Source: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/guidance

# Guidance (earnings guidance)
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/guidance
Last modified: 2026-10-17

Guidance is a company's own forecast for the next quarter or year, given with results. The quarter was priced weeks ago; [the guide moves the forward number the price leans on](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-earnings-explained), so a beat with a cut guide falls, as [Broadcom did](https://mochatrade.com/blog/how-a-quiet-chip-company-became-a), and sometimes a cut that was feared [gets paid instead](https://mochatrade.com/blog/mocha-markets-weekly-12-oct). It lands [after the close into a thin book](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-us-stock-prices-form).

## Related terms

- Earnings season / earnings report: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/earnings-season-earnings-report
- Forward P/E: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/forward-p-e
- Earnings call: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/earnings-call
- Net interest income: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/net-interest-income
- Gap up and gap down: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/gap-up-and-gap-down
- Pre-market and after-hours trading: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/pre-market-and-after-hours-trading