VICR
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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 -52.0
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +282.9% · range 48.46–379.78
The Businesswhat the company reports
Business & cash flow
| FCF / assets | 15.2% |
|---|---|
| OCF / assets | 17.8% |
| FCF / revenue | 30.8% |
| Gross margin | 56.6% |
| ROIC | 11.4% |
| Forward P/E | 35.5 |
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 204.9pp
Confidence 95.0/100
Drivers
| Forward EPS growth | +78.0% |
|---|---|
| Trailing price return (1y) | +282.9% |
| Forward P/E compression | +43.8% |
Figures
| Trailing EPS | 3.12 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | 5.55 |
| Trailing P/E | 63.21 |
| Forward P/E | 35.52 |
Revisions
Stable (+0.0%, 10 dates)
Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.
Reported earnings
Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.33–1.02, 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 | 112.97m | +20.2% | 20.66m | 0.44 | 0.44 | +19.8% | 2026-04-30 |
| 2025-12-31 (derived) | 107.26m | +11.5% | 46.53m | 1.02 | 1.01 | +126.6% | 2026-03-02 |
| 2025-09-30 | 110.42m | +18.5% | 28.29m | 0.63 | 0.63 | +341.2% | 2025-10-29 |
| 2025-06-30 | 96.05m | +11.9% | 41.19m | 0.91 | — | — | 2025-08-01 |
| 2025-03-31 | 93.97m | +12.0% | 2.54m | 0.06 | — | — | 2025-04-30 |
| 2024-12-31 (derived) | 96.17m | +3.8% | 10.25m | 0.23 | — | — | 2025-03-03 |
| 2024-09-30 | 93.17m | -13.6% | 11.55m | 0.26 | — | — | 2024-10-30 |
| 2024-06-30 | 85.85m | -19.6% | -1.20m | -0.03 | — | — | 2024-07-31 |
| 2024-03-31 | 83.87m | — | -14.47m | -0.33 | — | — | 2024-05-01 |
| 2023-12-31 (derived) | 92.65m | — | 8.67m | 0.19 | — | — | 2024-02-28 |
| 2023-09-30 | 107.84m | — | 16.58m | 0.37 | — | — | 2023-11-03 |
| 2023-06-30 | 106.75m | — | 17.10m | 0.38 | — | — | 2023-08-04 |
Share count
Diluted shares Return since the previous filing
| Direction | Growing — shares issued |
|---|---|
| Diluted shares | 47.3M as at 2026-03-31 |
| Change over 1 year | +3.9% |
| Change over 3 years | +5.2% |
| Public float | $1.02bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K) |
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | Fair Value Anchor |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 157.37 — 198.22 |
| Protective stop | 144.58 (Atr, 18.7% risk) |
| Support | 189.59 (2 touches, 4.0% away) |
| Resistance | 233.61 (18.4% away) |
Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 4.0% above 189.59, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 18.4% below 233.61, 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 18.7% 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 cloud | Price BELOW the cloud | periods 8/24/49 (93% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR |
| Cloud event | Fresh down breakout 5d ago |
| Cloud thickness | 100% percentile (thick — substantial structure) |
| Chikou span | Not clear of price from 26 periods ago |
| Weekly cloud | Price 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 227.71 to 280.69. 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. The band is unusually wide at the moment, so it marks a broad zone rather than a single level.
Trailing returns
| 21 days | +2.7% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | -43.0% |
| 126 days | +0.0% |
| 252 days | +289.0% |
| Below 252d high | 48.1% |
Trend context
| Position | Far above trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Extremely extended |
| Trend slope | Rising |
| Direction of travel | Converging back to trend |
Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.
Volatility
| State | In a squeeze |
|---|---|
| Current band width | 29.6% of price |
| Recent tightest | 24.1% (8 sessions ago, narrower than 99.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.23× |
| Band | 184.17 — 248.18 |
Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 30% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 99% 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
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
- Nearest Trigger MACD histogram acceleration turns positive repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating rapidly
- Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
- Trigger 3 MACD bullish crossover secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Deteriorating
- Trigger 4 Relative strength stabilisation state change relative momentum rank supports RS stabilisation · Broadly stable
- Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 1.10 gap is deteriorating · Deteriorating
Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑
Insider activity
| Activity | Insider selling |
|---|---|
| Buy filings | 0 |
| Sell filings | 68 |
| Shares sold | 51,042 |
| Value sold | $16.5m |
| Latest sell | 2026-08-17 |
| Filed | Insider | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 | Sold Lavie ZmiraDirector | 908 | $227,000 |
| 2026-08-17 | Sold ANDERSON SAMUEL JDirector | 2,073 | $523,640 |
| 2026-08-03 | Sold Davies Philip DCorp. VP-Global Sales & Mktg. | 200 | $40,011 |
| 2026-08-03 | Sold Davies Philip DCorp. VP-Global Sales & Mktg. | 100 | $20,162 |
| 2026-08-03 | Sold Davies Philip DCorp. VP-Global Sales & Mktg. | 100 | $20,391 |
| 2026-08-03 | Sold Davies Philip DCorp. VP-Global Sales & Mktg. | 200 | $41,284 |
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
VICR: no binary-event flag. Near IV 80%, far IV 96% (ratio 0.84), implied move 16.1%.
| Implied volatility | 80% near (23d) · 96% far (86d) |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 0.84× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 88% |
| Implied vs historical | 0.92× |
| Implied move | ±16.1% by 2026-09-18 |
| Implied move vs ATR | 0.50× |
| Skew | Flat (1.02×) |
| Call wall | 460.00 (+133.2% away) |
| Put wall | 125.00 (-36.6% away) |
| Gamma pin | 160.00 |
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 16.1% in either direction by 2026-09-18.
Chain as at 2026-08-26. 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
Mixed Rotation Phase
Rotation health 46.8/100; Mixed Rotation.
| Rotation health | 46.8 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 86.7 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Weakening | 108.4 | 85.2 |
| Stock vs SPY | Weakening | 108.4 | 85.2 |
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 7/9 (+20.0)
- Altman Z-score 76.43 (+10.0)
- Insider conviction score (+5.0)
- Gross margin quality: 56.6% (+13.4)
- ROIC quality: 11.4% (+5.4)
- FCF margin quality: 30.8% (+20.0)
- Gross margin improving by 5.4 pts (+4.0)
- ROIC improving by 8.2 pts (+5.0)
- FCF margin improving by 16.7 pts (+5.0)
- High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.027) (+2.0)
- Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.60 (+12.0)
- Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.99 (+5.0)
- Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 3.0% (+4.9)
- Track 1: Bollinger position 0.20 (+6.4)
Negative signals
- Underperforming sector over 20 days
- Track 1: weak MACD histogram (-1.10)
- Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.49x average)
- Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
- Track 1: bearish DI spread (-5.5)
- Track 1: weak/falling ADX (18.5, falling)
- Track 1: price below EMA20 by 9.0%
- Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -5.4%
- Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-6.33)
- Track 1: weak MACD line/signal structure (-8.0)
- Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 41.8, 5-day change -12.6
- Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.09)
- Track 1: price below EMA50 by 16.5%
- Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -4.4%
Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.