When a company consistently beats earnings expectations, it signals more than luck. It often reflects strong execution, disciplined management, and sustainable competitive advantages.

Repeated beats build investor confidence — and in many cases, fuel upward price re-ratings.
Below, we spotlight five companies stand out for their steady streaks of earnings outperformance and show how you can identify similar patterns programmatically using FMP's Earnings Surprises Bulk API and Earnings Report API.

5 Companies with Consistent EPS & Revenue Beats

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META)

• Beat Streak: 10 consecutive quarters
  
  
• Context: Meta has delivered earnings beats through cost discipline and robust ad demand. Its consistency reflects strong cash generation from its core platforms and improving efficiency in its Reality Labs segment.

Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU)

• Beat Streak: 6 quarters
  
  
• Context: Intuit's earnings momentum continues, supported by growth in QuickBooks and TurboTax subscriptions. Regular EPS and revenue beats highlight resilience across small-business and consumer-finance segments.

Vertiv Holdings (NYSE: VRT)

• Beat Streak: 6 quarters
  
  
• Context: Vertiv has outperformed earnings expectations for six straight quarters as datacenter build-outs drive revenue growth. The company's consistent margin expansion underscores strong execution in a rapidly scaling market.
  
  

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM)

• Beat Streak: 4 quarters
  
  
• Context: JPMorgan's streak of consecutive earnings beats demonstrates balance-sheet strength and stable net interest income. The firm's diversified business mix continues to outperform peers, even in a volatile rate environment.
  
  

Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM)

• Beat Streak: 4 quarters
  
  
• Context: The retailer has posted steady beats driven by premium brand positioning and inventory discipline. Its strong earnings performance amid shifting consumer spending shows effective management and operational agility.

Interpreting Earnings Beats: Beyond the Numbers

Not all beats are created equal. Investors should look beyond headline EPS figures to assess the quality and consistency of outperformance.

Quality of the Beat

• EPS vs. revenue mix: A beat on both lines signals true operating strength, while EPS-only beats can stem from cost controls or share buybacks.
  
  
• Magnitude matters: A minor 1-2 % surprise may be ignored; a 10 %+ beat can trigger a fundamental re-rating.

When both lines beat with real magnitude, markets notice — for example, Meta's Q2 results showed revenue up 6% and EPS up 21% versus consensus, with upbeat guidance that sent the stock up 11% the next day. By contrast, JPMorgan's Q2 2025 results painted a subtler picture: revenue beat by about 2% and EPS by nearly 10%, yet the shares barely moved as investors fixated on the year-over-year revenue decline and margin pressure.

Consistency as a Signal

A multi-quarter streak implies durable demand and operational excellence — patterns often visible before Wall Street fully prices them in. Vertiv's six-quarter run, for example, shows that sustained execution can precede broader recognition.

Guidance & Market Reaction

Markets reward companies that not only beat but also raise guidance. Conversely, a beat paired with lower forecasts can still drive selloffs.

Use FMP's Stock Chart Light API to compare post-earnings price changes with the size of each surprise to measure sentiment effects.

Sector Context

Earnings beats carry more weight when peers are missing. JPMorgan's resilience during banking volatility or Meta's efficiency-driven outperformance in a cautious tech cycle both underscore how context defines strength.

Analysts who can read between the lines of annual reports — tracking margin expansion, expense trends, or capital deployment — gain an edge in identifying which companies are delivering true operational gains versus temporary surprises.

Practical Application: Tracking Earnings Beats with the FMP API

You can automate the discovery of consistently outperforming companies using FMP's Earnings Surprises Bulk API and Earnings Report API.

1. Pull Bulk Earnings Surprises

Use the Earnings Surprises Bulk API to retrieve positive or negative EPS surprises across a broad universe:

https://financialmodelingprep.com/stable/earnings-surprises-bulk?year=2025&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Sample Response:

[

{

"symbol": "AMKYF",

"date": "2025-07-09",

"epsActual": 0.3631,

"epsEstimated": 0.3615,

"lastUpdated": "2025-07-09"

}

]

Filter results where epsActual > epsEstimated to identify recent earnings beats.

2. Retrieve Company-Level Details

Then call the Earnings Report API for each ticker to see how many consecutive quarters met or beat estimates:

https://financialmodelingprep.com/stable/earnings?symbol=AAPL&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Count consecutive beats. You can also add a filter for minimum surprise percentage or a threshold like three or more consecutive beats.

Scaling Your Earnings Beats Monitoring Workflow

You can start analyzing earnings performance using the Free plan, which covers leading tickers such as AAPL, MSFT, and JPM.
The Starter plan unlocks coverage for all U.S.-listed companies, while the Premium plan expands to U.K. and Canadian exchanges.

Scaling Earnings Beats Monitoring Across Teams

When these insights are shared across research and risk functions, they become a firm-wide signal layer rather than one analyst's dataset.

• Research teams can filter by minimum streak length or surprise magnitude.
  
  
• PMs can overlay results with sector exposure for portfolio heat maps.
  
  
• Risk teams can log and timestamp all earnings outcomes for compliance and backtesting.
  
  

For portfolio-wide analysis, the Enterprise plan allows teams to integrate the Earnings APIs into centralized dashboards, ensuring consistent and auditable data streams.

Putting Earnings Beats Signals to Work

Earnings outperformance remains one of the clearest indicators of corporate strength and investor conviction.
Meta Platforms, Intuit, Vertiv Holdings, JPMorgan Chase, and Williams-Sonoma exemplify how consistent execution translates to market trust and sustained valuation gains.

By leveraging FMP's Earnings Surprises Bulk API and Earnings Report API, you can automate the identification of earnings-beat streaks — transforming what was once a quarterly manual task into a repeatable, data-driven process.

Once your earnings-beat tracker is running, you can expand it with other FMP datasets — from fundamentals to guidance and price reactions — turning a simple streak counter into a full earnings intelligence layer. Explore the complete platform behind this workflow on the Financial Modeling Prep homepage.