More companies than ‘normal’ are withdrawing guidance for the quarter as uncertainty about tariffs looms, UBS analyst says

A hypothetical: You’re lost in the woods, on a dark and stormy night, with no gas in your car and not a person in sight. Your phone is dead.

Basically: You have no idea where you’re going. Like, truly. So, when a cherubic anthropomorphic woodland creature comes by asking for directions, you definitely can’t offer any guidance.

And then all of a sudden…umm…tariffs fall from the sky.

We might’ve taken some artistic liberties with that last bit, but you get the idea.