Earnings Calendar and Analysis for This Week (August 17-21)

Below is a weekly earnings calendar of the most important upcoming quarterly reports scheduled to be released by publicly traded companies. However, we have also provided expanded previews and recaps for select companies that are reporting earnings throughout the week.

Please check back often. This earnings calendar is updated regularly.

(Editor's note: Earnings dates in tables are tentative. However, companies featured in "Earnings Spotlights" have officially announced their earnings dates.)

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Karee Venema

I am the Senior Investing Editor at Kiplinger.com, having joined the publication in April 2021. I have over a decade of experience writing about the stock market and have covered corporate earnings reports and stock reactions over that time frame. I find corporate earnings to be so important because they allow investors a closer look into the strength of a company's fundamentals and how these may impact its share price down the road.

David Dittman

I am the former managing editor and chief investment strategist of Utility Forecaster, which was named one of "10 investment newsletters to read besides Buffett's" in 2015. A graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and the Villanova University School of Law, and a former stockbroker, I have been working in financial media for more than 20 years.

Earnings calendar highlights

Monday (8/17)

There are no noteworthy earnings reports scheduled for release before the market opens on Monday, August 17.

Tuesday (8/18)

Earnings calendar preview: Home Depot

Home Depot (HD) is one of several blue chip stocks on the earnings calendar, with the home improvement retailer slated to disclose its second-quarter results ahead of Tuesday's open.

Analysts expect HD to report earnings of $4.73 per share, up 1% year over year, on revenue of $47.2 billion (+4.2% YoY).

Oppenheimer analyst Brian Nagel is calling for below-Street earnings of $4.66 per share. While Home Depot and Lowe's (LOW), which reports Wednesday morning, are managing "effectively" given ongoing macro challenges (high mortgage rates, weak housing market, etc.), the analyst says, "we are hard-pressed to envision second-quarter results from the chains yielding meaningful 'green shoots' suggestive of long-awaited, sustained demand recovery within home improvement."

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Nagel does feel, however, that management guidance and analysts' expectations "for modest sales strengthening into the back half of 2026 could prove optimistic."

Wednesday (8/19)

Thursday (8/20)

Earnings calendar preview: Walmart

Walmart (WMT) will join its fellow Dow Jones stock HD on the earnings calendar when the mega-retailer reports its fiscal 2027 second-quarter results ahead of Thursday's open.

Wall Street is calling for earnings of 74 cents per share (+8.8% YoY) on revenue of $186.9 billion (+6.3% YoY).

Jefferies analyst Corey Tarlowe anticipates an in-line quarter. "WMT's resilience across macro environments and tangible benefits from improving e-commerce margins and alternative revenue streams (like advertising) continue to reshape the profit and loss," Tarlowe says.

The analyst also feels that investors are "underappreciating the potential earnings power from future tariff refunds, as management has indicated these funds would likely be reinvested into price to widen already healthy price gaps and drive additional traffic and share gains."

Tarlowe does not expect an immediate margin benefit from this reinvestment. Still, it could strengthen Walmart's value proposition, support same-store sales growth and boost its competitive advantage heading into the important holiday shopping season.

Friday (8/21)

Reporting schedules are provided by Briefing.com and company websites. Earnings estimate data provided by Refinitiv, an LSEG business, via Yahoo! Finance, and S&P Global Market Intelligence via Briefing.com.

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