By Brian M. Reiser Earnings season might be the most important time of the year for investors in the stock market. It represents the period when publicly-traded corporations release their quarterly earnings report and revealing their latest quarterly performance to the public. In general, earnings season begins about six weeks after the end of a fiscal quarter, and it lasts for about six weeks.
Earnings season has big consequences for the short-term price of a stock. Depending on whether or not a corporation’s quarterly earnings meet, beat or miss stock analysts’ expectations, the price of a stock will rise or fall. But earnings season also …read more
