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S&P 500 companies are beating earnings estimates at the highest rate since 2021, and this week brings one of the year's heaviest reporting slates. Here's why a high beat rate is a squishier signal than it looks — and what actually prices in an individual stock's earnings risk.
Microsoft and Meta report earnings after today's close, six days after Alphabet's 7% capex-driven plunge reset how Wall Street judges AI spending. Options markets are pricing roughly 7–8% moves for both stocks.
Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and RTX report earnings the same week as the Farnborough Airshow. Here's what stacked scheduled-and-unscheduled catalysts mean for options implied moves — and the risks of trading around them.