{"id":1234368,"date":"2022-10-25T19:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/five-questions-to-consider-ahead-of-big-techs-q3-earnings\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T19:20:34","slug":"five-questions-to-consider-ahead-of-big-techs-q3-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/five-questions-to-consider-ahead-of-big-techs-q3-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Five questions to consider ahead of Big Tech&#8217;s Q3 earnings \u2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><span class=\"featured__span-first-words\">Today after the<\/span> bell, Alphabet and Microsoft will report their calendar third-quarter financial results. Given the breadth of industries that each of these companies touch, their performance will provide us with rich data concerning different areas of the technology landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The fun will continue tomorrow when Meta reports its own results. And later this week, we\u2019ll hear from Apple and Amazon, completing the \u201cBig Five\u201d technology earnings reporting cycle in just a handful of days.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for a blizzard of numbers.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Read it every morning on + or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Most folks don\u2019t love reading earnings reports, dry documents that are an odd combination of canned CEO-speak and raw numbers. The proffered executive commentary is too pre-chewed to mean much, and numbers are just that: figures on a page.<\/p>\n<p>To help you cut a useful line through the upcoming numerical flurry, I\u2019ve detailed below five questions that + wants to answer in the coming days. Our queries are centered around issues that impact startups, so we\u2019ll relate each question and its supporting data points back to upstart tech companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today after the bell, Alphabet and Microsoft will report their calendar third-quarter financial results. Given the breadth of industries that each of these companies touch, their performance will provide us with rich data concerning different areas of the technology landscape. The fun will continue tomorrow when Meta reports its own results. And later this week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}