GRMN

Garmin Ltd. ·NYSE·Consumer Discretionary
309.92 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
61.2%
Brown Bear Score
69.3%
Business Conviction Score
61.2%
Position Health Score
68.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +33.1% · range 187.10–313.16

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 12.4%
OCF / assets 14.9%
FCF / revenue 22.5%
Gross margin 60.1%
ROIC 20.2%
Forward P/E 28.2

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 19.8pp

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 2026-10-27 · consensus EPS 2.41

Q3 23 revenue: 1.32bnQ3 23 net income: 287.94mQ3 23 EPS: 1.50Q3 23 revenue: 1.28bnQ3 23 net income: 257.24mQ3 23 EPS: 1.34Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 1.48bnQ4 23 net income: 542.13mQ4 23 EPS: 2.82Q1 24 revenue: 1.38bnQ1 24 net income: 275.96mQ1 24 EPS: 1.43Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 1.51bnQ2 24 net income: 300.63mQ2 24 EPS: 1.56Q3 24 revenue: 1.59bnQ3 24 net income: 399.11mQ3 24 EPS: 2.07Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 1.82bnQ4 24 net income: 435.73mQ4 24 EPS: 2.25Q1 25 revenue: 1.54bnQ1 25 net income: 332.77mQ1 25 EPS: 1.72Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 1.81bnQ2 25 net income: 400.82mQ2 25 EPS: 2.07Q3 25 revenue: 1.77bnQ3 25 net income: 401.62mQ3 25 EPS: 2.08Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 2.12bnQ4 25 net income: 528.68mQ4 25 EPS: 2.73Q1 26 revenue: 1.75bnQ1 26 net income: 405.08mQ1 26 EPS: 2.09Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (1.34–2.82, 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 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
2026-03-28 1.75bn +14.2% 405.08m 2.09 2.08 +12.1% 2026-04-29
2025-12-27 (derived) 2.12bn +16.6% 528.68m 2.73 2.79 +14.2% 2026-02-18
2025-09-27 1.77bn +11.7% 401.62m 2.08 1.99 -0.6% 2025-10-29
2025-06-28 1.81bn +20.4% 400.82m 2.07 2025-07-30

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±8.5%
On an ordinary two days ±1.1% — filings move it 7.5× as much
Direction 6 up, 5 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue -4.3% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-26: price +1.2%Q2 23 revenue -2.2% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-05-03: price +4.5%Q2 23Q3 23 revenue +6.4% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-08-02: price -0.0%Q3 23 revenue +12.0% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-01: price +11.6%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +20.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-01: price +14.4%Q2 24 revenue +14.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-31: price -4.6%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +24.1% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-30: price +19.3%Q1 25 revenue +11.1% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price -8.5%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +20.4% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-30: price -8.6%Q3 25 revenue +11.7% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-29: price -13.3%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +14.2% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-29: price +1.3%

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
2026-03-28 2026-04-29 +14.2% +1.3% -12.1%
2025-09-27 2025-10-29 +11.7% -13.3% -9.7%
2025-06-28 2025-07-30 +20.4% -8.6% +7.5%
2025-03-29 2025-04-30 +11.1% -8.5% +3.1%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 193.6M as at 2026-03-28
Change over 1 year -0.1%
Change over 3 years +0.9%
Public float $34.22bn as at 2025-06-27 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 278.58 — 311.53
Protective stop 268.89 (Atr, 8.9% risk)
Support 240.12 (3 touches, 29.1% away)
Resistance 312.10 (0.7% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.7% below 312.10, where sellers have turned up before, and 29.1% above 240.12, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 3 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 8.9% 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 5/15/29 (57% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness100% percentile (thick — substantial structure)
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 275.02 to 301.91. 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. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days +28.4%
63 days +30.8%
126 days +48.7%
252 days +35.4%
Below 252d high1.0%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtended
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway The share price is well above the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been closing. Being stretched this far above trend measures how much room there is to fall back — it does not say the stock will stop rising.

Volatility

State Expanding
Current band width44.7% of price
Recent tightest26.6% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 19.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.68×
Band 215.39 — 339.43

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 45% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 237.54–313.162026-06-302026-08-12
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.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD histogram acceleration turns positive repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating rapidly
  2. Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · 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

GRMN: no binary-event flag. Near IV 24%, far IV 26% (ratio 0.91), implied move 3.0%.

Implied volatility 24% near (9d) · 26% far (65d)
Term structure 0.91× near/far
Historical volatility 65%
Implied vs historical 0.37×
Implied move ±3.0% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.30×
Skew Flat (1.14×)
Call wall 320.00 (+3.2% away)
Put wall 260.00 (-16.1% away)
Gamma pin 260.00

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 3.0% 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 →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 67.0/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 67.0
Rotation strength 83.6
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 113.1 83.9
Stock vs SPY Weakening 114.1 98.5
Sector vs SPY Leading 112.5 121.1

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 6/9 (+15.0)
  • Altman Z-score 30.47 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 60.1% (+14.7)
  • ROIC quality: 20.2% (+13.1)
  • FCF margin quality: 22.5% (+15.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.2 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.003) (+2.0)
  • Relative Strength 23.0% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (2.91) (+8.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.27 (+12.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 45.4 (+8.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 65.6 and rising (+10.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.72 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: Hidden Bullish MACD divergence (+15.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 8.8% (+1.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 5.9% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.12 (+2.5)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 17.5% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 8.5% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.76 (+1.9)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.37x average)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-3.39)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 86.2, 5-day change +10.2
  • Chase risk 68.0/100 (Exhaustion Risk): RSI 86.2, EMA20 8.8%, EMA50 17.5%, BB 0.76, distribution 10.5/100
  • Chase risk 68.0/100 | Extension score 32.0/100 | Exhaustion Risk