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by username_my1 1509 days ago
Because of something called P/E ratio
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That has about as much to do with earnings as a coin flip. If it was entirely that everyone would just buy based on P/E. and since that’s a public number all stocks would be predictable. Instead we have TSLA at 128 P/E and AAPL at 28 P/E, MDB is at 9 P/E and was -2 a few months ago. None of that makes sense it’s purely speculation. I’ve seen stocks completely miss and fly off good guidance. And stocks beat by a lot and sell off because there is no volume.
Stocks are risk adjusted speculation, we want to think they are not, but it is simply not true.
>Because of something called P/E ratio

It is not.

It is about guidence for the next quater - Apple Posted Another Great Quarter. The Next One Might Not Be As Good. (apple themselves say)

supply chain issues