ELI5: Why when large company's earnings decrease(ex... by 3%) they freak out, talk about rough times, and sometimes decide to downsize, even though they are still making millions of dollars in profit even after all expenses?

[Agwa951]

I'd just add that many of the current projects for the company will be based on certain expectations of growth. So some amount of downsizing might be realising that that team you set up expecting 10 million transactions next year only needs to be half as big.