SLS
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +594.8% · range 1.39–15.46
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 | -133.4 |
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.
What the company does
We are a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for a broad range of cancer indications. . Our product candidates currently include galinpepimut-S, or GPS, a peptide immunotherapy directed against the Wilms tumor 1, or WT1, antigen, and SLS009 (tambiciclib), a highly selective small molecule cyclin-dependent kinase 9, or CDK9, inhibitor. Galinpepimut-S: Highly Novel and Engineered Immunotherapy Targeting the WT1 Antigen Our lead product candidate, GPS, is a cancer immunotherapeutic agent licensed from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, or MSK, that targets the WT1 protein, which is present in 20 or more cancer types. Based on its mechanism of action as a directly immunizing agent, GPS has potential as a monotherapy or in combination with other immunotherapeutic agents to address a broad spectrum of hematologic, or blood, cancers, and solid tumor indications.
From the company's most recent annual report filed with the SEC, shown as filed — this is the company describing its own business, not a Brown Bear assessment. Read the filing.
Price vs Earnings growth
Trailing EPS is negative (-0.22) and forward EPS is not positive, so a growth percentage does not exist
Confidence 25.0/100
Drivers
| Trailing price return (1y) | +594.8% |
|---|
Figures
| Trailing EPS | -0.22 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | -0.10 |
| Forward P/E | -133.40 |
Takeaway Low data confidence (limited analyst coverage) — treat this section as informational only.
Valuation: dearer or cheaper than usual
Brown Bear holds too few quarterly filings for this company to measure a valuation range.
Dividends: what it pays you
SLS pays no dividend. Any return from owning it has to come from the share price. That is an ordinary choice rather than a fault — a company keeping its profit is reinvesting it, buying back shares, or holding it.
Debt levels
| Total debt | $0 |
|---|---|
| Cash & equivalents | $138.3M |
| Net debt | −$138.3M |
| Debt / equity | 0.00x |
From the balance sheet in the company's most recent SEC filing (as of 2018-12-31) — not scored or gauged. "Healthy" debt varies hugely by industry: a utility or a REIT normally carries far more leverage than a software company as a matter of course, so this is context to weigh against the rest of the page, not a pass/fail reading. Net debt is negative here — the company holds more cash than debt.
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | Fair Value Anchor |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 10.60 — 13.41 |
| Protective stop | 8.89 (Atr, 26.0% risk) |
| Support | 4.84 (2 touches, 175.9% away) |
| Resistance | 13.65 (2.4% away) |
Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 2.4% below 13.65, where sellers have turned up before, and 175.9% above 4.84, where buyers have stepped in before. 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 26.0% 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 cloud | Price INSIDE the cloud | periods 6/18/37 (71% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL (fresh up, 6d ago) |
| Cloud thickness | 51% percentile |
| Chikou span | Above price from 26 periods ago |
| Weekly cloud | Price 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 12.43 to 13.46. 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 | +33.3% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | +47.1% |
| 126 days | +164.2% |
| 252 days | +594.8% |
| Below 252d high | 13.7% |
Trend context
| Position | Far above trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Extended |
| Trend slope | Rising strongly |
| Direction of travel | Converging back to trend |
Takeaway Positive Kalman trend with moderate extension; constructive for momentum but watch entry risk.
Volatility
| State | No recent compression |
|---|---|
| Current band width | 39.1% of price |
| Recent tightest | 33.2% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 70.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.18× |
| Band | 10.42 — 15.49 |
Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 39% 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
| Activity | No filings in the window |
|---|---|
| Buy filings | 0 |
| Sell filings | 0 |
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
SLS: no binary-event flag. Near IV 142%, far IV 176% (ratio 0.81), implied move 19.7%.
| Implied volatility | 142% near (11d) · 176% far (137d) |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 0.81× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 103% |
| Implied vs historical | 1.38× |
| Implied move | ±19.7% by 2026-09-11 |
| Implied move vs ATR | 0.63× |
| Skew | Flat (0.95×) |
| Call wall | 30.00 (+124.9% away) |
| Put wall | 10.00 (-25.0% away) |
| Gamma pin | 5.00 |
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 19.7% in either direction by 2026-09-11.
Chain as at 2026-08-31. 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
Leadership Cooling
Rotation health 90.3/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.
| Rotation health | 90.3 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 66.9 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Leading | 112.1 | 103.8 |
| Stock vs SPY | Leading | 111.7 | 103.3 |
| Sector vs SPY | Leading | 103.2 | 104.6 |
Direction of travel: South-East / trend strong but momentum cooling
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)
- Relative Strength 7.8% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
- Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+10.0)
- Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
- Track 2: volume expansion 1.05x average (+0.3)
- Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+10.0)
- Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.38 (+20.0)
- Track 2: bullish DI spread 23.7 (+12.0)
- Track 2: ADX 56.5 and rising (+18.0)
- Track 2: relative momentum rank 1.00 (+15.0)
- Track 2: price above EMA20 by 1.3% (+1.1)
- Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 3.6% (+8.0)
- Track 2: VPT strength 0.03 (+0.6)
- Track 2: price above EMA50 by 11.8% (+9.5)
- Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 9.2% (+6.0)
- Track 2: Bollinger position 0.58 (+4.6)
Negative signals
- Track 2: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.29)
- Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 60.8, 5-day change -5.1
- 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.