STE
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -2.9% · range 199.40–268.65
The Businesswhat the company reports
Business & cash flow
| FCF / assets | 9.1% |
|---|---|
| OCF / assets | 12.5% |
| FCF / revenue | 22.6% |
| Gross margin | 44.4% |
| ROIC | 11.6% |
| Forward P/E | 19.3 |
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 (FY2026).
Price vs Earnings growth
Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +53.7pp
Confidence 95.0/100
Drivers
| Forward EPS growth | +50.8% |
|---|---|
| Trailing price return (1y) | -2.9% |
| Forward P/E compression | +33.7% |
Figures
| Trailing EPS | 8.12 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | 12.24 |
| Trailing P/E | 29.14 |
| Forward P/E | 19.33 |
Revisions
Stable (+0.2%, 10 dates)
Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.
Reported earnings
Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.01–2.23, 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 ending | Revenue | YoY | Net income | EPS (GAAP) | EPS reported | vs consensus | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 (derived) | 1.59bn | +7.3% | 220.10m | 2.23 | 2.83 | -1.6% | 2026-05-29 |
| 2025-12-31 | 1.50bn | +9.2% | 192.90m | 1.96 | 2.53 | -1.1% | 2026-02-06 |
| 2025-09-30 | 1.46bn | +9.9% | 191.90m | 1.94 | 2.47 | +4.0% | 2025-11-06 |
| 2025-06-30 | 1.39bn | +8.7% | 177.40m | 1.80 | — | — | 2025-08-07 |
| 2025-03-31 (derived) | 1.48bn | +32.6% | 145.67m | 1.47 | — | — | 2025-05-29 |
| 2024-12-31 | 1.37bn | -1.8% | 173.53m | 1.75 | — | — | 2025-02-07 |
| 2024-09-30 | 1.33bn | -1.0% | 150.03m | 1.51 | — | — | 2024-11-07 |
| 2024-06-30 | 1.28bn | -0.4% | 145.40m | 1.46 | — | — | 2024-08-08 |
| 2024-03-31 (derived) | 1.12bn | — | -1.38m | -0.01 | — | — | 2024-05-29 |
| 2023-12-31 | 1.40bn | — | 140.74m | 1.42 | — | — | 2024-02-08 |
| 2023-09-30 | 1.34bn | — | 115.32m | 1.16 | — | — | 2023-11-07 |
| 2023-06-30 | 1.28bn | — | 123.55m | 1.25 | — | — | 2023-08-08 |
Earnings response
| Typical move around a filing | ±2.4% |
|---|---|
| On an ordinary two days | ±1.2% — filings move it 2.0× as much |
| Direction | 6 up, 6 down over 12 filings |
Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing
| Quarter ending | Filed | Revenue YoY | Move around filing | Next 20 sessions vs SPY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-02-06 | +9.2% | +0.7% | -6.9% |
| 2025-09-30 | 2025-11-06 | +9.9% | +8.5% | -2.8% |
| 2025-06-30 | 2025-08-07 | +8.7% | +9.8% | +0.7% |
| 2024-12-31 | 2025-02-07 | -1.8% | -0.5% | +10.0% |
| 2024-09-30 | 2024-11-07 | -1.0% | -3.7% | -2.5% |
| 2024-06-30 | 2024-08-08 | -0.4% | +1.0% | +1.8% |
| 2023-12-31 | 2024-02-08 | +14.8% | -0.7% | +2.5% |
| 2023-09-30 | 2023-11-07 | +11.8% | -5.1% | -6.6% |
| 2023-06-30 | 2023-08-08 | +11.1% | +0.3% | -0.7% |
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-02-08 | +0.6% | -11.4% | -2.3% |
| 2022-09-30 | 2022-11-09 | +0.3% | +3.5% | +14.1% |
| 2022-06-30 | 2022-08-08 | +19.4% | -1.4% | +1.1% |
Share count
Diluted shares Return since the previous filing
| Direction | Flat — little net change |
|---|---|
| Diluted shares | 98.7M as at 2026-03-31 |
| Change over 1 year | -0.4% |
| Change over 3 years | -1.5% |
| Public float | $24.22bn as at 2025-09-30 (10-K) |
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | At Support Zone |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 224.77 — 231.58 |
| Protective stop | 212.35 (Atr, 6.9% risk) |
| Support | 227.04 (2 touches, 4.2% away) |
| Resistance | 254.43 (7.5% away) |
Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 4.2% above 227.04, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 7.5% below 254.43, where sellers have turned up 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 6.9% 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 5/15/31 (60% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL |
| Cloud thickness | 78% 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 above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 223.85 to 231.23. 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. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.
Trailing returns
| 21 days | +13.4% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | +12.2% |
| 126 days | -3.3% |
| 252 days | -2.1% |
| Below 252d high | 11.9% |
Trend context
| Position | At trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Normal |
| Trend slope | Flat |
| Direction of travel | Holding 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 | No recent compression |
|---|---|
| Current band width | 17.9% of price |
| Recent tightest | 13.5% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 20.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.33× |
| Band | 205.94 — 246.55 |
Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.
Historical trends
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
| 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 | Strong |
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
STE: no binary-event flag. Near IV 40%, far IV 26% (ratio 1.55), implied move 5.1%.
| Implied volatility | 40% near (9d) · 26% far (128d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 1.55× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 32% |
| Implied vs historical | 1.28× |
| Implied move | ±5.1% by 2026-08-21 |
| Implied move vs ATR | 0.63× |
| Skew | Put Skew (1.46×) |
| Call wall | 260.00 (+9.9% away) |
| Put wall | 140.00 (-40.8% away) |
| Gamma pin | 140.00 |
- Term structure inverted (near 40% IV vs far 26% IV, ratio 1.55)
Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs more for the next few weeks than for the next few months. Traders usually pay up like that when they know something is coming soon — results, a court ruling, a regulatory decision. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 5.1% in either direction by 2026-08-21.
Chain as at 2026-08-12. 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
Repair Attempt
Rotation health 58.5/100; Mixed Rotation.
| Rotation health | 58.5 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 64.9 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Weakening | 113.0 | 94.0 |
| Stock vs SPY | Weakening | 109.8 | 99.3 |
| Sector vs SPY | Improving | 86.4 | 102.1 |
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 7/9 (+10.0)
- Altman Z-score 8.33 (+6.0)
- Insider conviction score (+3.0)
- Gross margin quality: 44.4% (+2.4)
- ROIC quality: 11.6% (+1.9)
- FCF margin quality: 22.6% (+6.0)
- High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.052) (+2.0)
- Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.94) (+8.0)
- Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+15.0)
- Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
- Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+5.0)
- Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.09 (+8.0)
- Track 2: bullish DI spread 15.9 (+8.0)
- Track 2: ADX 30.5 and rising (+15.0)
- Track 2: Hidden Bullish MACD divergence (+12.0)
- Track 2: price above EMA20 by 3.6% (+3.0)
- Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 2.5% (+6.6)
- Track 2: VPT strength 0.87 (+12.0)
- Track 2: price above EMA50 by 6.8% (+5.4)
- Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 2.9% (+6.0)
- Track 2: Bollinger position 0.76 (+6.0)
- Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 60.0/100 (EMERGING) (+12.0)
Negative signals
- Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.68x average)
- Weak relative momentum rank (0.31)
- Track 2: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.67)
- Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 78.5, 5-day change +15.8
Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.