Mastering communications across the earnings cycle

The earnings process offers a key opportunity to communicate your strategic vision and long-term story to the market. Outside of special events, such as investor days and AGMs, it provides the biggest platform for companies to communicate directly with investors, analysts and other stakeholders.

 

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But it’s becoming harder than ever to cut through with your message. Investment professionals cover an increasingly large number of stocks, squeezing the time they have to hone in on individual stories. Meanwhile, macroeconomic and geopolitical shifts dominate the business headlines.

To effectively tell their story, companies need to take a strategic approach to earnings communications. In this playbook, written in association with Visible Alpha, we explore the different ways companies can build a clear and compelling message that resonates with the buy side and the sell side.

This report includes advice on developing consistent communications across multiple quarters, preparing management for Q&A, the importance of consensus estimates data and best practices for post-event engagement. Throughout, you’ll find commentary from experienced IR professionals about how they approach these challenges at their own company.

Furthermore, the report contains the findings from a poll of IR professionals about how they approach different aspects of earnings, such as anticipating questions, managing consensus estimates and use of AI.

 

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  • Forum – AI & Technology Europe
    Thursday, March 12, 2026

    Forum – AI & Technology Europe

    About the event Stay ahead. Harness AI. Transform IR. In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, AI is transforming how IROs engage with investors, analyze market sentiment and deliver insights. Yet, many IR teams face challenges in understanding and employing these tools effectively. WHEN WHERE America Square Conference Centre, London The…

    London, UK
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    Thursday, March 19, 2026

    Think Tank – West Coast

    Our unique format – Exclusively for in-house IRO’s The IR Impact Think Tank – West Coast will take place on Thursday, March 19, 2026 in Palo Alto and is an  invitation-only event exclusively for senior IR officers. Our think tanks are free to attend and our unique format enables participants to network extensively, and discuss, debate and dissect…

    Palo Alto, US
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    Wednesday, March 25, 2026

    Awards – US

    About the event The IR Impact Awards – US will take place on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 in New York. This very special event honors excellence in the investor relations profession across the US. WHEN WHERE Cipriani 25 Broadway, New York Celebrating IR excellence Since the annual event first launched…

    New York, US

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