eli5: Why is it not good enough for a company to turn a profit, why do they have to hit “expectations”

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Headline after headline say that companies “failed” and/or didn’t hit “targets”, but when you look at the numbers, the company made profits, sometimes in the millions to billions, it just wasn’t “enough”.

Is this greed? Why is it not good enough to make a profit?

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Why do worse when you can do better? If they did worse then expectations then they failed to meet expectation so the headline say they failed. If you personally have lesser expectations then they did not fail in your mind but the news don’t know your expactations.

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