Expand Energy Corporation (EXE) earnings on April 28, 2026
More Expand Energy Corporation earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
The stock went against expectations and rose after the earnings report. It climbed as much as 4.35% during the day to close up 4.10%.
EXE price around the earnings
100.97
Change: +4.1%
2026-04-29, 19:59 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
- Thesis published
Analysts are positive, but price and sentiment show caution.
Experts note strong analyst recommendations for this stock, but its price has been falling sharply. There is also extreme positive sentiment from retail investors that contrasts with the falling price.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Analysts are positive, but price and sentiment show caution.
- Playbook
- Given the conflicting contexts and falling price, the scenario suggests waiting for a clearer trend.
- Trend
- Outlook deteriorating over past two sessions.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Positive
Most analysts recommend buying this stock and point to an optimistic scenario, offering a fundamental reason to be optimistic despite the price drop.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Strong buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.46
- Analysts covering the stock
- 27
- Average price target
- 132.96
- Lowest price target
- 95
- Highest price target
- 167
- Upside to price target
- 41.4%
- Revenue growth
- 38.3%
- Forward EPS
- 9.58
- Trailing EPS
- 7.57
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 10
- Strong buy: 5
- Buy: 19
- Hold: 4
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 5
- Buy
- 19
- Hold
- 4
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- April 13, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- April 9, 2026 · Truist Securities: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- April 2, 2026 · Keybanc: Downgrades rating (Overweight → Sector Weight)
- March 24, 2026 · Truist Securities: Initiates coverage (Buy → Buy)
- March 16, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- March 12, 2026 · Piper Sandler: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- March 5, 2026 · Benchmark: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- March 5, 2026 · Piper Sandler: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- February 23, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- February 23, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
News and sentiment
Drivers
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News & sentiment
Negative
There is extremely strong positive sentiment from individual investors, but this is not reflected in the stock's price. This could context a potential risk if earnings are not as good as expected.
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (6)
- UBS Maintains Buy on Expand Energy, Lowers Price Target to $133 — Benzinga
- Truist Securities Maintains Buy on Expand Energy, Lowers Price Target to $133 — Benzinga
- Expand Energy Appoints Marcel Teunissen As CFO, Effective April 6 — Benzinga
- This Akamai Technologies Analyst Is No Longer Bullish; Here Are Top 5 Downgrades For Thursday — Benzinga
- Keybanc Downgrades Expand Energy to Sector Weight — Benzinga
- Truist Securities Initiates Coverage On Expand Energy with Buy Rating, Announces Price Target of $136 — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock's price has recently declined significantly and is performing much worse than the broader market. It is currently market review near a key support level.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.6%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -25.8%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -11.2%
- 30-day change
- -10.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- -14.1%
- Benchmark change
- +4.1%
- Nearest support
- 94
- Nearest resistance
- 114.78
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.8
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +6.0%
- February 17, 2026: actual EPS 2 vs estimate 1.89 (surprise +5.8%)
- October 28, 2025: actual EPS 0.97 vs estimate 0.85 (surprise +14.2%)
- July 29, 2025: actual EPS 1.1 vs estimate 1.15 (surprise -4.1%)
- April 29, 2025: actual EPS 2.02 vs estimate 1.87 (surprise +8.0%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 3.1%
- 75th percentile move
- 3.5%
- 90th percentile move
- 4.7%
- Up / down moves
- 11 / 8
- Average up move
- +2.9%
- Average down move
- -2.7%
Monitoring and close
What Expand Energy Corporation reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Missed
- Consolidated
- +4.1%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 0%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 4.4%