overoptimistic
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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It was overoptimistic about how many Barbies and other products consumers would want and had to slash prices to move them, even as it grappled with higher costs from tariffs, analysts said.
From Los Angeles Times
A Stifel analyst downgraded Microsoft stock to Hold from Buy, citing overoptimistic revenue and earnings expectations.
From Barron's
A Stifel analyst downgraded Microsoft stock to Hold from Buy, citing overoptimistic revenue and earnings expectations.
From Barron's
The VP, on the other hand, may be overoptimistic, because they are the ones making these decisions about big deployment, and therefore they might try very hard to see the positive.
However, he also cautioned against being overoptimistic as the price points remain unknown.
From Reuters
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