EQR
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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 -31.8
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +2.7% · range 57.98–70.15
The Businesswhat the company reports
Business & cash flow
| OCF / assets | 7.9% |
|---|---|
| FCF / revenue | 53.3% |
| Gross margin | 62.3% |
| ROIC | 7.5% |
| Forward P/E | 41.9 |
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 35.0pp
Confidence 95.0/100
Drivers
| Forward EPS growth | -32.2% |
|---|---|
| Trailing price return (1y) | +2.7% |
| Forward P/E compression | -47.5% |
Figures
| Trailing EPS | 2.27 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | 1.54 |
| Trailing P/E | 28.38 |
| Forward P/E | 41.86 |
Revisions
Stable (-1.7%, 10 dates)
Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.
Reported earnings
Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.27–0.80, own scale) Derived Q4
12 quarters to Q1 20. 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 ending | Revenue | YoY | Net income | EPS (GAAP) | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-31 | 682.33m | +3.0% | 308.61m | 0.80 | 2020-05-07 |
| 2019-12-31 (derived) | 683.92m | +4.8% | 289.76m | 0.75 | 2020-02-20 |
| 2019-09-30 | 685.14m | +4.9% | 267.11m | 0.69 | 2019-10-30 |
| 2019-06-30 | 669.52m | +4.6% | 308.97m | 0.80 | 2019-08-02 |
| 2019-03-31 | 662.49m | +4.7% | 104.54m | 0.27 | 2019-05-06 |
| 2018-12-31 (derived) | 652.74m | +3.5% | 117.19m | 0.31 | 2019-02-21 |
| 2018-09-30 | 652.87m | +4.6% | 214.94m | 0.56 | 2018-10-30 |
| 2018-06-30 | 639.81m | +4.5% | 113.60m | 0.30 | 2018-08-02 |
| 2018-03-31 | 633.02m | — | 211.81m | 0.55 | 2018-05-03 |
| 2017-12-31 (derived) | 630.70m | — | 125.44m | 0.33 | 2018-02-22 |
| 2017-09-30 | 624.12m | — | 138.23m | 0.36 | 2017-11-01 |
| 2017-06-30 | 612.48m | — | 196.04m | 0.51 | 2017-08-04 |
Share count
Diluted shares Return since the previous filing
| Direction | Shrinking — shares retired |
|---|---|
| Diluted shares | 385.1M as at 2026-03-31 |
| Change over 1 year | -1.4% |
| Change over 3 years | -0.5% |
| Public float | $25.60bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K) |
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | Current Price Reasonable |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 63.45 — 65.06 |
| Protective stop | 61.07 (Atr, 5.0% risk) |
| Support | 64.18 (5 touches, 0.4% away) |
| Resistance | 66.75 (3.6% away) |
Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.4% above 64.18, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 3.6% below 66.75, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 5 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 5.0% 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 cloud | Price BELOW the cloud | periods 6/18/35 (68% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BEAR (fresh down cross, 0d ago) | cloud twist BEAR |
| Cloud event | Fresh down breakout 4d ago |
| Cloud thickness | 73% percentile |
| Chikou span | Not clear of price from 26 periods ago |
| Weekly cloud | Price BELOW 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 66.43 to 67.90. 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 | -6.3% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | -2.2% |
| 126 days | -1.8% |
| 252 days | +3.4% |
| Below 252d high | 8.2% |
Trend context
| Position | At trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Normal |
| Trend slope | Flat |
| Direction of travel | Holding 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 width | 8.0% of price |
| Recent tightest | 4.9% (6 sessions ago, narrower than 87.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.63× |
| Range broken | Down |
| Band | 64.82 — 70.22 |
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 87% 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
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
- Nearest Trigger Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Improving
- Trigger 2 RSI recovery above 50 repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating rapidly
- Trigger 3 MACD bullish crossover secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
- Trigger 4 Relative momentum rank above 0.55 +0.17 rank relative momentum leadership is not yet strong enough for the next action tier · Broadly stable
- Trigger 5 EMA50 reclaim +4.0% gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable
Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑
Insider activity
| Activity | No filings in the window |
|---|---|
| Buy filings | 0 |
| Sell filings | 0 |
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 | Strong |
| Event | Absorption (today) |
|---|---|
| Volume percentile | 99% |
| Range percentile | 32% |
| Close within the bar | 12% of range |
| Event level | 64.30 (held) |
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. There was also a day today when a great many shares changed hands and the price barely moved — buyers took everything that was offered without the price falling, and it has held since.
Options Positioning
No binary-event flag
EQR: no binary-event flag. Near IV 19%, far IV 17% (ratio 1.13), implied move 2.4%.
| Implied volatility | 19% near (9d) · 17% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 1.13× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 20% |
| Implied vs historical | 0.94× |
| Implied move | ±2.4% by 2026-08-21 |
| Implied move vs ATR | 0.40× |
| Skew | Put Skew (1.99×) |
| Call wall | 72.50 (+12.5% away) |
| Put wall | 62.50 (-3.0% away) |
| Gamma pin | 72.50 |
- Term structure inverted (near 19% IV vs far 17% IV, ratio 1.13)
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 2.4% 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
Repair Attempt
Rotation health 42.2/100; Negative Rotation.
| Rotation health | 42.2 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 77.9 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Improving | 87.6 | 116.2 |
| Stock vs SPY | Lagging | 76.2 | 99.0 |
| 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 5/9 (+10.0)
- Altman Z-score 3.50 (+5.0)
- Gross margin quality: 62.3% (+15.5)
- ROIC quality: 7.5% (+2.1)
- FCF margin quality: 53.3% (+20.0)
- High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.025) (+2.0)
- Track 1: volume confirmation 2.24x average (+7.4)
- Track 1: ADX 20.0 and rising (+2.0)
- Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 3.8% (+1.8)
- Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 1.0% (+6.3)
- Track 1: Bollinger position -0.07 (+8.0)
Negative signals
- Underperforming sector over 20 days
- Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
- Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.09)
- Track 1: bearish DI spread (-20.9)
- Weak relative momentum rank (0.38)
- Track 1: price below EMA20 by 3.9%
- Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.3%
- Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.22)
- Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
- Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
- Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 31.4, 5-day change -4.5
- Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-1.08)
- Track 1: price below EMA50 by 3.8%
- Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.4%
- Gross margin improving by -0.9 pts (+-3.0)
Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.