FITB

Fifth Third Bancorp ·NYSE·Financial Services
58.00 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

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%
40.0% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
47.1% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
54.2%
Position Health Score
20.3%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

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

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

Share count

Diluted shares over time

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

StrategyAt 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 cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 9/26/52 (100% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness68% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice 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 high2.3%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

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

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width4.6% of price
Recent tightest4.5% (1 sessions ago, narrower than 96.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
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

0255075100Share price 55.76–59.372026-07-032026-08-12
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 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

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 54.5/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 54.5
Rotation strength 75.4
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-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.