SAIC to Announce Earnings; Historical Data Signals Positive Trend

Science Applications International (NASDAQ:SAIC), a tech and engineering firm for the U.S. government, will release its earnings on Monday, June 2, 2025. Historical data indicates a tendency for a positive one-day return following earnings announcements. In the last five years, SAIC has experienced a positive return on the first trading day 63% of the time after earnings, with a median return of 3.7% and a maximum of 13.4%.

Trading Strategies Based on Historical Patterns

For traders, analyzing these patterns can provide advantages. Two main strategies include:

• Pre-earnings Positioning: Position in the stock before the earnings release based on historical probabilities.
• Post-earnings Positioning: Analyze the immediate and medium-term returns after the earnings release to make informed decisions.

Projected Earnings and Financial Overview

Analysts forecast SAIC will report earnings of $2.12 per share on sales of $1.87 billion, compared to last year’s $1.92 per share on $1.85 billion in sales. Currently, SAIC has a market capitalization of $5.6 billion. Over the past year, it generated $7.5 billion in revenue, with operating profits of $561 million and net income of $362 million.

Historical Return Data

In the past five years, data from 19 earnings reports shows 12 positive and 7 negative one-day returns, resulting in a 63% rate of positive returns. This number rises to 64% when considering the past three years. The median positive return was 3.7%, while the median negative return was -4.9%.

Additional statistics detailing 5-day and 21-day returns post-earnings are summarized in the table below.

Correlation Analysis of Historical Returns

Understanding correlations between short- and medium-term returns can create lower-risk trading opportunities. If there is a high correlation between 1D and 5D returns, traders can adjust their positions based on positive 1D returns. Correlation data based on 5-year and 3-year histories is available.

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