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Analyst Long Term Gwth Forecast, Mean

What does Long Term Gwth Forecast % mean?

This is the consensus long-term growth rate amongst analysts which cover the company.



Stockopedia explains Long Term Gwth Forecast %...

Research by Dreman and others has shown that analyst forecasts tend to be highly unaccurate, particularly over longer-term timeframes.

A study by Lawrence Brown in the Financial Analysts Journal looked at 130,000 forecasts by analysts from 1985 to 1996 and found that the average absolute error was over 90%!