Estimating Earnings and Price Growth Around Company Reports

Summary

This indicator organizes a stock’s reported earnings and related price changes into a chart table and labels. It retrieves actual, estimated, and standardized earnings data, records the price around each report, and compares current results with the previous report and a report from two years earlier. The display can also show the next available earnings estimate and its implied change from the latest actual result.

For each comparison, the indicator calculates percentage growth in earnings and price. It combines the signs and relative sizes of those changes into a color-coded score, while placing labels above or below report bars according to the price’s position relative to a 200-period Hull moving average. The table and labels offer a compact way to inspect how earnings and price have moved together over a configurable history. This is a descriptive charting aid, not a tested trading strategy: the document gives no performance evidence, and its calculations do not establish that earnings changes predict future returns. Estimates and the limited report history also constrain interpretation.

Key ideas

• The indicator compares actual earnings and post-report prices with recent and two-year historical values.
• It calculates percentage changes for earnings and price and displays them in a table or chart labels.
• A combined score reflects the direction and relative size of earnings and price changes.
• The next available earnings estimate is compared with the latest actual result.
• The display summarizes historical data but provides no evidence of predictive performance.

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