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Jacobs Solutions Inc. ·NYSE·Industrials
145.36 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
59.4%
Brown Bear Score
29.5%
Business Conviction Score
75.0%
Position Health Score
29.2%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -3.0% · range 107.27–164.44

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 5.4%
OCF / assets 6.1%
FCF / revenue 5.7%
Gross margin 22.1%
ROIC 8.7%
Forward P/E 17.6

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 +181.0pp

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 2026-11-18 after the close · consensus EPS 2.18

Q2 15 revenue: 2.91bnQ2 15 net income: 91.06mQ2 15 EPS: 0.61Q4 15 revenue: 3.12bnQ4 15 net income: 29.86mQ4 15 EPS: 0.20Q4 15Q1 16 revenue: 2.85bnQ1 16 net income: 46.51mQ1 16 EPS: 0.32Q2 16 revenue: 2.78bnQ2 16 net income: 65.25mQ2 16 EPS: 0.45Q2 16Q3 16 revenue: 2.69bnQ3 16 net income: 69.06mQ3 16 EPS: 0.48Q3 16 revenue: 2.64bnQ3 16 net income: 29.64mQ3 16 EPS: 0.20Q3 16Q4 16 revenue: 2.55bnQ4 16 net income: 60.54mQ4 16 EPS: 0.42Q1 17 revenue: 2.30bnQ1 17 net income: 50.02mQ1 17 EPS: 0.34Q1 17Q2 17 revenue: 2.51bnQ2 17 net income: 89.03mQ2 17 EPS: 0.61Q3 17 revenue: 2.65bnQ3 17 net income: 94.14mQ3 17 EPS: 0.65Q3 17Q4 17 revenue: 2.75bnQ4 17 net income: 2.16mQ4 17 EPS: 0.01Q1 18 revenue: 3.94bnQ1 18 net income: 48.59mQ1 18 EPS: 0.28Q1 18

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.01–0.65, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 18. 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) Filed
2018-03-30 3.94bn +70.9% 48.59m 0.28 2018-05-08
2017-12-29 2.75bn +7.8% 2.16m 0.01 2018-02-07
2017-09-29 (derived) 2.65bn +0.5% 94.14m 0.65 2017-11-21
2017-06-30 2.51bn -6.6% 89.03m 0.61 2017-08-08

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 119.0M as at 2025-12-26
Change over 1 year -21.6%
Change over 3 years -26.1%
Public float $14.40bn as at 2025-03-28 (10-K)

Counts are restated for the 1:1 split of 2024-09-30, which would otherwise read as a share issuance.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 132.65 — 146.10
Protective stop 132.71 (Structure, 4.8% risk)
Support 134.83 (2 touches, 7.8% away)
Resistance 152.53 (4.9% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 4.9% below 152.53, where sellers have turned up before, and 7.8% above 134.83, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 2 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 6/19/37 (71% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL (fresh up, 4d ago)
Cloud thickness88% 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 134.56 to 141.30. 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 +12.5%
63 days +27.3%
126 days -3.8%
252 days -1.7%
Below 252d high11.6%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway The share price is above the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is climbing. The gap between the two has been widening. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State Expanding
Current band width18.4% of price
Recent tightest11.1% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 57.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.65×
Band 125.11 — 150.40

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 132.75–147.622026-07-282026-08-12
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

No binary-event flag

J: no binary-event flag. Near IV 31%, far IV 29% (ratio 1.06), implied move 3.9%.

Implied volatility 31% near (9d) · 29% far (65d)
Term structure 1.06× near/far
Historical volatility 29%
Implied vs historical 1.06×
Implied move ±3.9% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.45×
Skew Call Skew (0.64×)
Call wall 210.00 (+44.5% away)
Put wall 95.00 (-34.6% away)
Gamma pin 210.00

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 3.9% 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 →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 59.3/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 59.3
Rotation strength 56.4
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 114.5 96.1
Stock vs SPY Weakening 112.6 85.7
Sector vs SPY Improving 87.2 105.9

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

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 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 4.30 (+5.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 22.1% (+0.2)
  • ROIC quality: 8.7% (+1.1)
  • FCF margin quality: 5.7% (+1.7)
  • FCF margin improving by -3.5 pts (+-1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.035) (+1.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.02 -> -0.04) (+2.0)
  • Relative Strength 6.7% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.75) (+8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+15.0)
  • Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+5.0)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+10.0)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.08 (+8.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 35.8 (+15.0)
  • Track 2: ADX 53.1 and rising (+18.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 4.6% (+3.9)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 3.4% (+8.0)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 69.2, 5-day change +0.8 (+0.6)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.10 (+2.5)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 9.6% (+7.7)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 3.9% (+6.0)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.80 (+6.4)
  • Regime convergence: ICHIMOKU_CLOUD_REVERSAL confidence 64.6/100 (EMERGING) (+12.9)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.43x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.31)
  • Gross margin improving by -2.6 pts (+-1.0)
  • ROIC improving by -3.6 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 17.0/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

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