ACHR

Archer Aviation ·Industrials
5.94 live · 2026-08-27 14:57

Structural scoring is not meaningful for this business

Structural scoring uses gross margin, free cash flow and Altman Z — measures built for operating companies. For banks, insurers and asset managers they produce artifacts, because the cash-flow statement is dominated by lending and deposit flows rather than operations. Treat the structural and composite figures below as not comparable with other sectors, in either direction.

  • Reported free cash flow is far outside the range an operating business can show, indicating balance-sheet rather than operating flows
18.9% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
19.6% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
34.9%
Position Health Score
35.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -36.4% · range 4.44–13.64

Score trends appear once the scores have been recorded on more than one trading day.

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -20.8%
OCF / assets -17.6%
FCF / revenue -144,300.0%
Gross margin 15.8%
ROIC -30.9%
Forward P/E -7.3

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Trailing EPS is negative (-1.07) and forward EPS is not positive, so a growth percentage does not exist

Confidence 25.0/100

Takeaway Low data confidence (limited analyst coverage) — treat this section as informational only.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-04 · consensus EPS -0.32

Q1 25 revenue: 0Q1 25 net income: -93.40mQ1 25 EPS: -0.17Q1 25Q1 26 revenue: 1.60mQ1 26 net income: -217.70mQ1 26 EPS: -0.28Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.28–-0.17, own scale) Derived Q4

2 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2026-03-31 1.60m -217.70m -0.28 2026-05-11
2025-03-31 0 -93.40m -0.17 2026-05-11

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 5.59 — 5.93
Protective stop 4.50 (Atr, 21.9% risk)
Support 5.58 (3 touches, 5.7% away)
Resistance 6.51 (10.3% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 5.7% above 5.58, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 10.3% below 6.51, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 21.9% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice INSIDE the cloud | periods 4/13/26 (50% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness47% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice INSIDE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 5.88 to 6.08. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days +22.4%
63 days -9.9%
126 days -16.9%
252 days -37.0%
Below 252d high56.7%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeRising strongly
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Price is near a rising Kalman fair trend, consistent with a healthy trend setup.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width47.0% of price
Recent tightest47.0% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 9.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 4.51 — 7.28

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 47% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger EMA20 reclaim +0.4% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 MACD bullish crossover secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.05 gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityInsider selling
Buy filings0
Sell filings5
Shares sold226,845
Value sold$1.4m
Latest sell2026-08-20
FiledInsiderSharesValue
2026-08-20 Sold Lentell EricChief Strategy Officer 100,000 $631,000
2026-08-17 Sold Lyon BenjaminPresident, Aircraft OEM 50,188 $321,846

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

ACHR: no binary-event flag. Near IV 68%, far IV 78% (ratio 0.88), implied move 8.1%.

Implied volatility 68% near (8d) · 78% far (141d)
Term structure 0.88× near/far
Historical volatility 91%
Implied vs historical 0.75×
Implied move ±8.1% by 2026-09-04
Implied move vs ATR 0.34×
Skew Call Skew (0.89×)
Call wall 7.00 (+17.9% away)
Put wall 5.00 (-15.8% away)
Gamma pin 7.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 8.1% in either direction by 2026-09-04.

Chain as at 2026-08-27. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 31.9/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 31.9
Rotation strength 58.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 108.0 77.1
Stock vs SPY Weakening 106.7 78.6
Sector vs SPY Lagging 81.0 94.8

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Altman Z-score 7.39 (+6.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • ROIC improving by 23.9 pts (+3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.075) (+2.0)
  • Relative Strength 23.4% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+9.5)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+9.5)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.37 (+30.2)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 20.1 (+11.4)
  • Track 2: ADX 58.6 and rising (+17.2)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.4% (+2.1)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.04 (+1.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 4.2% (+2.0)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 5.6% (+3.5)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.50 (+3.8)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-7.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.51x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.03)
  • Track 2: price below EMA20 by 0.4%
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 57.5, 5-day change -11.8
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 14.0/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.