Great Numbers, Falling Stocks: Six Earnings Verdicts
Great numbers, falling stocks — the market has stopped rewarding even record earnings
Rubrik beat estimates by more than ever before and still lost 17.4% in three days. Marvell, Autodesk and IREN fell too; only Elastic was rewarded, and Workday finished a dollar short. Overnight the pattern continued: MongoDB beat again and dropped 13.9%, while GitLab jumped 17.3% to a record high and Dell was paid for a 43% profit beat.
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The Morning 10 Wed, Sep 2, 2026 ~90 seconds 08:00 CET
The ten points
This earnings season has a pattern, and last night showed it in its purest form yet: companies report better numbers than Wall Street expected — and their stocks fall anyway. Six earnings reactions from last Thursday's reports got their final score at Tuesday's close: four stocks were sold, one was rewarded, one ended flat. Rubrik took −17.4% — the second-deepest window in its card's life, on the largest EPS beat the card has ever recorded. Marvell's record quarter closed −12.9% and broke the only payment streak on its card. IREN closed −9.2%, Autodesk −8.5% — the deepest window in the calmest card on the board. Elastic held the evening's only payment at +10.3%, and Workday closed +2.5%: flat by the bands, exactly one dollar under the 199.38 close that would have scored it paid.
Then the after-hours market ran the same experiment on four new cards. MongoDB beat both columns for the eleventh straight print and was sold −13.9% overnight. GitLab beat EPS by 33% and was paid +17.3%, through its 52-week high — the first overnight bid that wide in the card's covered record. Dell beat the EPS line by 43%, the largest surprise in its covered era, and was paid +8.1% from an entry its own regular session had discounted −6.9% before the number landed. Palo Alto's seventh consecutive double beat drifted −1.9%, and Credo — no card, but on the docket — beat both lines and was sold −10.1% on top of a −8.6% session. All four windows open at Tuesday's close and score Friday.
Underneath the earnings business the tape had its own Tuesday: software sold harder than semis in a straight reversal of last week's spread, every green sector was defensive or energy, gold closed below 400 for the first time since the 423.36 breakout line broke, the 10-year proxy sank further under the failed 93.04 veto line on soft ISM and JOLTS data, and Money Temperature dropped eight points to 49 — into the cold half. Broadcom and Snowflake print tonight; the first Warsh-era payrolls report lands Friday.
- Earnings scoreboard — four losers, one winner, one draw
- MongoDB — beat again, punished anyway
- GitLab soars 17% — a 33% beat finally gets rewarded
- Dell jumps on a blowout quarter — after falling 7% into it
- Software stocks give back last week's big lead
- Nasdaq slips below its trend line as defensive sectors lead
- Gold sinks below $400 — and bonds keep falling despite weak data
- All four Closelook indices fall — and Money Temperature turns cold
- Tonight: Broadcom and Snowflake report
- Morgan Stanley asks: why is the yen falling again after a record rescue?
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Earnings scoreboard — four losers, one winner, one draw
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- What
- Six stocks that reported last Thursday got their final three-day grade at Tuesday's close: Rubrik −17.4%, Marvell −12.9%, IREN −9.2% and Autodesk −8.5% fell; Elastic gained +10.3%; Workday ended +2.5% — one dollar short of counting as a win.
- If
- Tonight's Broadcom and Snowflake reports extend or break the pattern of good results being sold.
- Why
- Five of the six beat expectations — and only one was rewarded. That gap between results and reactions is exactly what the Print Record measures.
- Then
- All six scorecards are updated with the full numbers and history.
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MongoDB — beat again, punished anyway
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- What
- MongoDB topped estimates for the eleventh quarter in a row — EPS $1.90 vs $1.62 expected, revenue $771.8M vs $735.0M — and the stock fell −13.9% overnight to 373.63, after already losing −4.2% in Tuesday's session.
- If
- The overnight drop holds through Friday's close, when the reaction gets its final grade.
- Why
- This stock has never reacted mildly to results: in ten covered quarters it was five times up big, five times down big, never in between — and it had rallied +11.6% into this report.
- Then
- A hold makes it six punishments against five rewards — and confirms the week's lesson: stocks that rally before their results tend to give it back after.
- The Print Record Beat histories against how the stock actually traded — one earnings name per day, all season. Open the Print Record →
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GitLab soars 17% — a 33% beat finally gets rewarded
Structure- What
- GitLab earned $0.24 per share vs $0.18 expected — a 33% beat — on revenue of $286.3M vs $273.1M, and the stock jumped +17.3% overnight to 52.90, above its old 52-week high of 52.38.
- If
- The gain survives the next three trading days to Friday's final grade.
- Why
- GitLab has beaten expectations almost every quarter for two years and was almost never rewarded for it — the last real reward came in September 2024.
- Then
- If the jump holds, the driest stretch on the scoreboard ends; if it fades, it joins this season's list of overnight gains the regular market took back.
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