Sentence examples for failed to beat expectations from inspiring English sources

The profit met Wall Street's earnings per share forecast of 36 cents, according to First Call/Thomson Financial, but it was the second consecutive quarter that Home Depot failed to beat expectations.

Shares of biotech company Genentech fell after its quarterly profit failed to beat expectations.

At the time, Apple failed to beat Wall Street expectations in its Q4 earnings and fell from a then all-time closing high to under $400 a share, more than $200 a share below today's price.

For the first time in something like 9 years, Apple failed to beat Wall Street's expectations.

Though BP's profits failed to beat Wall Street's expectations of $3.56 billion to $4.23 billion, the company is better placed than rivals Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch/Shell to take advantage of the surge in U.S. natural gas prices.

They have again failed to beat Jeremy Corbyn.

Safin failed to beat Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi in consecutive matches.

David Ngog beat the Swansea offside trap but failed to beat goalkeeper Tremmel, and later failed to connect with a volley.

Over 70% failed to beat their benchmarks.

Merck said it still expects first-quarter profits to beat expectations.

"We have to beat expectations.