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Analyst
Ron Josey
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters).
- Questions
- 61on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 3%2 of 61 questions
- Companies
- 11questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 7with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 61 of 61 questions from 11 companies
RDDTReddit, Inc.11 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 11 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
there is been a lot of articles and press reports just about the data licensing partnerships that you currently have
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Huffman described the shape of the relationships and the value framework but gave no renewal timing, terms or economics.
talk to us a little bit more just around the products that can convert call it, the pretty strong WAU growth to DAUs.
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Huffman answered specifically, naming feed improvements, onboarding and web-to-app conversion, and volunteering that Reddit's feed technology is behind state-of-the-art.
Calendar 2026 Q1
help us understand a little bit more about the process around verification and the successor progress with bot labeling?
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Steve tied bot verification, Passkey-based login and human verification together as overlapping transparency and defense work.
Calendar 2025 Q4
Just talk about early benefits maybe on the onboarding flow change, around retention.
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Steve said streamlining onboarding improves retention and Reddit will invest in ML to make the cold-start feed better.
Calendar 2025 Q3
talk to us a little bit more just about user growth trends here, particularly as we go into 4Q and going forward
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Steve said Q3 growth was a balance of organic and paid with external search flat, and Reddit exited Q3 above its average into Q4.
Calendar 2025 Q2
I just would love to hear how your relationships or just the relationships overall with advertisers have evolved over the last year or so, from then until now.
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Jen said growth is led by well-retained existing advertisers, a new global accounts team, third-party integrations and cross-funnel adoption.
I wanted to hear more of your thoughts on answers now that it's rolling out globally and it being potentially more central to be experience
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Steve said Reddit is unifying traditional search and Reddit Answers into one front-and-center in-app experience for seekers and scrollers.
Calendar 2025 Q1
I wanted to get your thought on DAUq's and users overall, more specifically your sense and how you see user growth for the remainder of the year
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Steve gave an early April read of high-teens DAU growth and framed Google-driven bumps as expected but not a long-term risk.
Talk just about what you're seeing currently from a macro perspective and how you see the ad market today and maybe how macro might impact the business?
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Jen said there is a lot of uncertainty but it is mostly business as usual, with Reddit helping advertisers navigate volatility.
Calendar 2024 Q4
I wanted to ask about Reddit Answers. Just wanted to hear about early results, maybe some insights on the rollout
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Steve described Answers as an early beta testing corpus depth and answer quality, calling the start promising.
you mentioned sort of some insights or some changes in Google Search algorithm. Would love to hear any thoughts on what the change was
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Steve said such swings happen regularly, mainly hit logged-out users, and traffic recovered, but did not specify the change.
ABNBAirbnb7 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how Airbnb Inc. Is helping hosts sort of decide what the optimal pricing is for each home that’s available
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Chesky described a new AI-driven pricing model as one of the largest growth levers, well above Reserve Now Pay Later, while experiences remain a longer-horizon, small-base opportunity.
Calendar 2026 Q1
on just the app room nights more booked through the app, the 22% growth and the 2/3 coming
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Brian explained multiple drivers: aggressive push to download app, increased notification opt-ins, email hooks and App Store ranking improvements.
rebuilding or rethinking how teams are structured given the world of AI
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Brian said it is very early but Airbnb must move at the speed of AI. Leaders need to be more hands-on with less room for pure people managers.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Would love to hear your thoughts on just the experience overall, the interactivity. And just any early thoughts on the testing you've done
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Brian outlined three-phase AI search: Phase 1 natural language input with AI-generated search cards, Phase 2 multi-turn conversational, Phase 3 unified AI concierge integrating search, messaging, and customer service. Paris experiences revealed three audience segments with different supply needs.
Calendar 2025 Q2
help us understand as you see just applications continue to balloon for experiences, how you can scale the learnings in Paris
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Brian described personalized carousels, post-booking entry points, and dedicated Paris team doing rapid iteration. Loyalty program under active consideration but not imminent; would be novel, not points-based.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Talk to us a little bit more about the plans, integration plans across the site and how you think or whether any contribution
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Ellie said May 13 launch will have modest Q2 revenue impact with expense building over the year. Affordability positioned as natural hedge with ability to merchandise lower-cost nearby listings.
Calendar 2024 Q4
Love to hear your thoughts on what what you're finding, what you're seeing with search and merchandising and learnings there
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Brian detailed personalized welcome tour, suggested destinations, shorter checkout flow driving conversion. Ellie quantified product optimization lift at approximately 200 basis points.
BKNGBooking Holdings7 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
I wanted to follow up on your comments around progress in the U.S. market.
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Glenn described a grind-it-out approach of product, inventory and marketing improvements; Ewout said the incremental $100M savings came mostly from procurement.
Calendar 2026 Q1
do you see these experiences merging? Do you take the benefits from Penny, put them into Booking?
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Glenn explained multi-brand AI strategy: teams share learnings across brands, best approaches get scaled. Also mentioned undisclosed startup-type AI projects in development.
any insights on maybe early results on conversion rates? I know we've said cancellation rates have improved somewhat
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Glenn confirmed small-sample conversion uplift from Penny. Ewout added metrics beyond conversion: faster search, shorter path to booking, lower cancellation rates, and positive customer satisfaction.
Calendar 2025 Q3
Talk to us about the impacts this might be having on either cancellation rates, conversion rates, things along those lines
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Ewout cited better conversion, lower cancellation rates, reduced customer service contact rates, faster handling times, higher satisfaction, and absolute cost declines despite 10% volume growth.
how are we going to deal with trying to get that last 35% to come direct. Is that kind of the question
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Glenn acknowledged US brand awareness needs improvement, emphasized continuing investment in product and brand advertising as the path to higher direct share.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Talk to us a little bit more just about conversion rates that you're seeing from this new tool
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Glenn declined to share specific metrics but confirmed natural language search remains live because it's performing positively, and cited broader GenAI wins across brands.
how you see the P&L evolving just given direct is a larger part and you could see some leverage
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Ewout described 'double discipline', driving operating leverage while reinvesting $170M in GenAI, fintech, and verticals for higher future top-line growth.
CVNACarvana Co.7 questions · 5 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
can you give us some insights on whether that's been fully rolled out across the IRCs
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Confirmed the new tools are not fully deployed, framed it as remaining opportunity, and cited compounding customer-care cost declines from AI.
Calendar 2025 Q4
Talk to us about just how conversion rates are trending here, the progress as you're working as you -- I know you entered earlier on affordability
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Continual improvement in conversion across all funnel definitions. Opportunity remains in understanding and trust. Tests confirm clear elasticity relationships with speed and price.
Calendar 2025 Q2
when mega sites or the ADESA sites come online, just how quickly are these sites up -- get up to speed to become efficient?
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ADESA sites currently at less than half the utilization of Carvana sites. Catching up is asymptotic and will take time, but on plan or slightly better.
Calendar 2025 Q1
how tariffs fit in very short term, I know, and I know you just gave long-term guidance, but I wanted to hear your thoughts on the here now
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Acknowledged tariff uncertainty. Small demand pull-forward then trough then stabilization. Focus remains on relative competitive positioning, not chasing macro.
do you manage the business chain retail GPUs and total GPUs, meaning that as you can benefit from improving retail GPUs
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Walked through EBITDA margin economics: 11.5% base + fixed cost leverage + older market benefits + fundamental gains well exceeds 13.5% target.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how you might use AI to maybe include natural language search and things along those lines as the user experience improves
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Highlighted Sebastian chatbot as first application. Cited 4M+ transaction data set and vertical integration as unique AI advantages.
how you philosophically manage balancing inventory as a lever to drive demand versus greater overall depreciation
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Framed excess inventory depreciation as a customer acquisition cost that can be compared to other channels. Team has done incredible job scaling.
METAMeta Platforms, Inc.7 questions · 5 reporting periods · 1 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
do you look at the personal agent opportunity, which we talked about earlier on the -- in the call, more of a short-term, medium-term, long-term goal
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Zuckerberg said 2026 is key for establishing agents as the product vehicle, but model improvement will continue for a very long time across short, medium, and long term.
how doubling the length of these interaction sequences can drive greater usage. There's a thesis out there that maybe some of the rating recommendation improvements are long in the tooth.
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Li pushed back on the diminishing-returns thesis, describing a multi-pronged roadmap of data infrastructure improvements, model complexity scaling, and LLM-based tuning.
Calendar 2025 Q4
can you help us understand a little bit more just about the roadmap and where we stand within ranking recommendation model changes? There's a thesis out there that maybe we're, you know, there's a ...
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Susan Li described GEM as the first recommendation architecture scaling like LLMs, with 2026 plans to double the GEM cluster and expand data/complexity.
Calendar 2025 Q3
if you can talk to us more just about adoption rates amongst the advertisers? And then maybe bigger picture, as you incorporate ranking recommendation changes like Andromeda, GEMS or Lattice, just ...
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Susan Li quantified a 14% lower cost-per-lead for Advantage+ lead campaigns and flagged meaningful adoption headroom across existing advertisers.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how these next-gen models can help drive adoption here, particularly with Behemoth coming online at some point. And then as people are using that Meta AI with WhatsApp, thoughts on search and queri...
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Zuckerberg pointed to model upgrades driving engagement but declined to specify the roadmap.
Calendar 2024 Q4
given the adoption we're seeing on the 600-plus MAUs, just how does the user experience evolved to? What are people doing with Meta AI?
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Susan Li gave rich color on use cases (info seeking, emotional support, humor) and flagged memory/personalization as the 2025 roadmap.
I want to get back to your comment on getting back to the OG Facebook, and I want to understand a little bit more on the use cases and how that could expand?
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Zuckerberg acknowledged possible near-term business trade-offs to refocus Facebook on cultural influence but gave no specifics.
PINSPinterest, Inc.6 questions · 6 reporting periods · 0 of 6 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
Can you talk a little bit more about how the sales force is now structured going forward?
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William detailed segment-specific selling and measurement, and taking time to get Pinterest Assistant product-market fit right.
Calendar 2025 Q4
does it talk to us how this acquisition can open up larger budget pools as it just accelerates both tvScientific
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Bill called tvScientific the first move into off-platform supply in fast-growing connected TV, with the transformation already in flight.
Calendar 2025 Q3
I'd love to get your thoughts on agentic commerce, agent search, and how everything is evolving here
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Bill framed Pinterest as already delivering the agentic promise proactively; Julia said UCan tariff pullback partially recovered.
Calendar 2025 Q2
just wanted to hear more about the opportunity here as Pinterest gets more direct traffic
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Bill cited Adobe data on Gen Z search adoption and the platform's visual-search resonance across geographies.
Calendar 2025 Q1
I wanted to hear more about these additional verticals that Pinterest is seeing success in
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Julia named financial services, technology, telecom and entertainment as underpenetrated verticals; AI code up 10 points to 25%.
Calendar 2024 Q4
I would love to hear how advertiser adoption of the direct links going, the sales process is going
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Bill cited largest advertisers at over 80% lower-funnel spend and room to grow share of wallet in the next tranche.
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DASHDoorDash5 questions · 4 reporting periods · 1 of 5 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
the plans or strategies to continue adding value to the program and the push and pull what that value does
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Ravi said DashPass value comes from a better underlying product; the new distance fee is a realignment with little expected P&L impact.
Calendar 2025 Q3
would love to hear what you all think or learned thus far on ways to improve the product and the consumer experience
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Tony said many DoorDash and Wolt experiments portable to Roo. Thousands of small improvements across selection, quality, affordability and service, no one big thing.
unit economics were flat quarter-to-quarter for U.S. restaurants. I'm just wondering if that's a change in trajectory
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Ravi said quarter-to-quarter has moving parts but incremental margins above 7% over last 8 quarter average still holds. Business accelerating at larger scale with improving unit economics.
Calendar 2025 Q2
talk to us a little bit more about how DashPass cohorts have been trending here, maybe on the newer cohorts
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Ravi said even 5-6 year old cohorts continue engaging at higher levels. New consumers joining, habituating, graduating to DashPass with higher order frequency.
Calendar 2025 Q1
how the value prop continues to grow and how that's driving just accelerating growth on DashPass
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Tony said focus is increasing consumer surplus for subscribers by making the product better. On NYC regulatory question, said fee caps often do opposite of intended purpose.
CARTMaplebear Inc.4 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
club has been a driver of AOV for several quarters now. And I just want to understand that a little bit more
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Emily tied club AOV strength to value-seeking consumers and the Costco executive-member benefit; Chris said retailers view Instacart's enterprise tech as differentiated.
Calendar 2026 Q1
how they are approaching this as Instacart becomes more of a weekly and habit as opposed to just convenience
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Chris said retailers set item-level prices and those offering price parity grow 10 percentage points faster and retain customers better, framing parity as an incremental sales and share opportunity.
Calendar 2025 Q3
I wanted to ask about the chart in the letter around cart's top enterprise partners and the cadence here.
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Reuter said over 80% of the business is nonexclusive and enterprise relationships sustain strong growth; fluctuations are seasonality/launches. Direct.
Calendar 2024 Q4
hear your thoughts on the investments that Instacart has made to improve overall affordability
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Fidji tied affordability to frequency and cohort strength; Emily framed the Super Bowl ad as reallocated portfolio spend, not incremental. Answered.
GOOGLAlphabet Inc.3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
ask you a little bit more about monetization from a Search and YouTube perspective
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Sundar: 17% Search growth driven by deep Gemini integration across ad quality, tools and new AI experiences, with all major verticals contributing, led by retail.
Calendar 2026 Q1
if you could break down the cost drivers or really the drivers of margin expansion, particularly amongst cloud
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Ashkenazi attributed cloud margin expansion from 17.8% to 32.9% to top-line leverage, efficient operations, and scientific process innovation in technical infrastructure.
Calendar 2025 Q1
Love to hear more just about what's driving that
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Schindler said many factors driving YouTube DR including AI-powered tools for customer performance. Happy with Shorts monetization gap closing especially in US. Pichai added YouTube celebrated 20th birthday with over 20 billion videos on platform and 20 million daily uploads.
UBERUber3 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
what are the bottlenecks or are there bottlenecks as we scale supply and demand really grows across these cities
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Dara identified key constraints: more cars needed, safety validation before removing safety drivers, regulatory dialogue on AV interaction with school zones, firefighters, congestion, and workforce effects.
Talk to us a little bit more about the drivers here. I know we mentioned greater affordability insurance
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Balaji confirmed AV adoption expanding ridesharing category in aggregate, UBER's category position expanding, plus insurance-driven pricing goodness expected to continue accelerating trips.
Calendar 2025 Q3
help us understand a little bit more on these loyalty gains on the Uber One benefits
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Dara explained Uber One membership cohort retention improving even as base grows, now in 42 countries vs 28 a year ago. Prashanth detailed insurance wins: California coverage limits reduced, driving insights dashboard deployed, advantage mode rolling out.
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q2
how Amazon is adopting generative AI internally, how perhaps you've seen improving speed to market as a result of everything you've just talked about
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Jassy said AI will change every customer experience and the way work is done across coding analytics research finance business process automation and customer service. Said Amazon is choosing to embrace and shape AI rather than have it shape them. Cited Kiro coding agents Connect call center software and broad automation of business processes. Said primary benefit is inventing for customers more quickly and expansively. Also expects teammates jobs to become more enjoyable by removing rote work and enabling deeper end-to-end ownership.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| RDDT Reddit, Inc. | 11 | 0%none of 11 questions |
| ABNB Airbnb | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| BKNG Booking Holdings | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| CVNA Carvana Co. | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| META Meta Platforms, Inc. | 7 | 14%1 of 7 questions |
| PINS Pinterest, Inc. | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions |
| DASH DoorDash | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions |
| CART Maplebear Inc. | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| GOOGL Alphabet Inc. | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
| UBER Uber | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
- RDDTReddit, Inc. · 11 questions0%none of 11 questions
- ABNBAirbnb · 7 questions0%none of 7 questions
- BKNGBooking Holdings · 7 questions0%none of 7 questions
- CVNACarvana Co. · 7 questions0%none of 7 questions
- METAMeta Platforms, Inc. · 7 questions14%1 of 7 questions
- PINSPinterest, Inc. · 6 questions0%none of 6 questions
- DASHDoorDash · 5 questions20%1 of 5 questions
- CARTMaplebear Inc. · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
- GOOGLAlphabet Inc. · 3 questions0%none of 3 questions
- UBERUber · 3 questions0%none of 3 questions
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 9 | 0%none of 9 questions | 6 |
| 2025 Q1 | 8 | 0%none of 8 questions | 6 |
| 2025 Q2 | 10 | 0%none of 10 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q3 | 10 | 10%1 of 10 questions | 8 |
| 2025 Q4 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q1 | 12 | 8%1 of 12 questions | 8 |
| 2026 Q2 | 8 | 0%none of 8 questions | 7 |
- 2024 Q49 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 9 questions) · 6 companies
- 2025 Q18 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 8 questions) · 6 companies
- 2025 Q210 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 10 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q310 questions · challenge rate 10% (1 of 10 questions) · 8 companies
- 2025 Q44 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q112 questions · challenge rate 8% (1 of 12 questions) · 8 companies
- 2026 Q28 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 8 questions) · 7 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Cloud & AI21
- Demand17
- Innovation & R&D15
- Product Launch14
- Subscriber Growth13
- Competitive Dynamics12
- Pricing9
- Revenue Growth8
- Margin5
- Cost Pressure2
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- Capital Allocation2
- M&A2
- Macroeconomic2
- Geographic Expansion1
- Regulation Policy1
- Capex Investment1
- Supply Chain1
- Trade Tariffs1
- Inventory1