Earnings call transcript: Otter Tail Q3 2026 profit misses as plastics weakens
What it means
- What to watch: Earnings season is a grading curve: the result is judged against the estimate, and the outlook against the hope.
- How the stock is trading: $OTTR -7.59% in the latest session.
- Timing: It dropped mid-session, while New York was open, so the move beside it may already include the market's first reaction.
Where the stock stands
$OTTR last changed hands at $84.56, -7.59% on the session, 11% below its 52-week high of $95.09 and 14% above its low of $74.15 — around the middle of the range. Over the year it has ranged 28% from low to high: a moderate band — lively, not wild. These are latest-session quotes, not live prices — the live tape is on the $OTTR page.
How much coverage it is getting
Wook has logged 2 stories on $OTTR in the last 30 days, 2 of them this week. At its 30-day pace you would expect less than one a week, so this week is running well ahead of normal — something has the newsroom's attention. Across those stories 0 read bullish, 1 neutral and 1 bearish. This one reads neutral, so it sits in step with most of the run. This is the only one from Investing.com; the rest came from other outlets. 12 related stories from the same name or desk are listed beside this one.
The bigger picture
Earnings stories turn less on the headline numbers than on how they compare with what analysts expected, and on guidance for next quarter. A beat with weak guidance can land worse than a miss with a raised outlook — markets grade on the curve. On Wook's supply-chain scanner, Industrials reads calm today — no unusual stress in the filings and disclosures it watches. The scanner equivalent of a quiet night shift.
What to watch next
For the receipts, the $OTTR page has the full chart, the filings and the valuation model these figures come from. Because one outlet dominates the coverage, reading another outlet on the same story is the quickest check on whether it is being confirmed or just repeated. And Wook AI, up top, will happily do the math — how far $OTTR sits from its high, or how this week's coverage stacks up.
How this analysis was made
Investing.com published it, and Wook filed it under Earnings. The wording pulls both ways — “profit” against “miss” — and the two sides cancel out, which is why it reads neutral at medium severity. It was matched to $OTTR. The publisher gave no preview text, and nothing has been written in to fill the gap.
The tone and severity labels come from a fixed word list — no editor, no AI, no crystal ball — so they describe how a story is worded, not what happens next. They are not a forecast or a recommendation, and a same-day move does not mean this story caused it. Not investment advice.
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What happened after this published
Investing.com published this on November 3, 2026. $OTTR has moved +0.18% ($84.40 to $84.56). Measured from the first print available after publication, against the latest available quote. This comparison does not isolate the story's effect.