Even Champion High Jumpers Fail to Clear the Bar

As a disappointed fan of US Soccer, I must have sports on my brain this morning. (My wife would add “even more than usual,” but I digress.) The sport I have in mind this morning is neither football/soccer nor my usual summer baseball, but track and field instead. The best analogy that I can conjure for the upcoming earnings season is high jumping or pole vaulting. The bar might be set too high for some stocks to clear.