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12 Earnings

Who reports when, what they are expected to say, and what they said last time. The hub is built around your own companies: the ones you hold or watch come first, everybody else is an agenda underneath, and any company you pick opens a report card on the right.

A search box at the top finds one company by name or ticker and opens its card. Nothing else on the page changes when you search.

12.1 Your week

A strip across the top: the companies you hold or watch that report in the next seven days, and the ones that reported in the last three. Each card says the day, the session — ☀ before open or ☾ after close, or time unconfirmed when the company has not said — the analysts' EPS and revenue estimates, and a countdown. Held companies are tagged in teal, watched ones in grey.

After the report the same card turns into the result: Beat or Miss, the actual against the estimate, and the card stays in the strip for three days so the news is not gone by the morning.

If none of your companies report this week the strip says so. Add a company to a watchlist and it appears here the moment it has a date.

12.2 The agenda

Only the days that carry reports, grouped by day, one week at a time. The arrows move a week; Today comes back. Three views:

Mine
Your holdings and watchlists only.
Leaders
The most heavily traded US common stocks, plus anything you hold. This is the curated set our daily capture covers, which is why it is the one that always knows the session. It is not a verified index membership list.
All
The whole calendar, live from the provider. Hundreds of companies on a busy day, most of which you have never heard of — it is here for the day you are looking for one of them.

Each row shows the session, the ticker, the company, and the EPS estimate; once reported, the actual against the estimate in green or red. A teal dot marks a company you hold, a grey one a company you watch, and your own companies sort to the top of each day. Click a row and its report card opens.

12.3 The report card

One company at a time, on the right. Pick it from Your week, from the agenda, or from the search box.

The first line says when it reports — or, for ten days after a report, what it reported: Beat or Miss, and how the stock moved the next day. Under that, four numbers: the EPS and revenue estimates (or actuals, once in) against the same quarter last year, and how many of the last eight reports beat the estimate.

Then two small charts. EPS surprise, last 8 reports — a bar per quarter, green for a beat, red for a miss, sized by how far from the estimate. The stock the next day, last 4 reports — the close after the report against the close before it, so a company that beat every time and fell anyway shows exactly that.

When members have been discussing the company in the community this week, a line under the charts says where and opens the channel. Full history → lists every report we have for the company, by year.

Estimates are the analysts' consensus at the time of reading. The next-day move is measured from daily closing prices: previous close to report-day close for a before-open report, report-day close to the next close for one after the close. None of it is investment advice.

12.4 The season strip

Under the agenda, one cell per day of the month, shaded by how many of the leading companies report that day — quiet, busy, peak — with a teal dot on the days that carry one of yours and a ring on today. It is the month grid, compressed to the one thing the grid was good for: seeing when the season gets busy. Click a day and the agenda goes to its week.