noone1:
CGX car nut:
SciFrog:

That’s exactly my point. Investors do not expect them to reach all the deadlines so why would they sell when the do miss them?

Companies are always punished by investors for missing deadlines.

No they don't.

Perhaps you should notify Professor Gene Fama, father and Nobel Laureate, of the Efficient Market Hypothesis that he is wrong.  Investors consistently punish companies for missing production targets and deadlines either through selling equity, which reduces share price and market capitalization, negative analyst reports, and in the most severe cases removing senior management from office.  

ExxonMobil, even on news of increased profits but falling short of analyst expectations on production targets, recently saw a 2% reduction in share price, as a result.  https://www.axios.com/exxon-earnings-profits-production-oil-8fe1dc99-39e1-44b6-b043-b8dfd0d42681.html  A dollar of free cash flow generated today is worth more than a dollar generated next quarter or the following, and investors will cause the share price to adjust accordingly.  

Read the following over the weekend and thought of a poster or two.  http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/why-humans-increasingly-are-unaware-their-ignorance-and-why-its-big-problem