PHM

PulteGroup, Inc. ·NYSE·Consumer Discretionary
129.15 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
16.6%
Brown Bear Score
29.8%
Business Conviction Score
26.6%
Position Health Score
7.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +4.7% · range 110.11–142.56

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 9.7%
OCF / assets 10.4%
FCF / revenue 10.8%
Gross margin 25.6%
ROIC 17.5%
Forward P/E 11.5

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 +13.2pp

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 before the open · consensus EPS 2.69

Q3 23 revenue: 4.00bnQ3 23 net income: 638.77mQ3 23 EPS: 2.91Q4 23 revenue: 4.29bnQ4 23 net income: 710.99mQ4 23 EPS: 3.21Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 3.95bnQ1 24 net income: 662.98mQ1 24 EPS: 3.10Q2 24 revenue: 4.60bnQ2 24 net income: 809.13mQ2 24 EPS: 3.83Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 4.48bnQ3 24 net income: 697.91mQ3 24 EPS: 3.35Q4 24 revenue: 4.92bnQ4 24 net income: 913.24mQ4 24 EPS: 4.35Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 3.89bnQ1 25 net income: 522.80mQ1 25 EPS: 2.57Q2 25 revenue: 4.40bnQ2 25 net income: 608.48mQ2 25 EPS: 3.03Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 4.40bnQ3 25 net income: 585.83mQ3 25 EPS: 2.96Q4 25 revenue: 4.61bnQ4 25 net income: 501.61mQ4 25 EPS: 2.51Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 3.41bnQ1 26 net income: 347.00mQ1 26 EPS: 1.79Q2 26 revenue: 3.98bnQ2 26 net income: 472.00mQ2 26 EPS: 2.48Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (1.79–4.35, 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 3.98bn -9.6% 472.00m 2.48 2.48 +3.9% 2026-07-22
2026-03-31 3.41bn -12.4% 347.00m 1.79 1.79 -2.8% 2026-04-23
2025-12-31 (derived) 4.61bn -6.3% 501.61m 2.51 2.56 -10.0% 2026-02-04
2025-09-30 4.40bn -1.6% 585.83m 2.96 2.96 +1.4% 2025-10-21

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±2.5%
On an ordinary two days ±1.7% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 8 up, 4 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +13.4% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-25: price +2.4%Q1 23 revenue +12.2% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-25: price +1.2%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +6.7% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-25: price +7.3%Q3 23 revenue +1.5% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-24: price +0.6%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-23: price +4.1%Q2 24 revenue +9.8% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-23: price -2.5%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +11.8% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-22: price -7.7%Q1 25 revenue -1.4% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-22: price +8.5%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue -4.3% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-22: price +9.8%Q3 25 revenue -1.6% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-21: price -2.5%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue -12.4% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-23: price +0.0%Q2 26 revenue -9.6% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-22: price +0.3%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 2026-07-22 -9.6% +0.3%
2026-03-31 2026-04-23 -12.4% +0.0% -13.2%
2025-09-30 2025-10-21 -1.6% -2.5% -4.6%
2025-06-30 2025-07-22 -4.3% +9.8% +5.5%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 190.6M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year -5.0%
Change over 3 years -14.7%
Public float $20.70bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 121.12 — 129.81
Protective stop 115.23 (Atr, 8.2% risk)
Support 126.73 (5 touches, 1.9% away)
Resistance 132.30 (2.4% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.9% above 126.73, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 2.4% below 132.30, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 5 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 8.2% 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 INSIDE the cloud | periods 6/17/34 (65% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness34% 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 inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 129.06 to 130.93. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days +3.7%
63 days +12.8%
126 days -5.9%
252 days +7.5%
Below 252d high9.4%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtended
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is above the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been fairly steady. Being stretched this far above trend measures how much room there is to fall back — it does not say the stock will stop rising.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width9.9% of price
Recent tightest9.9% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 87.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 122.81 — 135.55

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 10% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 87% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 122.94–134.752026-07-032026-08-12
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.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger EMA20 reclaim +0.4% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Relative momentum rank above 0.55 +0.11 rank relative momentum leadership is not yet strong enough for the next action tier · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.02 gap is broadly stable · 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 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

PHM: no binary-event flag. Near IV 40%, far IV 35% (ratio 1.16), implied move 5.0%.

Implied volatility 40% near (9d) · 35% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.16× near/far
Historical volatility 36%
Implied vs historical 1.10×
Implied move ±5.0% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.53×
Skew Put Skew (1.84×)
Call wall 140.00 (+8.4% away)
Put wall 120.00 (-7.1% away)
Gamma pin 120.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 40% IV vs far 35% IV, ratio 1.16)

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.

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 46.9/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 46.9
Rotation strength 73.5
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 86.8 89.7
Stock vs SPY Improving 90.7 102.6
Sector vs SPY Leading 112.5 121.1

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

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)
  • Altman Z-score 12.00 (+10.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 25.6% (+2.0)
  • ROIC quality: 17.5% (+10.7)
  • FCF margin quality: 10.8% (+7.2)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.019) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.08 -> 0.02) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (-0.02) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 9.0 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 25.2 and flat (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 0.6% (+1.4)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 55.6, 5-day change +0.1 (+0.1)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.00 (+0.1)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 1.4% (+0.9)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.2% (+2.3)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.4% (+3.9)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 4.1% (+4.2)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.50 (+4.0)

Negative signals

  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.44)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 0.4%
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.36)
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-8.0)
  • Gross margin improving by -3.5 pts (+-3.0)
  • ROIC improving by -7.8 pts (+-5.0)

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