Hours during earnings

I’m getting close to finishing earnings with a couple additional prints next week. After reflecting on my hours the past two weeks, I think I hit about 80 hours each week, working beyond midnight and often past 1am. This seems to be the norm for me during earnings season but wanted a sanity check to see if that’s normal across the industry?

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Those hours track with me. But depends of course on how many names under coverage and how deep your analyst wants to go on EPS reports. I keep getting pulled away by news flow.

Some analysts want to regurgitate literally every press release but others will just say where guidance went compared to Street and call it a day. Definitely depends on the age of your analyst and if they have a family lol. 

 

80-100 hours a week is typical for me during earnings season. I work in financials and earnings season for us tends to be crammed into a 2 week period, unlike my colleagues covering other verticals.

We see about 6-8 of our names hit in 1 day - either pre-market starting at 6AM ET or as late as 9PM post market. So, we can work upto 1-1:30AM sometimes and it starts again at 6AM the next day.

Once we get past the 2 weeks, it cools down pretty nicely to a 50-60 hour week.

 

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