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Highest Number of S&P 500 Earnings Calls Citing “AI” Over the Past 10 Years

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By John Butters  |  September 5, 2025

Artificial intelligence has been a focus topic for the market for several quarters. Given the heightened interest, have more S&P 500 companies than normal commented on “AI” during their earnings conference calls for the second quarter?

The answer is yes. FactSet Document Search (which allows users to search for key words or phrases across multiple document types) was used to answer this question. Through Document Search, FactSet searched for the term “AI” in the conference call transcripts of all the S&P 500 companies that conducted earnings conference calls from June 15 through September 5.

Overall, the term “AI” was cited on 287 earnings calls conducted by S&P 500 companies during this period. This number is well above the 5-year average of 124 and the 10-year average of 79.

In fact, this is the highest number of S&P 500 earnings calls on which “AI” has been cited over the past 10 years (using current index constituents going back in time). The previous record over the past 10 years was 247, which occurred in Q4 2024.

At the sector level, the Information Technology sector has the highest number (65) and percentage (98%) of earnings calls citing “AI” for Q2.

It is interesting to note that there was a 32% quarter-over-quarter increase (287 vs. 218) in the number of S&P 500 earnings calls on which “AI” was cited. At the sector level 10 of the 11 sectors recorded an increase in the number of earnings calls citing “AI” for Q2 compared to Q1, led by the Financials (+19), Industrials (+14), and Consumer Staples (+11) sectors.

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John Butters

Vice President, Senior Earnings Analyst

Mr. John Butters is Vice President and Senior Earnings Analyst at FactSet. His weekly research report, “Earnings Insight,” provides analysis and commentary on trends in corporate earnings data for the S&P 500 including revisions to estimates, year-over-year growth, performance relative to expectations, and valuations. He is a widely used source for the media and has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business News, and the Business News Network. In addition, he has been cited by numerous print and online publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Times, MarketWatch, and Yahoo! Finance. Mr. Butters has over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to FactSet in January 2011, he worked for more than 10 years at Thomson Reuters (Thomson Financial), most recently as Director of U.S. Earnings Research (2007-2010).

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