Market Analysis
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Lennar Q3 FY2026 Earnings Options: Pricing a Move Into a Same-Day Fed Decision
Lennar reports fiscal Q3 2026 results Wednesday, September 16, after the market closes, the same day the Federal Reserve announces its own rate decision at 2:00pm ET. That pairing matters more for a homebuilder than almost any other stock reporting this week: the options market is pricing Lennar for a move in the 5% to…
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Costco Q4 FY2026 Earnings: COST Options Setup and Why This Stock Rarely Moves Much
Costco reports fiscal Q4 2026 results on Thursday, September 24, after the market closes, with a 2:00pm PT call. Analyst consensus sits around $6.54 EPS and $94.5 billion in revenue, roughly 10% revenue growth year over year. But the number that usually matters more for this stock isn’t the headline print: it’s the membership renewal…
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Qualcomm Q3 FY2026 Earnings Recap: Revenue Beat, EPS Miss, and the Apple Modem Warning That Sank the Stock
Qualcomm beat revenue estimates and still fell nearly 12% over two trading sessions, because the number that actually moved the stock wasn’t on the income statement. It was a disclosure about how much of the next iPhone’s modem business Qualcomm expects to keep, and it came in well below what the market had assumed. Key…
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Darden Restaurants (DRI) Q1 FY2027 Earnings Options Setup: Pricing Olive Garden and LongHorn Into the September 24 Print
Darden Restaurants reports fiscal 2027 first-quarter results before the opening bell on Thursday, September 24, and the setup is more interesting than a typical restaurant-sector print: Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse have been moving in opposite directions for two straight quarters. Wall Street models EPS of $2.06 on revenue of $3.21 billion for the quarter.…
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Kroger Q2 FY2026 Earnings Recap: EPS Beat, Comps Slow to 0.2%, and a Guidance Cut
Kroger beat Wall Street’s earnings estimate and the stock rallied anyway, but the number that actually matters for the rest of the year moved the wrong direction: full-year identical sales guidance got cut, and full-year EPS guidance came in below what analysts had modeled. The options market had priced a 5.5% to 6.3% move into…
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Oracle Q1 FY2027 Earnings Recap: A Beat-and-Raise Quarter With Cloud Infrastructure Up 121%
Oracle beat Q1 FY2027 estimates: EPS $1.92 vs $1.74, revenue $19.3B, cloud infrastructure up 121%. Guidance raised. See how the options setup played out.
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American Eagle (AEO) Q2 FY2026 Earnings Recap: Tariff Refund Inflates the Beat, Stock Falls 15%
American Eagle Outfitters beat both revenue and EPS estimates by a wide margin on September 9, and the stock fell as much as 15% anyway. The beat itself was real but largely borrowed: $196 million in one-time IEEPA tariff refunds inflated the headline number, and once you strip that out, the core American Eagle brand’s…
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GameStop Q2 2026 Earnings: What GME’s 9% Implied Move Is Pricing In
GameStop reports Q2 2026 results Tuesday, September 8, after the close, and the options market is pricing a bigger swing than usual: about 9%, roughly a third larger than the stock’s own recent post-earnings average. That would normally be the headline. It isn’t, because GameStop already told the market most of what it needs to…
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Adobe (ADBE) Q3 FY2026 Earnings Date: Consensus EPS, Revenue, and the 5.4% Options-Implied Move
Adobe reports Q3 FY2026 earnings Thursday, Sept 10 after the close. Consensus: $5.88 EPS, $6.64B revenue. Options price a 5.4% move. What moves ADBE this time.
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Enterprise Software Earnings Recap: How Zoom, CrowdStrike, Salesforce, and Snowflake Actually Landed
Zoom, CrowdStrike, Salesforce, and Snowflake all beat estimates within nine days, but only one stock fell. Here’s why guidance mattered more than the beat.