BAC

Bank of America Corporation ·NYSE·Financial Services
64.82 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

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.

  • Cost of goods sold is not reported, so gross margin reads as 100%
40.3% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
43.4% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
61.0%
Position Health Score
52.3%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +36.4% · range 46.72–64.81

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

OCF / assets 0.4%
FCF / revenue 11.2%
Gross margin 100.0%
ROIC 0.9%
Forward P/E 12.2

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 15.8pp

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 2026-10-14 before the open · consensus EPS 1.21

Q2 23 revenue: 25.20bnQ2 23 net income: 7.41bnQ2 23 EPS: 0.92Q3 23 revenue: 25.17bnQ3 23 net income: 7.80bnQ3 23 EPS: 0.97Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 21.96bnQ4 23 net income: 3.14bnQ4 23 EPS: 0.39Q1 24 revenue: 25.82bnQ1 24 net income: 6.67bnQ1 24 EPS: 0.83Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 25.38bnQ2 24 net income: 6.90bnQ2 24 EPS: 0.87Q3 24 revenue: 25.34bnQ3 24 net income: 6.90bnQ3 24 EPS: 0.87Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 25.35bnQ4 24 net income: 6.67bnQ4 24 EPS: 0.84Q1 25 revenue: 27.37bnQ1 25 net income: 7.40bnQ1 25 EPS: 0.95Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 26.46bnQ2 25 net income: 7.12bnQ2 25 EPS: 0.93Q3 25 revenue: 28.09bnQ3 25 net income: 8.47bnQ3 25 EPS: 1.11Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 31.18bnQ4 25 net income: 7.53bnQ4 25 EPS: 0.98Q1 26 revenue: 30.27bnQ1 26 net income: 8.58bnQ1 26 EPS: 1.16Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.39–1.16, 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 30.27bn +10.6% 8.58bn 1.16 1.11 +8.6% 2026-05-01
2025-12-31 (derived) 31.18bn +23.0% 7.53bn 0.98 0.98 +1.3% 2026-02-25
2025-09-30 28.09bn +10.8% 8.47bn 1.11 1.06 +10.3% 2025-10-31
2025-06-30 26.46bn +4.3% 7.12bn 0.93 2025-07-31

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.6%
On an ordinary two days ±1.4% — filings move it 1.1× as much
Direction 4 up, 7 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +7.6% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-28: price +0.5%Q1 23 revenue +13.0% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-01: price -3.8%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +11.1% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-31: price -0.9%Q3 23 revenue +2.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-31: price +2.8%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -1.7% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-30: price -1.6%Q2 24 revenue +0.7% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-30: price -1.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +0.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-29: price -0.7%Q1 25 revenue +6.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price +0.5%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +4.3% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-31: price -4.8%Q3 25 revenue +10.8% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-31: price +1.0%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +10.6% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-01: price -2.4%

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 2026-05-01 +10.6% -2.4% -5.2%
2025-09-30 2025-10-31 +10.8% +1.0% -0.4%
2025-06-30 2025-07-31 +4.3% -4.8% +7.4%
2025-03-31 2025-04-30 +6.0% +0.5% +4.3%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 7,417.5M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -4.5%
Change over 3 years -9.3%
Public float $351.90bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyWait For Pullback
Reference band 61.87 — 63.52
Protective stop 60.24 (Atr, 3.9% risk)
Support 60.49 (2 touches, 7.1% away)
Resistance (— away)

Takeaway The shares are about 7.1% above 60.49, a price buyers have stepped in at before. There is no ceiling to point to, because the stock is trading where it has not traded before and nobody has sold it at these levels. That floor has held 2 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 3.9% 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 ABOVE the cloud | periods 9/26/52 (99% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL (fresh up cross, 1d ago) | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness100% percentile (thick — substantial structure)
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 57.78 to 62.45. 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. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days +6.9%
63 days +27.6%
126 days +17.0%
252 days +40.4%
Below 252d high0.0%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising strongly
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

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

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width7.2% of price
Recent tightest6.0% (2 sessions ago, narrower than 96.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.21×
Range broken Up
Band 60.06 — 64.57

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 96% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 57.37–64.002026-06-212026-08-12
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

BAC: no binary-event flag. Near IV 18%, far IV 23% (ratio 0.78), implied move 2.2%.

Implied volatility 18% near (9d) · 22% far (65d)
Term structure 0.78× near/far
Historical volatility 15%
Implied vs historical 1.16×
Implied move ±2.2% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.49×
Skew Flat (1.03×)
Put wall 37.00 (-42.9% away)
Gamma pin 37.00

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 2.2% 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 →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 47.7/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 47.7
Rotation strength 80.5
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 99.4 122.5
Stock vs SPY Lagging 81.9 95.3
Sector vs SPY Lagging 76.4 91.0

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)
  • Insider conviction score (+13.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 100.0% (+22.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 11.2% (+7.4)
  • FCF margin improving by 19.5 pts (+5.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.005) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.01 -> 0.01) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.05) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 28.6 (+8.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 26.7 and rising (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.77 (+3.6)
  • Track 1: Hidden Bullish MACD divergence (+15.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 4.1% (+4.7)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 1.7% (+4.2)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+1.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.04 (+0.8)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 8.8% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 3.1% (+3.0)
  • Regime convergence: VOLATILITY_SQUEEZE_BREAKOUT confidence 62.9/100 (EMERGING) (+12.6)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.05)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 74.8, 5-day change +13.3
  • Chase risk 52.3/100 (Elevated Chase Risk): RSI 74.8, EMA20 4.1%, EMA50 8.8%, BB 1.05, distribution 5.0/100
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.29)
  • ROIC improving by -0.0 pts (+-5.0)
  • Chase risk 52.3/100 | Extension score 47.7/100 | Elevated Chase Risk