AVB

AvalonBay Communities, Inc. ·NYSE·Real Estate
179.79 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.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -47.3
18.5%
Brown Bear Score
36.5%
Business Conviction Score
21.9%
Position Health Score
1.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -3.8% · range 160.81–196.83

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

OCF / assets 7.5%
FCF / revenue 55.0%
Gross margin 62.7%
ROIC 6.4%
Forward P/E 36.9

This company does not report capital expenditure in the standard filing tag, so free cash flow cannot be derived and FCF/assets is not shown — common for asset managers, REITs, insurers and utilities. OCF/assets is shown instead, and it is the other measure Brown Bear's testing found to survive. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 29.4pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-27 after the close · consensus EPS 1.18

Q2 23 revenue: 2.71mQ3 23 revenue: 1.93mQ3 23Q4 23 revenue: 2.01mQ1 24 revenue: 1.79mQ1 24 net income: 173.45mQ1 24 EPS: 1.22Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 1.83mQ2 24 net income: 253.93mQ2 24 EPS: 1.78Q3 24 revenue: 1.72mQ3 24 net income: 372.52mQ3 24 EPS: 2.61Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 1.74mQ4 24 net income: 282.09mQ4 24 EPS: 1.98Q1 25 revenue: 1.74mQ1 25 net income: 236.60mQ1 25 EPS: 1.66Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 1.59mQ2 25 net income: 268.67mQ2 25 EPS: 1.87Q3 25 revenue: 1.87mQ3 25 net income: 381.31mQ3 25 EPS: 2.66Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 1.84mQ1 26 revenue: 1.83mQ1 26 net income: 325.73mQ1 26 EPS: 2.31Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (1.22–2.66, 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 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 1.83m +5.2% 325.73m 2.31 2.33 +81.5% 2026-05-07
2025-12-31 (derived) 1.84m +5.5% 1.17 -14.3% 2026-02-27
2025-09-30 1.87m +9.0% 381.31m 2.66 2.68 +84.0% 2025-11-06
2025-06-30 1.59m -12.9% 268.67m 1.87 2025-08-07

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.2%
On an ordinary two days ±1.1% — filings move it 1.0× as much
Direction 7 up, 4 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +101.3% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-08: price -1.9%Q1 23 revenue +41.8% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-05: price +1.2%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +200.0% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-04: price +1.9%Q3 23 revenue +38.2% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-03: price +0.7%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +68.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-03: price +1.4%Q2 24 revenue -32.5% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-06: price +1.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue -11.3% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-12: price +0.4%Q1 25 revenue -3.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-08: price -1.1%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue -12.9% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-07: price +0.2%Q3 25 revenue +9.0% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-06: price -0.2%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +5.2% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-07: price -1.3%

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 2026-05-07 +5.2% -1.3% +1.7%
2025-09-30 2025-11-06 +9.0% -0.2% -1.8%
2025-06-30 2025-08-07 -12.9% +0.2% +2.3%
2025-03-31 2025-05-08 -3.0% -1.1% -5.6%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 140.8M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -1.2%
Change over 3 years +0.6%
Public float $28.88bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 177.09 — 181.59
Protective stop 172.72 (Structure, 3.7% risk)
Support 174.38 (7 touches, 3.1% away)
Resistance 180.29 (0.3% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.3% below 180.29, where sellers have turned up before, and 3.1% above 174.38, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 7 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 3.7% 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 BELOW the cloud | periods 6/18/37 (70% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR (fresh down cross, 0d ago) | cloud twist BEAR (fresh down, 1d ago)
Cloud eventFresh down breakout 2d ago
Cloud thickness52% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice INSIDE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 185.61 to 187.38. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -6.2%
63 days -3.9%
126 days +1.3%
252 days -2.9%
Below 252d high8.7%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is close to the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width8.0% of price
Recent tightest4.9% (5 sessions ago, narrower than 80.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.64×
Range broken Down
Band 181.08 — 196.13

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 8% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 80% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.6 times as widely as during that quiet spell, and it broke downwards. 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 181.76–195.392026-07-032026-08-12
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.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Improving
  2. Trigger 2 MACD histogram acceleration turns positive repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating
  3. Trigger 3 RSI recovery above 50 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Deteriorating rapidly
  4. Trigger 4 EMA50 reclaim +4.0% gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 Relative momentum rank above 0.55 +0.26 rank relative momentum leadership is not yet strong enough for the next action tier · Broadly stable

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 Below its signal line
Confirmation Moderate

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

AVB: no binary-event flag. Near IV 22%, far IV 19% (ratio 1.12), implied move 2.7%.

Implied volatility 22% near (9d) · 19% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.12× near/far
Historical volatility 21%
Implied vs historical 1.03×
Implied move ±2.7% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.49×
Skew Put Skew (1.59×)
Call wall 200.00 (+11.2% away)
Put wall 170.00 (-5.5% away)
Gamma pin 200.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 22% IV vs far 19% IV, ratio 1.12)

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs more for the next few weeks than for the next few months. Traders usually pay up like that when they know something is coming soon — results, a court ruling, a regulatory decision. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 2.7% 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 →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 40.6/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 40.6
Rotation strength 80.6
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 87.0 114.7
Stock vs SPY Lagging 75.4 97.2
Sector vs SPY Lagging 80.6 83.3

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

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

  • Piotroski F-score 4/9 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 3.11 (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 62.7% (+15.7)
  • ROIC quality: 6.4% (+1.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 55.0% (+20.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.2 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.028) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.03 -> -0.03) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: volume confirmation 1.60x average (+3.6)
  • Track 1: ADX 20.3 and rising (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 3.8% (+1.8)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 2.6% (+5.2)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position -0.09 (+8.0)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 1: weak MACD histogram (-1.15)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.09)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-21.4)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.29)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 4.0%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.3%
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.69)
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 32.1, 5-day change -6.0
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.22)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 3.8%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.3%
  • Gross margin improving by -0.4 pts (+-3.0)
  • ROIC improving by -0.1 pts (+-5.0)

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