Earnings History: The Per-Ticker Record That Teaches You How a Name Reports

Why Earnings History Is Per-Name Alpha

Aggregate earnings statistics are useless for individual trading. What matters is how a specific name reports: does it routinely beat revenue but miss EPS (a margin-pressure story)? Does it move ±5% on the day and then mean-revert within a week (a low-drift name)? Does it drift 15% up over 40 days after a beat (a classic drift name)? Those answers are in the 12-quarter history of a single ticker and nowhere else.

What the Earnings History Card Shows

The Earnings History card lists the last 12 quarterly reports for the selected ticker with: EPS actual vs consensus, revenue actual vs consensus, surprise % on both, same-day return, 1-week return, 1-month return, and guidance revision direction (raised / reaffirmed / lowered). A summary strip shows average beat rate, average same-day move, and historical post-earnings drift over 30 days split by positive vs negative surprise. A "reporting cadence" flag highlights when this quarter's behavior deviates from the name's historical pattern.

Reading the Personality

Three patterns translate into trading decisions. First, beat rate > 80% with tight consensus dispersion means the buy-side has figured the name out and surprises are small; same-day moves will be small too, and the edge is usually in the guidance, not the print. Second, high post-earnings drift on beats (top decile of a name's 12-quarter history) is an alpha factor — names with strong historical drift continue to drift, and adding into strength 1-2 days post-print has historically worked. Third, revenue beats with EPS misses repeating for 3+ quarters signals structural margin pressure — the growth is real but the cost structure is losing leverage; often the stock is becoming a short or a wait-and-see until margins stabilize.

Where It Fits

Pair with Earnings Calendar for the upcoming reports, Earnings Estimates for the consensus set-up, Portfolio Earnings for the book-level view, and the fundamentals-side Earnings History card for the deeper per-ticker drill-in with the surrounding fundamentals.

Open the Earnings History card → /app/earnings