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Analysts polled by FactSet had been forecasting $9.13 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

At the midpoint, that’s just above the €25.62 billion that analysts had been forecasting.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

Wall Street had been forecasting earnings of $1.31 a share on revenue of $5.6 billion.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had been forecasting a larger drop to 54.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

And with the start of school came the "summer slump" that our irritable neighbor, Mr. Featherbrain, had been forecasting.

From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy