TRGP

Targa Resources Corp. ·NYSE·Energy
268.72 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
27.3%
Brown Bear Score
49.4%
Business Conviction Score
22.2%
Position Health Score
25.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +59.9% · range 146.30–285.58

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 2.3%
OCF / assets 15.5%
FCF / revenue 23.0%
Gross margin 43.2%
ROIC 15.4%
Forward P/E 22.4

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

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 46.4pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-11-03 before the open · consensus EPS 2.82

Q2 23 revenue: 2.72bnQ2 23 net income: 329.30mQ2 23 EPS: 1.45Q3 23 revenue: 3.36bnQ3 23 net income: 220.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.98Q3 23Q4 23 revenue: 3.64bnQ4 23 net income: 299.60mQ4 23 EPS: 1.33Q1 24 revenue: 3.99bnQ1 24 net income: 275.20mQ1 24 EPS: 1.23Q1 24Q2 24 revenue: 3.05bnQ2 24 net income: 298.50mQ2 24 EPS: 1.35Q3 24 revenue: 3.85bnQ3 24 net income: 387.40mQ3 24 EPS: 1.76Q3 24Q4 24 revenue: 3.25bnQ4 24 net income: 350.90mQ4 24 EPS: 1.59Q1 25 revenue: 4.56bnQ1 25 net income: 270.50mQ1 25 EPS: 1.24Q1 25Q2 25 revenue: 4.26bnQ2 25 net income: 629.10mQ2 25 EPS: 2.90Q3 25 revenue: 4.15bnQ3 25 net income: 478.40mQ3 25 EPS: 2.21Q3 25Q4 25 revenue: 4.06bnQ4 25 net income: 545.00mQ4 25 EPS: 2.51Q1 26 revenue: 4.09bnQ1 26 net income: 479.60mQ1 26 EPS: 2.23Q1 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.98–2.90, 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 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 4.09bn -10.2% 479.60m 2.23 2.21 -13.7% 2026-05-07
2025-12-31 (derived) 4.06bn +24.8% 545.00m 2.51 2.53 +8.0% 2026-02-19
2025-09-30 4.15bn +7.8% 478.40m 2.21 2.20 +3.1% 2025-11-05
2025-06-30 4.26bn +39.8% 629.10m 2.90 2025-08-07

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.5%
On an ordinary two days ±1.6% — filings move it 2.1× as much
Direction 7 up, 4 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +20.0% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-03: price +5.0%Q1 23 revenue -22.2% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-04: price +0.7%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue -53.1% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-08-03: price +1.6%Q3 23 revenue -33.4% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-02: price +4.7%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +4.9% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-02: price -0.1%Q2 24 revenue +12.1% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-08-01: price -3.5%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +14.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-05: price +10.0%Q1 25 revenue +14.4% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price -5.3%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +39.8% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-08-07: price +1.3%Q3 25 revenue +7.8% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-11-05: price +9.9%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue -10.2% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-05-07: price -0.6%

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 2026-05-07 -10.2% -0.6% +6.2%
2025-09-30 2025-11-05 +7.8% +9.9% +4.1%
2025-06-30 2025-08-07 +39.8% +1.3% -4.6%
2025-03-31 2025-05-01 +14.4% -5.3% -4.3%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 215.5M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -1.5%
Change over 3 years -6.0%
Public float $37.01bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

History before 2016-12-31 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

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 264.64 — 271.36
Protective stop 256.01 (Structure, 4.5% risk)
Support 259.93 (2 touches, 3.4% away)
Resistance 270.28 (0.6% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 0.6% below 270.28, where sellers have turned up before, and 3.4% above 259.93, 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 4.5% 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 INSIDE the cloud | periods 5/14/28 (54% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness64% percentile
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 268.49 to 273.06. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -4.6%
63 days +5.3%
126 days +23.8%
252 days +61.7%
Below 252d high5.9%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width13.4% of price
Recent tightest10.6% (7 sessions ago, narrower than 52.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.27×
Band 252.92 — 289.37

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 13% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 256.87–283.122026-07-032026-08-12
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.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD histogram above zero 0.64 gap is improving · Improving
  2. Trigger 2 MACD bullish crossover line/signal spread gap is improving · Improving
  3. Trigger 3 RSI recovery above 45 +6.2 pts gap is improving · Improving rapidly
  4. Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Deteriorating
  5. Trigger 5 MACD repair streak continuation 3 improving bars MACD histogram has improved for 3 consecutive sessions · Improving

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 Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

TRGP: no binary-event flag. Near IV 48%, far IV 48% (ratio 1.01), implied move 6.0%.

Implied volatility 48% near (9d) · 48% far (65d)
Term structure 1.01× near/far
Historical volatility 34%
Implied vs historical 1.41×
Implied move ±6.0% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.69×
Skew Flat (1.07×)
Put wall 160.00 (-40.5% away)
Gamma pin 190.00

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 6.0% 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 →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 55.1/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 55.1
Rotation strength 55.3
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 86.9 114.1
Stock vs SPY Lagging 83.3 94.5
Sector vs SPY Weakening 101.7 90.8

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

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 (+10.0)
  • Altman Z-score 3.79 (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 43.2% (+8.5)
  • ROIC quality: 15.4% (+8.9)
  • FCF margin quality: 23.0% (+15.3)
  • Gross margin improving by 17.2 pts (+5.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.079) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 46.7 and rising (+10.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.88 (+4.8)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 0.2% (+7.9)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 1.66 (+10.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 38.8, 5-day change +7.6 (+6.1)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 0.6% (+0.4)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 0.6% (+4.5)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.43 (+4.5)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 1: weak MACD histogram (-0.64)
  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.44x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.09)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-26.1)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.7%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.02)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.4%

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.