Since 1998, Earnings Whispers has published 120,271 Earnings Whisper numbers and, 71.8% of the time, the Earnings Whisper number was the most accurate published expectation by gathering the true expectations of 11,775 professional analysts - people who actually get paid to tell hedge funds, portfolio managers, and broker clients their projections.
At the same time, we've gathered 13,953,087 price and earnings expectations from 1,315,393 individual investors to identify when, and what stocks, investors are the most bullish and bearish going into the companies' earnings releases.
By combining the expectations of professional analysts, the sentiment of individual investors, and the actual results reported by the company, we can reliably indentify exactly where a stock lies in the Earnings Expectation Life Cycle
By identifying where a stock is in the Earnings Expectation Life Cycle, we can then identify which stocks are more likely to drift higher (or lower) throughout the quarter following the company's earnings release - with the A+ stocks outperforming the overall market by 217%
