Entergy Corporation (ETR) earnings on July 29, 2026
More Entergy Corporation earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Missed
ETR fell after its quarterly profit missed expectations, even though sales beat forecasts and the full-year profit outlook was confirmed.
ETR price around the earnings
107.79
Change: -4.0%
2026-07-29, 20:00 UTC
End of the measured window
107.75
110.38
113.02
115.65
112.32
July 29, 2026
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Missed
- Thesis published
- Results released
Analyst conviction strong (3 Outperform) with cost MoU catalyst, but negative trend strength and underperformance persist.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Trajectory declined from 60.1 to 15.0 over week; consolidating near support with persistent negative trend strength.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.71
- Analysts covering the stock
- 21
- Average price target
- 124.31
- Lowest price target
- 91
- Highest price target
- 139
- Upside to price target
- 10.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 6.7%
- Revenue growth
- 12%
- Forward EPS
- 5.08
- Trailing EPS
- 3.88
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 5
- Strong buy: 4
- Buy: 14
- Hold: 5
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 4
- Buy
- 14
- Hold
- 5
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 1
- July 22, 2026 · BMO Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- July 16, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- June 10, 2026 · Mizuho: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- June 10, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Upgrades rating (In-Line → Outperform)
- June 3, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (3)
- BMO Capital Maintains Outperform on Entergy, Raises Price Target to $124 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- JP Morgan Maintains Overweight on Entergy, Raises Price Target to $139 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Entergy Inks MoU With Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Over Strategies To Reduce Overall Costs By 50% (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 112.47
- Average true range (ATR)
- 1.9%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -3.1%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -2.6%
- 30-day change (32d)
- -3.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- -4.6%
- SPY change (32d)
- +1.6%
- Nearest support
- 111.91
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.5%
- Nearest resistance
- 112.6
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.1%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.69
- Mid: 111.91 (0.5% away, 0.26 ATR, 25 touches)
- Mid: 111.23 (1.1% away, 0.57 ATR, 14 touches)
- Mid: 110.51 (1.7% away, 0.9 ATR, 16 touches)
- Minor: 112.6 (0.1% away, 0.06 ATR, 7 touches)
- Mid: 113.02 (0.5% away, 0.25 ATR, 25 touches)
- Mid: 114.06 (1.4% away, 0.73 ATR, 32 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +5.4%
- April 29, 2026: actual EPS 0.86 vs estimate 0.84 (surprise +2.3%)
- February 12, 2026: actual EPS 0.51 vs estimate 0.52 (surprise -2.5%)
- October 29, 2025: actual EPS 1.53 vs estimate 1.43 (surprise +6.7%)
- July 30, 2025: actual EPS 1.05 vs estimate 0.91 (surprise +15.1%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +1.7%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 0.9%
- 75th percentile move
- 2.1%
- 90th percentile move
- 4.3%
- Up / down moves
- 15 / 5
- Average up move
- +2.4%
- Average down move
- -1.3%
Monitoring and close
What Entergy Corporation reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 1.03 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 1.01 |
| EPS surprise | +2.4% |
Entergy reported Q2 adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share and reaffirmed its 2026 guidance, supported by tech demand.
Sources (9)
- Entergy Q2 Earnings Call Highlights (opens in a new tab) — MarketBeat
- Entergy Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates, Sales Improve Year Over Year (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Entergy (ETR) Q2 Earnings Top Estimates (opens in a new tab) — Zacks
- Entergy (NYSE:ETR) Edges Higher After Q2 Earnings Miss as Reaffirmed Outlook Calms Investors (opens in a new tab) — ChartMill
- Entergy Q2 Adj. EPS $1.03 Misses $1.04 Estimate, Sales $3.524B Beat $3.515B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Entergy Affirms FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance of $4.25-$4.45 vs $4.40 Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Entergy Q2 Adj. EPS $1.03 Misses $1.04 Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Entergy reports second quarter 2026 financial results (opens in a new tab) — Yahoo
- Earnings per share: $1.03 vs $1.01 expected — above expectations. — Yahoo Finance
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Missed
- Consolidated
- -4.0%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 0.9%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 4.1%