FITB
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%
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +37.3% · range 40.36–59.37
The Businesswhat the company reports
Business & cash flow
| FCF / assets | 1.8% |
|---|---|
| OCF / assets | 2.1% |
| FCF / revenue | 51.2% |
| Gross margin | 100.0% |
| ROIC | 1.2% |
| Forward P/E | 11.7 |
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 +27.9pp
Confidence 95.0/100
Drivers
| Forward EPS growth | +65.2% |
|---|---|
| Trailing price return (1y) | +37.3% |
| Forward P/E compression | +39.5% |
Figures
| Trailing EPS | 2.99 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | 4.94 |
| Trailing P/E | 19.40 |
| Forward P/E | 11.74 |
Revisions
Stable (+0.1%, 10 dates)
Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.
Share count
Diluted shares Return since the previous filing
| Direction | Growing — shares issued |
|---|---|
| Diluted shares | 830.3M as at 2026-03-31 |
| Change over 1 year | +20.2% |
| Change over 3 years | +15.3% |
| Public float | $23.90bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K) |
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | At Support Zone |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 55.27 — 56.94 |
| Protective stop | 53.44 (Atr, 4.8% risk) |
| Support | 55.83 (6 touches, 3.9% away) |
| Resistance | 58.31 (0.5% away) |
Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.5% below 58.31, where sellers have turned up before, and 3.9% above 55.83, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 6 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 4.8% 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 ABOVE the cloud | periods 9/26/52 (100% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL |
| Cloud thickness | 68% percentile |
| Chikou span | Above price from 26 periods ago |
| Weekly cloud | Price 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 53.87 to 56.75. 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.
Trailing returns
| 21 days | +1.7% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | +19.3% |
| 126 days | +6.4% |
| 252 days | +40.6% |
| Below 252d high | 2.3% |
Trend context
| Position | Above trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Extremely extended |
| Trend slope | Rising |
| Direction of travel | Holding its deviation |
Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.
Volatility
| State | In a squeeze |
|---|---|
| Current band width | 4.6% of price |
| Recent tightest | 4.5% (1 sessions ago, narrower than 96.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.00× |
| Band | 56.10 — 58.72 |
Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 5% 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
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
| 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 | 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
Binary-event risk flagged
FITB: binary-event risk suspected -- Term structure inverted (near 47% IV vs far 28% IV, ratio 1.69); Implied move 5.8% is 1.06x the ATR-expected 5.5% over 9d. Options market is pricing a discrete catalyst; technical breakout signals are unreliable until it resolves.
| Implied volatility | 46% near (9d) · 28% far (100d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 1.69× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 19% |
| Implied vs historical | 2.50× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done |
| Implied move | ±5.8% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range |
| Implied move vs ATR | 1.06× |
| Skew | Put Skew (1.35×) |
| Put wall | 41.00 (-29.3% away) |
| Gamma pin | 41.00 |
- Term structure inverted (near 47% IV vs far 28% IV, ratio 1.69)
- Implied move 5.8% is 1.06x the ATR-expected 5.5% over 9d
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 5.8% in either direction by 2026-08-21. The overall shape suggests they expect a one-off result that lands either well or badly, rather than a gradual drift.
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
Mixed Rotation Phase
Rotation health 54.5/100; Mixed Rotation.
| Rotation health | 54.5 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 75.4 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Improving | 88.2 | 114.0 |
| Stock vs SPY | Improving | 82.4 | 125.2 |
| 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 6/9 (+15.0)
- Gross margin quality: 100.0% (+22.0)
- FCF margin quality: 51.2% (+20.0)
- FCF margin improving by 17.0 pts (+5.0)
- High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.009) (+2.0)
- Accrual ratio improving (-0.00 -> -0.01) (+5.0)
- Track 1: MACD histogram state (-0.09) (+3.0)
- Track 1: bullish DI spread 8.0 (+3.0)
- Track 1: ADX 22.0 and flat (+3.0)
- Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.78 (+3.6)
- Track 1: Bullish MACD divergence (+12.0)
- Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 1.5% (+6.8)
- Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 0.3% (+0.7)
- Track 1: RSI recovery 57.2, 5-day change +19.9 (+8.1)
- Track 1: VPT strength 0.01 (+0.2)
- Track 1: price above EMA50 by 4.3% (+2.7)
- Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.5% (+2.9)
- Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 4.3% (+1.4)
- Track 1: constructive pullback zone (+15.0)
- Track 1: Bollinger position 0.73 (+2.2)
- Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 60.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.0)
Negative signals
- Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.57x average)
- Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
- Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.09)
- Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
- Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
- Below-average Altman Z-score (1.52)
- ROIC improving by -0.0 pts (+-5.0)
Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.