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6 posts tagged earnings.
6 posts
Accruals Quality: How to Spot Earnings That Aren't Real
Accruals measure the gap between reported earnings and actual cash. Widening accruals is one of the most reliable red flags in financial analysis — Sloan's 1996 paper showed high-accrual names underperform low-accrual names by ~10% per year.
Earnings History: The Per-Ticker Record That Teaches You How a Name Reports
Every stock has an earnings personality — how it tends to beat or miss, how it tends to move on the day, how it drifts afterward. The Earnings History card on alphactor.ai surfaces that personality over the last 12+ quarters.
Portfolio Earnings: Calendar, Exposure, and Per-Position Risk Into Prints
Earnings risk is about the whole book into the week, not each position. When 40% of NAV reports in one week — and 60% of that is in a single sector — you're running concentrated event risk whether you sized each name correctly or not. The portfolio-level view is the one that changes decisions.
Earnings Season Checklist: What to Watch Before, During, and After
A structured approach to earnings season: how to prepare, what metrics matter on the call, and how to interpret post-earnings price action.
How Earnings Season Actually Moves Markets (It's Not Just Beat or Miss)
Why the market's reaction to earnings reports depends on guidance, positioning, and expectations far more than the headline EPS number.
How to Analyze a Company Before Earnings in 15 Minutes
A focused pre-earnings research checklist using Alphactor tools to prepare for earnings announcements efficiently.