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Non-Tech : Interactive Brokers / Timberhill
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To: sams291 who wrote (7353)5/1/2007 2:22:27 PM
From: Carl Worth  Read Replies (1) of 9012
 
well just as a starter, saying that Q1 coming in around the average of last year's quarters indicates a flat to down performance is errant

as an example, say a company reported .70, .80, .90 and 1.00 for last year's four quarters, showing sequential growth in earnings...that's an average of .85 a quarter

now let's say they report .85 for Q1 of this year...the previous posts would suggest that that would indicate a flat (at best?) quarter year over year...obviously that is not the case, if the earnings were .85 vs .70

when a company is growing its revenues by 30% in a given year, it's more likely than not that the growth was incremental by quarter, rather than a sudden gain from dec 31 to jan 1, that then carried through the rest of the year

as such, it's very unlikely that Q1 was flat with Q1 of last year...the math just isn't logical to get to that conclusion
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