Evergy, Inc. (EVRG) earnings on August 6, 2026

Before the market opens Q2 2026

More Evergy, Inc. earnings

Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Partial

Evergy's results beat analyst expectations, and the stock initially rose about 2% before ending nearly flat. The positive numbers were offset by other factors.

EVRG price around the earnings

83.02

Change: -0.1%

2026-08-06, 20:00 UTC

End of the measured window
82.42 83.11 83.81 84.50 83.07
Price series around the eventClosing price per minute from before the event to the end of the measured window.
August 6, 2026
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Price series around the event

Prior thesis

Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Partial

Thesis published
Results released

Analyst upgrades to $92 target (+10.6% upside) with recent Buy/Outperform ratings, but negative trend strength and mixed 50% beat rate create uncertainty.

Context analyzed before publication

Trend
Score improved from -30.1 to +22.7 over 3 days; analyst support outweighing trend strength concerns into BMO event.

Analysts

Evidence

Analyst consensus
Buy
Consensus average (1-5)
2.07
Analysts covering the stock
12
Average price target
91.88
Lowest price target
80
Highest price target
103
Upside to price target
10.6%
Quarterly earnings growth
21.2%
Revenue growth
5%
Forward EPS
4.56
Trailing EPS
3.76
Analyst moves in the last 60 days
3
  • Strong buy: 2
  • Buy: 6
  • Hold: 5
  • Sell: 0
  • Strong sell: 1
Strong buy
2
Buy
6
Hold
5
Sell
0
Strong sell
1
  • July 24, 2026 · Citigroup: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
  • July 22, 2026 · BMO Capital: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
  • June 30, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)

News and sentiment

Evidence

Sentiment
Sentiment
Constructive
Mention volume
High
Normalized volume
99%
News
Sources (2)

Technicals

Evidence

Price when the context was analyzed
83.07
Average true range (ATR)
1.8%
Distance to 52-week high
-5.8%
14-day change (14d)
-4.0%
30-day change (30d)
-3.7%
30-day relative strength
-6.2%
SPY change (30d)
+2.5%
Nearest support
82.78
Distance to nearest support
0.4%
Nearest resistance
83.38
Distance to nearest resistance
0.4%
Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
1.09
  • Major: 82.78 (0.4% away, 0.19 ATR, 25 touches)
  • Major: 81.97 (1.3% away, 0.72 ATR, 39 touches)
  • Major: 81.32 (2.1% away, 1.15 ATR, 21 touches)
  • Major: 83.38 (0.4% away, 0.2 ATR, 32 touches)
  • Mid: 83.9 (1% away, 0.54 ATR, 21 touches)
  • Mid: 84.41 (1.6% away, 0.88 ATR, 14 touches)

Trends

Evidence

Average earnings surprise
-1.5%
  • May 7, 2026: actual EPS 0.69 vs estimate 0.61 (surprise +13.8%)
  • February 19, 2026: actual EPS 0.42 vs estimate 0.55 (surprise -24.3%)
  • November 6, 2025: actual EPS 2.03 vs estimate 2.06 (surprise -1.4%)
  • August 7, 2025: actual EPS 0.82 vs estimate 0.77 (surprise +6.0%)

Expected move

Implied move
+1.2%
Source
Options chain

Reactions over its last 20 earnings

Median move
0.9%
75th percentile move
1.8%
90th percentile move
2.3%
Up / down moves
7 / 13
Average up move
+1.6%
Average down move
-1.0%

Monitoring and close

What Evergy, Inc. reported

Status
Finished
Actual EPS0.88
EPS estimate0.83
EPS surprise+6.0%
Revenue$1,500 million
Revenue estimate$1,377 million
Revenue surprise+8.9%

Evergy reported Q2 2026 adjusted earnings of $209 million, or $0.88 per share, up from $0.82 a year earlier, beating estimates and maintaining its 2026 outlook.

Sources (11)

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 +0.0% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 1%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.

How the stock reacted

Outcome
Partial
Consolidated
-0.1%
Max favorable move (MFE)
2%
Max adverse move (MAE)
0.8%