I just called Fidelity, and they can also reproduce the most-recent earnings reporting problem for BG, GOLD, CYOU on their own WL client. And these are just examples; I'm sure there are many others.
Typically, the earnings will eventually show up after enough bars. I'm surprised the earnings value hasn't shown up after
eight daily bars for BG; that is unusual. I can't say if this is a client problem or a server problem, but it's likely some kind of "contingency problem" between client and server, which explains the somewhat random behavior.
I can't explain why it's a problem for some stocks and not others, but it's reproducible with my WL client and Fidelity's WL client with the same set of stocks. So there's something special with select stocks that creates delayed earnings reporting in WL.
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... how common this is? I mean, has it started happening recently or did you notice some reporting lag between the F. website and F. fundamental provider when it comes to earnings?
Well, perhaps 1 out of 40 stocks have this problem, but it eventually goes away after enough days go by. My question is, "Is it always the same stocks that report earnings a couple days late?" I don't know.
The problem is an old problem as far as I know. I trade rather than invest, so earnings isn't that important to me (so I haven't paid that much attention). But if the P/E ratio is above 70, I may not even want to trade that stock.
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Does the workaround in post #2 alleviate the problem?
I serious doubt Fidelity's WL client even had *.WLF files for these particular stocks when they reproduced the late earnings reporting problem on their system. So the behavior is independent of the *.WLF files. It's a client/server issue with particular stocks. I wish I knew why these problem stocks are "special". Perhaps the fundamental server simply receives earnings reports late for specific stocks, but I'm only guessing. None of the problem stocks are large cap or mega cap stocks.