NTRS

Northern Trust Corporation ·Nasdaq Global Select·Financial Services
191.39 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%
34.1% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
46.4% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
40.9%
Position Health Score
46.6%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +50.2% · range 122.72–191.33

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 3.1%
OCF / assets 3.1%
FCF / revenue 68.4%
Gross margin 100.0%
ROIC 1.0%
Forward P/E 15.1

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 43.4pp

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 2026-10-21 before the open · consensus EPS 2.87

Q2 23 revenue: 1.10bnQ2 23 net income: 331.80mQ2 23 EPS: 1.60Q3 23 revenue: 1.11bnQ3 23 net income: 327.80mQ3 23 EPS: 1.58Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 1.09bnQ4 23 net income: 113.10mQ4 23 EPS: 0.54Q1 24 revenue: 1.14bnQ1 24 net income: 214.70mQ1 24 EPS: 1.05Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 1.17bnQ2 24 net income: 896.10mQ2 24 EPS: 4.40Q3 24 revenue: 1.20bnQ3 24 net income: 464.90mQ3 24 EPS: 2.32Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 1.22bnQ4 24 net income: 455.40mQ4 24 EPS: 2.26Q1 25 revenue: 1.21bnQ1 25 net income: 392.00mQ1 25 EPS: 2.00Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 1.23bnQ2 25 net income: 421.30mQ2 25 EPS: 2.18Q3 25 revenue: 1.27bnQ3 25 net income: 457.60mQ3 25 EPS: 2.40Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 1.31bnQ4 25 net income: 466.00mQ4 25 EPS: 2.42Q1 26 revenue: 1.34bnQ1 26 net income: 525.50mQ1 26 EPS: 2.82Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.54–4.40, 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
2026-03-31 1.34bn +10.5% 525.50m 2.82 2.71 +14.3% 2026-04-30
2025-12-31 (derived) 1.31bn +7.0% 466.00m 2.42 2.69 +11.5% 2026-02-24
2025-09-30 1.27bn +5.8% 457.60m 2.40 2.29 -0.0% 2025-10-30
2025-06-30 1.23bn +5.6% 421.30m 2.18 2025-07-30

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.1%
On an ordinary two days ±1.3% — filings move it 0.8× as much
Direction 6 up, 5 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue -2.9% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-25: price +2.7%Q1 23 revenue -9.0% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-02: price -5.0%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -4.1% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-25: price +0.3%Q3 23 revenue +3.1% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-31: price +2.7%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +7.5% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-23: price +0.9%Q2 24 revenue +6.4% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-01: price -4.2%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +7.6% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-29: price -0.4%Q1 25 revenue +6.2% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price +0.9%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +5.6% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-30: price -1.2%Q3 25 revenue +5.8% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-30: price +1.1%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +10.5% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-30: price -0.2%

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
2026-03-31 2026-04-30 +10.5% -0.2% -2.9%
2025-09-30 2025-10-30 +5.8% +1.1% +2.1%
2025-06-30 2025-07-30 +5.6% -1.2% -1.9%
2025-03-31 2025-04-30 +6.2% +0.9% +6.9%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 186.5M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -4.9%
Change over 3 years -10.6%
Public float $24.10bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 188.46 — 193.24
Protective stop 181.87 (Atr, 4.7% risk)
Support 176.26 (2 touches, 8.5% away)
Resistance (— away)

Takeaway The shares are about 8.5% above 176.26, a price buyers have stepped in at before. There is no ceiling to point to, because the stock is trading where it has not traded before and nobody has sold it at these levels. 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 4.7% 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 9/25/49 (95% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness47% 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 178.75 to 183.23. 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 +2.5%
63 days +17.9%
126 days +28.5%
252 days +52.8%
Below 252d high0.0%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width7.8% of price
Recent tightest7.2% (5 sessions ago, narrower than 78.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.09×
Range broken Up
Band 176.31 — 190.64

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 177.65–191.132026-07-032026-08-12
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

No binary-event flag

NTRS: no binary-event flag. Near IV 28%, far IV 24% (ratio 1.19), implied move 3.6%.

Implied volatility 28% near (9d) · 24% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.19× near/far
Historical volatility 24%
Implied vs historical 1.20×
Implied move ±3.5% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.63×
Skew Put Skew (1.49×)
Call wall 200.00 (+4.5% away)
Put wall 170.00 (-11.2% away)
Gamma pin 190.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 28% IV vs far 24% IV, ratio 1.19)

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 3.5% 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 67.1/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 67.1
Rotation strength 90.3
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 100.5 127.5
Stock vs SPY Improving 88.4 120.2
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 4/9 (+5.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+9.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 100.0% (+22.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 68.4% (+20.0)
  • FCF margin improving by 74.3 pts (+5.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.021) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.02 -> -0.02) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.54) (+6.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 21.6 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.85 (+4.4)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 4.0% (+4.8)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 1.3% (+3.4)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 0.89 (+7.0)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+3.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.01 (+0.3)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 7.2% (+4.5)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.9% (+3.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.11)
  • Track 1: weak/falling ADX (14.7, flat)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 77.4, 5-day change +33.9
  • Chase risk 46.6/100 (Elevated Chase Risk): RSI 77.4, EMA20 4.0%, EMA50 7.2%, BB 1.05, distribution 3.0/100
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.39)
  • ROIC improving by -0.1 pts (+-5.0)
  • Chase risk 46.6/100 | Extension score 53.4/100 | Elevated Chase Risk