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Operator
Good morning, and welcome to the Unum Group Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Tom White, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.
Tom White
Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Tracy. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the fourth quarter 2020 earnings conference call for Unum. Our remarks today will include forward-looking statements, which are statements that are not of current or historical fact. As a result, actual results might differ materially from results suggested by these forward-looking statements.
Information concerning factors that could cause results to differ, appears in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are also located in the sections titled Cautionary Statement regarding forward-looking statements and risk factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
More companies than usual are beating earnings estimates and sales numbers are just as bullish for the stock market MarketWatch 2/6/2021
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Every earnings season, a majority of U.S. companies report earnings per share that are higher than the consensus estimates among Wall Street analysts.
So the positive “surprises” may not be so … surprising.
Turning your focus to positive
sales surprises and
sales growth might be more rewarding the market often rewards sales growth more than it does earnings growth.
Below is a list of companies that have beaten sales estimates.
Here’s an earnings-season Twitter posting from Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist at Hightower Advisors, that puts EPS in context:
This year’s Corporate Equality Index, an annual benchmarking study of LGBTQ workplace fairness, gives high marks to two Maine-based companies among over 1,000 that were graded nationwide. Other prominent businesses in the state also performed well.
Hannaford Supermarkets received a score of 100% on the index, released by the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign and the HRC Foundation. L.L.Bean Inc. earned a rating nearly as high, 90%.
This is the 10th consecutive year Scarborough-based Hannaford has received the perfect score, while the rating for L.L.Bean nearly doubled from its showing last year. The Freeport retailer, with about 5,000 employees worldwide, scored 50% in 2020.