Earnings Report · After-Hours Watch · mangostracker.ai
Last night's earnings
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 — the Triple Check on that evening's after-hours reports.
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KB Home beats on profit but trims margin outlook; Worthington Enterprises tops estimates on data-center demand — A quiet post-close night outside the mega-caps: KB Home topped EPS estimates but its trimmed Q4 margin outlook (pricing pressure, higher costs) sent shares lower after hours, while Worthington Enterprises beat on both EPS and revenue as its data-center liquid-cooling tank business keeps ramping.
Reports covered
2 companies reviewed.
EPS vs. Consensus
$1.05 actual vs $0.89 consensus (+18%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$1.30B actual vs $1.30B consensus (roughly in-line)
Forward Guidance
Maintained full-year FY26 delivery guidance (10,500-11,000 homes) and revenue guidance ($4.9B-$5.1B), but lowered Q4 housing gross margin outlook to 16.0%-16.6%, citing pricing pressure, higher direct/land costs, and a smaller mix contribution from higher-margin West Coast communities.
Price Reaction
-2.2% after hours (from a $48.59 close to ~$47.51), though some real-time feeds showed brief swings in both directions
EPS beat handily but revenue merely matched estimates and the trimmed Q4 margin outlook signals cost and pricing pressure in the housing market, which is what drove shares lower after hours despite the headline profit beat.
EPS vs. Consensus
$0.82 actual (non-GAAP) vs $0.75 consensus (+9.3%)
Revenue vs. Consensus
$343.9M actual vs $331.3M consensus (+3.8%); sales up 13.2% YoY
Forward Guidance
No formal full-year EPS/revenue guidance change; reiterated it expects to ship at least ~$13M of ASME water tanks for data-center liquid cooling in Q1 FY27 alone, with management calling it a multiyear growth opportunity and citing accelerating demand prompting added capacity investment.
Price Reaction
Roughly flat in initial after-hours trading (~+0.1%) just after the print, despite the beat
Beat on both EPS and revenue with accelerating organic growth (7%) and a notable data-center cooling tailwind, but without a formal raise to full-year guidance the initial after-hours reaction was muted relative to the size of the beat.
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.