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 recap: Home Depot

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

For the three months ended August 2, HD reported earnings of $4.92 per share, up 5.1% year over year, on revenue of $47.9 billion (+5.7% YoY). Analysts expected earnings of $4.73 per share on revenue of $47.2 billion.

The company also said comparable store sales rose 1.7% in the second quarter, the biggest increase since 2022 and higher than the 0.9% rise Wall Street anticipated.

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The comparable store sales number was impressive, says David Wagner, head of equity and portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors, but his attention is more focused on the retailer's three-hour delivery announcement.

"Home Depot announced it's launching express delivery nationwide, promising orders within three hours or less," Wagner explains. "It's a direct shot at Amazon/Walmart-style speed competition, aimed at capturing the 'I need this part now to finish the project today' pro and DIY customer — a use case where Home Depot has a structural edge (2,300+ stores close to where people live) that pure e-commerce players can't easily match."

With big-ticket renovations still on hold due to higher mortgage rates, Wagner says this move echoes the broader theme of the quarter: "Home Depot is leaning hard into speed and convenience to win the smaller, more frequent project spend that's currently driving growth."

Wednesday (8/19)

Thursday (8/20)

Earnings calendar recap: Walmart

Walmart (WMT) joined its fellow Dow Jones stock HD on this week's earnings calendar, with the mega-retailer reporting its fiscal 2027 second-quarter results ahead of Thursday's open.

For the three months ending July 31, WMT unveiled earnings of 81 cents per share (+19.1% YoY) on revenue of $187.9 billion (+5.9% YoY). The results beat analysts' expectations for earnings of 74 cents per share on revenue of $186.9 billion, but same-store sales growth of 2.6% fell short.

The company also gave soft fiscal third-quarter guidance, but raised its full-year outlook.

"Walmart is not losing market share — contrary to what I heard after Target's earnings — in fact, the company continues to gain share across income tiers, driven by higher-income consumers seeking value," says David Wagner, head of equity and portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors. "The slight moderation in store comparable sales growth was driven primarily by non-competitive factors, including regulatory headwinds on pharmacy prescription pricing, an ongoing structural shift toward e-commerce and store-fulfilled delivery, and persistent cost pressures that prompted thousands of selective price cuts to aid budget-conscious shoppers."

Wagner sees the blue chip stock's post-earnings pullback as a buying opportunity.

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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