Earnings Report · After-Hours Watch · mangostracker.ai
Last night's earnings
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 — the Triple Check on that evening's after-hours reports.
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Broadcom Guidance Wobble Overshadows AI Beat as Snowflake and HPE Deliver Clean Beat-and-Raises — Three watchlist names reported after Wednesday close: HPE and Snowflake both beat on EPS and revenue and raised guidance, while Broadcom beat estimates but shares slid 5-6% after its Q4 revenue guide came in just short of consensus despite still-blistering AI semiconductor growth.
Reports covered
3 companies reviewed.
EPS vs. Consensus
$0.62 non-GAAP actual vs $0.45 consensus (+37.8%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$1.55B actual vs $1.48B consensus (+4.7%); product revenue $1.49B, +37% YoY
Forward Guidance
Raised Q3 product revenue guide to $1.59B (vs $1.50B consensus) and full-year product revenue guidance to $6.07B (from $5.84B in May); lifted FY adjusted operating margin outlook to 14.5% from 13.5%, citing accelerating AI/data-platform adoption.
Price Reaction
+22% after hours on heavy volume
Clean beat-and-raise across EPS, revenue, and forward guidance, with margin expansion on top -- a textbook Strong Beat that the market rewarded with one of its biggest post-earnings pops of the year.
EPS vs. Consensus
$1.11 adjusted actual vs $0.93 consensus (+19.4%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$12.21B actual vs $11.91B consensus (+2.5%), up from $9.14B a year ago
Forward Guidance
Raised FY26 adjusted EPS guidance to $3.75-$3.85 (vs $3.43 est.) and revenue outlook to $45.96B-$46.99B (vs $44.94B est.), citing continued server and AI-systems demand strength.
Price Reaction
Choppy: briefly +2.8% after hours before fading to roughly -0.6%
Beat on EPS and revenue plus a guidance raise checks every box for a Strong Beat, but the muted after-hours fade suggests the good news was already priced in after HPEs roughly 120% YTD run into the print -- a sell-the-news reaction rather than a fundamental red flag.
EPS vs. Consensus
$3.32 non-GAAP actual vs $3.24 consensus (+2.5%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$29.59B actual vs ~$29.43B consensus (+0.6%); AI semiconductor revenue +221% YoY to $16.7B
Forward Guidance
Q4 revenue guided to ~$34.8B, slightly below the ~$35.03B consensus, even as AI semiconductor revenue guidance of $21.7B (+236% YoY) topped expectations -- CEO Hock Tan said AI demand is running ahead of the companys own $115B FY27 AI revenue target, pointing to softer non-AI segments as the drag on the total guide.
Price Reaction
-5% to -6% after hours, narrowing to about -3.5% later in extended trading, on heavy volume
EPS and revenue both cleared consensus and AI demand commentary was bullish, but the slight miss on next-quarter total-company revenue guidance overshadowed the beat, triggering a classic guide-driven selloff typical of a priced-for-perfection AI name.
What this is (and isn't)
A fourth, independent lens — this one on the companies that just reported (or are about to), not the tape itself.
Every weekday evening around 7:30 PM ET, a separate job checks which notable companies (our own maintained watchlist, plus other market-moving names when relevant) reported earnings after that day's close, and runs each through a "Triple Check": actual EPS and revenue against Wall Street consensus, and — the part that drives most of the actual price reaction — forward guidance. On Fridays, a same-day recap is low-value heading into a weekend with no trading day right after, so that run instead previews which notable companies are scheduled to report the following week.
- This job never places trades — it has no access to cash, holdings, or the trade ledger
- Ideas here are commentary, not positions in the paper portfolio
- It's fine, and common, for a quiet night (or week) to produce nothing to report
How reports are graded
The same rubric applied to every company reviewed.
| Grade | Criteria | Typical reaction |
| Strong Beat | Beat EPS & revenue, raised guidance | Sharp gap up (+5% to +15%+) |
| Beat | Beat EPS & revenue, guidance unchanged | Moderate pop, can get sold off |
| In-Line / Soft Beat | EPS beat (often via cost-cutting), revenue missed or guidance lowered | Mixed to negative |
| Miss | Missed EPS or revenue, weak guidance | Sharp gap down (-5% to -20%+) |
Timing
Weekday evenings run the recap above; Fridays run the week-ahead preview instead.
4:00 PM ET
The market closes. Most companies that report today do so shortly after this, in the after-hours session.
~7:30 PM ET
This job fires — enough time for the initial post-earnings price reaction and analyst commentary to develop — and this page updates.
Archive
Past evenings' earnings reviews.
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Oct 15, 2026
Alcoa beats on EPS but misses revenue as Q3 season kicks off with J.B. Hunt and Interactive Brokers
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Oct 14, 2026
Quiet night after the bell: no watchlist names reported
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Oct 13, 2026
Quiet night after the bell as bank earnings season front-loads into the morning
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Oct 12, 2026
Quiet Columbus Day session -- no notable earnings after the bell
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Oct 9, 2026
Banks kick off Q3 earnings season, with chip giants ASML and TSMC right behind them
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Oct 8, 2026
Quiet night on the earnings front -- no major after-hours reports
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Oct 7, 2026
Applied Digital crushes revenue estimates; Levi Strauss beats but tariff warning sinks the stock
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Oct 6, 2026
Penguin Solutions soars on AI-infra beat while Constellation Brands beats but still gets sold
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Oct 5, 2026
Quiet night on the earnings front -- nothing notable reported after the close
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Oct 2, 2026
Earnings season opens quietly before next week's bank deluge
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Oct 1, 2026
Nike beats on EPS but guides FY2027 revenue down high-single-digits as China slump deepens; shares sink ~6% after hours
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Sep 30, 2026
Micron smashes Q4 estimates and guides Q1 well above the Street, but shares slip on capex sticker shock
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Sep 29, 2026
Quiet night on the earnings front -- no watchlist names reported
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Sep 28, 2026
Jefferies tops estimates but slides on trading/asset-management softness; Vail Resorts posts modest beat with soft pass sales
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Sep 25, 2026
Micron kicks off a make-or-break week for the AI trade, with Nike, Accenture and Carnival testing their own turnaround stories
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Sep 24, 2026
Costco beats but margin worries cap the pop; BlackBerry keeps raising the bar
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Sep 23, 2026
A quiet night on the earnings front
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Sep 22, 2026
KB Home beats on profit but trims margin outlook; Worthington Enterprises tops estimates on data-center demand
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Sep 21, 2026
Quiet Monday: no major after-hours reports before earnings season ramps up
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Sep 18, 2026
A quiet week for the watchlist, but consumer bellwethers will test how resilient spending really is
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Sep 17, 2026
A quiet after-hours session, headlined by Lennar's housing-market warning
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Sep 16, 2026
Lennar misses on both lines as housing affordability squeeze deepens
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Sep 15, 2026
Quiet night on the earnings front
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Sep 14, 2026
Quiet night on the watchlist -- Dave & Busters the lone notable miss after the bell
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Sep 11, 2026
A lull before the next wave: housing takes center stage
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Sep 10, 2026
Oracle blows past estimates on AI cloud backlog; Adobe beats and raises but a surprise CEO handoff steals the spotlight
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Sep 9, 2026
Two beats, two selloffs: C3.ai and American Eagle both topped estimates but got punished on guidance quality
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Sep 8, 2026
Beats all around, but Wall Street punished every soft guide -- three of four after-hours reporters sold off despite topping estimates
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Sep 4, 2026
A quieter week, but Oracle and Adobe bring the AI-earnings story back to center stage
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Sep 3, 2026
Cloud software delivers clean beat-and-raise night: Zscaler, DocuSign, and UiPath all top estimates on AI-driven demand
Notes
This page is market commentary built from real earnings releases and public analyst coverage, not a trade signal and not connected to the paper-trading account's cash or holdings. Nothing here is executed. Not investment advice.