What is the earnings season?
The earnings season is a term used to identify the various times of the calendar year, when publicly traded corporations publish information about their earnings to the general public. The seasons of this type usually follow immediately after quarterly earnings with investors. Traditionally, there are short periods during the calendar year, when most corporations provide financial information about this type widely available through written documents, press releases and disclosure of information on the company website.
While there are some exceptions, the earnings season for many corporations begins a month after the end of each business quarter. This means that as soon as the last quarter of the year was completed to 31. This short time between the end of the trade quarter and the publication of the financial information to the general public allows the time to set up data in formats that are easy to read and understandt. The temporary period also provides the time to submit the date to the shareholders before the information is published to various public stores.
The length of the given earnings season will vary depending on the number of companies that decide to publish information about this particular season. Some companies publish data on this type every quarter, while others provide half -year financial data to the general public. In most cases, it is unlikely that a particular season of earnings will take more than six weeks and can be as short as four weeks.
Regardless of the length of earnings, these periods are usually very busy for industrial analysts, mediation houses and investors. The published data may have a deep impact on shares issued by specific companies and the industry associated with the company. Analysts and brokers will use data to determine whether the shares will rise, fall or stay ontheir current levels. These projections allow investors to decide whether they will stick to current shares in their possession, get additional shares or sell their shares.
suddenly, the earnings period recorded the mass division of paper documents to various intelligence agencies, mediation houses and other participating parties. Since the arrival of the Internet, many companies have decided to make this type of information available on the company website, allowing anyone to access data with ease. Some companies also publish records of audio and web conferences at investors' earnings, which are held with shareholders in parallel or just before publishing information on earnings for the general public.