FE

FirstEnergy Corp. ·NYSE·Utilities
47.00 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 -23.3
14.0%
Brown Bear Score
28.2%
Business Conviction Score
21.7%
Position Health Score
0.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +7.8% · range 42.83–51.91

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -1.8%
OCF / assets 6.6%
FCF / revenue 24.5%
Gross margin 68.6%
ROIC 5.1%
Forward P/E 15.9

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 +49.5pp

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 2026-10-20 after the close · consensus EPS 0.94

Q2 23 revenue: 3.01bnQ2 23 net income: 235.00mQ2 23 EPS: 0.41Q3 23 revenue: 3.49bnQ3 23 net income: 400.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.70Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 3.15bnQ4 23 net income: 175.00mQ4 23 EPS: 0.30Q1 24 revenue: 3.29bnQ1 24 net income: 253.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.44Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 3.28bnQ2 24 net income: 45.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.08Q3 24 revenue: 3.73bnQ3 24 net income: 419.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.73Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 3.18bnQ4 24 net income: 261.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.45Q1 25 revenue: 3.77bnQ1 25 net income: 360.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.62Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 3.38bnQ2 25 net income: 268.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.46Q3 25 revenue: 4.15bnQ3 25 net income: 441.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.76Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 3.80bnQ4 25 net income: -49.00mQ4 25 EPS: -0.08Q1 26 revenue: 4.20bnQ1 26 net income: 405.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.70Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.08–0.76, 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 4.20bn +11.6% 405.00m 0.70 0.72 -2.1% 2026-04-28
2025-12-31 (derived) 3.80bn +19.6% -49.00m -0.08 0.53 -6.6% 2026-02-18
2025-09-30 4.15bn +11.2% 441.00m 0.76 0.83 +4.3% 2025-10-28
2025-06-30 3.38bn +3.0% 268.00m 0.46 2025-07-30

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.4%
On an ordinary two days ±1.0% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 2 up, 9 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +11.2% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-25: price -1.4%Q1 23 revenue +8.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-27: price -2.2%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +6.7% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-01: price -2.0%Q3 23 revenue +0.3% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-26: price -1.8%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +1.7% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-25: price -0.4%Q2 24 revenue +9.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-30: price +0.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +6.9% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-29: price -3.5%Q1 25 revenue +14.5% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price -0.7%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +3.0% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-30: price +2.2%Q3 25 revenue +11.2% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-28: price -1.4%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +11.6% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-28: price -1.0%

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 2026-04-28 +11.6% -1.0% -10.7%
2025-09-30 2025-10-28 +11.2% -1.4% +5.5%
2025-06-30 2025-07-30 +3.0% +2.2% -0.6%
2025-03-31 2025-04-30 +14.5% -0.7% -6.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 580.0M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +0.3%
Change over 3 years +1.2%
Public float $23.21bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 46.30 — 47.48
Protective stop 45.28 (Structure, 3.4% risk)
Support 45.74 (5 touches, 2.8% away)
Resistance 47.56 (1.2% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 1.2% below 47.56, where sellers have turned up before, and 2.8% above 45.74, where buyers have stepped in 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 3.4% 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 6/17/34 (65% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR (fresh down cross, 2d ago) | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud eventFresh down breakout 5d ago
Cloud thickness63% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice 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 47.36 to 48.46. 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 -4.5%
63 days +5.1%
126 days -1.4%
252 days +8.5%
Below 252d high9.4%

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 width7.9% of price
Recent tightest5.0% (7 sessions ago, narrower than 94.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.58×
Band 46.51 — 50.33

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 94% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.6 times as widely as during that quiet spell. 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 46.76–49.432026-07-032026-08-12
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.

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

FE: no binary-event flag. Near IV 25%, far IV 34% (ratio 0.74), implied move 3.1%.

Implied volatility 25% near (9d) · 34% far (65d)
Term structure 0.74× near/far
Historical volatility 14%
Implied vs historical 1.75× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±3.1% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 0.53×
Skew Put Skew (1.65×)
Call wall 75.00 (+59.5% away)
Put wall 43.00 (-8.5% away)
Gamma pin 75.00
  • Implied move 3.1% is 0.53x the ATR-expected 5.9% over 9d

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 3.1% 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 →

Stock Rotation Headwind

Rotation health 7.2/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 7.2
Rotation strength 84.0
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 86.5 83.4
Stock vs SPY Lagging 76.9 90.2
Sector vs SPY Lagging 79.5 94.2

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

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)
  • Gross margin quality: 68.6% (+17.8)
  • ROIC quality: 5.1% (+0.1)
  • FCF margin quality: 24.5% (+16.3)
  • FCF margin improving by 3.1 pts (+2.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.048) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.04 -> -0.05) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.46 (+0.1)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.9% (+3.4)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 0.1% (+7.0)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.13 (+7.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.65x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.06)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-9.5)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 2.0%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.2%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 24.9, 5-day change -12.6
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.07)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 1.9%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.3%
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.50)
  • ROIC improving by -0.2 pts (+-5.0)

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