The Scenario
It's the Sunday before earnings season kicks off and you manage a 40-stock watchlist. You've been meaning to build the earnings calendar for two weeks but every day something more urgent came up. Now it's 8 PM and the first batch of reports starts Wednesday.
The bad version:
- Open Benzinga's earnings calendar, filter by each ticker symbol one at a time, copy the date, EPS estimate, and prior actual, then paste them into the right row in your Excel workbook.
- Realize on ticker 12 that you've been pasting EPS estimates into the prior-actual column by mistake and have to redo six rows.
- Finish 40 tickers in 45 minutes, only to discover three of them have no upcoming earnings and you left those rows blank with no notation.
You're an analyst. Rebuilding a data table from a financial terminal is not the job — the job is knowing what the numbers mean once they're in front of you. The 45 minutes of copying is 45 minutes you don't have.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the data already in the workbook and, through its built-in Benzinga integration, can fetch earnings calendar data for every ticker in your watchlist in a single shot — no manual lookups.
Pull Benzinga earnings data for the tickers in column A of my Excel table for the date range in cells B1:B2 and populate columns B–D with earnings date, EPS estimate, and reported EPS
What You Get
- Column B: earnings date (formatted as YYYY-MM-DD)
- Column C: EPS estimate for the upcoming report
- Column D: prior quarter's reported EPS
- Tickers with no upcoming earnings entry get a blank row with a note in column E indicating no data found
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
What if some tickers in column A have trailing spaces or mixed case?
Pull Benzinga earnings data for all tickers in column A of my Excel table for the date range in cells B1:B2 — clean whitespace and standardize to uppercase before looking up each one — and write earnings date, EPS estimate, and reported EPS into columns B through D
What if I only want tickers scheduled to report within the next 14 days?
Pull Benzinga earnings data for all tickers in column A of my Excel table and write only tickers with an earnings date within the next 14 days into a new worksheet called "Upcoming Earnings" with columns for ticker, earnings date, and EPS estimate
What if my watchlist is split across two worksheets — "Core" and "Sector Bets" — in the same workbook?
Pull Benzinga earnings data for all tickers in column A of the "Core" worksheet and column E of the "Sector Bets" worksheet, combine them, remove duplicates, and write ticker, earnings date, EPS estimate, and reported EPS into a new worksheet called "Full Earnings Calendar"
What if I want the earnings data plus the last analyst rating action in one pass?
For every ticker in column A of my Excel table, fetch Benzinga earnings data (earnings date, EPS estimate, reported EPS) and the most recent Benzinga analyst rating action (firm, action, new rating) and write all six fields into columns B through G in one shot
The pattern: ask for the cleanup and the data pull in a single prompt — no intermediate steps.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Excel workbook with a column of ticker symbols, then ask it to populate your earnings calendar before the next reporting season. The article on compiling consensus analyst ratings is a natural next step — or head back to the Benzinga integration overview for the full picture.