KEYS

Keysight Technologies, Inc. ·NYSE·Technology
354.48 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
60.7%
Brown Bear Score
67.6%
Business Conviction Score
61.8%
Position Health Score
51.6%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +119.5% · range 158.51–373.34

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 11.3%
OCF / assets 12.5%
FCF / revenue 26.2%
Gross margin 62.1%
ROIC 12.5%
Forward P/E 29.7

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

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 27.9pp

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 2026-08-18 after the close · consensus EPS 2.52

Q3 23 revenue: 1.38bnQ3 23 net income: 288.00mQ3 23 EPS: 1.61Q4 23 revenue: 1.31bnQ4 23 net income: 226.00mQ4 23 EPS: 1.26Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 1.26bnQ1 24 net income: 172.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.98Q2 24 revenue: 1.22bnQ2 24 net income: 126.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.72Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 1.22bnQ3 24 net income: 389.00mQ3 24 EPS: 2.22Q4 24 revenue: 1.29bnQ4 24 net income: -73.00mQ4 24 EPS: -0.42Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 1.30bnQ1 25 net income: 169.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.97Q2 25 revenue: 1.31bnQ2 25 net income: 257.00mQ2 25 EPS: 1.49Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.35bnQ3 25 net income: 191.00mQ3 25 EPS: 1.10Q4 25 revenue: 1.42bnQ4 25 net income: 233.00mQ4 25 EPS: 1.35Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 1.60bnQ1 26 net income: 281.00mQ1 26 EPS: 1.62Q2 26 revenue: 1.72bnQ2 26 net income: 349.00mQ2 26 EPS: 2.02Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.42–2.22, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 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) Filed
2026-04-30 1.72bn +31.5% 349.00m 2.02 2026-06-04
2026-01-31 1.60bn +23.3% 281.00m 1.62 2026-03-05
2025-10-31 (derived) 1.42bn +10.3% 233.00m 1.35 2025-12-17
2025-07-31 1.35bn +11.1% 191.00m 1.10 2025-08-29

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.0%
On an ordinary two days ±1.5% — filings move it 0.7× as much
Direction 5 up, 7 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-08-30: price -1.5%Q1 23 revenue +10.5% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-03-03: price +1.0%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +2.9% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-05-31: price +0.5%Q3 23 revenue +0.4% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-08-30: price +0.8%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -8.8% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-03-05: price -0.2%Q2 24 revenue -12.5% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-05-31: price -1.1%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue -11.9% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-08-29: price +1.0%Q1 25 revenue +3.1% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-03-06: price -0.4%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +7.4% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-06-03: price +1.7%Q3 25 revenue +11.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-08-29: price -1.6%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +23.3% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-03-05: price -9.5%Q2 26 revenue +31.5% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-06-04: price -5.9%Q2 26

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
2026-04-30 2026-06-04 +31.5% -5.9% -7.9%
2026-01-31 2026-03-05 +23.3% -9.5% +9.3%
2025-07-31 2025-08-29 +11.1% -1.6% +2.5%
2025-04-30 2025-06-03 +7.4% +1.7% -1.5%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 173.0M as at 2026-04-30
Change over 1 year +0.0%
Change over 3 years -3.4%
Public float $17.00bn as at 2025-04-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 346.18 — 356.68
Protective stop 323.63 (Atr, 7.9% risk)
Support 349.68 (2 touches, 1.4% away)
Resistance 355.58 (0.3% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.3% below 355.58, where sellers have turned up before, and 1.4% above 349.68, 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 7.9% 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 7/21/42 (80% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL (fresh up cross, 2d ago) | cloud twist BULL (fresh up, 0d ago)
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 5d ago
Cloud thickness12% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
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 334.26 to 336.08. 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 +10.5%
63 days -3.2%
126 days +50.3%
252 days +114.9%
Below 252d high5.0%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

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

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width17.2% of price
Recent tightest9.8% (7 sessions ago, narrower than 96.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.75×
Range broken Up
Band 296.17 — 351.76

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 17% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 96% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.8 times as widely as during that quiet spell, and it broke upwards. 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 296.72–343.702026-07-032026-08-12
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

KEYS: binary-event risk suspected -- Term structure inverted (near 76% IV vs far 50% IV, ratio 1.52); Implied move 9.5% is 1.01x the ATR-expected 9.4% over 9d. Options market is pricing a discrete catalyst; technical breakout signals are unreliable until it resolves.

Implied volatility 76% near (9d) · 50% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.52× near/far
Historical volatility 46%
Implied vs historical 1.65× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±9.5% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 1.01×
Skew Flat (1.01×)
Call wall 480.00 (+35.4% away)
Put wall 290.00 (-18.2% away)
Gamma pin 290.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 76% IV vs far 50% IV, ratio 1.52)
  • Implied move 9.5% is 1.01x the ATR-expected 9.4% 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 9.5% 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 →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 83.2/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 83.2
Rotation strength 75.0
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 115.3 88.5
Stock vs SPY Leading 125.1 112.3
Sector vs SPY Leading 113.6 115.9

Direction of travel: South-East / trend strong but momentum cooling

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)
  • Altman Z-score 13.38 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 62.1% (+15.5)
  • ROIC quality: 12.5% (+6.4)
  • FCF margin quality: 26.2% (+17.5)
  • FCF margin improving by 5.1 pts (+4.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.049) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.05 -> -0.05) (+5.0)
  • Relative Strength 5.8% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (4.38) (+8.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.16 (+9.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 6.8 (+1.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.95 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 7.6% (+1.9)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 2.4% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 1.90 (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 62.2, 5-day change +3.4 (+1.2)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.04 (+0.9)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 7.7% (+4.8)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 0.3% (+0.6)
  • Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 65.5/100 (EMERGING) (+13.1)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.56x average)
  • Track 1: weak/falling ADX (14.9, falling)
  • Chase risk 51.6/100 (Elevated Chase Risk): RSI 62.2, EMA20 7.6%, EMA50 7.7%, BB 1.05, distribution 4.4/100
  • Gross margin improving by -0.8 pts (+-3.0)
  • Chase risk 51.6/100 | Extension score 48.4/100 | Elevated Chase Risk