/biz/ - Business & Finance

You know, as someone who has been investing for a couple of years I'm really annoyed by the fact that my stocks always dump when earnings are released. I've held 20 different stocks that did this.

Take today. ALB released its earnings. They were completely in line with analysts' projections. Yet the stock dumped 10% while concurrently nothing big in the industry seems to have happened (other lithium stocks were also in the red but nothing as serious). So why does it do stuff like this? I know the maxim of buying rumours and selling news, but common. Just why does this happen?

It doesn't matter to me because I invest for the long term but it's just perplexing to me and it bugs me that I can't rationalize the market in this regard. Does anyone have some $0.02 on this? I know there are anons who are pretty knowledgeable on econ here. I hope you'll enlighten us.

You know, as someone who has been investing for a couple of years I'm really annoyed by the fact that my stocks always dump when earnings are released. I've held 20 different stocks that did this.

Take today. ALB released its earnings. They were completely in line with analysts' projections. Yet the stock dumped 10% while concurrently nothing big in the industry seems to have happened (other lithium stocks were also in the red but nothing as serious). So why does it do stuff like this? I know the maxim of buying rumours and selling news, but common. Just why does this happen?

It doesn't matter to me because I invest for the long term but it's just perplexing to me and it bugs me that I can't rationalize the market in this regard. Does anyone have some $0.02 on this? I know there are anons who are pretty knowledgeable on econ here. I hope you'll enlighten us.