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It's Friday, February 12th, and we are talking about tech stocks and their earnings.

I'm your host, Stone Stone Lewis and I'm joined by

Fool.com's expert early estimator of every enterprise's earnings evidence.

Brian Feroldi, Brian, how you doing?

Doing great Dylan, great to be back again. Yep, it's nice to be back in the swing of things.

I think earning season can be hectic sometimes.

It's also really fun, right?

I mean, we ultimately when we're investing and we're looking at businesses

there are maybe four possibly one or two more events every year that meaningfully

change the direction of a business or your outlook on a business or drive what your expected value of the business the that happens related to a product or something like that. But these are really the moments where we get our check in on our businesses

and see how they're doing.

Yes, and I would actually argue that the earnings season

we're in right now is the most important one for the year,

because this is when companies kind of set their agenda for the year ahead

they give investors expectations they talk about trends so we were spoiled for choice

this week for businesses to talk about that's's right, yeah, for the most part,

we are talking, you know, businesses that have fiscal years

that line up with the calendar year.

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