SONY
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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.
- Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -13.9
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -13.5% · range 19.32–30.26
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 | 20.3 |
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
Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +14.3pp
Confidence 95.0/100
Drivers
| Forward EPS growth | +0.8% |
|---|---|
| Trailing price return (1y) | -13.5% |
| Forward P/E compression | +0.8% |
Figures
| Trailing EPS | 1.18 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | 1.19 |
| Trailing P/E | 20.44 |
| Forward P/E | 20.27 |
Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | Current Price Reasonable |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 23.76 — 24.36 |
| Protective stop | 23.30 (Atr, 3.2% risk) |
| Support | 23.24 (2 touches, 3.8% away) |
| Resistance | — (— away) |
Takeaway The shares are about 3.8% above 23.24, 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 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 3.2% 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 cloud | Price ABOVE the cloud | periods 9/25/50 (97% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BEAR (fresh down cross, 0d ago) | cloud twist BULL |
| Cloud thickness | 86% percentile (thick — substantial structure) |
| Chikou span | Above price from 26 periods ago |
| Weekly cloud | Price 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 22.00 to 23.04. 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. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.
Trailing returns
| 21 days | +6.2% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | +10.3% |
| 126 days | +12.7% |
| 252 days | -14.2% |
| Below 252d high | 20.3% |
Trend context
| Position | Above trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Extended |
| Trend slope | Rising strongly |
| Direction of travel | Diverging from trend |
Takeaway Positive Kalman trend with moderate extension; constructive for momentum but watch entry risk.
Volatility
| State | In a squeeze |
|---|---|
| Current band width | 9.7% of price |
| Recent tightest | 9.4% (1 sessions ago, narrower than 91.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.03× |
| Band | 22.33 — 24.61 |
Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 10% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 91% 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.
Repair Pathway
- Nearest Trigger Positive 20-day momentum acceleration repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
- Trigger 2 EMA20 continuation hold already above Track 2 pathway: price is above a rising EMA20; sustained hold would support momentum continuation · Broadly stable
- Trigger 3 MACD histogram above zero 0.01 gap is broadly stable · Broadly stable
- Trigger 4 MACD bullish crossover secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
- Trigger 5 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑
Insider activity
| Activity | Insider selling |
|---|---|
| Buy filings | 0 |
| Sell filings | 5 |
| Shares sold | 598,227 |
| Value sold | $13.5m |
| Latest sell | 2026-08-17 |
| Filed | Insider | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 | Sold Tanaka KenjiSee Remarks | 20,000 | $476,600 |
| 2026-08-05 | Sold Stringer Robert AdrianSee Remarks | 445,000 | $10,008,050 |
| 2026-08-05 | Sold Stringer Robert AdrianSee Remarks | 100,547 | $2,261,302 |
| 2026-08-04 | Sold Ahuja RaviSee Remarks | 15,580 | $353,822 |
| 2026-08-04 | Sold Kodera TsuyoshiChief Digital Officer (CDO) | 17,100 | $388,512 |
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
SONY: no binary-event flag. Near IV 26%, far IV 32% (ratio 0.81), implied move 3.0%.
| Implied volatility | 26% near (8d) · 32% far (113d) |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 0.81× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 25% |
| Implied vs historical | 1.02× |
| Implied move | ±3.0% by 2026-09-04 |
| Implied move vs ATR | 0.81× |
| Skew | Put Skew (1.24×) |
| Call wall | 25.00 (+4.5% away) |
| Put wall | 22.50 (-6.0% away) |
| Gamma pin | 22.50 |
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 3.0% 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
Leadership Cooling
Rotation health 75.2/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.
| Rotation health | 75.2 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 67.4 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Improving | 100.0 | 111.2 |
| Stock vs SPY | Leading | 105.6 | 106.1 |
| Sector vs SPY | Weakening | 110.8 | 88.9 |
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)
- Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+9.5)
- Track 2: bullish DI spread 22.1 (+11.4)
- Track 2: ADX 44.9 and falling (+9.5)
- Track 2: price above EMA20 by 3.1% (+1.5)
- Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.8% (+2.7)
- Track 2: RSI trend quality 63.7, 5-day change +6.2 (+4.8)
- Track 2: VPT strength 0.04 (+1.0)
- Track 2: price above EMA50 by 7.2% (+3.4)
- Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 3.1% (+3.5)
- Track 2: Bollinger position 0.78 (+6.0)
Negative signals
- Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.6)
- Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-2.3)
- Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.69x average)
- Track 2: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.12)
- Weak relative momentum rank (0.18)
- 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.