• Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    they can STILL get punished if the market goes “Yeah, but our analysts expected you to bring in $921 million in profit.”

    This happened to the company I’m in. We had record profits, were positive for the first time in years, and beat our goals by a decent bit. Stock prices tanked anyway because “the best we’ve ever done” wasn’t good enough for the shareholders.