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The market’s not buying the forecast
Resideo Technologies got walloped after investors decided management’s full-year guidance sounded a little too optimistic for comfort. The immediate issue wasn’t some dramatic scandal — it was the old Wall Street favorite: “show me.”
Why traders are sweating it
When a company’s near-term setup looks wobbly, the market starts doing spreadsheet gymnastics. If Q2 is expected to be soft, then the whole year suddenly depends on a clean rebound later on. That’s fine in theory. In practice? Investors usually treat that like a sequel nobody asked for.
What matters here is the message behind the move:
- the stock is reacting to confidence, not just numbers
- weaker second-quarter expectations are making the full-year target look harder to hit
- when guidance credibility slips, the share price can move a lot faster than the business itself
Big picture: guidance is the whole game
For a lot of stocks, especially when growth is choppy, guidance can matter more than last quarter’s results. Resideo just learned the brutal version of that lesson. Big picture: if management can’t convince the market that the back half will save the year, the stock may keep getting treated like a broken thermostat — and nobody likes surprise cold air.