Apple and Palantir Report Today: An Earnings-Day Checklist

Apple and Palantir both report earnings today, Monday 2 November 2026, with both prints landing after the closing bell. Each carries a published consensus EPS estimate, $1.98 for Apple and $0.33 for Palantir, and after-hours results can open the next session with a gap.

Who reports today, and at what time?

Two major companies report earnings today, 2 November 2026, and both print after-hours. That means results land after the regular US session closes, not during trading hours, so the first reaction happens when most retail orders cannot execute at the regular price.

Here is the full slate for the day, stated as published consensus estimates and nothing more:

A consensus EPS estimate is the average earnings-per-share forecast from the analysts who cover the stock. It is a reference point, not a prediction of where the shares go.

What does "after-hours" mean for someone holding the stock?

After-hours earnings mean the numbers hit while the regular US market is closed, so the price you see at 4:00pm ET is not the price at which the news gets digested. Both AAPL and PLTR report after the bell today.

The mechanics matter for a holder:

• Pre-market prints would land before the open and get absorbed into the first regular trades. Neither of today's reporters does this.
• After-hours prints trade in a thinner session with wider spreads. Prices can move on low volume that does not reflect where the stock settles the next day.
• The clearest signal for most holders is the next open, Monday evening's report feeding into the following regular session, which can begin with a gap up or down from Friday's close.

A gap is simply the stock opening at a different price from its prior close, with no trades in between. After a big earnings surprise, the gap can be large, and a standard market order at the open fills at that new level, not the old one.

What does a holder actually do this morning?

This morning is about knowing your exposure and setting your levels before the print, not about guessing the result. Three concrete checks cover it.

1. Check your exposure to today's reporters

Start by confirming whether you even hold AAPL or PLTR, directly or through a fund, and how large those positions are relative to the rest of your book. If you track everything in one place, this takes seconds.

• Open your holdings and look for AAPL and PLTR by ticker.
• Note the position's weight. A 2% holding and a 20% holding warrant very different attention through an earnings event.
• Remember indirect exposure: large-cap index funds and many tech ETFs carry Apple as a top weight.

PortfolioTrackr shows every holding across accounts in one view, and the ALL PORTFOLIOS combined view is on every plan for anyone with more than one portfolio. If you hold the same name at two brokers, you see the total, not two fragments. Our guide to connecting a brokerage account to a portfolio tracker walks through getting holdings in automatically.

2. Set price alerts before the print

Set your alerts now, while the market is calm, rather than after a gap has already happened. PortfolioTrackr alerts are price levels only: Target 1, Target 2 and a stop-loss on a position, plus a price above or below on a watchlist entry.

• Every position and watchlist level is checked once a minute while the market is open, and around the clock for crypto.
• You hear within a minute of your level being hit, by email, WhatsApp, Telegram or push on every plan. SMS is on Pro and Lifetime.
• Alerts report status against your own levels, for example "Target 1 reached" or "stop-loss level reached". They do not tell you what to do.

There are no earnings or news alerts, so an alert will not fire on the report itself. It fires when the price crosses a level you chose. Setting those levels today means you are not watching a thin after-hours tape live.

3. Expect a gap at the open

Accept that the first regular price after an after-hours report can be a gap, and plan around that fact rather than the exact number. A market order placed before the open fills at wherever the stock reopens.

What is worth watching inside the Apple report?

For Apple, the headline consensus EPS estimate is $1.98, but a single EPS line rarely tells the whole quarter. Holders tend to read the full release and the call for context rather than one figure.

Things that appear in a typical Apple report, stated neutrally:

• Revenue by segment, including iPhone, Services, Mac, iPad and Wearables, against the story management told last quarter.
• Services revenue, which Apple has highlighted as a recurring, higher-margin line.
• Gross margin and any commentary on component costs or currency.
• Any forward commentary management chooses to give on the call. Apple's guidance style is qualitative rather than a hard EPS range.

None of this predicts the outcome. It is simply what the release contains, so you can read it against your own understanding of why you hold the stock.

What is worth watching inside the Palantir report?

For Palantir, the consensus EPS estimate is $0.33, and the market usually reads several lines beyond EPS given the company's growth narrative. Again, these are things the report contains, not forecasts.

• Revenue growth, split between US commercial and government customers.
• Customer count and net new contracts, which Palantir discloses each quarter.
• Full-year revenue guidance, which the company typically updates with results.
• Commentary on AI platform adoption, a theme Palantir has emphasised in recent quarters.

Higher-growth names often move more on guidance than on the reported EPS, because the price already embeds expectations. For wider context on the AI funding backdrop, our note on what OpenAI cutting its funding target signals for AI stocks is a useful read.

How do you track all of this without a dozen tabs open?

The practical answer is one view that holds every position, every account and every alert together, so earnings season does not turn into a tab-management problem. This is the core job a portfolio tracker does better than a broker app that only shows the holdings at that one broker.

• See AAPL and PLTR alongside everything else, with each position's weight visible.
• Keep Target 1, Target 2 and stop-loss levels attached to the position, not scattered across sticky notes.
• Add a free-text note to a position, for example the quarter you are watching, since positions carry a note rather than tags.

If you still run your book in a sheet, our comparison of a portfolio tracker versus a spreadsheet lays out where manual tracking breaks down around live prices and alerts. For a broader look at the options, see our data comparison of six portfolio trackers for 2026.

The bottom line

Apple and Palantir both report after the close today, 2 November 2026, with consensus EPS estimates of $1.98 and $0.33 respectively. Because both are after-hours prints, the first full market reaction arrives as a possible gap at the next open, not during today's session.

The morning job for a holder is narrow and doable: confirm your exposure to both names, set your price-level alerts before the print, and read the full releases for revenue and guidance rather than fixating on a single EPS line. PortfolioTrackr keeps the holdings, the levels and the alerts in one place so you are not reacting blind when the numbers land.

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