profit warning
Revenue shortfall notice
A profit warning is a company's announcement that its earnings will fall short of expectations.
Publicly traded companies issue profit warnings to alert investors before official financial reports, typically causing stock prices to drop: The tech giant's profit warning sent shares tumbling 15%.
Also called an earnings warning.
Money gained from work
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- revenueBusiness income total
- lossesThings subtracted from standing
- declineDecrease or refuse
deficit · forecast · guidance · downgrade · contraction · slump · underperform · missed targets
State of being unsure
- exposureState of being unprotected
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
- jeopardyRisk of harm
threat · speculation · precariousness · downside · hedging · mitigation · assessment · outlook
Expecting market decline
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- downturnEconomic decline period
- recessionProlonged economic decline
- bear marketProlonged securities decline
devaluation · capitalization · equity · sector · index · crash · contagion · panic
Those who commit capital
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- stock marketSecurities trading venue
- tradingExchanging for value
- sell-offRapid mass divestiture
plunge · volatility · disclosure · guidance · press release · quarterly report · share price · downgrade
Rearranging an existing framework
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- cost-cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- turnaroundShift in opposite direction
management · CEO · board · strategy · underperformance · write-downs · belt-tightening · austerity
earnings
Money gained from work
decline · deficit · forecast · guidance · downgrade · contraction · slump · underperform · missed targets · quarterly results
uncertainty
State of being unsure
- exposureState of being unprotected
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
jeopardy · threat · speculation · precariousness · downside · hedging · mitigation · assessment · outlook · scenario
bearish
Expecting market decline
- correctionFixing of mistakes
- downturnEconomic decline period
- recessionProlonged economic decline
bear market · devaluation · capitalization · equity · sector · index · crash · contagion · panic · flight
investors
Those who commit capital
- shareholdersOwners of company stock
- stock marketSecurities trading venue
- tradingExchanging for value
sell-off · plunge · volatility · disclosure · guidance · press release · quarterly report · share price · downgrade · analyst
restructuring
Rearranging an existing framework
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- cost-cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
turnaround · management · CEO · board · strategy · underperformance · write-downs · belt-tightening · austerity · operational
- Business Newsearnings report, market reports, quarterly results, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg
- financial eventsmerger, acquisition, IPO, bankruptcy, takeover
- corporate crisesbankruptcy filing, scandal, lawsuit, layoffs, data breach
profit, warning, profits, profitable, profitably, profitability, unprofitable, profiteer, profiteering