
At the beginning of each earnings season, the StarMine team quantitatively analyzes the earnings estimates accuracy of sell-side analysts, using proprietary “SmartEstimates®” and the related “Predicted Surprise” measures. From these measures, we forecast companies we expect to beat or miss expectations when they next report. Over many years, this earnings season forecast has been directionally correct roughly 90% of the time in Asia. You can view how this is done using Eikon, in the following short video. Our picks for companies in Asia expected to miss earnings estimates for 2015 are — Sembcorp Marine Ltd. (SCMN.SI), BHP Billiton (BHP.AX), Bharat