Market Analysis
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Rocket Lab (RKLB) Q2 2026 Earnings Recap: The Record Quarter That Still Sent the Stock Down 7%
RKLB posted record $234M revenue and a $2.36B backlog, then fell about 7% after hours on Neutron delay risk. Here is what actually moved the stock.
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SpaceX (SPCX) Q2 2026 Earnings Recap: Revenue Beats, Stock Falls 13% on AI Capex Shock
SpaceX’s first earnings report beat on revenue but fell 13% on AI capex. What options traders should know before today’s lock-up expiration.
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Duolingo (DUOL) Q2 2026 Pre-Earnings Options Setup: Pricing the Story Stock’s Volatility Ahead of the Print
Duolingo reports Q2 2026 results today, August 5, after the close, with a 5:00pm ET webcast. Options are pricing a 15.1% post-earnings move, roughly $19.70 on a stock trading near $130.70, more than five times the implied move on a mega-cap name reporting this same earnings season. That gap is the story: DUOL trades less…
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AMD Q2 FY2026 Pre-Earnings Options Setup: Expected Move and the MI350 Ramp
AMD reports Q2 FY2026 results today after the market close. See what options are pricing for the move and why last quarter’s swing doubled the estimate.
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Caterpillar Q2 2026 Earnings: Pricing the Industrial Bellwether’s Options Move
Caterpillar reports Q2 2026 earnings Aug. 4. Options price a 6.1% move, but CAT has beaten its implied move in 5 of the last 8 quarters. Here’s the setup.
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Palantir Q2 2026 Earnings Recap: The Beat That Broke Its ‘Priced for Perfection’ Pattern
PLTR beat Q2 2026 estimates on every metric and the stock jumped nearly 30%, the opposite of Q1’s muted reaction. What changed, and what options priced wrong.
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Marriott Q2 2026 Earnings Options Setup: Pricing Travel Demand Into Monday’s Tight-Window Print
Marriott International reports second-quarter 2026 results Monday morning, and options traders have priced in one of the smaller moves of this earnings season: roughly 3.9%. That number is easy to read as “low risk.” It isn’t. Marriott has blown past its own priced move in half of its last eight reports, including one instance where…
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Amazon Q2 2026 Earnings Recap: AWS Reaccelerates to 37% Growth, Silencing the Deceleration Fear
Amazon just answered the question that hung over every AWS earnings call this year: was cloud growth actually reaccelerating, or was that hope? AWS grew 37% year over year in Q2 2026, its fastest pace in 18 quarters, and the stock jumped as much as 9% in after-hours trading. That single number turned a quarter…
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Apple’s Last Earnings Call Under Tim Cook: AAPL Q3 FY2026 Options Setup and Expected Move
Apple reports Q3 FY2026 results today. Options traders are pricing a ~4% move, double AAPL’s recent average, in Tim Cook’s last quarterly call as CEO before John Ternus takes over.
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Microsoft Q4 FY2026 Earnings: MSFT Options Are Pricing a Bigger Move Than Usual
Options traders are pricing a 7-8% move for Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 2026 report, well above its recent average. Here’s what the Azure and AI-capex numbers mean for the setup.