Analysts were expecting Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (FIS) [Chart - News - Analysis] to report earnings of $0.47 for last quarter, but FIS missed expectations with actual earnings of $0.46---1 cent below the consensus estimate.

If you compare last quarter's earnings to the $0.42 the company made per share during the same quarter a year ago, you can see that FIS’s earnings are up this year.

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Also, if you compare FIS's 13.55% projected earnings-per-share (EPS) growth rate for the next five years with the projected EPS growth rate of 15.90% for the Business Services industry as a whole during that same time frame, you can see that analysts expect FIS to underperform the industry in the future---which is a bad sign for the stock.

Drilling down a little deeper into the Business Services industry, you can see how analysts believe FIS will stack up against some of the other stocks in the industry, like Visa, Inc. (V) [Chart - News - Analysis] and Thomson Reuters Corporation (TRI) [Chart - News - Analysis], in the future. Analysts believe V's earnings are going to grow at a rate of 19.39% while TRI's earnings are going to grow at a rate of 8.00%.

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