Intuitive Surgical Inc. (ISRG) and GATX Corporation (GATX) are in the Danger Zone. These two stocks are likely to miss earnings expectations according to our new Earnings Distortion Scores.
We measure earnings distortion using a proprietary human-assisted ML methodology featured in a recent paper from Harvard Business School (HBS) and MIT Sloan. This paper empirically shows that street earnings estimates are incomplete and less accurate since they do not consistently and accurately adjust for unusual gains/losses buried in footnotes. By adjusting for earnings distortion, we create a measure of core earnings