Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI) earnings on August 5, 2026
More Motorola Solutions, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
Motorola Solutions shares jumped after earnings, with analysts raising their price targets. The stock closed up 8.57% after hitting a high of 12.71%.
MSI price around the earnings
474.07
Change: +8.3%
2026-08-06, 20:00 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Perfect earnings beat rate and strong analyst upside support constructive thesis, but extreme retail crowding and trajectory moderation create sell-the-news risk.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Significant pre-earnings run-up peaked at 67.6, now moderating into event with crowding risk.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analysts covering the stock
- 11
- Average price target
- 507
- Lowest price target
- 470
- Highest price target
- 530
- Upside to price target
- 15.4%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- -14.9%
- Revenue growth
- 7.4%
- Forward EPS
- 18.54
- Trailing EPS
- 12.46
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 0
- Strong buy: 5
- Buy: 7
- Hold: 2
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 5
- Buy
- 7
- Hold
- 2
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (1)
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 442.77
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.1%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -9.4%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +9.0%
- 30-day change (33d)
- +4.8%
- 30-day relative strength
- +1.3%
- SPY change (33d)
- +3.5%
- Nearest support
- 441.29
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.3%
- Nearest resistance
- 444.82
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.5%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.59
- Major: 441.29 (0.3% away, 0.16 ATR, 32 touches)
- Major: 437.79 (1.1% away, 0.54 ATR, 46 touches)
- Major: 435.66 (1.6% away, 0.77 ATR, 31 touches)
- Major: 444.82 (0.5% away, 0.22 ATR, 25 touches)
- Major: 448.43 (1.3% away, 0.61 ATR, 27 touches)
- Major: 452.67 (2.2% away, 1.06 ATR, 24 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +5.2%
- May 7, 2026: actual EPS 3.37 vs estimate 3.25 (surprise +3.8%)
- February 11, 2026: actual EPS 4.59 vs estimate 4.35 (surprise +5.4%)
- October 30, 2025: actual EPS 4.06 vs estimate 3.85 (surprise +5.5%)
- August 7, 2025: actual EPS 3.57 vs estimate 3.36 (surprise +6.2%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +2.3%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 5.6%
- 75th percentile move
- 6.9%
- 90th percentile move
- 7.5%
- Up / down moves
- 12 / 8
- Average up move
- +4.9%
- Average down move
- -5.7%
Monitoring and close
What Motorola Solutions, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 4.41 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 3.85 |
| EPS surprise | +14.5% |
| Revenue | $3,133 million |
| Revenue estimate | $3,001 million |
| Revenue surprise | +4.4% |
Motorola Solutions beat Q2 expectations: adjusted EPS of $4.41 and revenue of $3.133 billion, both above estimates.
Sources (2)
- Motorola Solutions beat expectations: adjusted EPS of $4.41 versus $3.85 estimated, and revenue of $3.133 billion versus $3.001 billion. — Benzinga
- Motorola Solns Q2 Adj. EPS $4.41 Beats $3.85 Estimate, Sales $3.133B Beat $3.001B 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 +6.2% pre-market, a move in line with the stock's usual reaction (about 6%). The figures confirm the optimistic scenario. Across our market history, in the 1,443 similar cases the close held that direction 96% of the time.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- +8.6%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 12.7%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 0.2%