Earnings in three moments: the date, the release, and the call

Earnings is three moments, days apart. The calendar answers when. The release answers what. The call answers why.

Before: the date

Half of earnings preparation is simply knowing the date.

The earnings calendar carries expected report dates for the companies we cover, with the fiscal period each belongs to. Filter to today, the coming days, or a wider window — and restrict the whole thing to companies you follow.

Dates carry status (expected, confirmed, reported). Stale same-day entries after a print are dropped.

During: the release

The first public document is the press release: revenue, EPS, and forward guidance. We parse it as it publishes — guidance pulled from the earnings release — and attach the numbers to the company. Fields a company left blank stay blank.

Enable guidance as an alert type and the numbers reach your inbox with the filing that carried them.

After: the call

The release tells you the margin moved. The call tells you whether management credits pricing, mix, one customer, or currency — and whether the analysts on the line believed them.

Transcripts are a public directory, linked both ways: transcript → company and earnings filing; company page → its calls. Release and transcript stay separate documents. The difference between them is often the signal.

Where street coverage exists, reported periods show estimate, actual, and surprise side by side — three plain figures, so you form the judgement.

Scoped to what you hold

One watchlist drives all three:

• Calendar filtered to your companies
• Guidance alerts at the pace you chose
• Reporting day rises in the ranked home feed
• The following Morning Meeting writes it up

Browse transcripts or open a company you follow and check its next report date.