Earnings season is the one stretch of the year when the whole market trades on facts instead of vibes. A company can tell any story it likes for eleven weeks. Then the quarter ends, the numbers print, and the story has to survive contact with revenue, margins and guidance. This hub pulls the season into one place: the full Q3 2026 earnings calendar, the dates that matter most, and the insider activity worth watching once each print is out.

Analysts expect a strong season. FactSet consensus, quoted by interactive investor, points to S&P 500 earnings growth of about 29.5 percent for the quarter, and Goldman Sachs estimates land near 27 percent. A bar that high cuts both ways. Beats have to be big to move prices, and guidance matters more than the headline number, because the market has already paid for a good quarter in advance.

The dates that matter most

The season opened on Tuesday, October 13 with the first wave of big banks. Our calendar window starts Wednesday, October 14, when Bank of America and Morgan Stanley finish the bank kickoff before the open, with BlackRock alongside them. From there the rhythm is one marquee name after another:

  • Tuesday, October 20: Netflix, after the close. Consensus sits near $0.82 a share on about $12.87 billion of revenue.
  • Wednesday, October 21: Meta and Tesla, both after the close, with IBM the same evening and Procter & Gamble the next morning.
  • Week of October 26: the heavyweight week. Microsoft and Alphabet on Wednesday, October 28, Amazon, Eli Lilly, Mastercard and Intel on Thursday, October 29, and the two oil majors on Friday, October 30. One preview estimates this week alone carries roughly 44 percent of the index's market value.
  • Monday, November 2: Apple, after the close, with Palantir the same evening and AMD on Tuesday, November 3.
  • Tuesday, November 17: Nvidia, after the close, plus Home Depot and Disney before the open. Walmart closes the window on Thursday, November 19.

Roughly 70 percent of the index will have reported by the end of October, so the story of the quarter is mostly written in the next two weeks. The late reporters, Nvidia above all, get the final word.

Why an insider site keeps an earnings calendar

StocksPro24 is an insider trading tracker first. Earnings season is when insider data gets loud. Executives sit in a blackout window before each report, unable to trade. The day the numbers print, the window lifts, and the Form 4 feed wakes up. What insiders do in the two weeks after a report is some of the cleanest signal in the whole dataset: a CEO who buys after a beat is saying the guidance was honest, and a cluster of sales after a miss tells its own story.

That is the workflow this calendar is built for. Check the date, read the print, then watch insider trades today for the filings that follow. Scheduled 10b5-1 sales resume too, and they are noise by design. The bank earnings kickoff preview is a good first read if you want to see the pattern in action.

How to use this hub

Start with the full calendar table for dates, timing and consensus estimates. Then read the previews that match your watchlist: the Netflix and Tesla preview, the mega-cap week preview, the Apple and Amazon preview, and the Nvidia preview. If you want the filings themselves pushed to you as they land, InsiderPulse Pro covers every insider and congressional trade as it happens.

One honesty note. A few dates in the calendar, Amazon and McDonald's among them, were calendar estimates rather than company confirmations when this page was built on October 14, 2026. They are marked as estimates in the table notes, and the confirmed ones are marked confirmed. Dates move; filings do not lie.