PDD

PDD Holdings ·Consumer Discretionary
84.36 live · 2026-08-27 14:54

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -81.7
1.8%
Brown Bear Score
10.3%
Business Conviction Score
17.1%
Position Health Score
16.8%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -30.0% · range 73.30–138.13

Score trends appear once the scores have been recorded on more than one trading day.

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / revenue
Gross margin 0.0%
ROIC 0.0%
Forward P/E 7.0

No annual filing with both total assets and a cash-flow figure is cached for this name, so neither validated measure can be computed. FCF/revenue is shown instead, which is not the validated measure.

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +65.9pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 85.44 — 87.61
Protective stop 82.40 (Structure, 4.8% risk)
Support 83.62 (3 touches, 3.7% away)
Resistance 87.65 (1.0% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 1.0% below 87.65, where sellers have turned up before, and 3.7% above 83.62, 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 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 BELOW the cloud | periods 7/19/38 (73% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BEAR (fresh down, 0d ago)
Cloud eventFresh down breakout 0d ago
Cloud thickness8% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 87.50 to 87.62. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days +1.2%
63 days +0.2%
126 days -18.9%
252 days -32.3%
Below 252d high37.2%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionOversold
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway The share price is below the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is drifting down. The gap between the two has been widening. Being this far below trend describes how far it has already fallen. It does not mean a bounce is due.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width10.4% of price
Recent tightest10.2% (1 sessions ago, narrower than 53.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.02×
Band 84.19 — 93.42

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 10% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger Positive 20-day momentum acceleration repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 EMA20 reclaim +1.2% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 EMA50 reclaim +0.8% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 RSI recovery above 50 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Deteriorating rapidly
  5. Trigger 5 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x 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 Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

PDD: no binary-event flag. Near IV 31%, far IV 34% (ratio 0.91), implied move 3.7%.

Implied volatility 31% near (8d) · 34% far (85d)
Term structure 0.91× near/far
Historical volatility 33%
Implied vs historical 0.96×
Implied move ±3.7% by 2026-09-04
Implied move vs ATR 0.44×
Skew Flat (1.09×)
Call wall 105.00 (+24.5% away)
Put wall 80.00 (-5.2% away)
Gamma pin 85.00

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 3.7% in either direction by 2026-09-04.

Chain as at 2026-08-27. 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 31.5/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 31.5
Rotation strength 66.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 85.2 92.5
Stock vs SPY Lagging 89.6 90.5
Sector vs SPY Weakening 110.8 88.9

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 3.00 (+3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.000) (+1.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 3.9 (+2.9)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.28 (+2.1)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 2: weak MACD histogram (-0.36)
  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.6)
  • Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-2.3)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.87x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.18)
  • Track 2: weak/falling ADX (23.8, falling)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.05)
  • Track 2: price below EMA20 by 1.2%
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 40.6, 5-day change -16.1
  • Track 2: weak VPT confirmation (-0.01)
  • Track 2: price below EMA50 by 0.8%
  • FCF margin unavailable: revenue missing from fundamentals cache
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 9.0/100 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.