BLDR

Builders FirstSource, Inc. ·NYSE·Industrials
73.54 live · 2026-08-13 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 -38.7
1.0%
Brown Bear Score
6.0%
Business Conviction Score
15.2%
Position Health Score
25.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -49.1% · range 66.01–149.21

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 7.6%
OCF / assets 10.8%
FCF / revenue 8.0%
Gross margin 29.2%
ROIC 8.1%
Forward P/E 16.5

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

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +429.3pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-28 · consensus EPS 1.10

Q2 23 revenue: 4.53bnQ2 23 net income: 404.62mQ2 23 EPS: 3.16Q3 23 revenue: 4.53bnQ3 23 net income: 451.46mQ3 23 EPS: 3.59Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 4.15bnQ4 23 net income: 350.69mQ4 23 EPS: 2.72Q1 24 revenue: 3.89bnQ1 24 net income: 258.78mQ1 24 EPS: 2.10Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 4.46bnQ2 24 net income: 344.09mQ2 24 EPS: 2.87Q3 24 revenue: 4.23bnQ3 24 net income: 284.78mQ3 24 EPS: 2.44Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 3.82bnQ4 24 net income: 190.24mQ4 24 EPS: 1.60Q1 25 revenue: 3.66bnQ1 25 net income: 96.30mQ1 25 EPS: 0.84Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 4.23bnQ2 25 net income: 185.03mQ2 25 EPS: 1.66Q3 25 revenue: 3.94bnQ3 25 net income: 122.38mQ3 25 EPS: 1.10Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 3.36bnQ4 25 net income: 31.48mQ4 25 EPS: 0.28Q1 26 revenue: 3.29bnQ1 26 net income: -47.41mQ1 26 EPS: -0.43Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.43–3.59, 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 3.29bn -10.1% -47.41m -0.43 0.27 -28.4% 2026-04-30
2025-12-31 (derived) 3.36bn -12.1% 31.48m 0.28 1.12 -11.6% 2026-02-17
2025-09-30 3.94bn -6.9% 122.38m 1.10 1.88 +12.5% 2025-10-30
2025-06-30 4.23bn -5.0% 185.03m 1.66 2025-07-31

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.2%
On an ordinary two days ±2.3% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 6 up, 5 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +4.6% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-08: price -1.5%Q1 23 revenue -31.6% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-03: price +12.2%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -34.6% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-02: price -1.4%Q3 23 revenue -21.3% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-01: price +11.7%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +0.2% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-07: price -18.6%Q2 24 revenue -1.6% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-06: price +2.1%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue -6.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-05: price +2.5%Q1 25 revenue -6.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price -4.6%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue -5.0% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-31: price +3.2%Q3 25 revenue -6.9% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-30: price +0.8%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue -10.1% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-30: price -9.2%

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 -10.1% -9.2% -5.4%
2025-09-30 2025-10-30 -6.9% +0.8% -2.3%
2025-06-30 2025-07-31 -5.0% +3.2% +2.8%
2025-03-31 2025-05-01 -6.0% -4.6% -12.0%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 109.9M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -3.9%
Change over 3 years -20.6%
Public float $12.60bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

History before 2021-03-31 is not shown. The share count jumps at that date by a ratio no ordinary issuance produces — a split whose factor is not in Brown Bear's split store — so earlier figures are on a different basis and cannot be compared with today's.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 72.46 — 74.30
Protective stop 65.05 (Atr, 11.3% risk)
Support 73.01 (4 touches, 0.8% away)
Resistance 76.32 (3.8% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.8% above 73.01, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 3.8% below 76.32, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 4 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 11.3% 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 6/18/36 (69% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness51% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW 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 73.26 to 78.03. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -3.3%
63 days +1.7%
126 days -42.1%
252 days -46.5%
Below 252d high50.7%

Trend context

PositionFar below trend
ExtensionDeeply oversold
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Extreme downside deviation is beginning to mean-revert toward Kalman fair trend.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width15.5% of price
Recent tightest15.5% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 86.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 66.49 — 77.68

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 16% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 86% 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 66.01–82.332026-07-032026-08-13
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 ADX turns up from weak trend zone repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Improving
  2. Trigger 2 EMA50 reclaim +2.9% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 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 EMA20 continuation hold already above Track 2 pathway: price is above a rising EMA20; sustained hold would support momentum continuation · 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 Marginal

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

BLDR: no binary-event flag. Near IV 68%, far IV 67% (ratio 1.01), implied move 8.0%.

Implied volatility 68% near (8d) · 67% far (99d)
Term structure 1.01× near/far
Historical volatility 64%
Implied vs historical 1.06×
Implied move ±8.0% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.63×
Skew Flat (0.95×)
Call wall 85.00 (+15.6% away)
Put wall 70.00 (-4.8% away)
Gamma pin 75.00

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 8.0% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-13. 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 70.1/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 70.1
Rotation strength 60.4
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 108.3 115.3
Stock vs SPY Leading 103.2 113.5
Sector vs SPY Lagging 85.1 94.5

Direction of travel: South-East / trend strong but momentum cooling

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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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 4/9 (+3.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 29.2% (+0.9)
  • ROIC quality: 8.1% (+0.9)
  • FCF margin quality: 8.0% (+2.4)
  • FCF margin improving by -3.4 pts (+-1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.069) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.50) (+8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+15.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+5.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 0.2% (+0.2)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 0.1% (+0.3)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 51.0, 5-day change +3.9 (+3.1)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.63 (+5.1)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: negative MACD regime (-8.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.60x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.05)
  • Track 2: bearish DI spread (-0.0)
  • Track 2: weak/falling ADX (10.9, falling)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.02)
  • Track 2: weak VPT confirmation (-0.03)
  • Track 2: price below EMA50 by 2.8%
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope deteriorating -1.6%
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (2.44)
  • Gross margin improving by -3.6 pts (+-1.0)
  • ROIC improving by -10.0 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 5.2/100 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.