What companies say versus what the numbers show - in about ten minutes.Earnings Unscripted turns dense quarterly filings into sharp, entertaining conversations. Each episode, hosts Susie and Miro take one company&#39;s earnings report and dig past the headline beat: the brand-new non-GAAP adjustment quietly flattering EPS, the retention rate slipping beneath a big contract win, the one line on the call that tells you where things are actually headed.You get the essentials - revenue, earnings, margins, guidance, and the stock reaction - plus one deep dive into the most revealing detail most coverage misses. No jargon walls, no hour-long call replays, no filler.The show is an openly AI-assisted production: an experiment in whether synthetic voices, guided by human editorial judgment, can make financial filings genuinely fun to listen to. We think the answer is yes. You can judge for yourself.Want a ticker covered? Email <a href="mailto:earningsunscripted@datamadness.ca" rel="nofollow">earningsunscripted@datamadness.ca</a> or reach us on X.New episodes each earnings season. Not financial advice - just two curious voices reading the footnotes so you don&#39;t have to.

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Physical bottlenecks are now governing both digital infrastructure and global crude trade, pushing AI data-center builds outside the U.S., splitting hardware margins, and driving tanker cash flows to more than 30 times breakeven.- U.S. grid delays pushed Cerebras (CBRS) overseas as memory inflation boosted Applied Materials (AMAT) and squeezed Cisco (CSCO).- Cisco and Applied Materials deployed internal AI tools to add billions in revenue while capping headcount.- Ship-to-ship transfer jams helped Okeanis (ECO) pay a quarterly dividend larger than its IPO market cap.While operational cash generation hit records across both groups, investors still have to navigate OpenAI delay-cancellation windows, memory supply lockups, and post-peak tanker rate pullbacks.

Daily Earnings: Physical Jams Reshape Tech and Tankers | CSCO, AMAT, CBRS, ECO | Nov 12

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Applied Materials shattered the $10B quarterly revenue barrier in Q4 2026, yet a $653M paper loss on its stock portfolio masked record factory execution on the GAAP bottom line. In ~10 minutes:- Why $653M in unrealized equity losses skewed GAAP net income 📉- How legacy Display profits quietly self-fund stealth R&amp;D adjacencies- Stationing Intel, KIOXIA, and Besi inside the $5B EPIC Center- Internal AI token usage multiplying 50x to boost coding output 40%+- Rolling 8-quarter customer forecasts colliding with cleanroom bottlenecks While China shipments normalize below 25% of revenue and export compliance remains under a microscope, leading-edge foundry demand in Taiwan (+44% QoQ) and HBM memory in Korea are completely taking over. Management is now aligning suppliers to double system output capability by 2028—assuming customers can pour concrete fast enough to house the tools. Company: Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) | Q4 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Applied Materials (AMAT): Stealth R&D Inside a $10.4B Quarter [Q4 2026]

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After spending a decade convincing Wall Street it was a software subscription business, Cisco Systems delivered its fastest growth in 15 years in Q1 2027 on a massive surge in physical hardware. In ~10 minutes:- Hardware sales jump 50%+ YoY, shrinking subscription share to 44% 🔌- Why management stopped reporting quarterly hyperscaler AI order figures- Excluding neoclouds and sovereigns from the $9B AI revenue target- Locking in noncancelable multiyear memory agreements to protect supply- &#34;Post-Mythos&#34; AI security upgrades and an early 9% campus switch refresh Record $18.5B quarterly revenue and a smaller headcount drove record operating margins, even as heavy hardware mix and memory costs squeezed product gross margins. Yet the stock faded from its initial after-hours pop once analysts calculated a sequential dip in hyperscaler AI orders and digested a softer Q2 outlook. Company: Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) | Q1 FY2027AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Cisco Systems (CSCO): Sheet Metal Outruns Subscriptions [Q1 2027]

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Okeanis Eco Tankers turned the crude shipping industry&#39;s seasonal Q3 summer trough into its third consecutive record quarter, declaring a single $273 million dividend that exceeds the company&#39;s entire $225 million IPO valuation. 🚢 In ~10 minutes:- Shipping bills hitting nearly 50% of the underlying crude oil&#39;s value- Why &#34;ton-days&#34; and tugboat bottlenecks matter more than the 2028 orderbook- Four Suezmax tankers paying back 100% of their cash equity inside one year- Quiet KPI tweaks to drone-strike insurance proceeds and daily vessel opex With 71% of Q4 fleet days already locked in for ~$480M in TCE revenue—already beating all of Q3—we look at how ECO&#39;s chartering desk beat peer spot averages by 60–70%, and why $312M in uncollected receivables is the key balance sheet item to watch next. Company: Okeanis Eco Tankers Corp. (ECO) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Okeanis Eco Tankers (ECO): Paying Out an Entire IPO in One Quarter [Q3 2026]

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In Q3 2026, Teekay Tankers proved that a debt-free balance sheet and a ~$7,000/day free cash flow breakeven turn geopolitical shipping delays into a massive cash machine, with Q4 spot bookings now averaging $236,000/day. In ~10 minutes:- 🚢 Why 30-day Red Sea detours and Hormuz shuttles supercharged mid-size rates.- Why TNK bought a single $49M MR tanker to rebuild regulatory certificates.- The 18-year-old Suezmax dilemma: swapping old steel for 2030 newbuilds.- How January&#39;s cheap bareboat leasebacks triggered a 78% intangible asset drop.- Why 70% of the aging shadow fleet cannot return to legitimate terminals. Sitting on $1.42B in cash and short-term investments with zero debt, Teekay&#39;s interest income alone heavily subsidizes its fleet overhead. With 58% of Q4 spot days already locked in at record levels, the board is pulling its annual special dividend decision forward by three months from May to February 2027. Company: Teekay Tankers Ltd. (TNK) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Teekay Tankers (TNK): Booking $236k/Day Voyages With Zero Debt [Q3 2026]

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Cerebras Systems Inc. delivered its first positive core net income in Q3 2026, yet its massive wafer-scale chip supply is currently bottlenecked not by silicon shortages, but by waiting on concrete and electrical transformers.In ~10 minutes:- Microsoft and Oracle join AWS as hyperscaler cloud customers.- Deducting OpenAI delay credits from a $26.1B backlog over construction lags. ⚡- Why Cerebras is renting its own previously sold computers back from a customer.- The 2,100 bps bridge between 20% GAAP and 41% Core gross margins.- Burn-off of a legacy cheap hardware contract sets up a Q4 margin jump. While the broader AI hardware industry battles high-bandwidth memory shortages, Cerebras’s HBM-free wafer architecture has plenty of chips ready to go. We unpack the post-IPO accounting quirks dragging down GAAP margins, the 90-day cancellation window inside the OpenAI contract, and why over 75% of 2027 data center capacity is moving outside the U.S. Company: Cerebras Systems Inc. (CBRS) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Cerebras Systems Inc. (CBRS): Renting Back Its Own Supercomputers [Q3 2026]

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Alcon’s Q3 2026 gross margin jumped 280 basis points, but the real catalyst was a $58M U.S. Customs tariff refund booked directly into Core earnings and recycled into TV commercials. In ~10 minutes:- How IEEPA tariff refunds inflated Q3 Core gross margin to 65.7%.- CEO calls out rival &#34;misinformation&#34; as U.S. implantable lenses dip 2%.- Placing Unity surgical gear into 40% of U.S. teaching hospitals.- The ASC plumbing bottleneck for Neurotech&#39;s Encelto retinal cell therapy. 👁️- Why 2026 one-offs and IFRS 18 make 2027 margin math messy. While Vision Care cruised and new surgical hardware locked in the next generation of eye surgeons, the street looked right past the headline beat. Between a Q2 lens write-off triggering R&amp;D restructuring and non-recurring 2026 tailwinds, Alcon&#39;s path to net margin expansion next year is narrower than it looks. Company: Alcon Inc. (ALC) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Alcon (ALC): Customs Refunds Funding Eye Drop Ads [Q3 2026]

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Boyd Group Services Inc. crossed $1.01B in Q3 2026 revenue (+28% YoY), yet acquisition financing and D&amp;A left GAAP net income at just $81,000 ($0.00 EPS). In ~10 minutes:- Why 40% of drivers switch insurers after a total loss vs. 7% after a repair 🚗- Deploying agentic AI to replace front-of-shop administrative bottlenecks- Pausing regional MSO acquisitions in favor of a $14M stock buyback- Missing Q3 start-up guidance (0 opened vs. 3 planned) while ending monthly sales updates While store-level mechanics are humming—with Adjusted EBITDA up 34% YoY to $132.1M and scanning/calibration over 80% internalized—the stock dropped nearly 11% on earnings day as the market digested the post-deal capital structure from the Joe Hudson&#39;s acquisition and delayed greenfield openings. Company: Boyd Group Services Inc. (BGSI) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Boyd Group Services Inc. (BGSI): Why Totaled Cars Kill Insurer Retention [Q3 2026]

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Severe physical scarcity in AI data centers and global oil shipping is letting asset owners push financing costs onto customers and drive corporate debt toward zero. - CoreWeave (CRWV) hiked older GPU renewal prices 30% to 50% and secured $9 billion in upfront customer prepayments.- DHT Holdings (DHT) booked Q4 spot supertankers near $580,000 a day while fixed charters pushed spot break-evens below zero.- Occidental Petroleum (OXY) retired $10.4 billion in debt and deployed autonomous AI across 450,000 daily barrels of oil production. As late-quarter pricing spikes lock cash in accounts receivable at CoreWeave and DHT, fourth-quarter execution hinges on converting record billings and upfront customer deposits into collected cash.

Daily Earnings: Bottlenecks Fund Debt-Free Growth | CRWV, DHT, OXY | Nov 10

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CoreWeave added over $1 billion in sequential Q3 2026 revenue while proving its older, paid-off AI chips can re-contract for more than they cost brand new. In ~10 minutes:- ⚡ Pulling power deployments forward to reach $3.66B in quarterly revenue.- 💰 Collecting ~$9B in customer prepayments over the next 90 days.- 🔄 Why paid-off Ampere and Hopper GPUs re-contracted up 30%–50% QoQ.- ⚠️ A 20% drop in book equity and approaching $1B+ quarterly interest bills.- 🖥️ Launching CoreWeave Omni to monetize third-party hardware with zero CapEx. While bears worry about $46.9B in total debt and rapid hardware depreciation, extreme compute scarcity is allowing CoreWeave to shun the unsecured junk bond market entirely. Instead, customers are wiring billions upfront—effectively funding the equity down payment on next-generation Vera Rubin clusters. Company: CoreWeave, Inc. (CRWV) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

CoreWeave (CRWV): Renting Paid-Off GPUs at a 50% Premium [Q3 2026]

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DHT Holdings posted record Q3 2026 profits of $270.9M, yet its Q4 setup—booking supertankers at $579,900/day without sailing a single ship into the Persian Gulf—is what really breaks the model. 🚢In ~10 minutes:- Why operating cash flow dropped 22% QoQ despite record net income- How Q4 time charters pushed spot P&amp;L break-even below $0/day- Earning $25k/day more on a sister ship by waiting a few weeks- Collecting a $2.1M war-risk insurance rebate while avoiding conflict zones As Strait of Hormuz tensions tighten global crude logistics, DHT&#39;s fixed-rate contracts now cover 100% of company overhead, leaving its spot fleet to print pure profit and fund a 67th consecutive quarterly dividend. We also unpack why management views the massive Chinese shipyard orderbook as an M&amp;A shopping list rather than a supply threat. Company: DHT Holdings, Inc. (DHT) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

DHT Holdings (DHT): $580k/Day Supertankers Avoiding the Persian Gulf [Q3 2026]

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Occidental Petroleum hit its $10B principal debt milestone ahead of schedule in Q3 2026 and immediately set a $6B target—opening the door to a potential net cash position in 2027, even as its divested chemical business quietly drained $456M in quarterly cash. 🛢️ In this episode:- Retiring $10.4B of debt YTD and targeting $6B next- Why divested OxyChem still drained $456M in Q3 operating cash- Permian Waha gas realizations flipping from -$1.48 to +$1.61/Mcf- Buying third-party captured CO2 from gas plants to cut EOR costs- Autonomous AI running 450,000 boe/d and diagnosing offshore pump bearings While lower sequential crude prices cooled headline numbers from Q2 highs, OXY&#39;s post-OxyChem story is shifting from balance sheet survival to structural efficiency. We unpack how Drilling sidetracks in 50-year-old Permian fields, rolling off STRATOS direct air capture capex, and slashing interest expenses by ~$1B could unlock $700M–$800M in extra sustainable cash flow next year—assuming a pending $2.4B Anadarko tax court ruling doesn&#39;t get in the way. Company: Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Occidental Petroleum (OXY): Chasing a 2027 Net Cash Balance Sheet [Q3 2026]

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Tired of waiting in the launch queue, AST SpaceMobile used its Q3 2026 report to announce it is building its own 20-ton reusable rocket—while omitting the $400M upfront price tag from the press release. In ~10 minutes:- Unpacking the $400M Firefly engine deal for the &#34;Blacklift&#34; rocket 🚀- Why Japan’s $1B &#34;non-dilutive subsidy&#34; involves a $1.4B preferred share subscription- Selling ground gateways at a -9.1% gross margin while inventory jumps 178%- Pulling forward the 7nm ASIC chip to multiply satellite bandwidth 10x- How AST plans to more than double Q3 revenue in Q4 to hit full-year guidance Beyond validating the first live cell-tower-to-space handover with AT&amp;T—and maneuvering a stuck satellite over Spain to warm it up so it would unfold—AST is rapidly morphing into a dual-use defense and sovereign telecom contractor. With a new $100M Space Force award and DPAS priority launch ratings, the demand is real, even as rocket CapEx and complex JV accounting raise the stakes for 2027. Company: AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (ASTS) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

AST SpaceMobile (ASTS): Building Its Own $400M Rocket [Q3 2026]

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Rocket Lab’s Q3 2026 proves how starved the orbital launch market is: even after delaying Neutron’s debut into 2027 to rebuild a defective tank dome, the company hiked base launch prices to $70M and sold out customer slots into the 2030s. In ~10 minutes:- 🚀 Why 50% of Neutron capacity is reserved for internal constellations.- Raising $2.4B via ATM equity to shred the $3.6B Iridium bridge loan.- Why Neutron Flight 2 triggered a GAAP forward loss reserve in Q3.- Securing a live $150M Pentagon loan and Starshield &#34;Vendor B&#34; status. With $4.7B in liquidity generating $45M a quarter in net interest income, the pending Iridium buyout is completely de-risked. However, investors still need to separate near-term EBITDA targets from heavy upfront free cash flow burn as Rocket Lab builds out its initial reusable booster fleet. Company: Rocket Lab Corporation (RKLB) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Rocket Lab (RKLB): Hiking Rocket Prices to $70M After a Delay [Q3 2026]

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Moderna (MRNA) wired out a $950M patent settlement in Q3 2026 yet still expanded its cash pile to $8B while locking proprietary software into its first cancer drug filing. 🧬 In ~10 minutes:- Why $1.37B in uncollected vaccine IOUs masked Q3 operating cash burn- Raising $2.6B in 0% convertible debt to fund the oncology pivot- How proprietary antigen-selection software becomes part of the melanoma BLA- Abruptly halting the second norovirus trial cohort to trim $200M in R&amp;D- Missing the spring pharmacy contracting window for the new flu shot While multi-year international government vaccine contracts drove a 29% YoY revenue beat and a full-year guidance hike, the real story is Moderna&#39;s transition into a personalized oncology powerhouse. We unpack the bioinformatics breakthrough that allowed Moderna to scale its neoantigen training dataset from just 7 willing patients in Phase 2 to standard whole-blood draws in Phase 3. Company: Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Moderna (MRNA): Why Software Is Now Part of the Cancer Drug [Q3 2026]

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Enbridge’s Q3 2026 was far from a quiet farewell for outgoing CEO Greg Ebel, who absorbed dilution from a C$3.0B equity raise to pre-fund three US acquisitions before handing a C$38B project backlog to incoming chief Michele Harradence. In ~10 minutes:- 🍔 Why heating a home for two weeks costs one Chick-fil-A family meal.- Blended Liquids reporting that obscures Flanagan South and Mainline drags.- Splitting the MLO2 pipeline expansion to bypass Canadian policy delays.- How a quarter-end FX spike pushed Debt-to-EBITDA to 5.1x. While gas transmission (+13.1% YoY) and distribution (+18.8% YoY) boomed on rate settlements and utility demand, Liquids Pipelines slipped 4.4% YoY. We unpack how Enbridge is pulling every financial lever—from a C$2.7B KKR/Apollo joint venture to a 24% cut in maintenance capex—to keep its dividend machine humming through a major leadership transition. Company: Enbridge Inc. (ENB) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Enbridge (ENB): Chick-fil-A Heating Bills and a $38B Baton Pass [Q3 2026]

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Today’s earnings showed that while external AI bots aren’t booking consumer travel on Airbnb (ABNB), they are driving a massive traffic and security boom for Cloudflare’s (NET) web infrastructure—even as internal AI tools and a sulphur by-product windfall at Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ) fund billions in stock buybacks.- External bots drive minimal Airbnb bookings, while Cloudflare added 5% of the web since July.- Airbnb automated 40% of support tickets; Cloudflare used AI to cut investor-relations prep costs.- Airbnb’s deferred payments reduced upfront float, while CNQ’s sulphur-backed buybacks face a Q1 tax bill.Together, these reports highlight how the agentic web is monetizing network plumbing first while internal automation reshapes corporate margins and working capital.

Daily Earnings: AI Bots Flood Web Plumbing | ABNB, NET, CNQ | Nov 5

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Airbnb&#39;s Q3 2026 revenue accelerated 19% YoY to $4.9B, even as &#34;Reserve Now, Pay Later&#34; shrank unearned fees on the balance sheet.In ~10 minutes:- Why 40%+ RNPL eligibility shrank unearned fees 16% YoY despite booming bookings.- How AI resolved ~40% of customer support issues with zero human intervention.- Poaching Booking.com&#39;s top brass and turning boutique hotels into a funnel. 🏨- Sequencing 2027 ad monetization around a custom visual AI travel agent. While zero-upfront booking payments boosted Q3 nights growth, delayed cancellations will modestly cool that tailwind in Q4. Meanwhile, management is migrating hosts to a single 15.5% fee and turning 9-to-5 workplace daydreaming traffic into hotel conversions—finding that 35% of first-time hotel bookers return to book a home. Company: Airbnb, Inc. (ABNB) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Airbnb (ABNB): Boutique Hotels as a Trojan Horse [Q3 2026]

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Cloudflare’s Q3 2026 saw customers burn through prepaid commitments early, pushing revenue growth to 39% YoY even as post-layoff stock compensation jumped. In ~10 minutes:- Absorbing ~5% of the entire web since July 1st 🌐- Why SBC rose to $174M right after a 20% layoff- How lightweight &#34;isolates&#34; beat heavy containers for AI agents- Booking first &#34;Act 4&#34; revenue selling crawl hints to OpenAI- A quiet $10.7M legal reserve spike and stalled Class C split While hyperscalers spend heavily on idle container infrastructure, Cloudflare’s lightweight architecture is capturing an influx of over 10 million developers. That low-cost distribution pushed non-GAAP operating margin to a record 17.5% and pulled management&#39;s target for actual GAAP profitability forward by two years to Q4 2026. Company: Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Cloudflare (NET): Building the Tollbooth for AI Scraping Bots [Q3 2026]

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Canadian Natural Resources crossed its $13B net debt finish line ahead of schedule in Q3 2026 and immediately committed to an $800M-a-month share buyback pace—even as a $2.4B Q1 tax bill looms. In ~10 minutes:- Dropping net debt to $12.1B triggers 100% FCF allocation to buybacks 💰- How bypass tanks and furnace upgrades at Horizon stretched maintenance to 3 years- A $500M pre-tax windfall from yellow sulphur buffered softer crude prices- Why a $1.5B working capital tax accrual gap will reverse in Q1 2027- Holding back major expansion projects until Ottawa and Alberta finalize terms Even with the massive Horizon upgrader shut down for a 28-day turnaround, record thermal bitumen volumes and smart chemical engineering allowed CNQ to add 5,000 bbl/d of multi-year synthetic crude capacity without drilling a single new well. Yet shares rolled over during the earnings call as analysts dug into the working capital timing behind Q3&#39;s $7.0B operating cash flow and the hefty cash tax outflow due after New Year&#39;s. Company: Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNQ) | Q3 FY2026AI-assisted production. Feedback/ticker requests: https://x.com/EarnUnscripted.

Canadian Natural (CNQ): Replumbing Pipes to Unlock $800M Buybacks [Q3 2026]

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