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With fewer and fewer companies willing to offer revenue guidance, how can an analyst provide investors with insights that are smart and well informed?
As we’ve been telling you, Intel [INTC
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] are just a handful of the growing number of companies no longer offering formal guidance.
Of course not every firm provides guidance, but by and large it's a common practice. Well it used to be. "The number of companies no longer offering guidance has increased by 30%,” explains Dylan Ratigan.
And that left us wondering, how does an analyst come up with insights. So we posed that question to Sandler O’Neill analyst Jeffrey Harte.
“It’s certainly a challenge,” he tells us. There are two things we try to do. At the end of the day you have to have a macro-call. And then look at as many data points as possible quarter to quarter.”
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Trader disclosure: On Feb. 3rd, 2009, the following stocks and commodities mentioned or intended to be mentioned on CNBC’s Fast Money were owned by the Fast Money traders; Adami Owns (AGU), (BTU), (C), (GS), (INTC), (MSFT), (NUE): Macke Owns (ERTS), (TM), (DIS), (MS), (SDS): Macke Owns (ERTS) Calls: Finerman's Firm Owns (DNA) & (DNA) Call Spread: Finerman's Firm Owns (MSFT), (TYC), (IBB), (XBI), (TBT): Finerman's Firm Is Short (IYR), (IJR), (IWM), (MDY), (SPY), (USO), (BBT): J. Najarian Owns (WFC) Preferred; J. Najarian Owns (BAC) Preferred; J. Najarian Owns (C) Preferred; J. Najarian Owns (FCX) & (FCX) Long Calls; J. Najarian Owns (GDX); J. Najarian Owns (JPM) Preferred; J. Najarian Owns Gold Futures; J. Najarian Owns (ISRG) Call Spread
Sandler O'Neill Has Received Compensation From (GS)
(GS) Is A Client Of And Receives Non-Investment Banking Securities Services From Sandler O'Neill
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