Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU) earnings on August 4, 2026
More Prudential Financial, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
Prudential's quarterly earnings beat estimates, but sales fell short. The stock swung from an intraday high of +3.34% to close down 2.65%.
PRU price around the earnings
120.16
Change: -2.8%
2026-08-05, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
117.69
120.92
124.16
127.39
123.59
August 4, 2026
August 5, 2026
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- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Strong trend strength (+8.98% 30d) but price exceeds analyst $106 target ~5%; 75% beat history positive.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Price deteriorated significantly, signaling overvaluation repricing, but showed a recent rebound into earnings.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Hold
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 3.44
- Analysts covering the stock
- 15
- Average price target
- 105.87
- Lowest price target
- 90
- Highest price target
- 129
- Upside to price target
- -14.3%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- -15.6%
- Revenue growth
- 15.3%
- Forward EPS
- 14.6
- Trailing EPS
- 9.72
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 10
- Strong buy: 0
- Buy: 0
- Hold: 13
- Sell: 3
- Strong sell: 2
- Strong buy
- 0
- Buy
- 0
- Hold
- 13
- Sell
- 3
- Strong sell
- 2
- July 22, 2026 · TD Cowen: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
- July 21, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- July 13, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (In-Line → In-Line)
- July 13, 2026 · Keefe, Bruyette & Woods: Maintains rating (Market Perform → Market Perform)
- July 10, 2026 · Jefferies: Maintains rating (Hold → Hold)
- July 9, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Underweight → Underweight)
- July 9, 2026 · Mizuho: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- July 7, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Underweight → Underweight)
- June 24, 2026 · Piper Sandler: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- June 9, 2026 · Argus Research: Downgrades rating (Buy → Hold)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (8)
- TD Cowen Maintains Hold on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $114 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- JP Morgan Maintains Neutral on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $129 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Evercore ISI Group Maintains In-Line on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $110 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Maintains Market Perform on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $113 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Jefferies Maintains Hold on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $110 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Underweight on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $103 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Mizuho Maintains Neutral on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $109 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Underweight on Prudential Financial, Raises Price Target to $92 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 123.07
- Average true range (ATR)
- 1.6%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -0.3%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +4.3%
- 30-day change (32d)
- +9.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- +7.3%
- SPY change (32d)
- +1.7%
- Nearest support
- 122.93
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.1%
- Nearest resistance
- 123.49
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.3%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 1.18
- Mid: 122.93 (0.1% away, 0.07 ATR, 11 touches)
- Mid: 122.11 (0.8% away, 0.47 ATR, 25 touches)
- Mid: 121.63 (1.2% away, 0.71 ATR, 15 touches)
- Mid: 123.49 (0.3% away, 0.21 ATR, 23 touches)
- Mid: 124.42 (1.1% away, 0.67 ATR, 10 touches)
- Mid: 124.86 (1.5% away, 0.88 ATR, 17 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +8.3%
- May 5, 2026: actual EPS 3.61 vs estimate 3.1 (surprise +16.5%)
- February 3, 2026: actual EPS 3.3 vs estimate 3.36 (surprise -1.9%)
- October 29, 2025: actual EPS 4.01 vs estimate 3.73 (surprise +7.7%)
- July 30, 2025: actual EPS 3.58 vs estimate 3.22 (surprise +11.1%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +1.7%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 1.8%
- 75th percentile move
- 3.2%
- 90th percentile move
- 4.8%
- Up / down moves
- 9 / 11
- Average up move
- +2.4%
- Average down move
- -2.7%
Monitoring and close
What Prudential Financial, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 4.08 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 3.53 |
| EPS surprise | +15.6% |
| Revenue | $14,155 million |
| Revenue estimate | $14,384 million |
| Revenue surprise | -1.6% |
Prudential beat earnings expectations with $4.08 per share, but revenue missed estimates. The outlook is optimistic on earnings, pessimistic on revenue.
Sources (3)
- Prudential beat earnings expectations with $4.08 per share, but its revenue fell short of estimates. — Benzinga
- Prudential Financial Q2 Adj. EPS $4.08 Beats $3.53 Estimate, Sales $14.155B Miss $14.384B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Prudential Financial Q2 Adj. EPS $4.08 Beats $3.53 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 earnings but not on revenue, and the price is indicating +0.5% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 2%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- -2.6%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 4.8%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 3.3%