Earnings Report · After-Hours Watch · mangostracker.ai
Last night's earnings
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 — the Triple Check on that evening's after-hours reports.
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Beats all around, but Wall Street punished every soft guide -- three of four after-hours reporters sold off despite topping estimates — None of the four notable after-hours reports (GameStop, Casey's, ServiceTitan, Braze) were on the watchlist, but it was a busy, telling night: every company beat EPS and revenue, yet only GameStop's raise was enough to hold gains -- Casey's, ServiceTitan, and Braze all sold off hard on cautious forward commentary even after strong quarters.
Reports covered
4 companies reviewed.
EPS vs. Consensus
$0.27 actual vs $0.19 consensus (+42%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$790.2M actual vs $756.85M consensus (+4.4%), though down ~18.7% YoY on hardware decline
Forward Guidance
Raised FY26 adjusted EBITDA outlook to 'in excess of $650M' from prior 'more than $600M', citing collectibles strength
Price Reaction
+1.1% modest move, muted despite the beat-and-raise since core hardware/software revenue kept shrinking
Collectibles (trading cards, pop culture merch) surged 57% to 45% of revenue and drove gross margin from the low-30s into the 40s, more than offsetting a steep decline in legacy video game and pre-owned sales; record Q2 operating income and a guidance raise justify a Strong Beat, but the muted after-hours reaction shows investors still discounting the shrinking core retail business.
EPS vs. Consensus
$7.37 actual vs $6.81 consensus (+8.2%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$5.68B actual vs ~$5.57B consensus (+2%), up 24% YoY
Forward Guidance
Reiterated FY2027 outlook (same-store sales +2-5%, EBITDA growth +8-10%) rather than raising it
Price Reaction
-10.1% after hours despite the headline beat
Fuel margin expansion (47.8c/gal vs 41.0c/gal a year ago) drove the profit beat and both EPS and revenue topped consensus, but management held guidance steady rather than raising it and same-store sales trends were softer than hoped, so a stock that had run up into the print sold off hard on the lack of upside to the outlook.
EPS vs. Consensus
Adj. EPS $0.40 vs $0.35 consensus (+14%); GAAP loss -$0.26 vs -$0.25 expected
Revenue vs. Consensus
$292.8M actual vs $285.9M consensus (+2.4%), up 21% YoY
Forward Guidance
Guided Q3 revenue to $285-287M, below the $293.6M analysts expected, on softer lead-volume trends and a pivot toward its AI-powered Max product over broader trade expansion
Price Reaction
-7.2% in regular trading ahead of the print, then another -20% after hours to $65.30
Both adjusted EPS and revenue beat consensus, but a lowered near-term revenue guide plus decelerating gross transaction volume growth (17%) signaled the core trades business is cooling as the company reallocates investment toward AI -- a beat-the-quarter, cut-the-outlook pattern that reads as a soft beat despite the severity of the selloff.
EPS vs. Consensus
$0.19 actual vs $0.15 consensus (+27%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$227.2M actual vs $220.2M consensus (+3.2%), up 26% YoY
Forward Guidance
Raised full-year revenue guidance to $910-913M (~23% growth), but Q3 adjusted EPS guide of $0.13-0.14 came in below the $0.16 consensus, pointing to near-term margin pressure
Price Reaction
-5.2% in regular trading, then another -12.1% after hours to $26.64
Full-year revenue guidance was actually raised, which would normally put this in Beat/Strong-Beat territory, but the weaker-than-expected Q3 profitability guide overshadowed the top-line beat and raise, driving a sharp selloff -- classifying as a soft beat since the piece of guidance that matters most for the next quarter's results was cut.
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.