# Earnings Guidance Is Back: Oh No, Oh Yes

1 Opinion March 16, 2021 Seeking Alpha ![Baruch Lev](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/blev---article---2019.jpg?itok=0Cgc-6Yf) By Baruch Lev >

Around a third of U.S. public companies provided earnings guidance ― managers' forecast of forthcoming earnings ― either quarterly and/or annually pre-pandemic. Roughly half of these companies stopped the guidance in 2020, claiming that the heightened business uncertainty, particularly regarding the return to normal operations, precludes them from providing an earnings forecast. Makes sense. Now, many of the guidance secessionists are returning to the fold and the panic about guidance has resumed.

Read the full [*Seeking Alpha* article](https://seekingalpha.com/article/4414203-earnings-guidance-is-back-oh-no-oh-yes).

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*Baruch Lev is the Philip Bardes Professor of Accounting and Finance.* ## More from Baruch Lev

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