How to read cross-company mentions on earnings calls

What Mentions is (verbatim quotes, not paraphrases)

On About, Cross-Company Mentions is defined this way: companies constantly talk about each other on earnings calls. Tellvest extracts these mentions verbatim from public transcripts, classifies the relationship, and links both sides. The Mentions page shows the most talked-about companies each quarter, and every company page shows who mentioned them and who they discussed.

Two rules sit next to that definition:

• Every quoted passage is an exact substring of the source transcript and is verified automatically. Nothing is paraphrased.
• Relationships are classified from the speaking company’s perspective.

The Mentions page frames the same product as what companies say about each other on earnings calls: customers, suppliers, competitors, and partners, extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Coverage grows as each earnings season is processed.

Mentions is not a sentiment score and not a buy or sell signal. It is a structured map of who named whom, with the exact quote you can open and check.

Open Mentions and pick a free prior quarter

1. Open Mentions.
2. Read the free prior-quarter view. The page states that the current quarter’s mentions are part of Tellvest Pro, and it is showing Q1 '26, the most recent free quarter.
3. Use the quarter chips (for example Q3 '26, Q2 '26, Q1 '26, Q4 '25, and earlier) if you want another processed season. Newest-quarter Mentions are Pro; prior quarters stay free.
4. No account is required to browse the free prior-quarter Mentions table. See Pricing if you need the newest quarter everywhere.

Live headline counters on Mentions for Q1 '26 (checked 2026-09-21):

• 1,813 mentions in Q1 '26
• 471 companies talking
• 241 tracked companies mentioned

Those aggregates move as more calls are processed. Confirm the live figures on Mentions before you cite them elsewhere.

Read the most talked-about companies table

Below the counters, Mentions shows a Most talked-about companies table with three columns: Company, Mentions, and Mentioned by.

Live top rows for free Q1 '26 (checked 2026-09-21 on Mentions):

Use the table to spot which names are getting the most mentions this season, then click a ticker to open that company’s page. Mentions notes that full mention detail is on each company’s page, and that all quotes are exact substrings of public earnings-call transcripts, verified automatically.

Drill a real ticker set (company pages and Mentions together)

A useful path when you care about customers, suppliers, or competitors:

1. Start on Mentions for a free prior quarter (for example Q1 '26).
2. Pick a name from the most-talked-about table. A live example: Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), which shows 74 mentions in Q1 '26, with speaking companies including AAPL, ADBE, DGX, FIG, INTC, RDDT, and more.
3. Open the company page for that ticker. About states that every company page shows who mentioned them and who they discussed.
4. Optionally open a second company from the “Mentioned by” chips (for example AAPL from GOOGL’s row) so you can read both sides of the relationship next to each company’s free prior-quarter score and Analyst Q&A.
5. Return to Mentions if you want the market-wide ranking again, or stay on company pages if you are tracking a short list of names.

Plan in one line: See who is named most. Open the company page. Read the verbatim quote and relationship in context.

For the 1–10 score on the same name, use How to get a 1–10 sentiment score. For who pressed hardest on the call, use How to grade sell-side analysts on earnings-call questions.

Free vs Pro for Mentions

Mentions follows the same free / Pro split as the rest of Tellvest’s reference layer.

From Pricing and About:

• Free: Prior quarters for every company and for economy, sector, industry, and Mentions views. Company list with sentiment scores and trends. Analyst and firm tracker. Weekly week-ahead email (earnings calendar plus newly covered companies). No account needed to browse.
• Tellvest Pro ($12/month): The latest quarter everywhere the moment it is analyzed (companies, economy, sectors, industries, and Mentions). Macro signal and theme screener, pre-earnings briefs, returns analysis and trade signal history, watchlist email alerts, and coverage requests. Cancel anytime.
• Trial: Every new account starts with 30 days of full Pro, free. No credit card required. When it ends, keep Pro for $12/month or stay on the free tier.

About states the Mentions rule in one sentence: prior quarters are free; mentions from the newest quarter are part of Tellvest Pro. Mentions itself says the current quarter’s mentions are part of Tellvest Pro and shows Q1 '26 as the most recent free quarter (as of 2026-09-21).

Full plan detail: Pricing.

Related sentiment and analyst how-tos

Mentions is one layer of Tellvest’s earnings-call intelligence. For the other layers, see these related how-tos:

• How to get a 1–10 sentiment score for a company’s earnings call
• How to grade sell-side analysts on earnings-call questions
• How to follow earnings without reading every transcript
• How to browse earnings-call scores without Pro
• Track the same segment language across the last 4-6 earnings calls
• How to read Tellvest’s Economic Sentiment Index
• How to read a company earnings-call score
• How to use Pre-earnings briefs

For product definition and methodology, start on About. For a broader product overview, see Earnings-call intelligence.

FAQ

Takeaway

To read cross-company mentions on earnings calls: open Mentions, pick a free prior quarter (currently Q1 '26 on the live page), scan the most talked-about table, then drill into a company page such as GOOGL for the verbatim quotes and who mentioned whom. Use About for the published definition. Prior-quarter Mentions stay free. Browse companies to open any named ticker’s free prior-quarter score.

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Related: Mentions, Pricing, How to get a 1–10 sentiment score, How to grade sell-side analysts on earnings-call questions, and How to follow earnings without reading every transcript, How to browse earnings-call scores without Pro, How to read Tellvest’s Economic Sentiment Index, and How to read a company earnings-call score, and Track the same segment language across the last 4-6 earnings calls, and How to use Company Screener filters.