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How does Zacks Investment Research gather and deliver information?
Zacks Investment Research receives over 300,000 equity research reports produced by over 3,000 analysts covering 6,000 plus stocks from 230 full service US brokerage firms across the United States and Canada. Zacks summarizes this massive amount of brokerage research into a number of forms and provides both summaries of the research reports and raw data files to everyone from the Individual Investor to Institutional Clients.

How accurate is the information Zacks provides to Microsoft?
Zacks information goes through three levels of quality control before being sent out to our clients. Zacks Investment Research spends a great deal of time and effort making sure that the various non-recurring items that some analysts include with their estimates are taken out or added back to the individual estimates so the consensus we deliver has a consistent definition. Zacks Investment Research also performs this process with the actual reported EPS.

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Who uses Zacks data?
The Zacks Investment Research consensus is the standard on thousands of research terminals used by professional equity traders and investment analysts worldwide. That’s because the Zacks Investment Research consensus accurately reflects the expectations of the smart money on Wall Street.

Why might this number not match another number you saw on an alternative site?
Some firms do not adjust for non-recurring items, or the other site's information may be updated on a weekly basis (MSN Money is updated daily) and the numbers might have changed during the course of the week.

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