Your guide to this week's major earnings releases

At popular request, we’ve put together another earnings guide this week. The table below summarizes options market expectations and average historical earnings price moves for 12 major companies reporting this week.

A couple things caught our eye:

  • Blizzard options price in an earnings move that’s more than 2x the historical realized average
  • Baidu is the only name where options are pricing in a move less than the historical average
Expected Move Average Move 6m Change
Tues.
Disney 5.9% 3.3% -19.9%
Baidu 5.2% 7.6% -25.7%
Wed.
Twitter 18.5% 14.1% -49.0%
Tesla 13.7% 11.5% -30.1%
Expedia 12.1% 9.0% -32.4%
Whole Foods 10.1% 9.4% -5.0%
Mylan 7.5% 4.4% +10.1%
Time Warner 6.7% 2.6% -12.1%
Cisco 5.8% 5.9% -20.3%
Thurs.
Blizzard 10.4% 4.8% -16.9%
Wynn 9.4% 5.4% -18.7%
Pepsi 2.6% 2.1% -3.8%