forward earnings meaning

• [Finance]
  A company's forecasted, or estimated, earnings made by analysts or by the company itself. Forward earnings differ from trailing earnings (which is the figure that is quoted more often) in that they are a projection and not a fact. There is are many methods used to calculate forward earnings and no single established way.

• It ought to be selling at 20 times forward earnings, at least.
• Software companies had multiples of eight times forward earnings.
• Merrill trades at 16 times its forward earnings.
• It traded as high as 45 times forward earnings in 1993, he said.
• But, mortgage companies such as Countrywide traditionally receive eight to 15 times forward earnings multiples.
• Because the company is in a competitive business with pricing pressure, the stock sells at 10 times forward earnings.
• Computer-related stocks continued to suffer under pressure from profit-taking and concerns about forward earnings, Brand said.
• The stock traded at 30 times forward earnings in 1993, when the economy was last recovering from recession, Almeida said.
• Turns out we got a pretty tough quarter . . . but the forward earnings picture is likely to hold the line,
• If that estimate is correct, then the index is trading for about 23 times its forward earnings, well above the historical average.

• "forward earnings" meaning in Chinese: [网络] 预期收益；盈余