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SocGen: ‘Sell In May’ Is Less Likely To Work This Year
On Tuesday, we took a brief look at the "sell in May" cliché courtesy of a few short excerpts fro
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Instead of the usual refrain actual vs expected, sometimes it would be interesting to see actual vs actual, ie 2019Q1 vs 2018Q1. Most analysts always focus on this, the “expected”. Some people care of hard facts, not about the game of keeping expectations low so it’s easier to beat them.
Some of us buy a stock if it has improved revenues and profits, and how much, what is the trend, the second derivative, not if the profit is better than expected or not. Sometimes it’s such a farse.
And it’s not a critique against you or SocGen, just a consideration, that what really matters is hardly touched.
did revenues and profits improved 2019Q1 vs 2018Q1? I think so, but by how much?
this improvement is accelerating or decelarating?