Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A) earnings on August 26, 2026
More Agilent Technologies, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
Agilent Technologies rose early, climbing as much as 6.60%, before ending up 1.55% after releasing earnings. Analysts raised their price targets for the stock.
A price around the earnings
157.69
Change: +1.7%
2026-08-27, 20:00 UTC
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- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
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- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Analyst upgrade to $175 but only 4% upside to consensus $161; strong trend strength and beat history offset by extreme retail crowding.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Trend strength stable at +11.73% 30d; trajectory score declined from 32.1 to 19.8 over 5 days as retail crowding increased.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.67
- Analysts covering the stock
- 19
- Average price target
- 160.89
- Lowest price target
- 148
- Highest price target
- 185
- Upside to price target
- 4%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 57.7%
- Revenue growth
- 10%
- Forward EPS
- 6.61
- Trailing EPS
- 4.98
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 2
- Strong buy: 4
- Buy: 12
- Hold: 5
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 4
- Buy
- 12
- Hold
- 5
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- August 12, 2026 · Morgan Stanley: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 6, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (1)
- Morgan Stanley Maintains Overweight on Agilent Technologies, Raises Price Target to $175 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 154.78
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.6%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -2.7%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +3.6%
- 30-day change (32d)
- +11.7%
- 30-day relative strength
- +8.1%
- SPY change (32d)
- +3.6%
- Nearest support
- 154.19
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.4%
- Nearest resistance
- 156.3
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 1%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.85
- Minor: 154.19 (0.4% away, 0.15 ATR, 2 touches)
- Mid: 152.44 (1.5% away, 0.58 ATR, 11 touches)
- Mid: 150.5 (2.8% away, 1.06 ATR, 7 touches)
- Mid: 156.3 (1% away, 0.38 ATR, 7 touches)
- Mid: 157.5 (1.8% away, 0.67 ATR, 2 touches)
- Mid: 160.2 (3.5% away, 1.34 ATR, 9 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +1.4%
- May 27, 2026: actual EPS 1.49 vs estimate 1.41 (surprise +5.8%)
- February 25, 2026: actual EPS 1.36 vs estimate 1.37 (surprise -0.6%)
- November 24, 2025: actual EPS 1.59 vs estimate 1.58 (surprise +0.4%)
- August 27, 2025: actual EPS 1.37 vs estimate 1.37 (surprise +0.2%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +2.4%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 3.5%
- 75th percentile move
- 6.2%
- 90th percentile move
- 8.8%
- Up / down moves
- 10 / 10
- Average up move
- +5.5%
- Average down move
- -4.2%
Monitoring and close
What Agilent Technologies, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 1.62 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 1.49 |
| EPS surprise | +8.7% |
| Revenue | $1,878 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,841 million |
| Revenue surprise | +2.0% |
Agilent beat Q3 expectations. For Q4, it forecasts earnings and sales above estimates. It raised its full-year 2026 guidance, reflecting optimism.
Sources (4)
- Agilent Technologies Sees Q4 Adj EPS $1.71-$1.74 vs $1.72 Est; Sees Sales $1.980B-$2.000B vs $1.971B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Agilent Technologies Raises FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance from $6.00-$6.10 to $6.18-$6.21 vs $6.06 Est; Raises FY2026 Sales Guidance from $7.390B-$7.490B to $7.490B-$7.510B vs $7.448B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Agilent beat expectations with adjusted earnings of $1.62 per share and sales of $1.878 billion, above forecasts. — Benzinga
- Agilent Technologies Q3 Adj. EPS $1.62 Beats $1.49 Estimate, Sales $1.878B Beat $1.841B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating +2.4% pre-market, a move in line with the stock's usual reaction (about 3%). The figures confirm the optimistic scenario. In the 1,432 similar cases in our market history, the close held that direction 71% of the time.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +1.6%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 6.6%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0.7%