Generate a Pre-Earnings Analysis Report
Get yourself ready with all the issues and numbers before your stock reports
Last updated: 22 October 2025
Objective:
Get ready for a stock to report by checking consensus, management guidance, recent consensus revisions and a summary of key issues the market will be laser focused on in the earnings report, presentations and call.
As a bonus, have your AI round up all the post earnings news and broker write-ups it can access in the 24 hours following the earnings call and summarize them for you so you can check your own conclusions.
Explanation:
Its never enough just to listen to an earnings call or read the presentation. The inferential investor needs to know what the market expected as well as the hot operational issues prior to the report landing, so they can make timely decisions once the new information lands.
This prompt is remarkably simple but in testing has proved incredibly powerful and quick, particularly for stocks that receive a lot of attention online. I use it for every stock I’m focused on to make sure I’m not missing nuances in the report.
See the sample pre-earnings analysis for Tesla - created 24 hours prior to its 3Q 2025 report.
As always, be aware that models can make mistakes. At each step, examine the response and challenge information or conclusions that appear erroneous before proceeding to any subsequent steps. If in doubt use a second model with the same prompt to verify the information and generate challenge questions and answers (CoVe process) to correct interpretations of data.
Link to blog post explanation:
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Preferred Model(s):
ChatGPT-5+ or Gemini 2.5+
Important Execution Notes:
Simply enter the stock ticker where indicated.
Note that the prompt will update 24 hours after the reporting time with a summary of news and write-ups on the stock post earnings. Just check back into that chat for the update that will appear automatically.
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Important note: Subscribers can use this prompt set for their own analysis. However, the prompt is copyrighted by The Inferential Investor, paywalled, and must not be shared without permission.