Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTCatie Hogan, The Motley FoolSun, June 7, 2026 at 5:20 PM GMT+2 2 min readUsually, when a company posts record revenue, it's good news for the stock and its shareholders. Unfortunately, this was not the case this week when Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) announced its latest earnings. Despite beating Wall Street's expectations and posting truly impressive growth, the stock sank because it missed analysts' earnings-per-share "whisper number," or the informal consensus, by a slim margin.The lesson for investors is, once again, that short-term noise should largely be ignored. Long-term fundamentals still matter, and a decrease in a stock's price based on hype or noise is nothing more than an irrational overreaction.