Earnings Report · Week Ahead · mangostracker.ai
Earnings to watch next week
Previewed Friday, September 18, 2026 — who reports September 21 - 25, 2026.
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A quiet week for the watchlist, but consumer bellwethers will test how resilient spending really is — Only one watchlist name reports this week -- Costco -- but AutoZone and Darden round out a read on consumer health, with tariff-driven cost pressure and value-seeking behavior as the throughline heading into the holidays.
Coming up next week
3 companies scheduled to report.
AutoZone reports Q4 FY2026 with consensus EPS of $54.22 on $6.71B revenue. Watch whether pricing actions to offset tariff-driven parts cost inflation are holding gross margin, and whether "do-it-yourself" auto maintenance spend stays resilient as consumers delay big-ticket purchases.
Costco (on the watchlist) reports Q4 FY2026 with consensus of roughly $6.55 EPS on ~$94.85B revenue. Focus is on membership fee-hike renewal rates, e-commerce growth, and whether comp sales show the consumer trading down elsewhere but staying loyal to the warehouse model.
Darden reports Q1 FY2027 with consensus of about $2.06 EPS on ~$3.21B revenue. Olive Garden and LongHorn traffic trends are the tell for lower- and middle-income consumer pullback in casual dining, and whether value-meal promotions are protecting margin against labor and food cost inflation.
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
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.