SMR

NuScale Power ·Utilities
9.65 live · 2026-08-27 14:56

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.

  • Reported free cash flow is far outside the range an operating business can show, indicating balance-sheet rather than operating flows

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.

  • Structural Score: displayed 0, underlying value -4.2
41.5% not comparable
Brown Bear Score
8.3% not comparable
Business Conviction Score
69.9%
Position Health Score
0.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -74.3% · range 7.59–53.43

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets -32.6%
OCF / assets -32.5%
FCF / revenue -1,460.1%
Gross margin 23.8%
ROIC -61.8%
Forward P/E -14.2

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

Trailing EPS is negative (-2.08) and forward EPS is not positive, so a growth percentage does not exist

Confidence 35.0/100

Takeaway Low data confidence (limited analyst coverage) — treat this section as informational only.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-04 · consensus EPS -0.24

Q2 22 revenue: 2.75mQ2 22 net income: -2.59mQ2 22 EPS: -0.06Q3 22 revenue: 3.17mQ3 22 net income: -10.71mQ3 22 EPS: -0.23Q3 22Q1 23 revenue: 5.50mQ1 23 net income: -10.96mQ1 23 EPS: -0.16Q2 23 revenue: 5.79mQ2 23 net income: -9.52mQ2 23 EPS: -0.13Q2 23Q3 23 revenue: 6.95mQ3 23 net income: -19.12mQ3 23 EPS: -0.26Q1 24 revenue: 1.38mQ1 24 net income: -16.57mQ1 24 EPS: -0.21Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 967.00kQ2 24 net income: -27.62mQ2 24 EPS: -0.31Q3 24 revenue: 475.00kQ3 24 net income: -17.46mQ3 24 EPS: -0.18Q3 24Q1 25 revenue: 13.38mQ1 25 net income: -14.01mQ1 25 EPS: -0.11Q2 25 revenue: 8.05mQ2 25 net income: -17.64mQ2 25 EPS: -0.13Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 8.24mQ3 25 net income: -273.32mQ3 25 EPS: -1.85Q1 26 revenue: 565.00kQ1 26 net income: -44.02mQ1 26 EPS: -0.14Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-1.85–-0.06, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q1 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. 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
2026-03-31 565.00k -95.8% -44.02m -0.14 -0.14 -8.8% 2026-05-07
2025-09-30 8.24m +1,635.2% -273.32m -1.85 -1.85 -1,197.3% 2025-11-06
2025-06-30 8.05m +732.9% -17.64m -0.13 2025-08-07
2025-03-31 13.38m +869.9% -14.01m -0.11 2025-05-12

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 9.13 — 9.36
Protective stop 7.51 (Atr, 18.8% risk)
Support 9.14 (3 touches, 1.4% away)
Resistance 10.08 (8.7% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.4% above 9.14, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 8.7% below 10.08, where sellers have turned up 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 18.8% 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 ABOVE the cloud | periods 8/22/44 (85% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BULL (fresh up, 1d ago)
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 1d ago
Cloud thickness18% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW 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 9.04 to 9.19. 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 point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days +12.8%
63 days -23.2%
126 days -29.7%
252 days -74.2%
Below 252d high82.7%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway The share price is close to 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. Neither is stretched far enough to stand out.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width17.9% of price
Recent tightest17.9% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 98.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 8.46 — 10.12

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 98% 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

02550751002026-06-212026-08-26
Position Health Business Conviction

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

ActivityInsider selling
Buy filings0
Sell filings3
Shares sold58,771
Value sold$555.7k
Latest sell2026-08-18
FiledInsiderSharesValue
2026-08-18 Sold Fujino ShinjiDirector 20,000 $177,160
2026-08-05 Sold Fisher Carl M.Chief Operating Officer 18,771 $175,734

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

SMR: no binary-event flag. Near IV 82%, far IV 91% (ratio 0.90), implied move 9.6%.

Implied volatility 82% near (8d) · 91% far (85d)
Term structure 0.90× near/far
Historical volatility 79%
Implied vs historical 1.03×
Implied move ±9.6% by 2026-09-04
Implied move vs ATR 0.48×
Skew Call Skew (0.91×)
Call wall 10.00 (+3.6% away)
Put wall 8.00 (-17.1% away)
Gamma pin 10.00

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 9.6% 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 →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 57.8/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 57.8
Rotation strength 59.1
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 108.7 86.9
Stock vs SPY Weakening 110.1 86.9
Sector vs SPY Improving 95.4 117.4

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

  • Altman Z-score 5.53 (+5.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 23.8% (+0.4)
  • FCF margin improving by -1166.7 pts (+-0.9)
  • Relative Strength 10.4% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+9.5)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+8.7)
  • Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+5.8)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+2.9)
  • Track 2: volume expansion 1.51x average (+11.3)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+9.5)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.46 (+30.2)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 6.4 (+2.9)
  • Track 2: ADX 28.3 and flat (+4.8)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 0.4% (+0.2)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 0.7% (+1.1)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.01 (+0.3)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.49 (+3.7)
  • Regime convergence: ICHIMOKU_CLOUD_REVERSAL confidence 62.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.4)

Negative signals

  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.00)
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 48.4, 5-day change -7.8
  • Track 2: price below EMA50 by 2.6%
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope deteriorating -1.1%
  • Weak Piotroski F-score (1/9)
  • Gross margin improving by -62.8 pts (+-0.9)
  • ROIC improving by -31.3 pts (+-1.8)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 0.0/100 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.