The fourth quarter earnings season will begin in mid-January. Earnings growth is one of the most reliable signals of future stock price growth. However, many investors get caught unaware after a company posts strong results. That can be frustrating, as the largest moves in a stock often occur immediately after earnings.
That means you’ll want to have a position in a particular stock before the earnings report. But that requires you to have conviction that a stock is going to deliver strong results. One tool that can help with that is analyst revisions.
