Wall Street has set a sky-high bar for companies to clear this earnings season. They just might pull it off.
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If corporates clear a “sky-high” earnings bar, boards will read that as validation of current cost structures and AI narratives, not a reason to slow experimentation. Operators should expect investors to keep pressing for visible AI leverage in margins, not just topline stories.
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