A company called General Dynamics did not do as well as people expected in the second quarter of the year, which means they didn't make as much money as people thought they would. This made the price of the company's stock go down. Other companies' stocks also went up and down for different reasons. Some went up a lot, some went down a lot, and some stayed about the same. This is what happens when people buy and sell stocks in the stock market. Read from source...
- EPS is a flawed metric, misleading
- Revenue beat not enough to compensate for EPS miss
- Stock price decline exaggerated, based on EPS miss, not revenue beat
- Better-than-expected revenue from other companies not relevant to GD's situation
- Focus should be on EPS, not revenue
- EPS miss due to higher costs, not lower revenues