Earnings & EPS Beat Rate
How often has this company actually beaten what analysts expected it to earn?
Earnings Per Share (EPS) is a company's net income divided by its number of outstanding shares — profit expressed on a per-share basis, the same unit as the stock price itself, which is exactly why P/E (price ÷ EPS) works as a comparison. Every quarter, analysts publish an EPS estimate ahead of the actual earnings release; how the real, reported number compares to that estimate is what "beat" or "miss" refers to.
InsiderWolf's EPS Beat Rate looks at the trailing 8 quarters and shows what fraction of them the company beat its own consensus estimate — a quick read on how reliably a company clears the bar Wall Street sets for it.
| Quarter | Estimate (EPS) | Actual (EPS) | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | $1.20 | $1.35 | Beat |
| Q2 | $1.25 | $1.22 | Miss |
| Q3 | $1.30 | $1.41 | Beat |
| Q4 | $1.38 | $1.44 | Beat |
A beat is relative to expectations, not an absolute measure of a good quarter — and expectations themselves can already be priced into the stock before the announcement even happens. This is why InsiderWolf's Post-Earnings Reaction chart tracks the stock's actual price move after each of the last 4 reports separately from the beat/miss result itself — they don't always point the same direction.
- A long beat streak can raise the bar over time — as expectations adjust upward to match a track record of beats, each subsequent beat has to be bigger just to keep surprising anyone.
- "Beat" is about EPS specifically — a company can beat EPS while missing on revenue (or the reverse), and the market often reacts more to which specific number surprised, and by how much guidance changed, than the EPS beat/miss headline alone.
- A single miss after a long beat streak isn't automatically a red flag — check whether it's a genuine deterioration or a one-off (a one-time charge, a currency effect, timing of a large contract).