Source: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/earnings-season-earnings-report

# Earnings season / earnings report
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/earnings-season-earnings-report
Last modified: 2026-10-17

Earnings season is the weeks after each quarter ends when most US companies report, starting with the big banks around mid-January, April, July and October. Most results land [after the 1:30 AM IST close into a thin book](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-us-stock-prices-form), and [the guide, not the quarter, moves the stock](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-earnings-explained). [PepsiCo usually writes the opening sentence](https://mochatrade.com/blog/mocha-markets-weekly-oct-05), and [the banks report next](https://mochatrade.com/blog/mocha-markets-weekly-12-oct).

## Related terms

- Guidance (earnings guidance): https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/guidance
- Earnings call: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/earnings-call
- Earnings beat and miss: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/earnings-beat-and-miss
- Net interest income: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/net-interest-income
- Pre-market and after-hours trading: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/pre-market-and-after-hours-trading
- Gap up and gap down: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/gap-up-and-gap-down