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Finance: What is Sandbagging? 5 Views


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Sandbagging is the practice of keeping financial estimates conservative so that they are more likely to exceed expectations. We do a similar thing at work. Always under promise, always over deliver.

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Finance a la shmoop what is sandbagging? want Wall Street to love you madam CEO [CEO appears on a balcony]

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well what do you do you under promise and you over deliver you conveyed to the

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street you'd be thrilled with earning $1 a share next year and when the year is

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done you look back and note that you printed $1.30 meaning you actually [Man dazed appears with stack of cash]

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earned a dollar 30 what did you do you sandbagged when a flood is imminent

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people put bags of sand against the shores of rivers and lakes the idea is [A flooded living room appears]

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that the sand absorbs the water and slows the flooding hopefully saving a

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few basements along the way when a company sandbags they try to keep

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estimates of financials extremely conservative they publish vastly

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underwhelming numbers so that when the real numbers come in while the company [Newspaper of company earnings appear]

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looks heroic by sandbagging they set the bar low like a two-foot tall hurdle so

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that when they successfully leap over those hurdles with tons of clearance [A deer jumping over hurdles]

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well they look like gazelles which unfortunately have been banned from

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Olympic competition doping who would have guessed?

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