P&G Earnings on October 22, 2026: What to Expect, and What P&G Stock Did on Every Earnings Day Since 2010

Procter & Gamble reports its fiscal first quarter on Thursday, October 22, before the market opens, the last of the week's five big reports and the only one from a company whose stock almost never moves on earnings. That is the useful part. Tide, Pampers, Gillette and Crest sell at the same pace in good quarters and bad, so P&G's report is read less for the quarter than for what it says about the consumer: whether people are trading down, whether price increases are sticking, and what raw materials cost. This preview covers the time and the numbers, the full-year guide the quarter is measured against, and what we measured about P&G's stock on all 67 of its earnings days since 2010. Education, not advice.

When does P&G report earnings?

Thursday, October 22, 2026, before the open, with the webcast on P&G's investor site that morning. Because the release lands before the bell, Thursday's own session carries the reaction. It closes a week that opened with GM and Netflix on Tuesday and Tesla and Meta on Wednesday evening; the week-ahead guide has the whole schedule.

What Wall Street expects

Consensus heading into the report is net sales of about $22.8 billion, up roughly 2% from a year earlier, and core earnings of about $1.88 a share, down about 6% from $1.99 in the same quarter last year. The decline is expected, not feared: P&G told investors in July that fiscal 2027 would carry higher commodity, energy and transportation costs, and the first quarter is where those land before pricing catches up. The company has beaten the bottom-line estimate in each of the last four quarters.

The frame is the July guide. P&G's fourth-quarter release closed fiscal 2026 with net sales of $87.0 billion, up 3%, organic sales up 1% and core earnings of $6.89 a share, up 1%. The fourth quarter itself was soft: net sales of $21.2 billion, flat organic sales, core earnings of $1.43, down 3%. For fiscal 2027 management guided all-in and organic sales growth of 1% to 3%, core earnings flat to up 3%, a range of $6.89 to $7.11 a share, with about $1 billion after tax of higher raw material, energy and transportation costs built in, capital spending of 4.5% to 5.5% of sales, around $10 billion of dividends and about $5 billion of buybacks.

Three things the report turns on

• Volume against price. Fiscal 2026 growth was all price; volume was flat for the year and organic sales were flat in the fourth quarter. The question on Thursday is whether volume has turned positive. If it has, the 1% to 3% organic guide is safe. If shoppers are still trading down to store brands, the low end of the guide is in play.
• Gross margin and costs. The July release flagged about six cents a share of higher energy, transportation and material costs in the quarter, mostly offset by tariff refunds. Thursday shows whether those costs kept rising and whether P&G is pricing them through or absorbing them.
• The guide itself. P&G rarely moves its ranges in October, but when it does the stock reacts more than it does to the quarter. A trimmed organic range would land harder than a one-cent miss.

What P&G stock has done on every earnings day since 2010

We took every quarterly earnings report P&G has filed since January 2010, 67 of them through July 2026, using the Form 8-K filing dates on SEC EDGAR, and matched each to the stock's close that day against the close before. P&G reports before the open, so the report day is the reaction day.

• The stock rose on 40 of 67 report days (60%). The median move, up or down, was 2.6%.
• A 3% move happened 22 times; a 5% move only 3 times in sixteen years. The record is +8.8% in October 2018, the quarter the current growth plan first showed up in the numbers, and -6.6% in April 2013. P&G has never moved 10% on a report.
• October reports have leaned up. P&G's fiscal first quarter has reported in October 16 times; the stock rose on 12 of them, including +8.8% (2018), +3.4% (2016) and +2.9% (2012 and 2015). The two October losses of any size were 2017 (-3.7%) and 2021 (-1.2%).
• Nothing has changed lately. Across the last twelve reports the moves were: +2.6%, +4.1%, +0.5%, -4.8%, -0.6%, +1.9%, -3.7%, -0.3%, +0.2%, +2.6%, +1.7%, -1.9%. The median size of the last fifteen reports is the same 2.6% as the fifteen years before them; this is not a stock the market has started to argue about.

That steadiness is the point of owning it, and it is the reason the week's big three reports do not read across to P&G. A bad Tesla night says nothing about detergent.

Does the first day's move hold?

We also checked the five trading days after the larger reactions. After the 22 report days where P&G rose 2% or more, the median result a week later was +3.4% from the pre-report close, and the gain was still intact 50% of the time. After the 17 report days where it fell 2% or more, the median was -4.0% a week later and the stock was lower still 65% of the time. Even for a steady stock, a down earnings day has tended to keep drifting for a week, which is the one pattern here worth respecting.

Where the stock sits going in

P&G closed Tuesday, October 20 at $159.32, up about 11% for the year and about 5% below its 52-week closing high of $167.20. It has outrun the market's defensive names this year while consumer sentiment sits near record lows, which is the setup the report tests: a staples stock priced for steady growth, reporting into a consumer who says they feel poor. The July report produced a 1.9% drop on the day; the two before it were gains.

How to hold P&G through the report

• Size for a 3% day, and do not expect more. The median is 2.6% and the record is under 9%. This is the one report this week where a normal position survives a normal reaction without adjustment. Position sizing still decides what 'normal' means for your account.
• A stop does not work across a pre-market release. P&G reports before the open and the stock opens wherever the report puts it; a stop fills there. For a stock this steady the gap risk is small, but it is not zero: April 2013 opened down 6%. The earnings-season guide covers the gap problem.
• Respect a down day. A 2% drop on P&G earnings has gone further over the following week two times in three. If the reaction is poor and you were holding for the quarter, the record argues against waiting for the bounce. The playbook has the four-outcome template.
• Do not let Wednesday night decide Thursday. Tesla and Meta report the evening before. Whatever they do to the tape, P&G's own history says its report moves on its own numbers.

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Quick answers

What time does P&G report earnings on October 22, 2026? Before the market opens, with the earnings webcast on P&G's investor relations site the same morning. The stock reacts in Thursday's regular session.

How much does P&G stock move on earnings? Across all 67 reports since 2010 the median move is 2.6% and the stock rose 60% of the time. It has moved 5% or more only 3 times, and never 10%. The record is +8.8% in October 2018.

What is expected from P&G's fiscal Q1 2027 earnings? Net sales of about $22.8 billion, up about 2%, and core earnings of about $1.88 a share, down about 6% from a year ago on higher input costs. Fiscal 2027 guidance from July is organic sales growth of 1% to 3% and core earnings growth of 0% to 3%.

Is P&G a defensive stock? Historically yes: its earnings-day moves are a third the size of Netflix's or Tesla's, and its products sell at about the same pace through recessions. That steadiness is why its report is read as a signal about the consumer rather than about the company.

Data: quarterly earnings report dates from Procter & Gamble's Form 8-K filings (item 2.02) on SEC EDGAR, January 2010 through July 2026; daily closing prices from Yahoo Finance; moves are close-to-close on the report day. Guidance and fiscal 2026 figures from P&G's July 29, 2026 release; consensus from published analyst compilations as of October 21, 2026. Past moves do not predict Thursday's. This article is education, not investment advice.