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CF Industries Holdings, Inc. ·NYSE·Materials
117.05 live · 2026-08-13 15:59

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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 -27.2
38.0%
Brown Bear Score
66.6%
Business Conviction Score
19.0%
Position Health Score
25.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +35.4% · range 76.09–137.60

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 12.8%
OCF / assets 19.5%
FCF / revenue 38.8%
Gross margin 42.5%
ROIC 18.1%
Forward P/E 11.2

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

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 56.1pp

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 2026-11-04 after the close · consensus EPS 3.81

Q2 23 revenue: 1.77bnQ3 23 revenue: 1.27bnQ3 23Q4 23 revenue: 1.57bnQ1 24 revenue: 1.47bnQ1 24Q2 24 revenue: 1.57bnQ3 24 revenue: 1.37bnQ3 24Q4 24 revenue: 1.52bnQ1 25 revenue: 1.66bnQ1 25Q2 25 revenue: 1.89bnQ3 25 revenue: 1.66bnQ3 25Q4 25 revenue: 1.87bnQ1 26 revenue: 1.99bnQ1 26

Revenue Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 1.99bn +19.4% 2.89 +8.2% 2026-05-07
2025-12-31 (derived) 1.87bn +22.8% 3.20 +24.9% 2026-02-25
2025-09-30 1.66bn +21.1% 2.22 +0.7% 2025-11-06
2025-06-30 1.89bn +20.2% 2025-08-07

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±2.9%
On an ordinary two days ±1.9% — filings move it 1.5× as much
Direction 7 up, 4 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +70.4% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-03: price +2.1%Q1 23 revenue -29.8% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-02: price +2.6%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -47.6% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-03: price +0.7%Q3 23 revenue -45.2% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-02: price +2.9%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -26.9% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-02: price -5.0%Q2 24 revenue -11.4% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-08: price +8.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +7.6% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-31: price +2.8%Q1 25 revenue +13.1% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-08: price +2.1%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +20.2% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-07: price -10.0%Q3 25 revenue +21.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-06: price -3.6%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +19.4% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-07: price -4.0%

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 +19.4% -4.0% -4.7%
2025-09-30 2025-11-06 +21.1% -3.6% -7.1%
2025-06-30 2025-08-07 +20.2% -10.0% +3.2%
2025-03-31 2025-05-08 +13.1% +2.1% +7.1%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 154.5M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -8.5%
Change over 3 years -21.5%
Public float $14.80bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

History before 2010-06-30 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

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 104.20 — 117.64
Protective stop 100.22 (Atr, 9.7% risk)
Support 115.81 (2 touches, 1.1% away)
Resistance 118.39 (1.1% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.1% above 115.81, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 1.1% below 118.39, where sellers have turned up before. 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 9.7% 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 INSIDE the cloud | periods 7/20/39 (76% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness61% 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 inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 115.38 to 119.83. 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 -0.7%
63 days -6.7%
126 days +20.8%
252 days +41.2%
Below 252d high14.9%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width13.2% of price
Recent tightest12.3% (5 sessions ago, narrower than 87.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.07×
Band 113.41 — 129.45

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 13% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 87% 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 113.20–127.352026-07-032026-08-13
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 EMA50 reclaim +0.6% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Positive 20-day momentum acceleration repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Deteriorating
  4. Trigger 4 EMA20 reclaim +1.8% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.81 gap is improving · 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 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

CF: no binary-event flag. Near IV 43%, far IV 37% (ratio 1.18), implied move 5.1%.

Implied volatility 43% near (8d) · 37% far (64d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.18× near/far
Historical volatility 46%
Implied vs historical 0.94×
Implied move ±5.1% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.49×
Skew Flat (0.93×)
Call wall 180.00 (+53.8% away)
Put wall 77.50 (-33.8% away)
Gamma pin 180.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 43% IV vs far 37% IV, ratio 1.18)

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 5.1% 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 →

Stock Rotation Headwind

Rotation health 14.6/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 14.6
Rotation strength 73.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 83.3 87.4
Stock vs SPY Lagging 84.4 85.0
Sector vs SPY Weakening 103.0 84.1

Direction of travel: West / relative trend weakening

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 6/9 (+15.0)
  • Altman Z-score 5.70 (+8.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 42.5% (+8.2)
  • ROIC quality: 18.1% (+11.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 38.8% (+20.0)
  • Gross margin improving by 7.8 pts (+4.0)
  • ROIC improving by 3.0 pts (+2.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.092) (+5.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.08 -> -0.09) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.80 (+3.8)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 0.35 (+4.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 0.3% (+0.6)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 0.6% (+4.5)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 8.1% (+1.3)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.23 (+6.2)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 1: weak MACD histogram (-0.81)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.14)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-16.6)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 1.8%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.5%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 40.4, 5-day change -2.5
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (0.00)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 0.6%

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