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bottom end

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noun

  1. (in vertical engines) another name for big end

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JD Sports JD -0.95%decrease; red down pointing triangle Fashion said it expects profit for fiscal 2026 at the bottom end of consensus, citing a difficult macroeconomic and consumer environment as it enters the key festive business period.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shares are down 24% in 2025 as of Friday but Constellation is “now trading below its historical average, at the bottom end of its ten-year historical range, and in-line with vertical-market-software peers,” Kwan says.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Amsterdam-based firm, the world's second-largest brewer after AB InBev, predicted its profits for the year would likely come towards the bottom end of its forecasts given the difficult conditions.

From Barron's

It also raised the bottom end of its comparable-sales guidance to 2.2% from 2%, while maintaining the top end at 2.75%.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Given BOQ has now walked away from its previous return-on-equity targets, we think our FY 2025-2027 average ROE forecast of circa 6.5% can only justify a payout ratio at the bottom end of the current target range,” Analyst Andrew Lyons says.

From The Wall Street Journal