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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Yes, but some sectors are more crammed vs others are more spread out. I prefer crammed.
Any info on which sectors tend to have earnings more crammed together vs more spread out?
Financial and Oil and Gas crammed together.
Tech and consumer are spread out. I remember retail always end last.
Things could've changed tho.
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.
Worked over 100+ hrs this quarter .. per week
Unusual but typically 80 hrs
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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