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What is Quality of Earnings?

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A Quality of Earning report, also called a QOE or QofE report, helps investors understand the historic earnings and forward-looking performance of the business through rigorous financial analysis. Financial audits do not weigh in on the outlook of the company—a Quality of Earnings Report does.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

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That said, it does mean that any broad conclusions (about profitability and revenues) that emerge from my data apply to public companies, and it may be dangerous to extrapolate to private businesses, especially in a year like 2020 where private businesses could have been affected more adversely by COVID shutdowns than public companies.