77% of Dow Jones companies report Non-GAAP figures averaging 25% higher than GAAP numbers. NVIDIA's Q4 FY2025 GAAP EPS of $0.89 beat estimates by a wide margin. Always check the reconciliation between the two figures.
Understanding how earnings per share work and their different variations helps you correctly interpret these quarterly metrics.
Margins reveal pricing power and efficiency. Gross margin shows production efficiency. Spotify achieved a record 32.2% gross margin in Q4 2024, up 555 basis points YoY. Operating margin matters equally. S&P 500 net profit margins hit 12.8% in Q4 2025, above the 5-year average of 12.1%. Watch for margin expansion or compression trends across quarters. They predict future profitability better than single-quarter snapshots.
Free cash flow (FCF) often matters more than net income because it's harder to manipulate. Net income is an opinion, while free cash flow is a fact. Spotify generated €877 million in FCF in Q4 2024, up 121% YoY, holding €7.5 billion in cash. This signals genuine financial health beyond reported earnings.
Industry-specific metrics deserve special attention. Same-store sales for retail tell the real story. Walmart US achieved +5.3% same-store growth in Q3 2024 versus Target's +0.3%. This divergence predicted Walmart's market share gains. User growth matters for tech companies. Netflix added a record 19 million net subscribers in Q4 2024, bringing its total to 302 million members worldwide. ARPU (average revenue per user) reveals the quality of monetisation. Netflix's North America ARPU of $17.26/month versus Asia-Pacific's approximately $8 shows regional disparities worth tracking.
Understanding the earnings beat or miss dynamics
The market's reaction to earnings isn't as simple as beat equals up and miss equals down. Understanding the nuances separates informed analysis from headline trading.
Historical beat rates set context. In 2024-2025, S&P 500 quarterly EPS beat rates ranged from 73% to 82%, clustering around the 5-year average of 78%. Revenue beat rates ranged from 59% to 80%. When three-quarters of companies routinely beat estimates, the bar for surprising the market is considerably higher.
Stock reactions have become asymmetric. In Q2 2024, companies that beat earnings gained an average of only 0.9%, while misses triggered declines of 4.4%. This is far worse than the historical average of -2.3%. By Q4 2025, beats averaged just +0.3% gains while misses still caused -2.9% drops. Markets now expect beats. They punish misses more severely than they reward outperformance.
The whisper number phenomenon explains surprise declines. Whisper numbers are unofficial estimates circulating among professional traders that often exceed published consensus. Research shows whisper numbers miss actual earnings by only 21% on average, while consensus misses by 44%. Stocks that beat the whisper number gain an average of +1.8%. But stocks that beat consensus while missing the whisper actually decline -0.3% and fall 55% of the time.
Real examples from 2024-2025 illuminate these dynamics. NVIDIA Q2 FY2024 beat by 5.2% yet fell 6.4% because expectations were too high. Meta Q4 2023 beat estimates, announced a dividend, and approved a $50B buyback. The stock surged 16.8% on the whole-beat-and-raise. Apple Q1 FY2024 beat overall, but shares dropped 3.4% after iPhone and China segments missed. Microsoft Q2 FY2025 beat EPS yet fell -6% when Azure growth disappointed. Intel Q4 2024 beat estimates of $0.08 with $0.15 but plunged -15% on weak forward guidance.
Why forward guidance's meaning matters more than results
Markets are forward-looking. Guidance shapes expectations about future value while results merely confirm the past. This explains why companies can beat earnings yet see stocks fall.
The pattern is consistent. Salesforce beat adjusted earnings in May 2024 ($2.44 vs $2.38) and revenue ($9.13B, +11% YoY), but guided Q2 revenue to $9.20-9.25 billion versus the $9.37 billion analysts expected. Shares collapsed by more than 16% in after-hours trading. Amazon posted record Q2 2021 profits with 27% sales growth, yet fell 7% because guidance indicated slower future growth. Intel beat Q4 2025 earnings and revenue but guided Q1 2026EPS to $S. The stock cratered 17%, its worst day since August 2024.
Types of guidance investors should track include revenue guidance for total expected sales, EPS guidance for projected earnings per share, and margin guidance for expected profitability levels. Quarterly versus full-year guidance signals different levels of confidence.
How to interpret guidance ranges matters greatly. Research confirms that analysts place significantly more weight on the lower bound of forecast ranges. This reflects decision-makers assigning a higher probability to worst-case scenarios. However, actual earnings tend to concentrate around the upper bound, suggesting most management teams guide conservatively. Narrow ranges of 1-2% indicate high confidence—wide ranges of 15%+ signal significant uncertainty. Withdrawn guidance typically triggers adverse reactions due to heightened uncertainty.
Recently raised guidance examples drove positive reactions. Snowflake Q3 FY2025 raised product revenue guidance from 26% to 29% growth. The stock jumped 20%. Eli Lilly Q1 2024 raised revenue guidance by $2 billion on Mounjaro and Zepbound demand. Zoom Q2 FY2025 raised full-year guidance to $4.63-4.64B, and shares rose 13%, the best day since November 2022.
Lowered guidance triggered sharp declines. Fiserv Q3 2025 cut revenue growth from 10% to 3.5-4% and EPS from $10.15-10.30 to $8.50-8.60. The stock plunged 45%. Novo Nordisk lowered its full-year outlook in late 2024, triggering the worst single-day drop since 1987 and wiping approximately $70 billion in market cap.
Sequential vs YoY comparison: When each matters
Choosing the proper comparison framework prevents misreading seasonal patterns as genuine trends or missing real inflexion points obscured by seasonality.
Year-over-year (YoY) comparisons remove seasonality by comparing identical periods. Q4 2024 versus Q4 2023 naturally accounts for holiday shopping spikes in retail, summer travel peaks in hospitality, and tax season surges for accounting firms. YoY works best for retail, automobiles, consumer durables, and any industry with pronounced seasonal patterns.
Quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) comparisons capture momentum and immediate trajectory changes. They work best for technology, telecom, and SaaS companies with minimal seasonality. If Q2 sales fall 10% QoQ but rise 5% YoY, the business is actually growing. The QoQ decline reflects normal seasonality rather than deterioration.
Seasonality patterns vary by industry. Retail sees Q4 as its strongest due to holidays, and Q1 as its weakest. Travel and airlines peak in the Q3 summer months. Tax and accounting firms surge in Q1 and Q4. Streaming services see Q4 strongest from holiday gift subscriptions. Construction depends on the weather and varies by geography.
The best analysis uses both. Netflix's Q4 2024 showed 19 million net subscriber additions, a record QoQ increase that also represented strong YoY growth. This dual signal confirmed genuine acceleration rather than seasonal noise. A company showing flat YoY but sequential improvement might be recovering from temporary weakness.
Extracting insights from earnings calls
The most valuable information often emerges not from prepared remarks but from the Q&A session. Spontaneous responses reveal authentic management sentiment.
Research confirms tone predicts returns. Studies from Chicago Booth, Harvard, and others found that a less optimistic year-end conference call tone correlates with higher stock price crash risk the following year. Tone distance, meaning differences between executives on the same call, negatively associates with returns and predicts volatility. Unusually positive managerial tone actually attracts short sellers. Extreme positivity can signal problematic overconfidence.
Red flag phrases to watch for include headwinds (negative factors hurting performance), lumpiness (inconsistent, unpredictable revenue), short-term challenges (often downplaying serious problems), re-evaluating our strategy (admitting past missteps), and macro environment (deflecting internal issues to external factors). Research found that euphemistic earnings calls significantly delay adverse investor reaction. The market initially misses warning signs buried in careful language.
Positive signals include specific data and figures showing command of details, record results language, momentum and acceleration terminology, raised guidance during the call, and clear, direct answers to analyst questions.
Tesla Q4 2024 shows tone management at work. Despite delivery misses, Elon Musk shifted the narrative, saying he sees a path for Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world, overwhelmingly driven by autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Analyst Dan Ives called deliveries better than feared. Tone management outweighed raw numbers.
3 M's Q4 2024 results demonstrate how a confident tone drives stock reactions. CEO Bill Brown struck a confident tone about operational turnaround, highlighting 169 new product launches, up 32% YoY. Stock rallied 23% on earnings day. The combination of beat and positive tone in execution created the surge.
How to analyse Q results for trend identification.
Trend identification requires tracking multiple quarters and knowing which indicators lead versus lag. The best-performing stocks show consistent patterns before they become apparent.
Revenue acceleration predicts outperformance. The CANSLIM framework suggests looking for 25%+ quarterly earnings and sales growth plus three consecutive quarters of accelerating growth. American Century Investments found stocks with earnings acceleration delivered 8.4% cumulative excess returns at one year, 16.8% at two years, and 21.4% at three years. Decelerating stocks showed negative excess returns across all periods.
Margin trends signal direction before they hit headlines. S&P 500 profit margins hit a record 13% in late 2025, shattering the 5-year average of 11.5%. Goldman Sachs projects margins could reach 13.9% by the end of 2026, driven by AI productivity gains, creating positive operating leverage. Watch for margin expansion from pricing power and cost efficiencies. Watch for compression from rising input costs and competitive discounting.
Leading indicators differ from lagging indicators. Leading indicators include order backlog and pipeline, forward guidance, customer acquisition rate, CapEx trends, analyst estimate revisions, and conference call tone. Lagging indicators include reported revenue, reported EPS, historical margins, and cash flow statements.
Signs of positive inflexion include new products gaining traction, geographic expansion succeeding, order backlog growth, management raising guidance, and customer acquisition costs declining. Signs of negative inflexion include guidance cuts, even small ones, increasing one-time charges, rising customer churn, inventory build-up, key executive departures, and the sudden introduction of new metrics to mask weakness.
Building your forward projections framework
NVIDIA's results define the trajectory of the AI industry. Q3 FY2025 delivered revenue of $35.1 billion, up 94% YoY, with a data Centre reaching $30.8 billion, up 112% YoY. Q4 FY2025 continued the streak, with $39.3 billion in revenue, up 78% YoY. Full-year FY2025 revenue reached $130.5 billion, up 114% YoY. Guidance for Q1 FY2026 was $43.0 billion.
Apple Q1 FY2025 set records with $124.3 billion revenue up 4% YoY and $2.40 EPS up 10% YoY. Services revenue reached an all-time high of $26.34 billio,n up 14% YoY, now representing 21% of total revenue. However, iPhone revenue of $69.1 billion declined 1% YoY, and Greater China dropped 11%.
Amazon Q4 2024 delivered $187.8 billion in revenue, up 10% YoY, with operating income at a quarterly record of $21.22 billion, up 61% YoY. AWS hit $28.8 billion, up 19% YoY, with a 36.9% operating margin.
Meta Q4 2024 achieved record revenue of $48.39 billion, up 21% YoY, and record net income of $20.84 billion, up 49% YoY. Daily Active People reached 3.35 billion, up 5% YoY.
The 2024-2025 earnings environment demonstrates that guidance dominates current results, whisper numbers exceed consensus, and asymmetric reactions punish misses more than they reward beats. NVIDIA can beat by 5% and fall 6%. Meta can deliver record profits and surge 17%. The difference lies in expectations and forward outlook. Master these frameworks, and you'll spot trends quarters before they become consensus wisdom.
Disclaimer: The views and recommendations made above are those of individual analysts or brokerage companies, and not of Winvesta. We advise investors to check with certified experts before making any investment decisions.
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The difference between successful investors and the rest often comes down to one skill: reading quarterly earnings before the market fully digests them. With 75-79% of S&P 500 companies beating analyst estimates each quarter, simply knowing whether a company beat isn't enough. The real edge lies in spotting acceleration patterns, interpreting management tone, and understanding why guidance matters more than results. This earnings report guide provides the frameworks, metrics, and 2024-2025 examples you need to identify trends before they become consensus.
Using the right fundamental analysis tools helps Indian investors systematically evaluate these quarterly disclosures when assessing US stocks.
Key metrics to track in quarterly results analysis
Earnings analysis begins with knowing which numbers truly drive stock performance. While headlines focus on EPS, sophisticated investors track a constellation of metrics that reveal business health and trajectory.
Revenue growth is the top-line foundation showing whether demand exists. The S&P 500 achieved 7.8% YoY revenue growth in Q4 2025, marking the 21st consecutive quarter of revenue expansion. But raw growth isn't enough. What matters is the direction. Netflix's 16% YoY revenue growth in Q4 2024, reaching $10.25 billion, demonstrated acceleration. Companies showing decelerating growth often see stock pressure regardless of absolute numbers.
Earnings per share (EPS) come in two flavours that investors must distinguish. GAAP EPS follows SEC-mandated accounting standards. Non-GAAP (adjusted) EPS excludes items management deems non-recurring. The gap is substantial: 77% of Dow Jones companies report Non-GAAP figures averaging 25% higher than GAAP numbers. NVIDIA's Q4 FY2025 GAAP EPS of $0.89 beat estimates by a wide margin. Always check the reconciliation between the two figures.
Understanding how earnings per share work and their different variations helps you correctly interpret these quarterly metrics.
Margins reveal pricing power and efficiency. Gross margin shows production efficiency. Spotify achieved a record 32.2% gross margin in Q4 2024, up 555 basis points YoY. Operating margin matters equally. S&P 500 net profit margins hit 12.8% in Q4 2025, above the 5-year average of 12.1%. Watch for margin expansion or compression trends across quarters. They predict future profitability better than single-quarter snapshots.
Free cash flow (FCF) often matters more than net income because it's harder to manipulate. Net income is an opinion, while free cash flow is a fact. Spotify generated €877 million in FCF in Q4 2024, up 121% YoY, holding €7.5 billion in cash. This signals genuine financial health beyond reported earnings.
Industry-specific metrics deserve special attention. Same-store sales for retail tell the real story. Walmart US achieved +5.3% same-store growth in Q3 2024 versus Target's +0.3%. This divergence predicted Walmart's market share gains. User growth matters for tech companies. Netflix added a record 19 million net subscribers in Q4 2024, bringing its total to 302 million members worldwide. ARPU (average revenue per user) reveals the quality of monetisation. Netflix's North America ARPU of $17.26/month versus Asia-Pacific's approximately $8 shows regional disparities worth tracking.
Understanding the earnings beat or miss dynamics
The market's reaction to earnings isn't as simple as beat equals up and miss equals down. Understanding the nuances separates informed analysis from headline trading.
Historical beat rates set context. In 2024-2025, S&P 500 quarterly EPS beat rates ranged from 73% to 82%, clustering around the 5-year average of 78%. Revenue beat rates ranged from 59% to 80%. When three-quarters of companies routinely beat estimates, the bar for surprising the market is considerably higher.
Stock reactions have become asymmetric. In Q2 2024, companies that beat earnings gained an average of only 0.9%, while misses triggered declines of 4.4%. This is far worse than the historical average of -2.3%. By Q4 2025, beats averaged just +0.3% gains while misses still caused -2.9% drops. Markets now expect beats. They punish misses more severely than they reward outperformance.
The whisper number phenomenon explains surprise declines. Whisper numbers are unofficial estimates circulating among professional traders that often exceed published consensus. Research shows whisper numbers miss actual earnings by only 21% on average, while consensus misses by 44%. Stocks that beat the whisper number gain an average of +1.8%. But stocks that beat consensus while missing the whisper actually decline -0.3% and fall 55% of the time.
Real examples from 2024-2025 illuminate these dynamics. NVIDIA Q2 FY2024 beat by 5.2% yet fell 6.4% because expectations were too high. Meta Q4 2023 beat estimates, announced a dividend, and approved a $50B buyback. The stock surged 16.8% on the whole-beat-and-raise. Apple Q1 FY2024 beat overall, but shares dropped 3.4% after iPhone and China segments missed. Microsoft Q2 FY2025 beat EPS yet fell -6% when Azure growth disappointed. Intel Q4 2024 beat estimates of $0.08 with $0.15 but plunged -15% on weak forward guidance.
Why forward guidance's meaning matters more than results
Markets are forward-looking. Guidance shapes expectations about future value while results merely confirm the past. This explains why companies can beat earnings yet see stocks fall.
The pattern is consistent. Salesforce beat adjusted earnings in May 2024 ($2.44 vs $2.38) and revenue ($9.13B, +11% YoY), but guided Q2 revenue to $9.20-9.25 billion versus the $9.37 billion analysts expected. Shares collapsed by more than 16% in after-hours trading. Amazon posted record Q2 2021 profits with 27% sales growth, yet fell 7% because guidance indicated slower future growth. Intel beat Q4 2025 earnings and revenue but guided Q1 2026EPS to $S. The stock cratered 17%, its worst day since August 2024.
Types of guidance investors should track include revenue guidance for total expected sales, EPS guidance for projected earnings per share, and margin guidance for expected profitability levels. Quarterly versus full-year guidance signals different levels of confidence.
How to interpret guidance ranges matters greatly. Research confirms that analysts place significantly more weight on the lower bound of forecast ranges. This reflects decision-makers assigning a higher probability to worst-case scenarios. However, actual earnings tend to concentrate around the upper bound, suggesting most management teams guide conservatively. Narrow ranges of 1-2% indicate high confidence—wide ranges of 15%+ signal significant uncertainty. Withdrawn guidance typically triggers adverse reactions due to heightened uncertainty.
Recently raised guidance examples drove positive reactions. Snowflake Q3 FY2025 raised product revenue guidance from 26% to 29% growth. The stock jumped 20%. Eli Lilly Q1 2024 raised revenue guidance by $2 billion on Mounjaro and Zepbound demand. Zoom Q2 FY2025 raised full-year guidance to $4.63-4.64B, and shares rose 13%, the best day since November 2022.
Lowered guidance triggered sharp declines. Fiserv Q3 2025 cut revenue growth from 10% to 3.5-4% and EPS from $10.15-10.30 to $8.50-8.60. The stock plunged 45%. Novo Nordisk lowered its full-year outlook in late 2024, triggering the worst single-day drop since 1987 and wiping approximately $70 billion in market cap.
Sequential vs YoY comparison: When each matters
Choosing the proper comparison framework prevents misreading seasonal patterns as genuine trends or missing real inflexion points obscured by seasonality.
Year-over-year (YoY) comparisons remove seasonality by comparing identical periods. Q4 2024 versus Q4 2023 naturally accounts for holiday shopping spikes in retail, summer travel peaks in hospitality, and tax season surges for accounting firms. YoY works best for retail, automobiles, consumer durables, and any industry with pronounced seasonal patterns.
Quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) comparisons capture momentum and immediate trajectory changes. They work best for technology, telecom, and SaaS companies with minimal seasonality. If Q2 sales fall 10% QoQ but rise 5% YoY, the business is actually growing. The QoQ decline reflects normal seasonality rather than deterioration.
Seasonality patterns vary by industry. Retail sees Q4 as its strongest due to holidays, and Q1 as its weakest. Travel and airlines peak in the Q3 summer months. Tax and accounting firms surge in Q1 and Q4. Streaming services see Q4 strongest from holiday gift subscriptions. Construction depends on the weather and varies by geography.
The best analysis uses both. Netflix's Q4 2024 showed 19 million net subscriber additions, a record QoQ increase that also represented strong YoY growth. This dual signal confirmed genuine acceleration rather than seasonal noise. A company showing flat YoY but sequential improvement might be recovering from temporary weakness.
Extracting insights from earnings calls
The most valuable information often emerges not from prepared remarks but from the Q&A session. Spontaneous responses reveal authentic management sentiment.
Research confirms tone predicts returns. Studies from Chicago Booth, Harvard, and others found that a less optimistic year-end conference call tone correlates with higher stock price crash risk the following year. Tone distance, meaning differences between executives on the same call, negatively associates with returns and predicts volatility. Unusually positive managerial tone actually attracts short sellers. Extreme positivity can signal problematic overconfidence.
Red flag phrases to watch for include headwinds (negative factors hurting performance), lumpiness (inconsistent, unpredictable revenue), short-term challenges (often downplaying serious problems), re-evaluating our strategy (admitting past missteps), and macro environment (deflecting internal issues to external factors). Research found that euphemistic earnings calls significantly delay adverse investor reaction. The market initially misses warning signs buried in careful language.
Positive signals include specific data and figures showing command of details, record results language, momentum and acceleration terminology, raised guidance during the call, and clear, direct answers to analyst questions.
Tesla Q4 2024 shows tone management at work. Despite delivery misses, Elon Musk shifted the narrative, saying he sees a path for Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world, overwhelmingly driven by autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Analyst Dan Ives called deliveries better than feared. Tone management outweighed raw numbers.
3 M's Q4 2024 results demonstrate how a confident tone drives stock reactions. CEO Bill Brown struck a confident tone about operational turnaround, highlighting 169 new product launches, up 32% YoY. Stock rallied 23% on earnings day. The combination of beat and positive tone in execution created the surge.
How to analyse Q results for trend identification.
Trend identification requires tracking multiple quarters and knowing which indicators lead versus lag. The best-performing stocks show consistent patterns before they become apparent.
Revenue acceleration predicts outperformance. The CANSLIM framework suggests looking for 25%+ quarterly earnings and sales growth plus three consecutive quarters of accelerating growth. American Century Investments found stocks with earnings acceleration delivered 8.4% cumulative excess returns at one year, 16.8% at two years, and 21.4% at three years. Decelerating stocks showed negative excess returns across all periods.
Margin trends signal direction before they hit headlines. S&P 500 profit margins hit a record 13% in late 2025, shattering the 5-year average of 11.5%. Goldman Sachs projects margins could reach 13.9% by the end of 2026, driven by AI productivity gains, creating positive operating leverage. Watch for margin expansion from pricing power and cost efficiencies. Watch for compression from rising input costs and competitive discounting.
Leading indicators differ from lagging indicators. Leading indicators include order backlog and pipeline, forward guidance, customer acquisition rate, CapEx trends, analyst estimate revisions, and conference call tone. Lagging indicators include reported revenue, reported EPS, historical margins, and cash flow statements.
Signs of positive inflexion include new products gaining traction, geographic expansion succeeding, order backlog growth, management raising guidance, and customer acquisition costs declining. Signs of negative inflexion include guidance cuts, even small ones, increasing one-time charges, rising customer churn, inventory build-up, key executive departures, and the sudden introduction of new metrics to mask weakness.
Building your forward projections framework
NVIDIA's results define the trajectory of the AI industry. Q3 FY2025 delivered revenue of $35.1 billion, up 94% YoY, with a data Centre reaching $30.8 billion, up 112% YoY. Q4 FY2025 continued the streak, with $39.3 billion in revenue, up 78% YoY. Full-year FY2025 revenue reached $130.5 billion, up 114% YoY. Guidance for Q1 FY2026 was $43.0 billion.
Apple Q1 FY2025 set records with $124.3 billion revenue up 4% YoY and $2.40 EPS up 10% YoY. Services revenue reached an all-time high of $26.34 billio,n up 14% YoY, now representing 21% of total revenue. However, iPhone revenue of $69.1 billion declined 1% YoY, and Greater China dropped 11%.
Amazon Q4 2024 delivered $187.8 billion in revenue, up 10% YoY, with operating income at a quarterly record of $21.22 billion, up 61% YoY. AWS hit $28.8 billion, up 19% YoY, with a 36.9% operating margin.
Meta Q4 2024 achieved record revenue of $48.39 billion, up 21% YoY, and record net income of $20.84 billion, up 49% YoY. Daily Active People reached 3.35 billion, up 5% YoY.
The 2024-2025 earnings environment demonstrates that guidance dominates current results, whisper numbers exceed consensus, and asymmetric reactions punish misses more than they reward beats. NVIDIA can beat by 5% and fall 6%. Meta can deliver record profits and surge 17%. The difference lies in expectations and forward outlook. Master these frameworks, and you'll spot trends quarters before they become consensus wisdom.
Disclaimer: The views and recommendations made above are those of individual analysts or brokerage companies, and not of Winvesta. We advise investors to check with certified experts before making any investment decisions.
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