VICI

VICI Properties Inc. ·NYSE·Real Estate
26.07 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

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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 -4.1
28.6%
Brown Bear Score
52.3%
Business Conviction Score
24.0%
Position Health Score
6.8%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -20.7% · range 25.93–33.78

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

OCF / assets 5.4%
FCF / revenue 62.7%
Gross margin 99.3%
ROIC 8.0%
Forward P/E 8.7

This company does not report capital expenditure in the standard filing tag, so free cash flow cannot be derived and FCF/assets is not shown — common for asset managers, REITs, insurers and utilities. OCF/assets is shown instead, and it is the other measure Brown Bear's testing found to survive. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +36.1pp

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 2026-10-28 · consensus EPS 0.72

Q3 23 revenue: 904.32mQ3 23 net income: 556.33mQ3 23 EPS: 0.55Q4 23 revenue: 931.87mQ4 23 net income: 747.77mQ4 23 EPS: 0.74Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 951.48mQ1 24 net income: 590.02mQ1 24 EPS: 0.57Q2 24 revenue: 957.00mQ2 24 net income: 741.30mQ2 24 EPS: 0.71Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 964.67mQ3 24 net income: 732.90mQ3 24 EPS: 0.70Q4 24 revenue: 976.05mQ4 24 net income: 614.59mQ4 24 EPS: 0.59Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 984.20mQ1 25 net income: 543.61mQ1 25 EPS: 0.51Q2 25 revenue: 1.00bnQ2 25 net income: 865.08mQ2 25 EPS: 0.82Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 1.01bnQ3 25 net income: 762.04mQ3 25 EPS: 0.71Q4 25 revenue: 1.01bnQ4 25 net income: 604.77mQ4 25 EPS: 0.57Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 1.02bnQ1 26 net income: 872.39mQ1 26 EPS: 0.82Q2 26 revenue: 1.06bnQ2 26 net income: 526.52mQ2 26 EPS: 0.48Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.48–0.82, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 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
2026-06-30 1.06bn +5.7% 526.52m 0.48 0.48 -33.8% 2026-07-29
2026-03-31 1.02bn +3.5% 872.39m 0.82 0.82 +14.4% 2026-04-29
2025-12-31 (derived) 1.01bn +3.8% 604.77m 0.57 0.57 -18.3% 2026-02-25
2025-09-30 1.01bn +4.4% 762.04m 0.71 0.71 -0.3% 2025-10-30

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±2.1%
On an ordinary two days ±1.1% — filings move it 1.9× as much
Direction 4 up, 8 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +100.0% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-27: price +4.8%Q1 23 revenue +110.7% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-01: price -3.7%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +35.5% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-26: price -2.8%Q3 23 revenue +20.3% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-25: price -1.4%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +8.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-01: price +0.9%Q2 24 revenue +6.6% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-31: price -0.3%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +6.7% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-31: price -3.0%Q1 25 revenue +3.4% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-30: price -2.3%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +4.6% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-30: price -0.8%Q3 25 revenue +4.4% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-30: price +1.0%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +3.5% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-29: price +1.9%Q2 26 revenue +5.7% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-29: price -2.9%Q2 26

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
2026-06-30 2026-07-29 +5.7% -2.9%
2026-03-31 2026-04-29 +3.5% +1.9% -8.6%
2025-09-30 2025-10-30 +4.4% +1.0% -4.4%
2025-06-30 2025-07-30 +4.6% -0.8% +0.1%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Growing — shares issued
Diluted shares 1,090.2M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year +3.1%
Change over 3 years +8.2%
Public float $34.40bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 25.68 — 26.33
Protective stop 24.78 (Atr, 4.7% risk)
Support 26.03 (5 touches, 0.2% away)
Resistance 26.76 (2.6% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.2% above 26.03, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 2.6% below 26.76, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 5 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 4.7% 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 BELOW the cloud | periods 6/18/36 (68% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BULL (fresh up, 3d ago)
Cloud thickness3% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 26.73 to 26.76. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -0.8%
63 days -8.7%
126 days -10.9%
252 days -20.6%
Below 252d high22.8%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionOversold
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway The share price is close to the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is drifting down. The gap between the two has been widening. Being this far below trend describes how far it has already fallen. It does not mean a bounce is due.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width5.2% of price
Recent tightest4.2% (3 sessions ago, narrower than 94.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.22×
Band 25.90 — 27.27

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 5% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 94% 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.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 25.93–27.152026-07-032026-08-12
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 bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Deteriorating
  3. Trigger 3 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 MACD histogram above zero 0.04 gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 EMA20 reclaim +1.6% gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable

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

Binary-event risk flagged

VICI: binary-event risk suspected -- Term structure inverted (near 39% IV vs far 22% IV, ratio 1.80); Implied move 4.9% is 0.87x the ATR-expected 5.6% over 9d. Options market is pricing a discrete catalyst; technical breakout signals are unreliable until it resolves.

Implied volatility 39% near (9d) · 22% far (128d) — Term structure inverted — the market is pricing an event in the near window
Term structure 1.80× near/far
Historical volatility 22%
Implied vs historical 1.81× — Options are priced well above what the stock has actually done
Implied move ±4.9% by 2026-08-21 — Large relative to this stock's normal daily range
Implied move vs ATR 0.87×
Skew Put Skew (2.01×)
Call wall 27.50 (+5.5% away)
Put wall 25.00 (-4.1% away)
Gamma pin 25.00
  • Term structure inverted (near 39% IV vs far 22% IV, ratio 1.80)
  • Implied move 4.9% is 0.87x the ATR-expected 5.6% over 9d

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 4.9% in either direction by 2026-08-21. The overall shape suggests they expect a one-off result that lands either well or badly, rather than a gradual drift.

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 →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 28.3/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 28.3
Rotation strength 88.4
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 118.1 79.5
Stock vs SPY Lagging 91.9 84.2
Sector vs SPY Lagging 80.6 83.3

Direction of travel: South / momentum fading

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 4/9 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 4.89 (+8.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 99.3% (+22.0)
  • ROIC quality: 8.0% (+2.5)
  • FCF margin quality: 62.7% (+20.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio 0.006) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (0.01 -> 0.01) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (-0.04) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.05 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 46.2, 5-day change +9.0 (+7.2)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 3.0% (+2.5)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 8.0% (+1.4)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.13 (+7.0)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.64x average)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-3.8)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.12)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 1.6%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.6%
  • Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope deteriorating (-3.0)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.08)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 3.0%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -1.0%
  • Gross margin improving by -0.0 pts (+-3.0)

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