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Conversion calendar in hand

Conversion calendar in hand: management narrates the coming year as dated deliveries of business already secured

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443
Answered YES
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Hit Rate
1.4%
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Eversource Energy (ES) — this company's answers

NO on the Q1 2024 call 2024-05-02 D
The model's full reasoning — Q1 2024 call → NO我们根据提供的财报电话会议记录,判断管理层是否在讨论未来四五个季度时,给出了一个具体的时间表,其中包含已经确定或正在进行的业务,并附有大致的时间框架,使得前瞻性叙述看起来像是一个按计划推进的日程,而不是对需求的希望。 首先,检查管理层是否提到了已经确定的业务项目及其时间安排。在记录中,管理层提到了: - 出售海上风电业务(South Fork Wind、Revolution Wind、Sunrise Wind)的进展,预计在“未来几个月”完成,并已提交监管审批,预计约90天。 - 在建设方面,South Fork Wind已通电,Revolution Wind正在建设。 - 马萨诸塞州的ESMP计划,预计8月有决定,涉及6000万美元的增量资本。 - 新罕布什尔州的费率审查,计划今年夏天提交。 - 康涅狄格州的年度费率调整机制,已收到最终决定,新费率7月1日生效。 - 水业务出售的审查正在进行。 这些项目是否属于“已经确定”的?出售海上风电业务已签署协议,但尚待监管批准,因此属于“等待批准”的状态,不完全符合“已经确定”的标准。ESMP计划尚待决定,属于“等待批准”。新罕布什尔州的费率审查是计划中的,尚未提交。康涅狄格州的费率调整已决定,但这是常规的费率调整,不是新的业务转换。 管理层是否将时间表作为前瞻性叙述的主要驱动?他们提到了这些项目,但更多是作为监管和资本配置的更新,而不是作为未来业绩的驱动因素。他们重申了2024年EPS指引和长期增长,但没有明确说这些项目将如何逐步贡献。 此外,管理层还提到了削减康涅狄格州的资本支出,这更多是负面调整,而不是积极的时间表。 因此,管理层没有给出一个明确的、已确定业务的时间表,而是更多在讨论监管进展和资本配置决策。这些项目大多处于待批准或计划阶段,不是已经确定的业务。 所以,答案应为NO。

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Using ONLY the supplied earnings call transcript and no outside information: On this call, when management talks about the company's NEXT FOUR OR SO QUARTERS, does it lay out a TIMETABLE OF SPECIFIC CONVERSIONS \u2014 identified pieces of business that are ALREADY SECURED OR ALREADY IN MOTION, each attached to an at-least-approximate time frame in which it starts contributing \u2014 so that the forward story reads as a schedule of things turning on, rather than as hopes about demand?\n\nAnswer YES when management's own words convey BOTH of the following as one coherent forward account, in whatever form fits the business:\n\n(1) THE ITEMS ON THE TIMETABLE ARE ALREADY REAL. Management identifies concrete business whose existence is no longer in question \u2014 already won, signed, awarded, ordered, booked, contracted, built, launched, closed, or already ramping \u2014 in whatever form fits the industry: contracted work or orders scheduled for delivery; a facility, capacity, product, service, or location recently completed or opening on a stated timetable and now filling; customers or programs already signed that go live or scale on a described schedule; an acquisition or expansion already closed whose contribution phases in; committed volumes stepping up on agreed dates. One substantial item or several smaller ones together both count. Items still being pursued, negotiated, piloted without commitment, or awaiting approvals, financing, or customer decisions do NOT count toward the timetable.\n\n(2) MANAGEMENT ATTACHES TIMING AND TREATS THE SCHEDULE AS THE FORWARD STORY. Management gives each identified item an at-least-rough time anchor within roughly the coming year (this quarter, next quarter, by mid-year, second half, a named month or season) and presents working through this sequence \u2014 starting, ramping, delivering, onboarding, filling \u2014 as the main driver of where the company's results go from here, conveying directly or plainly in substance that the period just reported does not yet meaningfully reflect these contributions, so today's numbers describe the company before the scheduled conversions land.\n\nAnswer NO if the forward discussion rests mainly on demand strength, market conditions, pipeline, opportunities being pursued, or general optimism, with no dated schedule of secured items. NO if the timetable consists of routine, ordinary-course activity at the company's usual scale \u2014 the normal cadence of openings, orders, or seasonal work it always has \u2014 that management does not present as stepping the company beyond its current level. NO if the named items are contingent on approvals, financing, negotiations, or decisions not yet made, or if the only timing given is vague ('over time', 'in the coming years', 'eventually'). NO if the scheduled items' contributions are already substantially reflected in the reported results. NO if management is chiefly explaining delays, slippage, cancellations, or problems with a previously described schedule. NO if the schedule is assembled only in an analyst's question or model that management does not itself adopt.\n\nUse only the supplied transcript. Answer only YES or NO.

Companies that answered YES

TickerCompanyCallDateCall grade
ESEA Euroseas Ltd. Q4 2022 2023-02-15 C+
SOL ReneSola Ltd Q3 2022 2022-12-01 C+
FLL Full House Resorts, Inc. Q3 2022 2022-11-07 B
FAT FAT Brands Inc. Q4 2021 2022-03-21 F
CPK Chesapeake Utilities Corporation Q3 2017 2017-11-10 A
ESE ESCO Technologies Inc. Q2 2016 2016-05-03 A

How the model reasoned

CPK · Q3 2017 → YESThe question is about whether management lays out a timetable of specific conversions for the next four or so quarters, with already secured business and approximate time frames.
SOL · Q3 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management lays out a timetable of specific conversions for the next four or so quarters, with already secured items and approximate time frames.
FLL · Q3 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management lays out a timetable of specific conversions for the next four or so quarters, with already secured items and approximate time frames.

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