Hi all,
is there any way to narrow down the earnings date better than using WeekstoQ?
In a simulation we can easily add an exact “DaysToQ” by calculating it from the date of the announcement & simulation asof date. It’s not really “look-ahead” since it would have been known ahead of time if you know where to look. It would however be DaysToQ to when Compustat processed the filing, not the actual SEC filing date.
For live environment all we’re doing is guessing based on prior year announcement date. So adding DaysToQ for upcoming announcements would wrongly imply a level of precision we do not have.
To be more precise with upcoming earnings announcements we need to purchase additional data. Probably few thousands/mo.
Thanks Marco.
It is probably not worth to buy the additional data, so I’ll go with WeekstoQ 
If I well understand here you are talking about next issues of earning date.
I would be also interesting in my opinion to have formula to put in a screen that gives the day after, all company which had earnings the day before, and the 5/10 most important data (eg. EPS Change, revenue change, EPS surprise, debt ecc) to filter (eg surprise >50%) , as we see eg on yahoo finance or similar site, but for a single stock.
Is There any way to have it?