Earnings Report · After-Hours Watch · mangostracker.ai
Last night's earnings
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 — the Triple Check on that evening's after-hours reports.
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Beats all around, but Wall Street punished every soft guide -- three of four after-hours reporters sold off despite topping estimates — None of the four notable after-hours reports (GameStop, Casey's, ServiceTitan, Braze) were on the watchlist, but it was a busy, telling night: every company beat EPS and revenue, yet only GameStop's raise was enough to hold gains -- Casey's, ServiceTitan, and Braze all sold off hard on cautious forward commentary even after strong quarters.
Reports covered
4 companies reviewed.
EPS vs. Consensus
$0.27 actual vs $0.19 consensus (+42%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$790.2M actual vs $756.85M consensus (+4.4%), though down ~18.7% YoY on hardware decline
Forward Guidance
Raised FY26 adjusted EBITDA outlook to 'in excess of $650M' from prior 'more than $600M', citing collectibles strength
Price Reaction
+1.1% modest move, muted despite the beat-and-raise since core hardware/software revenue kept shrinking
Collectibles (trading cards, pop culture merch) surged 57% to 45% of revenue and drove gross margin from the low-30s into the 40s, more than offsetting a steep decline in legacy video game and pre-owned sales; record Q2 operating income and a guidance raise justify a Strong Beat, but the muted after-hours reaction shows investors still discounting the shrinking core retail business.
EPS vs. Consensus
$7.37 actual vs $6.81 consensus (+8.2%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$5.68B actual vs ~$5.57B consensus (+2%), up 24% YoY
Forward Guidance
Reiterated FY2027 outlook (same-store sales +2-5%, EBITDA growth +8-10%) rather than raising it
Price Reaction
-10.1% after hours despite the headline beat
Fuel margin expansion (47.8c/gal vs 41.0c/gal a year ago) drove the profit beat and both EPS and revenue topped consensus, but management held guidance steady rather than raising it and same-store sales trends were softer than hoped, so a stock that had run up into the print sold off hard on the lack of upside to the outlook.
EPS vs. Consensus
Adj. EPS $0.40 vs $0.35 consensus (+14%); GAAP loss -$0.26 vs -$0.25 expected
Revenue vs. Consensus
$292.8M actual vs $285.9M consensus (+2.4%), up 21% YoY
Forward Guidance
Guided Q3 revenue to $285-287M, below the $293.6M analysts expected, on softer lead-volume trends and a pivot toward its AI-powered Max product over broader trade expansion
Price Reaction
-7.2% in regular trading ahead of the print, then another -20% after hours to $65.30
Both adjusted EPS and revenue beat consensus, but a lowered near-term revenue guide plus decelerating gross transaction volume growth (17%) signaled the core trades business is cooling as the company reallocates investment toward AI -- a beat-the-quarter, cut-the-outlook pattern that reads as a soft beat despite the severity of the selloff.
EPS vs. Consensus
$0.19 actual vs $0.15 consensus (+27%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$227.2M actual vs $220.2M consensus (+3.2%), up 26% YoY
Forward Guidance
Raised full-year revenue guidance to $910-913M (~23% growth), but Q3 adjusted EPS guide of $0.13-0.14 came in below the $0.16 consensus, pointing to near-term margin pressure
Price Reaction
-5.2% in regular trading, then another -12.1% after hours to $26.64
Full-year revenue guidance was actually raised, which would normally put this in Beat/Strong-Beat territory, but the weaker-than-expected Q3 profitability guide overshadowed the top-line beat and raise, driving a sharp selloff -- classifying as a soft beat since the piece of guidance that matters most for the next quarter's results was cut.
What this is (and isn't)
A fourth, independent lens — this one on the companies that just reported (or are about to), not the tape itself.
Every weekday evening around 7:30 PM ET, a separate job checks which notable companies (our own maintained watchlist, plus other market-moving names when relevant) reported earnings after that day's close, and runs each through a "Triple Check": actual EPS and revenue against Wall Street consensus, and — the part that drives most of the actual price reaction — forward guidance. On Fridays, a same-day recap is low-value heading into a weekend with no trading day right after, so that run instead previews which notable companies are scheduled to report the following week.
- This job never places trades — it has no access to cash, holdings, or the trade ledger
- Ideas here are commentary, not positions in the paper portfolio
- It's fine, and common, for a quiet night (or week) to produce nothing to report
How reports are graded
The same rubric applied to every company reviewed.
| Grade | Criteria | Typical reaction |
| Strong Beat | Beat EPS & revenue, raised guidance | Sharp gap up (+5% to +15%+) |
| Beat | Beat EPS & revenue, guidance unchanged | Moderate pop, can get sold off |
| In-Line / Soft Beat | EPS beat (often via cost-cutting), revenue missed or guidance lowered | Mixed to negative |
| Miss | Missed EPS or revenue, weak guidance | Sharp gap down (-5% to -20%+) |
Timing
Weekday evenings run the recap above; Fridays run the week-ahead preview instead.
4:00 PM ET
The market closes. Most companies that report today do so shortly after this, in the after-hours session.
~7:30 PM ET
This job fires — enough time for the initial post-earnings price reaction and analyst commentary to develop — and this page updates.
Archive
Past evenings' earnings reviews.
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Sep 25, 2026
Micron kicks off a make-or-break week for the AI trade, with Nike, Accenture and Carnival testing their own turnaround stories
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Sep 24, 2026
Costco beats but margin worries cap the pop; BlackBerry keeps raising the bar
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Sep 23, 2026
A quiet night on the earnings front
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Sep 22, 2026
KB Home beats on profit but trims margin outlook; Worthington Enterprises tops estimates on data-center demand
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Sep 21, 2026
Quiet Monday: no major after-hours reports before earnings season ramps up
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Sep 18, 2026
A quiet week for the watchlist, but consumer bellwethers will test how resilient spending really is
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Sep 17, 2026
A quiet after-hours session, headlined by Lennar's housing-market warning
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Sep 16, 2026
Lennar misses on both lines as housing affordability squeeze deepens
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Sep 15, 2026
Quiet night on the earnings front
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Sep 14, 2026
Quiet night on the watchlist -- Dave & Busters the lone notable miss after the bell
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Sep 11, 2026
A lull before the next wave: housing takes center stage
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Sep 10, 2026
Oracle blows past estimates on AI cloud backlog; Adobe beats and raises but a surprise CEO handoff steals the spotlight
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Sep 9, 2026
Two beats, two selloffs: C3.ai and American Eagle both topped estimates but got punished on guidance quality
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Sep 8, 2026
Beats all around, but Wall Street punished every soft guide -- three of four after-hours reporters sold off despite topping estimates
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Sep 4, 2026
A quieter week, but Oracle and Adobe bring the AI-earnings story back to center stage
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Sep 3, 2026
Cloud software delivers clean beat-and-raise night: Zscaler, DocuSign, and UiPath all top estimates on AI-driven demand
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Sep 2, 2026
Broadcom Guidance Wobble Overshadows AI Beat as Snowflake and HPE Deliver Clean Beat-and-Raises
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Sep 1, 2026
Beat-and-raise sweep: Dell, Palo Alto, MongoDB and GitLab all top estimates, but the market punishes some more than others
Notes
This page is market commentary built from real earnings releases and public analyst coverage, not a trade signal and not connected to the paper-trading account's cash or holdings. Nothing here is executed. Not investment advice.