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title: "Has The Bar Been Raised Too High?"
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url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/293030090.md"
description: "Peak expectations meet earnings realityWall Street has spent months ratcheting earnings expectations ever higher. Now the bill is arriving. Netflix is down roughly 10% after disappointing guidance, IBM suffered its worst one-day collapse in decades after pre-announcing a miss, and Alcoa also failed to impress. The problem isn't earnings. It's that expectations have perhaps become almost impossible to beat.Bar raised"
datetime: "2026-07-17T11:31:54.000Z"
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# Has The Bar Been Raised Too High?

## **Peak expectations meet earnings reality**

Wall Street has spent months ratcheting earnings expectations ever higher. Now the bill is arriving. Netflix is down roughly 10% after disappointing guidance, IBM suffered its worst one-day collapse in decades after pre-announcing a miss, and Alcoa also failed to impress. The problem isn't earnings. It's that expectations have perhaps become almost impossible to beat.

## **Bar raised**

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