Earnings Release Intelligence — SEC 8-K Results, Guidance & Risk Signals

What this is: analysis of the earnings press release each company files with the SEC (8-K Item 2.02 / Exhibit 99.1) — results summary, guidance and risk-language signals, with a direct sec.gov link. It is not a call transcript: no full transcript text and no parsed Q&A are delivered (qa_source: "none", Q&A fields null).

Derived earnings intelligence for US public companies, built from each company's own SEC 8-K (Item 2.02) earnings filing and Exhibit 99.1 press release on EDGAR. Built for analysts, funds, fintech builders and AI agents. Factual public SEC/EDGAR data — not financial or investment advice. Not affiliated with the U.S. SEC.

📊 Sample Output

company_name	fiscal_period	call_date	data_source	input_basis	generated_at
Apple Inc.	Q3 2026	2026-07-30	sec_8k	press_release	2026-09-25T00:03:28.977806+00:00
NVIDIA CORP	Q2 2027	2026-08-26	sec_8k	press_release	2026-09-25T00:03:31.150275+00:00
MICROSOFT CORP	2026	2026-07-29	sec_8k	press_release	2026-09-25T00:03:33.326241+00:00

Real rows from run VwANpe5n8DSNRBUiC on build 0.0.17 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
symbols	array	["AAPL", "NVDA", "MSFT"]	US stock tickers (e.g. AAPL, MSFT, NVDA) to generate earnings intelligence for, sourced from each company's most recent SEC 8-K (Item 2.02) earnings filing. Case-insensitive. Requ…
max_quarters_per_symbol	integer	1	How many recent earnings quarters to analyze per ticker (most recent first). 1 = latest quarter only. Use 2+ to compare guidance across consecutive quarters.
recent_only	boolean	false	If enabled, skip earnings filings older than ~120 days. Useful for monitoring only the latest reporting season.
include_short_quotes	boolean	true	Include up to 2 short, attributed executive quotes drawn from the official earnings press release (the quotes companies publish for redistribution). No long excerpts; no full tran…
allow_ephemeral_fallback	boolean	false	Reserved for analyst Q&A enrichment. When enabled and a transcript source is reachable, its text is read in memory only to compute Q&A-tension signals and is never stored or outpu…

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run VwANpe5n8DSNRBUiC (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "fiscal_period": "Q3 2026",
  "call_date": "2026-07-30",
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/a8-kex991q3202606272026.htm",
  "data_source": "sec_8k",
  "input_basis": "press_release",
  "summary": "Apple reports third quarter results\nJune quarter records for total company revenue and EPS\niPhone, Mac and Services revenue set new June quarter records\nCUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Apple\n®\ntoday announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (Unaudited)\n(In millions, except number of shares, which are reflected in thousands, and per-share amounts)\nThree Months Ended\nNine Months Ended\nJune 27,\nJune 28,\nJune 27,\nJune 28,\nNet sales:\nProducts\n$\n78,678\n$\n66,613\n$\n272,629\n$\n233,287\nServices\n30,739\n27,423\n91,728\n80,408\nTotal net sales\n(1)\n109,417\n94,036\n364,357\n313,695\nCost of sales:\nProducts\n47,153\n43,620\n163,810\n147,0",
  "guidance": [
    "Apple reports third quarter results\nJune quarter records for total company revenue and EPS\niPhone, Mac and Services revenue set new June quarter records\nCUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Apple\n®\ntoday announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026."
  ],
  "guidance_delta": {
    "direction": "not_stated",
    "confidence": "none",
    "method": "no_explicit_change_language",
    "current_guidance": [
      "Apple reports third quarter results\nJune quarter records for total company revenue and EPS\niPhone, Mac and Services revenue set new June quarter records\nCUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA — Apple\n®\ntoday announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026."
    ],
    "basis": "press_release",
    "figure_trend_vs_prior_quarter": {
      "trend": "unknown",
      "prior_period": "Q2 2026",
      "note": "Heuristic comparison of extracted guidance figures; secondary to the explicit-statement direction above."
    }
  },
  "key_topics": [
    "ai",
    "buyback",
    "dividend",
    "acquisition",
    "china",
    "margins",
    "tariffs"
  ],
  "sentiment_by_segment": {
    "prepared_or_release": {
      "score": 0.158,
      "label": "positive",
      "positive_hits": 11,
      "negative_hits": 8
    }
  },
  "risk_flags": [
    "litigation",
    "macro"
  ],
  "participants": [
    {
      "name": "Tim Cook",
      "title": "(from release quote)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kevan Parekh",
      "title": "(from release quote)"
    }
  ],
  "qa_tension": null,
  "analyst_pushback": null,
  "management_confidence": null,
  "qa_source": "none",
  "notable_quotes": [
    {
      "quote": "Today, Apple is proud to report our strongest June quarter ever, with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac and Services, and in every geographic segment,",
      "attributed_to": "Tim Cook"
    },
    {
      "quote": "We are very pleased with our record business performance during the quarter, which set new June quarter records for both EPS and operating cash flow,",
      "attributed_to": "Kevan Parekh"
    }
  ],
  "generated_at": "2026-09-25T00:03:28.977806+00:00",
  "disclaimer": "Derived analytical signals about a public earnings event. Not investment advice. No third-party transcript text is reproduced."
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.01	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Earnings intelligence record (intelligence-record)	$0.1	Per earnings intelligence record derived from a company's SEC 8-K earnings filing: guidance read, sentiment, key topics, risk flags, partic…

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.1 = $10.00 plus the start fee.

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📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per company-quarter. Key fields (full output has 21 fields):

• symbol, company_name, fiscal_period, call_date — the earnings event
• summary — extractive summary of the earnings release (our own derived text)
• guidance, guidance_delta — guidance sentences plus an explicit raised / lowered / maintained / not_stated read, with a labelled confidence level
• key_topics, risk_flags, sentiment_by_segment — derived signals
• participants, notable_quotes — short attributed quotes from the official press release
• source_url — direct sec.gov filing link
• generated_at — fetch timestamp

Every record carries a direct sec.gov source link. No third-party transcript text is reproduced or resold.

Q&A note: analyst Q&A signals (qa_tension, analyst_pushback, management_confidence) are emitted as null with qa_source: "none" unless a Q&A source is available; press-release-based records do not include them. Full Q&A coverage ships in a future audio-transcription tier.

Pricing: $0.10 per record (Pay-Per-Event), plus the standard Actor-start event — about 10 records per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured, source-linked SEC data built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull earnings intelligence on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Get the latest earnings intelligence for a ticker and summarize the guidance direction.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

⏰ Run on a schedule

The recurring frame is the point — schedule a daily or weekly pull:

{
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "NVDA", "MSFT"],
  "max_quarters_per_symbol": 1
}

symbols is required. An empty input finishes with 0 records and charges nothing.

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Data parsed from public SEC EDGAR filings. Factual public SEC/EDGAR data — not financial or investment advice. Not affiliated with the U.S. SEC.