"low forecast" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in financial or weather contexts to refer to a prediction or estimate of something, such as stock prices or temperature, being lower than expected. Example: The low forecast for next quarter's sales has caused concern among investors.
Such a low forecast would have been unthinkable just two decades ago.
The department's low forecast of demand this year, he said, led to national shortages despite several increases to the quota.
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The forecast called for a slightly below level of activity in 2003, due to the same forecast of the onset of La Niña which would later prompt the low forecast for the Eastern Pacific.
The table also shows the high and low forecasts for growth.
The stock market rose for a fourth straight session on Tuesday as investors seemed optimistic that companies would be able to surpass relatively low forecasts for the earnings season, possibly prolonging the rally.
A series of communication breakdowns and a lack of coordination between government agencies led to low forecasts in the crucial first days of the catastrophic flooding in Nashville last May, a National Weather Service report has found.
The online game company Zynga managed to impress investors by beating its own low forecasts for third-quarter revenue, and rose in after-hours trading on Wednesday, David Streitfeld reports.
But since 1990, stocks with high earnings per share growth forecasts have returned 389%, while those with low forecasts have delivered 638% (source: Morgan Stanley).A value or fundamental approach does not work every year (1999, for example) but in the past, it has worked in the long run.
In our view, there remains good trading upside to Mouchel and we note an average exit multiple of consulting businesses (PE of 13.1 times) would imply an exit price of 170p, but this still places little value on the recurrent revenue profile of Mouchel's outsourcing activity and is based on cyclically low forecasts.
