Inaccurate Earnings Dates

[glintik]

Bug Report

Unfortunately, Earnings Dates from YF are full of inacurate and misleading data.

Describe the bug

Example of approximate earnings dates(a.k.a. unconfirmed) from quote call for Intel($INTC)

  earningsTimestamp: 2021-10-21T20:00:00.000Z,
  earningsTimestampStart: 2022-04-20T20:00:00.000Z,
  earningsTimestampEnd: 2022-04-25T20:00:00.000Z,

As I can see, YF just generates some date range based on previous date. You can see that earningsTimestampStart != earningsTimestampEnd.
The problem is that real earnings event was hold yesterday, Jan 26.

Example of confirmed earnings date from quote call for PayPal($PYPL)

  earningsTimestamp: 2022-02-02T00:00:00.000Z,
  earningsTimestampStart: 2022-02-02T00:00:00.000Z,
  earningsTimestampEnd: 2022-02-02T00:00:00.000Z,

As shown on official website, PayPal’s Q4 2021 Earnings Call is expected on FEBRUARY 1, 2022 02:00 PM PT.
So even for "confirmed" date YF provides wrong date. As you can see, time is full of nulls and I found that if time contain some value, then date is correct when earningsTimestampStart == earningsTimestampEnd. Time in date is for information purposes only and usually wrong, but I found that for many cases if time is <= opening bell time, then earnings will be unveiled BEFORE market open.

I think, docs should warn about that Earnings Dates are full of inacurate and misleading data and better to use another source.

[gadicc]

Thanks @glintik, this is very helpful to know. I agree and have added a note about this in the docs, with a link back to this issue. Thanks for reporting!

[gadicc]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 2.1.3 🎉

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