Of 10 companies that reported after the close on Thursday and had a revenue estimate cited by Wall St Engine, nine reported revenue above it, and four of those nine still traded lower after hours, by our arithmetic from Nasdaq’s after-hours trades at 00:07-00:10 UTC on 6 November. All 11 of the evening’s reporters we covered had already fallen in Thursday’s regular session, before any of them published results, as the Nasdaq Composite fell 5.52%, according to CNBC as cited in our close piece.
The widest gap was between two software companies. Cloudflare traded 15.7% above its close after reporting 39% revenuegrowth and a fourth-quarter guide above the estimate Wall St Engine cited, according to its earnings release. Atlassian, which raised its fiscal 2027 outlook, traded 17.4% below its close.
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The key insight: By our arithmetic, 9 of 10 evening reporters with a cited estimate beat it on revenue, yet four of the nine traded lower after hours. Cloudflare rose 15.7% from its close while Atlassian, which raised its outlook, fell 17.4%.
Cloudflare: revenue $782.5M against an estimate of $739M; fourth-quarter guide $845M-$846M against $798M. Regular session -8.8%; after results +15.7%.
Innodata: revenue $95.6M against $83.3M; raised its 2026 growth guidance to 42% or more, from 40% or more. Session -10.7%; after results +9.4%.
Serve Robotics: revenue $2.8M against $1.7M; raised its 2026 revenue guidance to $12M from $9M-$10M. Session -11.3%; after results +5.3%.
IREN: revenue $228M against $221M; moved its more-than-$4B annualised revenue target to January 2027, possibly February. Session -15.8%; after results +3.7%.
IonQ: revenue $173.8M against $142M; raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $505M-$515M. Session -9.8%; after results +3.5%.
Microchip: net sales $1.622B against $1.61B; guided the December quarter to a midpoint it describes as down 1% sequentially. Session -13.6%; after results -5.3%.
Applied Optoelectronics: revenue $269.9M against $268M; guided fourth-quarter revenue to $385M-$420M. Session -20.8%; after results -9.7%.
Atlassian: revenue $1.77B against $1.71B; raised its fiscal 2027 outlook. Session -3.8%; after results -17.4%.
Five9: revenue $323.3M against $319M; agreed to buy Level AI for $325M in cash. Session -5.8%; after results -22.4%.
Axon: revenue $909M against an estimate of $938M, a miss; about $130M of Dedrone revenue is no longer expected in 2026. Session -9.1%; after results -8.9%.
SoundHound: record revenue of $62.4M, up 48.5%, and a cut of about 27% of its workforce; Wall St Engine’s post did not cite a revenue estimate. Session -2.3%; after results -7.1%.
By our count, five of the companies raised guidance or guided above the cited estimate: Cloudflare, Innodata, Serve Robotics, IonQ and Atlassian. Four of the five traded higher after hours; Atlassian was the exception. The median regular-session fall of the 11 was 9.8%, by our arithmetic from Nasdaq’s closes.
How the shares of 11 companies that reported after the close on 5 November 2026 moved after their results, from the 5 November close, with each stock’s regular-session move that day under its name. Data: company filings; revenue estimates as posted by Wall St Engine; Nasdaq closes and after-hours trades at 00:07-00:10 UTC on 6 November. The moves are our arithmetic.
Bull Theory posted at 18:47 UTC on 5 November, during the session: “This panic makes no sense.” The post argued that the fall looked like “a massive overreaction” to worries that Democrats would restrict AI and data centers, citing St. Louis Fed research and the S&P 500’s record in the 12 months after past midterm elections. The claims and figures in it are the poster’s own.
The post had about 177,600 views when we read it. We have not checked the research or the historical record it cites, and this piece does not take a side on whether the fall was an overreaction; it sets out what the evening’s results said and how the shares moved.
The framework says: “The SaaS market is splitting into two irreconcilable extremesโand the middle is being evacuated.”
As we read it, Thursday’s after-hours moves did not treat software as one group. The framework itself does not discuss Thursday’s results.
What Is Not Established
After-hours prices trade on thin volume and can change before the next session opens; the moves here are a snapshot at 00:07-00:10 UTC. The estimates are as posted by Wall St Engine, not a consensus we compiled. Revenue against an estimate is one measure; margins, guidance detail and calls also move shares, and we have not established why any stock moved. The 11 companies are the evening’s reporters we covered, not a full screen of the market.
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On Thursday’s results, nine of 10 companies with a cited estimate beat it on revenue; five of the nine rose after hours and four fell, after all 11 had fallen in the session.
A note on sourcing. Revenue, guidance and other company figures are from each company’s earnings release or filing, as reported in our linked pieces; revenue estimates are as posted by Wall St Engine. Prices are Nasdaq’s 5 November closes and after-hours trades at 00:07-00:10 UTC on 6 November. The percentage moves, counts and median are our arithmetic. The quoted post is Bull Theory’s on X.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
