lentinman...thanks for the explanation....as i said, I don't weigh too much on present/past...I weigh more on forward...nothing has changed there. I see your lazy argument with companies, but why wouldn't all these websites have simple code to tract the moving OS like it can/does with price (i appreciate yahoo is often outdated with numbers, but bloomberg for example is usually on the ball)? Seems easy enough to just tack the calculation based on current OS as shown in key stats...but they don't - TTM is always based on actual EPS for each of the prior 4 q's, regardless of present....
In the grand scheme of things (with big board stocks), 1. did they meet or beat earnings, 2. how is forward guidance? That's all I care about....appreciate your insight into this though.
