SW

Smurfit Westrock Plc ·NYSE·Materials
49.24 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
53.9%
Brown Bear Score
26.9%
Business Conviction Score
70.7%
Position Health Score
30.4%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +11.2% · range 32.79–51.84

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 2.7%
OCF / assets 7.5%
FCF / revenue 10.9%
Gross margin 18.2%
ROIC 4.7%
Forward P/E 14.6

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

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +246.9pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-27 · consensus EPS 0.68

Q3 23 revenue: 2.92bnQ3 23 net income: 229.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.88Q1 24 revenue: 2.93bnQ1 24 net income: 191.00mQ1 24 EPS: 0.73Q1 24Q3 24 revenue: 7.67bnQ3 24 net income: -150.00mQ3 24 EPS: -0.30Q1 25 revenue: 7.66bnQ1 25 net income: 384.00mQ1 25 EPS: 0.73Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 7.94bnQ2 25 net income: -28.00mQ2 25 EPS: -0.05Q3 25 revenue: 8.00bnQ3 25 net income: 246.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.47Q3 25Q1 26 revenue: 7.71bnQ1 26 net income: 65.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.12

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.30–0.88, own scale) Derived Q4

7 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 7.71bn +0.7% 65.00m 0.12 0.33 -18.5% 2026-05-01
2025-09-30 8.00bn +4.3% 246.00m 0.47 0.58 -20.2% 2025-11-07
2025-06-30 7.94bn -28.00m -0.05 2025-08-07
2025-03-31 7.66bn +161.3% 384.00m 0.73 2025-05-09

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±2.1%
On an ordinary two days ±1.8% — filings move it 1.2× as much
Direction 3 up, 4 down over 7 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 23 filed 2024-11-08: price -2.1%Q1 24 filed 2025-05-09: price +7.9%Q1 24Q3 24 revenue +163.2% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-08: price -2.1%Q1 25 revenue +161.3% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-09: price +7.9%Q1 25Q2 25 filed 2025-08-07: price +2.3%Q3 25 revenue +4.3% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-07: price -0.6%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +0.7% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-01: price -1.1%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-03-31 2026-05-01 +0.7% -1.1% +6.7%
2025-09-30 2025-11-07 +4.3% -0.6% -0.8%
2025-06-30 2025-08-07 +2.3% +6.3%
2025-03-31 2025-05-09 +161.3% +7.9% -5.2%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 526.0M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year +0.0%
Public float $22.37bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

History before 2024-09-30 is not shown. The share count jumps at that date by a ratio no ordinary issuance produces — a split whose factor is not in Brown Bear's split store — so earlier figures are on a different basis and cannot be compared with today's.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 43.47 — 49.50
Protective stop 42.55 (Structure, 8.5% risk)
Support 43.51 (2 touches, 13.2% away)
Resistance 52.29 (6.2% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 6.2% below 52.29, where sellers have turned up before, and 13.2% above 43.51, 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 8.5% 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 6/17/33 (64% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness3% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice 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 46.43 to 46.56. 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 +14.8%
63 days +21.4%
126 days +7.7%
252 days +13.4%
Below 252d high5.0%

Trend context

PositionAbove trend
ExtensionExtended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Positive Kalman trend with moderate extension; constructive for momentum but watch entry risk.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width20.2% of price
Recent tightest20.2% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 42.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 42.26 — 51.77

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 20% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 42.99–50.802026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

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

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

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

SW: no binary-event flag. Near IV 43%, far IV 33% (ratio 1.31), implied move 5.4%.

Implied volatility 43% near (9d) · 33% far (65d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.31× near/far
Historical volatility 57%
Implied vs historical 0.75×
Implied move ±5.4% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.46×
Skew Put Skew (1.75×)
Put wall 25.00 (-49.2% away)
Gamma pin 25.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 43% IV vs far 33% IV, ratio 1.31)

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 5.4% 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

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 66.6/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 66.6
Rotation strength 57.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 99.2 105.2
Stock vs SPY Leading 101.8 104.6
Sector vs SPY Leading 106.7 101.2

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

  • Piotroski F-score 6/9 (+8.0)
  • FCF margin quality: 10.9% (+3.3)
  • FCF margin improving by 3.9 pts (+1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.060) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.03 -> -0.06) (+2.0)
  • Relative Strength 6.7% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+10.0)
  • Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
  • Track 2: relative strength trend improving (+10.0)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.15 (+12.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 15.2 (+8.0)
  • Track 2: relative momentum rank 0.52 (+0.7)
  • Track 2: Hidden Bullish MACD divergence (+12.0)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 4.3% (+3.5)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.7% (+4.5)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 63.5, 5-day change +3.5 (+2.8)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.09 (+2.1)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 8.6% (+6.9)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 2.9% (+6.0)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.74 (+5.9)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.49x average)
  • Track 2: weak/falling ADX (22.4, falling)
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (2.50)
  • Gross margin improving by -1.7 pts (+-1.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 15.3/100 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.