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Guides for the chat, and the earnings call knowledge behind it.

COMPARISONS · 2026-09-10

7 AI stock research assistants that show their sources, compared

Seven AI assistants for stock research, compared on the one thing that matters most: whether you can check where every answer came from.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-09-03

What companies actually say about AI spending on earnings calls

AI came up on over 2,000 earnings calls this quarter. How to separate the companies spending on it from the ones talking about it, in their own words.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-09-03

How to track tariffs and supply chains through earnings calls

Tariffs hit companies unevenly and management says so out loud, quarter by quarter. How to read the exposure from the transcripts before it reaches the numbers.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-09-03

How to search earnings call transcripts (and why keyword search fails)

Searching 253,000 earnings call transcripts by keyword misses most of what you want. What goes wrong, and how to ask questions instead of typing words.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-09-03

The small caps nobody reads: earnings calls without analyst coverage

Nearly 7,000 companies reported this quarter. Most have no analyst writing them up. How to research the uncovered ones from their own transcripts.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-09-03

Earnings calls outside the US: what 62 countries are actually saying

US companies dominate the coverage you read, not the calls that happen. India was second by volume this quarter. How to research earnings calls by country.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-09-03

Researching earnings calls out loud: what changes when you can just ask

Talking to an archive of 253,000 earnings calls is not dictation with extra steps. What voice is genuinely better at, what it is worse at, and how to use both.

COMPARISONS · 2026-08-27

The 10 best AI earnings call summary tools in 2026

Ten tools that summarise earnings calls with AI, compared on citations, coverage and price, from free transcript sites to institutional platforms.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-08-20

Can AI analyze earnings calls? What works in 2026

What AI can genuinely do with earnings calls, where general chatbots fail, and how grounded systems turn transcripts into sourced answers.

COMPARISONS · 2026-08-13

AlphaSense alternatives: 8 options for investors without an enterprise contract

AlphaSense is powerful and sold on annual contracts. Eight alternatives for earnings calls and research, compared on features, access and price.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-08-06

Why grounded AI beats generic AI for earnings analysis

Generic chatbots invent plausible earnings figures. Grounded AI earnings analysis queries transcripts, quotes verbatim, and reports gaps as gaps.

COMPARISONS · 2026-07-30

Where to find earnings call transcripts: 9 free and paid sources compared

Nine places to read earnings call transcripts, compared on coverage, speed, history and price, from free sites to paid research platforms.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-07-23

Did the company beat earnings? How to answer it properly

What "beating earnings" actually means, why a beat can still sink the stock, and how to read the call behind the headline in five minutes.

COMPARISONS · 2026-07-16

The 9 best AI tools for earnings call analysis in 2026

Nine AI tools for analysing earnings calls, compared on sources, coverage and price, from institutional platforms to general chatbots.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-07-09

From transcript to thesis: an earnings research workflow

A repeatable research workflow over earnings call transcripts: watchlist rounds, sector reads, comparison tables, and exports that keep their sources.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-06-25

What did companies say about AI? Tracking a theme across calls

How to follow one theme, AI demand, tariffs, capacity, China, through hundreds of earnings calls, and turn scattered sentences into a sector signal.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-06-11

Follow-up techniques: drilling into earnings calls

How to run a multi-question conversation over earnings call transcripts: drill down, zoom out, switch models, and keep the thread across follow-ups.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-05-28

Will the stock go up after earnings? What AI can honestly tell you

Why no AI can predict the post-earnings move, what the transcripts genuinely reveal, and the questions that turn a call into evidence instead of a forecast.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-05-14

Charts and tables from earnings calls, in one question

How to get bar charts, line charts and comparison tables out of earnings call transcripts with a single prompt, and why every number stays sourced.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-04-30

Who raised guidance this week? A screening habit that works

Guidance changes are the strongest recurring signal in earnings season. How to screen raises and cuts week by week with one question, and what to do with the list.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-04-16

10 questions to ask an earnings call

The ten most useful questions to ask about any earnings call, from a quick summary to sector-wide comparisons, and how earnings.chat answers each one.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-04-02

What risks did management mention? Reading danger in earnings calls

Where risk actually hides in an earnings call: prepared caveats, Q&A deflections, and the language changes that precede bad quarters.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-03-19

Earnings season: how to prepare a watchlist

When earnings season happens, how to build a watchlist that survives peak weeks, and what to check for each name before and after the call.

USING THE CHAT · 2026-03-05

Compare two companies by their earnings calls, properly

How to compare competitors, suppliers and customers through their earnings calls: which pairs reveal the most, and the questions that make comparisons honest.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-02-19

Management guidance explained: raised, held, cut

What guidance means in an earnings report, why raised or cut guidance moves stocks more than results, and how to track guidance language across quarters.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-02-05

Earnings call sentiment analysis: what tone really tells you

What sentiment analysis on earnings calls measures, where it genuinely predicts something, and how to use tone as evidence instead of a vibe.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-01-22

Earnings call summaries: what a good one contains

The five elements every earnings call summary needs, the failure modes of AI-generated summaries, and how to judge whether a summary can be trusted.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2026-01-08

Can you trust AI with earnings numbers? A verification guide

When AI-quoted financial figures can be trusted, when they cannot, and the thirty-second checks that separate sourced numbers from fluent guesses.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2025-12-23

How to read an earnings call transcript, fast

A method for reading earnings call transcripts in minutes instead of an hour: where to start, what to skip, and how to interpret what management says.

USING THE CHAT · 2025-12-10

Before you buy: an earnings-call due diligence checklist

Eight checks against a company's earnings calls before taking a position: promises kept, guidance credibility, margin trajectory, and the questions that run them.

EARNINGS KNOWLEDGE · 2025-11-26

What is an earnings call? A practical guide

What an earnings call is, what happens during one, who can listen, and why the Q&A section moves markets more than the prepared remarks.