APD

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ·NYSE·Materials
304.12 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Structural Score: displayed 0, underlying value -0.8
51.5%
Brown Bear Score
10.0%
Business Conviction Score
76.4%
Position Health Score
18.2%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +5.1% · range 230.76–314.19

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -9.2%
OCF / assets 7.9%
FCF / revenue 27.1%
Gross margin 32.1%
ROIC -0.6%
Forward P/E 21.1

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 (-0.21), so a growth percentage does not exist — forward EPS of 14.44 implies a swing from loss to profit

Confidence 35.0/100

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

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-04 after the close · consensus EPS 3.65

Q2 23 revenue: 3.03bnQ2 23 net income: 595.60mQ2 23 EPS: 2.67Q3 23 revenue: 3.19bnQ3 23 net income: 692.60mQ3 23 EPS: 3.11Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 3.00bnQ4 23 net income: 609.30mQ4 23 EPS: 2.73Q1 24 revenue: 2.93bnQ1 24 net income: 572.40mQ1 24 EPS: 2.57Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 2.99bnQ2 24 net income: 696.60mQ2 24 EPS: 3.13Q3 24 revenue: 3.19bnQ3 24 net income: 1.95bnQ3 24 EPS: 8.75Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 2.93bnQ4 24 net income: 617.40mQ4 24 EPS: 2.77Q1 25 revenue: 2.92bnQ1 25 net income: -1.73bnQ1 25 EPS: -7.77Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 3.02bnQ2 25 net income: 713.80mQ2 25 EPS: 3.20Q3 25 revenue: 3.17bnQ3 25 net income: 4.90mQ3 25 EPS: 0.02Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 3.10bnQ4 25 net income: 678.20mQ4 25 EPS: 3.04Q1 26 revenue: 3.17bnQ1 26 net income: 710.40mQ1 26 EPS: 3.19Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-7.77–8.75, own scale) Derived Q4

12 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) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 3.17bn +8.8% 710.40m 3.19 3.20 +3.4% 2026-04-30
2025-12-31 3.10bn +5.8% 678.20m 3.04 3.16 +2.7% 2026-01-30
2025-09-30 (derived) 3.17bn -0.6% 4.90m 0.02 3.39 -0.8% 2025-11-20
2025-06-30 3.02bn +1.2% 713.80m 3.20 2025-07-31

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±5.0%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 4.1× as much
Direction 3 up, 8 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q4 22 revenue +6.0% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2023-02-02: price -10.4%Q1 23 revenue +8.7% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-09: price -4.9%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -4.9% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-03: price -5.0%Q4 23 revenue -5.6% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2024-02-05: price -15.5%Q4 23Q1 24 revenue -8.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-30: price -0.3%Q2 24 revenue -1.6% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-01: price +6.8%Q2 24Q4 24 revenue -2.2% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2025-02-06: price -6.8%Q1 25 revenue -0.5% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price +2.4%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +1.2% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-31: price -2.9%Q4 25 revenue +5.8% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2026-01-30: price +5.8%Q4 25Q1 26 revenue +8.8% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-30: price -0.5%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-04-30 +8.8% -0.5% -12.6%
2025-12-31 2026-01-30 +5.8% +5.8% +2.9%
2025-06-30 2025-07-31 +1.2% -2.9% +0.6%
2025-03-31 2025-05-01 -0.5% +2.4% -4.2%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 222.9M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +0.0%
Change over 3 years +0.1%
Public float $65.60bn as at 2025-03-31 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 299.51 — 307.11
Protective stop 287.91 (Structure, 5.1% risk)
Support 291.18 (8 touches, 4.4% away)
Resistance 305.59 (0.5% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.5% below 305.59, where sellers have turned up before, and 4.4% above 291.18, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 8 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 5.1% 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 ABOVE the cloud | periods 7/20/41 (79% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 6d ago
Cloud thickness57% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 292.49 to 297.27. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +1.6%
63 days +0.2%
126 days +4.6%
252 days +7.1%
Below 252d high3.2%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width6.6% of price
Recent tightest3.5% (6 sessions ago, narrower than 98.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.87×
Band 288.08 — 307.68

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 7% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 98% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.9 times as widely as during that quiet spell. A stock that has been quiet tends to make its next move look big by comparison, simply because the recent bar was low.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 292.58–309.312026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

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

APD: no binary-event flag. Near IV 25%, far IV 26% (ratio 0.97), implied move 3.2%.

Implied volatility 25% near (9d) · 26% far (128d)
Term structure 0.97× near/far
Historical volatility 18%
Implied vs historical 1.40×
Implied move ±3.2% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.49×
Skew Put Skew (2.46×)
Call wall 320.00 (+5.2% away)
Put wall 260.00 (-14.5% away)
Gamma pin 260.00

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 3.2% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. 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 →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 69.7/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 69.7
Rotation strength 73.3
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 89.7 121.2
Stock vs SPY Improving 89.3 103.9
Sector vs SPY Leading 106.7 101.2

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

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 2.66 (+2.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 32.1% (+1.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 27.1% (+6.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -3.1 pts (+-1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.089) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.00 -> -0.09) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram state (1.00) (+8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+18.0)
  • Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+8.0)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+10.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 14.0 (+8.0)
  • Track 2: ADX 18.1 and rising (+2.0)
  • Track 2: Bullish MACD divergence (+4.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 1.7% (+1.4)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.4% (+3.7)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram acceleration 1.58 (+12.0)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 60.8, 5-day change +14.2 (+11.4)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.09 (+2.2)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 3.0% (+2.4)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 1.0% (+2.3)
  • Track 2: constructive pullback within uptrend (+10)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.82 (+6.5)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.41x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.43)
  • Weak Piotroski F-score (2/9)
  • Gross margin improving by -0.4 pts (+-1.0)
  • ROIC improving by -14.8 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 0.0/100 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.