earnings miss

English

Noun

earnings miss (plural earnings misses)

  1. (finance) A lower revenue or earnings per share than what analysts have predicted.
    Antonym: earnings beat
    • 2025 October 23, Chris Isidore, “Tesla’s best quarter of year isn’t enough to impress investors. Because they know it won’t last”, in CNN Business‎[1]:
      As for the barely discussed financial results, the company earned adjusted income of $1.8 billion in the third quarter, down 29% from a year ago. That was a slightly bigger drop in earnings than analysts had forecast, and net income tumbled 37%. Despite the earnings miss, it was still the company’s best quarter so far this year.
    • 2025 October 25, Madeleine Speed, “Heineken stirs debate on health with toast to beer's role as a social lubricant”, in FT Weekend, page 1:
      Investors have soured on Heineken after two years of weak performance and a string of earnings misses, with shares falling by a fifth from highs in 2023.
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