Don't settle for ordinary quarterly reports.
Every week, I take a look at three companies that beat market expectations, since I believe that it's the biggest factor in a stock beating the market. Leaving Wall Street's pros with stunned expressions can be a good thing. It usually means that the companies have more in the tank than analysts figured. Capital appreciation typically follows.
Let's take a look at a few companies that humbled the prognosticators over the past few trading days.
We can start with Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD ) . As one of the few tech stock winners of last week, the maker of networking switches that connect data storage systems posted an adjusted profit of $0.16 a share in its latest quarter. Analysts figured that Brocade's profit would fall to $0.10 a share after clocking in at $0.14 a year earlier.
Pandora Media (NYSE: P ) also surprised the market, posting its second consecutive adjusted profit of $0.02 a share. Wall Street was sure that Pandora would post a deficit. There's apparently money to made in radio again, as Pandora's adjusted profit per share matched Sirius XM Radio's (Nasdaq: SIRI ) better-than-expected showing from earlier this month.
Finally we have Phoenix New Media Limited (NYSE: FENG ) winning over skeptics. The Chinese provider of content across several new and old media platforms posted a profit of $0.11 a share in its second quarter as a public company, and that was more than double what investors were expecting.
It's important to keep watching the companies that surpass expectations. Over time, it will be a lucrative experience for investors as the market rewards the overachievers. That's the kind of surprise that we look for in the Rule Breakers newsletter service. Want in? Check out a 30-day trial subscription.
Either way, come back next Monday to learn about more stocks that blew the market away.
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