Your guide to this week's earnings (2/2/16)

This is a big week for earnings, and we wanted to save you all a ton of time by putting together options market expectations and average historical earnings price moves in one place.

A couple things caught our eye while putting the table below together:

  • After all Chipotle has been through, the market is only pricing in just another average quarter
  • GoPro implied vols are so high that sold straddles offer the rare 1:1 max risk / max reward ratio on a backtested basis
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Expected Move Average Move 6m Change
Tues.
Chipotle 8.3% 8.2% -28.4%
Yahoo 6.7% 5.0% -11.5%
Gilead 5.9% 4.1% -22.7%
Wed.
GoPro 16.0% 11.6% -61.6%
Merck 3.1% 2.6% -4.1%
Comcast 3.2% 3.2% -10.2%
GM 4.8% 4.1% -15.6%
Thurs.
Conoco 5.9% 1.8% -27.1%
Oxy 4.0% 2.7% -7.1%

Expected moves are derived from options prices for 2/5/16 expiry. Click expected moves to backtest.
Average moves are historically realized day after earnings price moves.