EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-08-20
Can AI analyze earnings calls? What works in 2026
What AI can genuinely do with earnings calls, where general chatbots fail, and how grounded systems turn transcripts into sourced answers.
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USING THE CHAT · 2026-08-06
Why grounded AI beats generic AI for earnings analysis
Generic chatbots invent plausible earnings figures. Grounded AI earnings analysis queries transcripts, quotes verbatim, and reports gaps as gaps.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-07-23
Did the company beat earnings? How to answer it properly
What "beating earnings" actually means, why a beat can still sink the stock, and how to read the call behind the headline in five minutes.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-07-09
From transcript to thesis: an earnings research workflow
A repeatable research workflow over earnings call transcripts: watchlist rounds, sector reads, comparison tables, and exports that keep their sources.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-06-25
What did companies say about AI? Tracking a theme across calls
How to follow one theme, AI demand, tariffs, capacity, China, through hundreds of earnings calls, and turn scattered sentences into a sector signal.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-06-11
Follow-up techniques: drilling into earnings calls
How to run a multi-question conversation over earnings call transcripts: drill down, zoom out, switch models, and keep the thread across follow-ups.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-05-28
Will the stock go up after earnings? What AI can honestly tell you
Why no AI can predict the post-earnings move, what the transcripts genuinely reveal, and the questions that turn a call into evidence instead of a forecast.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-05-14
Charts and tables from earnings calls, in one question
How to get bar charts, line charts and comparison tables out of earnings call transcripts with a single prompt, and why every number stays sourced.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-04-30
Who raised guidance this week? A screening habit that works
Guidance changes are the strongest recurring signal in earnings season. How to screen raises and cuts week by week with one question, and what to do with the list.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-04-16
10 questions to ask an earnings call
The ten most useful questions to ask about any earnings call, from a quick summary to sector-wide comparisons, and how earnings.chat answers each one.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-04-02
What risks did management mention? Reading danger in earnings calls
Where risk actually hides in an earnings call: prepared caveats, Q&A deflections, and the language changes that precede bad quarters.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-03-19
Earnings season: how to prepare a watchlist
When earnings season happens, how to build a watchlist that survives peak weeks, and what to check for each name before and after the call.
USING THE CHAT · 2026-03-05
Compare two companies by their earnings calls, properly
How to compare competitors, suppliers and customers through their earnings calls: which pairs reveal the most, and the questions that make comparisons honest.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-02-19
Management guidance explained: raised, held, cut
What guidance means in an earnings report, why raised or cut guidance moves stocks more than results, and how to track guidance language across quarters.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-02-05
Earnings call sentiment analysis: what tone really tells you
What sentiment analysis on earnings calls measures, where it genuinely predicts something, and how to use tone as evidence instead of a vibe.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-01-22
Earnings call summaries: what a good one contains
The five elements every earnings call summary needs, the failure modes of AI-generated summaries, and how to judge whether a summary can be trusted.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-01-08
Can you trust AI with earnings numbers? A verification guide
When AI-quoted financial figures can be trusted, when they cannot, and the thirty-second checks that separate sourced numbers from fluent guesses.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2025-12-23
How to read an earnings call transcript, fast
A method for reading earnings call transcripts in minutes instead of an hour: where to start, what to skip, and how to interpret what management says.
USING THE CHAT · 2025-12-10
Before you buy: an earnings-call due diligence checklist
Eight checks against a company's earnings calls before taking a position: promises kept, guidance credibility, margin trajectory, and the questions that run them.
EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2025-11-26
What is an earnings call? A practical guide
What an earnings call is, what happens during one, who can listen, and why the Q&A section moves markets more than the prepared remarks.