PNC

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. ·NYSE·Financial Services
255.43 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%
20.1% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
27.6% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
35.7%
Position Health Score
31.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +33.6% · range 178.37–255.46

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

OCF / assets 0.8%
FCF / revenue 19.0%
Gross margin 100.0%
ROIC 1.2%
Forward P/E 12.0

This company does not report capital expenditure in the standard filing tag, so free cash flow cannot be derived and FCF/assets is not shown — common for asset managers, REITs, insurers and utilities. OCF/assets is shown instead, and it is the other measure Brown Bear's testing found to survive. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 16.5pp

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 2026-10-15 before the open · consensus EPS 4.97

Q2 23 revenue: 5.29bnQ3 23 revenue: 5.23bnQ3 23Q4 23 revenue: 5.36bnQ1 24 revenue: 5.14bnQ1 24Q2 24 revenue: 5.41bnQ3 24 revenue: 5.43bnQ3 24Q4 24 revenue: 5.57bnQ1 25 revenue: 5.45bnQ1 25Q2 25 revenue: 5.66bnQ3 25 revenue: 5.92bnQ3 25Q4 25 revenue: 6.07bnQ1 26 revenue: 6.17bnQ1 26

Revenue Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-03-31 6.17bn +13.1% 4.13 +0.8% 2026-05-05
2025-12-31 (derived) 6.07bn +9.1% 4.88 +14.6% 2026-02-20
2025-09-30 5.92bn +8.9% 4.35 +6.4% 2025-11-03
2025-06-30 5.66bn +4.6% 2025-08-01

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±2.0%
On an ordinary two days ±1.4% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 5 up, 6 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +6.8% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-02: price -5.3%Q1 23 revenue +19.4% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-02: price -4.4%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +3.5% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-02: price -1.8%Q3 23 revenue -5.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-02: price +8.6%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue -8.2% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-02: price +1.5%Q2 24 revenue +2.2% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-02: price -5.8%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +3.8% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-01: price -1.2%Q1 25 revenue +6.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-02: price +2.9%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +4.6% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-01: price -0.6%Q3 25 revenue +8.9% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-03: price +0.2%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +13.1% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-05: price +2.0%

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 2026-05-05 +13.1% +2.0% -1.1%
2025-09-30 2025-11-03 +8.9% +0.2% +6.9%
2025-06-30 2025-08-01 +4.6% -0.6% +7.2%
2025-03-31 2025-05-02 +6.0% +2.9% +0.6%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Growing — shares issued
Diluted shares 405.0M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +1.8%
Change over 3 years +0.7%
Public float $73.20bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 251.63 — 258.01
Protective stop 245.41 (Atr, 3.7% risk)
Support 247.28 (5 touches, 3.3% away)
Resistance (— away)

Takeaway The shares are about 3.3% above 247.28, 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 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 3.7% 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 9/26/52 (100% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud thickness72% 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 236.66 to 249.84. 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 +1.4%
63 days +18.7%
126 days +6.3%
252 days +35.5%
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 In a squeeze
Current band width3.5% of price
Recent tightest3.2% (2 sessions ago, narrower than 99.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.08×
Band 247.46 — 256.30

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 4% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 99% 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 244.58–255.372026-07-032026-08-12
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

PNC: no binary-event flag. Near IV 26%, far IV 25% (ratio 1.04), implied move 3.2%.

Implied volatility 26% near (9d) · 25% far (65d)
Term structure 1.04× near/far
Historical volatility 12%
Implied vs historical 2.05× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±3.2% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 0.72×
Skew Put Skew (1.49×)
Call wall 270.00 (+5.7% away)
Put wall 240.00 (-6.0% away)
Gamma pin 270.00
  • Implied move 3.2% is 0.73x the ATR-expected 4.4% over 9d

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 3.2% 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 →

Early Stock Rotation

Rotation health 55.7/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 55.7
Rotation strength 79.8
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 89.8 114.4
Stock vs SPY Improving 82.4 124.4
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 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 100.0% (+22.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 19.0% (+12.7)
  • FCF margin improving by -18.9 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.004) (+2.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 18.8 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 17.8 and rising (+2.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.72 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 1.6% (+6.8)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 0.5% (+1.3)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 0.19 (+4.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 63.9, 5-day change +13.5 (+4.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.01 (+0.2)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 4.4% (+2.8)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.7% (+3.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 4.4% (+1.3)
  • Track 1: constructive pullback zone (+15.0)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.90 (+0.8)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.37x average)
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.10)
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.44)
  • ROIC improving by -0.0 pts (+-5.0)

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