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How Earnings Affect Stock Price?
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Investing is heavily dependent on expectation where "Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts" quoted from Gerald Loeb.

The expectations of investors are in turn driven by the numbers raised during the earnings announcement, how much surprise/dismay arise based on the announced figures?
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Credits: handelsblatt.com
Will the profitability of the company be continuous based on the earnings Y-T-Y growth? For this, the growth rate is key ๐Ÿ”‘.
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Let's take a retrospective look at one of the smart money's favourites: $Chipotle Mexican Grill(CMG.US)$
Earnings growth raise expectations
Earnings growth raise expectations
For this example, the positive surprise in earnings growth led to a reaction from the market catapulting the stock price to 1800 & 1900 range from the 1600 range. Lo' and behold, this was considered "expensive" to some given its trading P/E multiple of 40 in Jan 2020.
$Chipotle Mexican Grill(CMG.US)$
Trading below $1000 at Jan 2020
Trading below $1000 at Jan 2020
The "high" P/E multiple is justified based on the growth of the company's earnings and the fast company expansion results in such P/E multiple where investors are willing to buy at the current level as they expect the earnings to grow in comparison to other low growth companies.

Besides numbers, how could earnings release be complete without Guidance?

To put it simply, guidance are projections be it for sales, drivers to sales etc.

A classic example: $Netflix(NFLX.US)$
Sharply lower stock price after Apr 2021 earnings
Sharply lower stock price after Apr 2021 earnings
The market reacted negatively (-7.40%) simply based on guidance that subscriber growth would be dampen, bearing in mind the driver for $Netflix(NFLX.US)$'s earnings growth.

The market is a vibrant place where not all companies are equal hence guidance release for other companies would differ, e.g. $Tesla(TSLA.US)$ focuses on vehicle deliveries

So earnings is truly one key event to a stock price, without doubt. The volatility surging (based on possible erratic up or down stock movement) is expected during the earning period which to some is another window of opportunity.

Trade safe everyone! None of the above is financial advice and should not be taken as one.

$Amazon(AMZN.US)$ earnings 28 Oct 21
$Phunware(PHUN.US)$ earnings 8 Nov 21
$AMC Entertainment(AMC.US)$ earnings 1 Nov 21
$GameStop(GME.US)$ earnings 14 Dec 21
Source: Nasdaq.com

A short poll: Do you trade during earnings?
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