In financial reporting, earnings guidance or simply guidance is a publicly traded corporation's official prediction of its own near-future profit or loss, stated as an amount of money per share; see Earnings call.
Guidance is an aid to financial analysts and the stakeholders in valuing the corporation, and helps prevent overvaluation.
According to Investopedia, Guidance refers to Information that a company provides as an indication or estimate of its future earnings.
Guidance reports estimating a company's future earnings have some influence over analyst stock ratings and investor decisions to buy, hold, or sell the security.
[2] By contrast, public Eurozone companies rarely (1%) issued quarterly guidance in the 2010s.