SNAP

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5.45 live · 2026-08-27 14:54
55.1%
Brown Bear Score
20.2%
Business Conviction Score
78.4%
Position Health Score
4.8%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -22.8% · range 3.93–9.09

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 7.0

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

Trailing EPS is negative (-0.16), so a growth percentage does not exist — forward EPS of 0.78 implies a swing from loss to profit

Confidence 35.0/100

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

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 5.11 — 5.26
Protective stop 4.47 (Atr, 13.8% risk)
Support 5.16 (3 touches, 5.1% away)
Resistance 5.52 (1.9% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 1.9% below 5.52, where sellers have turned up before, and 5.1% above 5.16, 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 13.8% 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 7/19/39 (75% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 5d ago
Cloud thickness19% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice INSIDE 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 5.14 to 5.24. 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 +13.6%
63 days -7.8%
126 days +6.9%
252 days -22.6%
Below 252d high40.4%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeRising strongly
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

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

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width22.2% of price
Recent tightest22.2% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 57.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 4.70 — 5.87

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 22% 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 filings5
Shares sold407,872
Value sold$2.1m
Latest sell2026-08-19
FiledInsiderSharesValue
2026-08-19 Sold Briers Zachary MGeneral Counsel 67,540 $343,144
2026-08-17 Sold Mohan AjitChief Business Officer 54,608 $283,825

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

SNAP: no binary-event flag. Near IV 56%, far IV 63% (ratio 0.89), implied move 6.6%.

Implied volatility 56% near (8d) · 63% far (141d)
Term structure 0.89× near/far
Historical volatility 86%
Implied vs historical 0.65×
Implied move ±6.6% by 2026-09-04
Implied move vs ATR 0.43×
Skew Call Skew (0.78×)
Call wall 15.00 (+175.5% away)
Put wall 5.00 (-8.2% away)
Gamma pin 7.00

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 6.6% 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 →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 73.9/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 73.9
Rotation strength 58.1
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 108.4 91.9
Stock vs SPY Weakening 111.0 91.0
Sector vs SPY Leading 128.0 120.4

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

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 9.9% 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 1.55x average (+12.2)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+9.5)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.08 (+12.1)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 12.1 (+7.6)
  • Track 2: ADX 47.2 and flat (+14.3)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 3.0% (+1.4)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 2.8% (+4.4)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.02 (+0.5)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 5.5% (+2.6)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 2.3% (+3.2)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.61 (+4.7)
  • Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 60.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.0)

Negative signals

  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.10)
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 54.0, 5-day change -5.4
  • 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.