get_earnings
8-K Earnings Release Financials
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8-K earnings-RELEASE financials — headline income statement (revenue, net income, operating income, diluted EPS) PLUS the as-released cash-flow statement (operating cash flow, capex, free cash flow, +growth), typically WEEKS before the audited 10-Q/10-K. Often the ONLY structured source for the fresh quarter's capex/OCF/FCF (the 8-K carries no XBRL, so get_financials/get_metric_history still show the prior quarter until the 10-Q lands).
Distinct from get_financials (audited XBRL 10-K/10-Q — filed later, GAAP-consistent) and get_company_overview (single-period snapshot; earnings section is prose only, no figures). Use this for the earliest as-reported release figures, each with a deep-link + verbatim quote when the API has an attested receipt.
Use Cases:
- "What did NVDA report for its latest quarter's revenue?" -> get_earnings("NVDA")
- "TSLA's last 8 quarters of earnings releases" -> get_earnings("TSLA", quarters=8)
Release figures are management's own characterization and may be non-GAAP-adjacent — verify against the quote when precision matters. A figure without a receipt is still shown (often filled from a prior extraction pass or awaiting the producer's validation) but without a deep-link — absence of a receipt is not evidence the value is wrong.
Point-in-time: pass vantage_date (YYYY-MM-DD) to serve the releases KNOWN on/before that date — the quarters walk back from the vantage instead of today. This bounds which RELEASES are visible, not which extraction of them (see the parameter note); unlike get_financials/get_metric_history there is no restatement look-ahead here, because a revised release is a new accession and is bounded. Sibling as-of tools: get_filing_section, get_filing_index, list_filings, get_financials, get_metric_history, compare_earnings_calls (get_company_overview is NOT as-of-capable — always the latest snapshot).
**Exactness:** the table ABBREVIATES ($118.70B) — quote exact figures from <raw_data> instead. Capped at ~20K chars; a long response drops whole quarters, oldest first.
Adjacent tools: get_financials(), get_company_overview(), get_guidance_vs_actual() to score this release's actuals against prior guidance.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ticker | string | yes | Company ticker symbol (e.g., 'NVDA'). Must be exact. |
| quarters | integer | no | Number of most recent quarters to return (1-8, default 4). |
| vantage_date | string | no | As-of vantage (YYYY-MM-DD): serve releases KNOWN on/before this date — the quarters walk back from the vantage instead of today. For backtests / point-in-time questions. Omit for the latest. Scope: this bounds which RELEASES are visible, not which EXTRACTION of them — a figure MetricDuck later re-extracted is served at its current (corrected) reading. That is deliberate: the corrected reading is the better answer to what the filing said at that date. Measured 2026-08-25: 0.60% of release/signal pairs ever change value across extractions, all same-accession corrections, zero issuer revisions — a genuine issuer revision arrives as a NEW accession, which this bound catches. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ticker": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Company ticker symbol (e.g., 'NVDA'). Must be exact."
},
"quarters": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 8,
"default": 4,
"description": "Number of most recent quarters to return (1-8, default 4)."
},
"vantage_date": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
"description": "As-of vantage (YYYY-MM-DD): serve releases KNOWN on/before this date — the quarters walk back from the vantage instead of today. For backtests / point-in-time questions. Omit for the latest. Scope: this bounds which RELEASES are visible, not which EXTRACTION of them — a figure MetricDuck later re-extracted is served at its current (corrected) reading. That is deliberate: the corrected reading is the better answer to what the filing said at that date. Measured 2026-08-25: 0.60% of release/signal pairs ever change value across extractions, all same-accession corrections, zero issuer revisions — a genuine issuer revision arrives as a NEW accession, which this bound catches."
}
},
"required": [
"ticker"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}