Who beats estimates every quarter?
Most companies beat analysts’ estimates in a given quarter, so a single beat says little. Beating quarter after quarter, on sales as well as earnings, is rarer and says something about how reliably a business delivers and how conservatively it guides.
Updated Oct 6, 2026
109 beat 12 of 12
86% of S&P 500 companies beat analysts’ earnings estimates last season, against 75% in a typical season since 2015. 109 companies have beaten in each of their last twelve quarters.
Quarter by quarter
Select the market or any company below. Bars show each quarter’s earnings surprise.
The 60 most reliable beaters
Ranked by the current run of beats, then by beats out of twelve and the typical size of the surprise. Select a column to sort.
| Company | Reliability | Run | EPS beats | Sales beats | Typical surprise | Next report | Surprise, 3 years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EL Estée Lauder Companies (The) | 10012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +49.1% | 2026-11-02 | |
| ALL Allstate | 10012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +45.7% | 2026-11-04 | |
| PFE Pfizer | 10012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +34.0% | 2026-11-03 | |
| OXY Occidental Petroleum | 9912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 5 of 12 | +31.2% | 2026-11-09 | |
| NKE Nike, Inc. | 9912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +30.9% | 2026-12-17 | |
| FIX Comfort Systems USA | 9912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +30.5% | 2026-10-22 | |
| FOXA Fox Corporation (Class A) | 9912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +30.0% | 2026-10-29 | |
| CCL Carnival Corporation | 9912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 8 of 12 | +28.1% | 2026-12-18 | |
| VLO Valero Energy | 9812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +27.2% | 2026-10-22 | |
| PTC PTC Inc. | 9812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +25.9% | 2026-11-04 | |
| APH Amphenol | 9812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +25.1% | 2026-10-28 | |
| AIZ Assurant | 9812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +21.2% | 2026-11-03 | |
| GOOGL Alphabet Inc. (Class A) | 9812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +19.7% | 2026-10-28 | |
| FTNT Fortinet | 9712 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +19.0% | 2026-10-28 | |
| BMY Bristol Myers Squibb | 9712 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +17.2% | 2026-10-29 | |
| GS Goldman Sachs | 9712 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +17.2% | 2026-10-13 | |
| EME Emcor | 9712 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +16.2% | 2026-10-29 | |
| TER Teradyne | 9712 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +16.1% | 2026-10-27 | |
| SWK Stanley Black & Decker | 9612 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 5 of 12 | +15.9% | 2026-11-03 | |
| CASY Casey's | 9612 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 8 of 12 | +15.6% | 2026-12-08 | |
| GE GE Aerospace | 9612 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +14.9% | 2026-10-20 | |
| PLTR Palantir Technologies | 9612 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +14.8% | 2026-11-02 | |
| MU Micron Technology | 9612 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +14.2% | 2026-12-23 | |
| ACGL Arch Capital Group | 9512 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +13.6% | 2026-10-26 | |
| FFIV F5, Inc. | 9512 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +13.5% | 2026-10-26 | |
| TPR Tapestry, Inc. | 9512 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +13.4% | 2026-11-05 | |
| CAH Cardinal Health | 9512 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +13.0% | 2026-10-29 | |
| ISRG Intuitive Surgical | 9512 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +12.9% | 2026-10-20 | |
| BKR Baker Hughes | 9412 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +12.8% | 2026-10-22 | |
| LDOS Leidos | 9412 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +12.3% | 2026-11-03 | |
| WDC Western Digital | 9412 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +12.1% | 2026-10-29 | |
| CB Chubb Limited | 9412 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +12.0% | 2026-10-20 | |
| ZS Zscaler | 9412 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +11.9% | 2026-11-24 | |
| DE Deere & Company | 9312 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +11.8% | 2026-11-25 | |
| IT Gartner | 9312 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +11.8% | 2026-11-03 | |
| DDOG Datadog | 9312 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +11.8% | 2026-11-05 | |
| GM General Motors | 9312 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +11.5% | 2026-10-20 | |
| LITE Lumentum | 9312 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +11.4% | 2026-11-03 | |
| ANET Arista Networks | 9212 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +11.3% | 2026-11-03 | |
| JKHY Jack Henry & Associates | 9212 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +10.9% | 2026-11-03 | |
| CBRE CBRE Group | 9212 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 9 of 12 | +10.7% | 2026-10-22 | |
| RTX RTX Corporation | 9212 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +10.2% | 2026-10-19 | |
| APTV Aptiv | 9212 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +9.7% | 2026-10-29 | |
| CMCSA Comcast | 9112 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 10 of 12 | +8.9% | 2026-10-22 | |
| VRT Vertiv | 9112 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 8 of 12 | +8.7% | 2026-10-28 | |
| PNC PNC Financial Services | 9112 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +8.6% | 2026-10-15 | |
| BLK BlackRock | 9112 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 8 of 12 | +8.6% | 2026-10-13 | |
| TRMB Trimble Inc. | 9112 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +8.5% | 2026-11-04 | |
| DIS Walt Disney Company (The) | 9012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +8.2% | 2026-11-12 | |
| COHR Coherent Corp. | 9012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +8.1% | 2026-11-04 | |
| BNY BNY Mellon | 9012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +7.8% | 2026-10-15 | |
| RL Ralph Lauren Corporation | 9012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +7.7% | 2026-11-05 | |
| HWM Howmet Aerospace | 9012 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +7.4% | 2026-10-29 | |
| HON Honeywell | 8912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 7 of 12 | +7.4% | 2026-10-22 | |
| INTU Intuit | 8912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +7.3% | 2026-11-19 | |
| STT State Street Corporation | 8912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +7.1% | 2026-10-14 | |
| MSFT Microsoft | 8912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +7.0% | 2026-10-28 | |
| JBL Jabil | 8912 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 11 of 12 | +6.8% | 2026-12-16 | |
| CRL Charles River Laboratories | 8812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 12 of 12 | +6.7% | 2026-11-04 | |
| IDXX Idexx Laboratories | 8812 in a row | 12 | 12 of 12 | 8 of 12 | +6.7% | 2026-11-02 |
How to read this page
How it’s measured. The last twelve reported quarters for each S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 company, comparing earnings per share and revenue with the consensus estimate before the report.
Sources. Analysts’ estimates and ratings from Financial Modeling Prep.
Companies help set the estimates they beat by guiding analysts, so about three in four beat in a typical quarter. A long run of beats says as much about conservative guidance as about the business.
In our research, the size of an earnings surprise carries a modest signal for the following months, strongest when the business is also growing.
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