NDAQ

Nasdaq, Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Financial Services
95.67 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%
66.9% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
83.9% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
51.3%
Position Health Score
21.7%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -0.5% · range 76.85–100.98

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 6.4%
OCF / assets 7.3%
FCF / revenue 27.3%
Gross margin 100.0%
ROIC 10.8%
Forward P/E 20.5

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 +35.9pp

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 2026-10-19 · consensus EPS 1.05

Q3 23 revenue: 1.45bnQ3 23 net income: 294.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.60Q4 23 revenue: 1.65bnQ4 23 net income: 196.00mQ4 23 EPS: 0.39Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 1.67bnQ1 24 net income: 234.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.40Q2 24 revenue: 1.79bnQ2 24 net income: 222.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.38Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 1.90bnQ3 24 net income: 306.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.53Q4 24 revenue: 2.03bnQ4 24 net income: 355.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.61Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 2.09bnQ1 25 net income: 395.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.68Q2 25 revenue: 2.09bnQ2 25 net income: 452.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.78Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.96bnQ3 25 net income: 423.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.73Q4 25 revenue: 2.12bnQ4 25 net income: 518.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.90Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 2.14bnQ1 26 net income: 519.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.91Q2 26 revenue: 2.53bnQ2 26 net income: 507.00mQ2 26 EPS: 0.89Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.38–0.91, 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 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
2026-06-30 2.53bn +21.1% 507.00m 0.89 1.07 +6.7% 2026-07-23
2026-03-31 2.14bn +2.2% 519.00m 0.91 0.96 +1.1% 2026-04-24
2025-12-31 (derived) 2.12bn +4.5% 518.00m 0.90 0.96 +3.0% 2026-02-12
2025-09-30 1.96bn +2.9% 423.00m 0.73 0.88 +1.8% 2025-10-23

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.7%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 10 up, 2 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +14.7% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-02: price -1.3%Q1 23 revenue -0.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-04: price +2.5%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -7.7% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-02: price -1.7%Q3 23 revenue -6.8% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-03: price +1.7%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +9.2% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-02: price +1.7%Q2 24 revenue +25.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-06: price +3.7%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +31.1% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-29: price +0.3%Q1 25 revenue +24.9% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-28: price +0.8%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +16.6% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-25: price +1.8%Q3 25 revenue +2.9% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-23: price +1.2%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +2.2% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-24: price +3.9%Q2 26 revenue +21.1% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-23: price +1.3%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
2026-06-30 2026-07-23 +21.1% +1.3%
2026-03-31 2026-04-24 +2.2% +3.9% -4.5%
2025-09-30 2025-10-23 +2.9% +1.2% +1.8%
2025-06-30 2025-07-25 +16.6% +1.8% -1.7%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 567.8M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year -1.9%
Change over 3 years +15.0%
Public float $40.60bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 94.23 — 96.62
Protective stop 92.22 (Structure, 3.4% risk)
Support 93.23 (2 touches, 2.6% away)
Resistance 96.81 (1.2% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 1.2% below 96.81, where sellers have turned up before, and 2.6% above 93.23, 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 3.4% 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 9/25/50 (97% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness93% 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 86.71 to 91.75. 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. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.

Trailing returns

21 days +8.7%
63 days +6.9%
126 days +15.9%
252 days -1.3%
Below 252d high5.3%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Positive Kalman trend with moderate extension; constructive for momentum but watch entry risk.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width7.8% of price
Recent tightest7.8% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 76.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 90.03 — 97.38

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 8% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 84.39–95.962026-07-032026-08-12
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

NDAQ: binary-event risk suspected -- Term structure inverted (near 40% IV vs far 31% IV, ratio 1.27); Implied move 5.0% is 0.79x the ATR-expected 6.3% over 9d. Options market is pricing a discrete catalyst; technical breakout signals are unreliable until it resolves.

Implied volatility 40% near (9d) · 31% far (128d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.27× near/far
Historical volatility 22%
Implied vs historical 1.79× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±5.0% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 0.79×
Skew Put Skew (1.49×)
  • Term structure inverted (near 40% IV vs far 31% IV, ratio 1.27)
  • Implied move 5.0% is 0.79x the ATR-expected 6.3% 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 5.0% 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 →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 38.6/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 38.6
Rotation strength 64.8
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 105.9 90.4
Stock vs SPY Lagging 99.0 91.3
Sector vs SPY Lagging 76.4 91.0

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 7/9 (+20.0)
  • Altman Z-score 4.54 (+8.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+9.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 100.0% (+22.0)
  • ROIC quality: 10.8% (+5.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 27.3% (+18.2)
  • Gross margin improving by 59.6 pts (+5.0)
  • ROIC improving by 2.6 pts (+2.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.015) (+2.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (-0.07) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.04 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 6.8 (+1.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 44.2 and falling (+5.0)
  • Track 1: Hidden Bullish MACD divergence (+15.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 2.6% (+5.9)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 1.4% (+3.4)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.11 (+2.3)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 5.5% (+3.5)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 2.3% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 5.5% (+0.4)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 7.8% (+1.5)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.77 (+1.9)
  • Regime convergence: MOMENTUM_BREAKOUT_CONTINUATION confidence 60.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.48x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.32)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.17)
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 73.1, 5-day change +22.0

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