Earnings Call Transcripts
Obtain the earnings call transcripts of each company: the full text of the call, with management’s prepared remarks followed by the questions of analysts and the answers. Transcripts explain the numbers in the financial statements in management’s own words, and with that are a strong input for text analysis and AI models, e.g. to track sentiment, guidance or recurring themes over time.
A transcript is long (often 40,000 to 60,000 characters) and every quarter is a separate request. By default only the most recent transcript is retrieved. With fiscal_period (e.g. “2025Q4”) the call of that fiscal quarter is retrieved, and with latest=False every transcript between this Toolkit instance’s start_date and end_date. A fiscal period without a transcript is logged together with the most recent periods that do have one. Each transcript is cached on its own, since a published transcript does not change, so a quarter is only retrieved once.
Also known as: earnings call, conference call transcript, earnings transcript.
Earnings Call Transcripts in Python
Install the Finance Toolkit with:
pip install financetoolkit -U
Then call get_earnings_call_transcripts as shown below.
from financetoolkit import Toolkit
toolkit = Toolkit(
["AAPL", "MSFT"],
api_key="FINANCIAL_MODELING_PREP_KEY",
start_date="2021-01-01",
end_date="2025-12-31",
)
transcripts = toolkit.get_earnings_call_transcripts()
transcripts["Transcript"].str[:100]
Which returns:
| Transcript | |
|---|---|
| (‘AAPL’, ‘2026Q3’) | Suhasini Chandramouli: Good afternoon, welcome to the Apple Q3 fiscal year 2026 earnings conference |
| (‘MSFT’, ‘2026Q4’) | Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the Microsoft Fiscal Year 2026 Fourth Quarter Earnings Conferenc |
Parameters
The function accepts the following parameters:
- latest (bool): Whether to only retrieve the most recent transcript. When False, every transcript between the start_date and end_date is retrieved. Defaults to True.
- fiscal_period (str | None): The fiscal quarter of the call to retrieve, written as “2025Q4” (or “2025-Q4”, “Q4 2025”). It is the company’s own fiscal year, which differs from the calendar year for e.g. Apple and Microsoft. Takes precedence over latest. Defaults to None.
- overwrite (bool): Defines whether to overwrite the existing data.