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Earnings surprise
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An earnings surprise, or unexpected earnings, in accounting, is the difference between the reported earnings and the expected earnings of an entity.[1] Measures of a firm's expected earnings, in turn, include analysts' forecasts of the firm's profit[2][3] and mathematical models of expected earnings based on the earnings of previous accounting periods.[4][5]