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Out of curiosity - do you get some kind of template version of the earnings report before it is released so you can parse the numbers? Are they just always word
by yfhsjjskc 10y ago
Out of curiosity - do you get some kind of template version of the earnings report before it is released so you can parse the numbers? Are they just always worded the same way? Or do they broadcast the numbers directly somehow?
- HockeyPlayer 10y agoDepends on the release, but generally the numbers are released in a consistent machine-readable format.
- jnordwick 10y agoEarnings reports are the worst. Most of the economic numbers and other statistics are released in a machine readable format by a few companies that compete on speed. (There are some anomalies that come over the web and they are horrible to deal with.) Earnings reports though I've tried numerous things from subscribing to services that release numbers electrically to writing parsers based on prior reports. Earnings though you care about things like one time charges, gaap and non-gaap numbers, etc. They are one of the less consistent things to trade.