profit warning

British

noun

a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected

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At the end of last year, the company gave a profit warning as it cautioned over weaker consumer demand in China and the United States.

From Barron's

Dassault Systemes, a software company that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says is at the center of the next industrial frontier of AI, saw its shares lose a fifth of its value on Wednesday after a profit warning.

From MarketWatch

An Italian specialty finance lender that buys up the invoices from the Italian public sector lost nearly half of its value on Monday after the ousting of its chief executive and a profit warning.

From MarketWatch

“This is a dire profit warning in a long string of unmitigated disasters,” said analysts at Bernstein.

From MarketWatch

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