Earnings Reports

Beats, misses, guidance and the earnings gap.

1. What Earnings Season Is — How public companies report results every quarter, when reports and conference calls happen, and why the weeks of earnings season move markets.
2. EPS & Revenue Estimates — What analyst estimates are, how beats and misses are measured, why revenue matters alongside EPS, and why a beat doesn’t always send a stock higher.
3. Guidance — What company guidance is, the difference between raising, maintaining and cutting it, and why the outlook often moves a stock more than the quarter just reported.
4. Earnings Gaps — How stocks gap up or down after reports, three real examples with very different outcomes, and the clues that help separate gaps that hold from gaps that fade.
5. Trading Around Earnings — Your choices when a stock you own is about to report, why a gap can blow past your stop, and practical rules for managing earnings risk.
6. Reading an Earnings Report — A practical checklist for reading an earnings release in minutes: the headline numbers, growth rates, margins, guidance and the stock’s own reaction.