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Recent Examples of overestimation
The upshot of this free cash flow overestimation is that analysts have been overestimating Tesla’s fundamental value for years.
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Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
This underperformance of Pfizer stock can be attributed to declining revenues after the surge in Covid-19 vaccine demand during the pandemic and the company’s overestimation of Covid-19 products demand in the long run.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The overestimation caused by incorrect arm positioning, particularly the unsupported arm at the side, could easily lead to misdiagnoses of hypertension.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2024
Givi and Kirk attribute this overestimation of negative outcomes to cognitive bias—more specifically, the tendency to give more weight to our own overthinking than to the actual thoughts of others.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
This underperformance of Pfizer stock can be attributed to declining revenues after the surge in Covid-19 vaccine demand during the pandemic and the company’s overestimation of Covid-19 products demand in the long run.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The overestimation caused by incorrect arm positioning, particularly the unsupported arm at the side, could easily lead to misdiagnoses of hypertension.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2024
Givi and Kirk attribute this overestimation of negative outcomes to cognitive bias—more specifically, the tendency to give more weight to our own overthinking than to the actual thoughts of others.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overestimation
survey
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Sixty-three percent of Gen Zers and 52 percent of millennials are considering moving abroad, according to a recent survey by Harris Poll.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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The desire to travel, for some, appears to outweigh debt concerns, at least according to a recent Bankrate survey of 2,238 U.S. adults found 29 percent of respondents who plan on traveling this summer expect to take on debt to do so.—
Stacey Lastoe,
AFAR Media,
30 May 2025
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“Overestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overestimation. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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