obviously but analyst get their predictions somehow.
Yep, and they are wrong many times too. The best way is to follow a stock. Read up on all the news, read the reviews, check what consensus is and hope that if you are playing it prior to earnings that the company makes analysts' expectations or better. When they beat forecasts, that's when you have a winner.
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