Dates for Earnings surprise

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Derrenoption

Hello,

When looking at yahoo finance:
https://biz.yahoo.com/z/20131031.html

We can for example see the stock "AHS" with a "Surprise (%)" of 12.50.

My question is if it is possible to see what date this "Surprise (%)" was released.
How would that be possible to see for this date 20131031 ?

(20131031 is the earnings date itself for "AHS")
 
I can only find the below:

Sep2016 10/18/2016 0.8 0.73 9.59
Jun2016 07/20/2016 0.59 0.53 11.32
Mar2016 04/19/2016 0.54 0.49 10.2
Dec2015 01/14/2016 0.74 0.63 17.46

Is there a way to get even older dates back to for example year 2013 like: 20131031 ?

The question really is how we can know for a stock when the "Surprise %" date was.
For example for symbol AHS we have an earningsdate, 20131031 .
But how can we know when the "Surprise %" date was? Is it different for every stock or is there a pattern/exact season dates for this?

I am looking for dates back to year 2010 for a large number of symbols. For example it is possible to find the earningsdates back to year 2010 on yahoo.
 
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Intrigued by this question, I Googled around. Here's the best that I could find:
Zacks Earnings Surprises said:
Updated daily, this data set chronicles historical estimated and actual earnings and surprise calculations for 6,000 US and Canadian listed companies covering the last ten years.
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$25/month. They've got a little API set up to import these data, so you should be able to handle a large number of symbols.
https://www.quantopian.com/data/zacks/earnings_surprises
 
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Derrenoption said:
Thank you for your help. I wonder also if the earningssurprise always comes out on those dates like yahoo states:

I wonder if it is standard that a company release the earnings surprise on those dates, if it is safe to use those dates like it is shown here?
http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AHS/analysts?p=AHS

Earnings History
12/31/2015
3/31/2016
6/30/2016
9/30/2016
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A company doesn't "release the earnings surprise," they release earnings, and the surprise can then be calculated.

Companies announce earnings once per quarter, on a specific date, typically either before or after the market closes. Before this happens, different analysts will try and predict the earnings, and a specific number--a "consensus" of earnings expectations--are some form of average. After earnings are announced, subtract Actual earnings from Expected earnings to calculate Earnings Surprise. This can be represented as a percentage by dividing by Actual earnings.

Example: Amalgamated Banking Conglomerates (example:ABC) is scheduled to release earnings on Nov 21st. Three analysts have predicted earnings of $0.04, $-0.01, and $0.03, respectively. Consensus expectation is the (non-weighted) average of these three: $0.02. ABC releases actual earnings of $0.03. Earnings surprise is then $0.01, or 50%.

So when you ask, "Is it safe to use those dates," I'm not sure what you mean. What other date would you use than the earnings release date?

Hope this helps. See the Morningstar Earnings Calendar below for earnings release dates of different companies.
http://www.morningstar.com/earnings/earnings-calendar.aspx
 
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Thank you for the Morningstar Earnings Calendar, that could help out quite well perheps.

So when you ask, "Is it safe to use those dates," I'm not sure what you mean. What other date would you use than the earnings release date?
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I understand now what you mean, so it is true that different companies release their earningsreport on different dates DURING a quarter if I understand?

What I think confuses me is when looking at Yahoo, those dates are shown for every single stock symbol:

Earnings History
12/31/2015
3/31/2016
6/30/2016
9/30/2016

I interpret this as that particular symbol, AHS in my previous post releases the earningsreport on those Exact dates but that should not be true then?

I wonder if it is like this for example for date: 3/31/2016:
- AHS did release their earningsreport sometime DURING the quarter: 12/31/2015 - 3/31/2016
and they just write it out like above for simplicity?

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I did look at the morningstar earnings calender:

I beleive this number is the same as consensus EPS(but only from Wall st)?
Wall St EPS Est($): -0.27

This number will then be released as the earningsreport on that specific date?
Actual EPS($): -0.19
 
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ok bro... I got this figured out. Here's the problem: there was a ticker symbol change on October 27th. Here's the news release:

Bloomberg said:
Oct 17 16
Effective October 27, 2016, AMN Healthcare Services Inc. will change its New York Stock Exchange stock ticker symbol to AMN from AHS.
More...
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24821
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...k-trading-symbol-change-to-amn-300345555.html

NOW, check the earnings surprise page on Nasdaq for nyse:AMN. That gives you the Fiscal Quarter End, Date Reported, Surprise Percentage... all the stuff that we discussed above.
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amn/earnings-surprise

As you can see, the "Date Reported" is days, sometimes weeks, or even more than a month after the fiscal quarter end. They can't report earnings on a quarter until it's over; the money hasn't been earned (or lost) yet!

amn.png
 
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