SG

Sweetgreen ·Consumer Discretionary
6.75 live · 2026-08-27 14:58
28.9%
Brown Bear Score
16.0%
Business Conviction Score
51.4%
Position Health Score
14.7%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -25.1% · range 4.70–10.21

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 -9.8

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

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 851.5pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 6.75 — 6.92
Protective stop 6.34 (Structure, 7.2% risk)
Support 6.53 (3 touches, 4.8% away)
Resistance 7.17 (4.7% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 4.7% below 7.17, where sellers have turned up before, and 4.8% above 6.53, 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 7.2% 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 8/24/49 (94% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL (fresh up cross, 1d ago) | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness57% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW 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 6.61 to 7.25. 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 +7.7%
63 days -32.2%
126 days +16.9%
252 days -24.7%
Below 252d high32.9%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeRising strongly
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Price is near a rising Kalman fair trend, consistent with a healthy trend setup.

Volatility

State Expanding
Current band width34.1% of price
Recent tightest22.7% (6 sessions ago, narrower than 76.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.50×
Band 5.12 — 7.23

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 34% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityInsider selling
Buy filings0
Sell filings4
Shares sold36,281
Value sold$254.6k
Latest sell2026-08-17
FiledInsiderSharesValue
2026-08-17 Sold McConnell JamieChief Financial Officer 15,033 $93,355
2026-08-17 Sold Cochran Jason MilesChief Operating Officer 4,809 $29,864

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 Moderate

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway More shares change hands on the days this stock rises than on the days it falls. That is what you would expect to see if the rise is being driven by real buying rather than drifting up on a thin market.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

SG: no binary-event flag. Near IV 47%, far IV 81% (ratio 0.58), implied move 5.6%.

Implied volatility 47% near (8d) · 81% far (141d)
Term structure 0.58× near/far
Historical volatility 81%
Implied vs historical 0.58×
Implied move ±5.6% by 2026-09-04
Implied move vs ATR 0.37×
Skew Flat (1.12×)
Call wall 8.00 (+18.5% away)
Put wall 5.00 (-25.9% away)
Gamma pin 8.00

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 5.6% 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 →

Stock Leadership Confirmed

Rotation health 86.2/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 86.2
Rotation strength 81.7
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 124.8 110.3
Stock vs SPY Leading 124.8 108.7
Sector vs SPY Weakening 110.8 88.9

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 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 3.00 (+3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.000) (+1.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.20) (+2.9)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+8.7)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+2.9)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+9.5)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.36 (+30.2)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 12.2 (+7.6)
  • Track 2: ADX 22.3 and flat (+4.8)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 6.1% (+3.0)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 4.4% (+4.6)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 64.9, 5-day change +16.6 (+11.4)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.31 (+7.1)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 0.8% (+0.3)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.82 (+6.3)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: negative MACD regime (-3.7)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.47x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.09)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope deteriorating -2.0%
  • 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.