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Study says companies don't time their earnings releases. Oh, really?

Posted Jun 9th 2009 12:00PM by Zac Bissonnette (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Bad News, Press Releases

A new study published by Matthew Magilke of the University of Utah and Jeffrey T. Doyle of Utah State University suggests that public companies don't time their earnings releases based on how favorable or unfavorable the numbers might be.

This flies in the face of what most observers -- myself included --- have noticed. Unless there's some very rigid schedule for earnings releases, most companies prefer to dump bad news on Friday afternoons -- and if there's a three-day weekend coming up, then that's even better.

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McDonald's (MCD) third quarter earnings preview

Posted Oct 16th 2007 5:27PM by Michael Fowlkes (RSS feed)
Filed under: Before the Bell, Earnings Reports, Forecasts, Good news, Consumer Experience, Competitive Strategy, McDonald's (MCD)

This Friday McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is going to be reporting its third quarter earnings, and expectations are high for the fast food giant. As BloggingStocks' own Melly Alazraki discussed last week, McDonald's is riding high after posting very strong September same store sales, leading Mrs. Alazraki to believe the company is due to blow away its earnings this Friday.

Analysts are expecting to see the company show earnings of 81 cents a share, but the company has forecast that it will exceed this estimate and report 83 cents a share.

MarketWatch is also expecting to see strong numbers this Friday morning. In its earnings outlook MarketWatch advised its readers to expect a "another red hot" quarterly report, citing the fact that the company had released so much positive news last week in its September sales report.

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