What each calendar column means

The calendar's day view is one row per company reporting that day. Every column is sortable: click a heading once to sort by it, again to flip the direction. On a phone the same numbers show as a card per company instead of a wide table.

Rows are grouped by when the company reports: Before Open, After Close, and Time TBD for the ones that have not said yet.

Reaction

Reaction is how the stock's price moved on the earnings report. It is the market's verdict, not one of the company's own numbers. Green is up, red is down.

Which move you see depends on where the report sits in time:

• While the market is open it is the live move so far today, and it keeps updating as the price does.
• Before the open it is the pre-market move. After the close it is the after-hours move.
• Once the reaction has settled it is the close-to-close move around the report. For a before-open reporter that is the report day itself. For an after-close reporter it is the next session, because that is the first full day the market had to price the news.
• An after-close name that reported last night has not had that next close yet, so it shows the after-hours move captured at 8:00 PM ET on report night. That is the number you are reading when you open the calendar the next morning, and it is usually the one you want.

Hover any Reaction number and a tooltip names exactly which of those it is: "Pre-market price", "Market price", "After-hours price", "After-hours reaction", or "Post-earnings reaction". Hovering the Reaction heading itself explains the column.

Worth knowing when you sort by Reaction: a pre-market or after-hours number is a thin, low-volume print, so read it as a first reaction rather than a settled verdict. The sort ranks it against settled close-to-close moves all the same.

A row shows no Reaction when the company has not confirmed it is reporting that day. That day's price action is not a reaction to anything yet, so we do not label it as one.

Typical

The size of this stock's usual earnings move: the median close-to-close reaction across its last 12 reports, ignoring direction. It is shown as ±4.9% and is there to give today's Reaction a scale. A 5% move is enormous for a name that typically moves 1%, and a non-event for one that typically moves 12%.

The company's numbers

• Mkt Cap - market capitalization, used by the Cap filter to hide the small names.
• Est EPS - the analyst consensus estimate for earnings per share, the bar the company has to clear.
• EPS - what it actually reported. A faded number is a just-crossed print we have not confirmed against a second source yet.
• EPS Surp - the surprise: how far the actual came in above or below the estimate, as a percent. Positive is a beat, negative is a miss.
• EPS YoY - growth: this quarter's EPS against the same quarter a year ago.
• Est Sales, Sales, Sales Surp, Sales YoY - the same four readings for revenue. Values above a billion show as 1.4B, smaller ones as 870M.

Future dates have no actuals yet, so EPS, Sales, the surprises, and the YoY columns read as a dash until the company reports.

Guidance

What management said about the quarters ahead, as a badge: Raised, Lowered, Narrowed, Reaffirmed, Initiated, Issued, or Mixed. Raised is green and Lowered is red because those are the two that move stocks. Hover the badge for the one-line takeaway.

Symbol

The ticker and company name. A grayed-out ticker means the earnings date is a vendor estimate the company has not confirmed, so it can still move. Click the ticker for the full stock page, or click anywhere else in the row to expand it in place for the chart, headlines, and history.

Go deeper

Narrowing the day down to what you care about is covered in Focus the earnings calendar.