{"id":324,"date":"2010-01-12T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intuitiveinvestor.com\/web\/?p=324"},"modified":"2018-08-21T09:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:35:13","slug":"slightly-disappointing-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/01\/12\/slightly-disappointing-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Slightly disappointing earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Alcoa, alias the Aluminum Corporation of America, is traditionally the first major corporation to report its earnings. In the fourth quarter the Company lost $277 million despite the fact that in 2009 they massively restructured, laid off thousands of employees, idled plants, cut dividends and reduced new investments in the business. Additionally, the company&#8217;s sales were down across their many business lines. Just yesterday in my guide to the fourth quarter businesses actually growing their revenues and not just their profits was my #1 concern for this earnings season. So it is safe to say that the fourth quarter earnings season is likely to be a little rockier than analysts have been predicting. In short, most businesses will probably fair <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">ok<\/span>, but not great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This is an excellent environment in which to be a careful <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">scrutinzer<\/span> of individual businesses rather than the stock market as a whole. I would focus on businesses with unique products that are coveted by consumers; so coveted that limited funds are dedicated to the purchase of these goods and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcoa, alias the Aluminum Corporation of America, is traditionally the first major corporation to report its earnings. In the fourth quarter the Company lost $277 million despite the fact that in 2009 they massively restructured, laid off thousands of employees, idled plants, cut dividends and reduced new investments in the business. Additionally, the company&#8217;s sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}