The five reads
At a glance the decision-relevant reads, first
GLOBAL TAPE
No overseas listings — LIN trades on its home exchange only.
Track record · free & ungated
We grade our price-band calls in public
Each forward price band is logged the day it's set and scored when it resolves — misses included. 5 bands have resolved so far — not yet enough for a hit-rate that would mean anything, so none is shown. This builds in the open, not behind the paywall.
13
bands logged
5
resolved so far
Building
status
The calibration ledger stays free, always — a track record can't sit behind a paywall.
Price action
Price & quote
Live quote refreshed every 15 minutes against the full daily snapshot.
The readHolding bidfact
Where the price sits inside today's range and its 52-week range, plus how it's performed over time. This is the raw quote — the same number everywhere, just faster.
◆ Golden cross◇ Broadening range50-day sits above the 200-day — bullish long-term structure.
Drag or arrow-key the chart for daily OHLCV · 126 sessions through Aug 10, 2026 · prev close $489.98 (dashed)
Open●
$489.29
Prev close●
$489.98
Volume●
1.88M
avg 2.32M
Rel. volume◐
0.81×
below normal
Market cap●
$227.81B
Shares out●
462.60M
float 461.02M
Day range
52-week range ◐
The QTick signal
QTick proprietary signal
A transparent point tally — bull evidence minus bear evidence — read over ~30 days. Faster factors time the swing; slower ones (quality, 13F, forensics) weigh in as longer-horizon context. A model-based prior, not advice.
~30-day swing read · graded vs S&Puncalibrated prior · track record buildingstrength is the tally magnitude, not a probability
+1
net · balanced
1 bull / 0 bear factors
Factor breakdown 8 factors · signed points sum to net +1●
Analyst moves90d—
Earnings4 quarters+1 pts
4 of last 4 quarters beat
Insider flow120d—
Estimate revisionsWeeks—
Sentiment1–30d—
Longer-horizon context weighs the read · not a 30-day timing call
Institutional (13F)Latest 13F—
Quality / valueTTM—
Filing forensicsLatest FY—
filing forensics — recurring "one-time" restructuring charges (demoted — settled NULL/wrong-signed, not scored (QTICK_FORMULA_AUDIT_2026_07.md))
Risk flagsDaily—
Net tally
+1
1 bull − 0 bear
Factors agreeing
1↑ 0↓
of 9 tracked
Read strength
balanced
30d horizon
Strongest factor
Earnings
+1 pts
Model
QTick Engine
LIN track record
Building
5 of 13 resolved
Forensic flags filing red flags · backtested edge where shown●
Revenue-timing languagerevenue-recognition timing language worth watching
Territory — competitor / supplier graph ●
AIQUFPeer+0.7%
SHWPeer-1.9%
ECLPeer-0.3%
APDCompetitor+1.6%
PTPIFPeer0.0%
+1 net
balanced
1 bull / 0 bear factors
Red-Flag X-Ray
Accounting quality · red-flag scan
One integrity score (0–100) from a set of accounting checks that look for red flags. Higher is safer — and we show the checks it passed, not just the ones it failed.
75
/ 100
Integrity score
B
0 critical · 2 watch · 2 clear of 4 scored tests
2 clear2 watch0 critical1 n/a
✓Clear
Bankruptcy distressZ 3.91●
Altman-Z in the Safe
–n/a
Earnings manipulationn/a●
Beneish-M not available
✓Clear
LeverageD/E 0.52●
debt-to-equity 0.52×
!Watch
Profitability qualityF 4/9●
Piotroski F-score 4 of 9
!Watch
Filing forensics1 flag(s)●
1 filing red flag(s) on the latest 10-K
How we test · 7 forensic testsA clear result ships as openly as a flag — and the tests that don't fire are published in full. No survivorship bias.
Share dilution / SBC creepFires when shares outstanding rise materially or stock-based comp outpaces buybacks.
Distress (Altman-Z, negative equity)Fires on balance-sheet fragility. For banks we substitute regulatory capital (CET1).
Margin trajectoryFires on multi-quarter gross / operating margin erosion.
Going-concern languageNLP scan of filings for material-doubt or going-concern wording.
Filing timelinessFires on late / NT (non-timely) filings and restatements.
Insider selling into strengthFires on discretionary insider sells during price strength; 10b5-1 plans down-weighted.
Analyst-downgrade momentumFires on clusters of net downgrades and target cuts.
Odds & pullback risk
Setup & odds
Which way the next move is more likely to go — and how overstretched the price looks right now.
The readSkews upsidewhere it sitsuncalibrated prior · not a forecast
How the likely upside compares with the downside, and how stretched the price is — odds, not timing.
Upside vs downside · 12m ◐
Upside 61.9%38.1% Downside
Expected move · 1wk◐±—
Upside target◐$494.35 +0.4% · level, not a call
Invalidation / stop◐$488.79 -0.7% · level, not a call
Reward : risk◐0.5 : 1
BullClose above $494 opens continuation.
BaseChop between stop and target into the next catalyst.
BearA break of $489 invalidates the setup.
Pullback risk · experimental ◐
LowElevatedHigh
Historically, large names in this tape state saw a ≥10% pullback within 63 trading days in 64% of cases (n=7,012).
1.02×the segment norm — 64% saw a ≥10% pullback within 63dn=7,012 · observational
Resolved up vs down · 63d◐58% up · 42% down same historical group as the pullback read · 7,012 cases · flat outcomes count on neither side — a historical rate, not a call
Conditioned on◐neutral · mid vol · pos momentum the past setups matched against this one
- 1.02× the large unconditional rate
- tape state: neutral
In detail
How to read the odds
This is a historical rate, and an experimental one: across 25 years, stocks in the same state — same segment, same price phase, same volatility, same momentum — pulled back this often. The record is built from today's list of companies, so names that delisted along the way are missing and each stock's current segment is projected backward; the rates lean toward survivors until that rebuild lands. Compare the multiple against the segment rather than the bare percentage — recent years run higher than the full 25-year record. None of it predicts timing.
The structure under the price ●
Support band●$481.74 – $490.00 -0.5% from spot · level, not a call
pivot low●$488.85 basis
s1●$488.79 basis
pivot low●$487.34 basis
~68%of bands like this held 21 days after a touch — about the same as any comparable support level. Structure, not a prediction.n=40,800 · observational
Bottom confirmation●2 of 6 signs in find-bottom score 16/100 — pinned to 0 until the checklist clears
Capitulation flush, then quiet●in
Selling volume dried up●not yet
A higher low printed●in
Back above the 20-day line●not yet
Momentum diverging up●not yet
Heaviest volume on an up day●not yet
85%of confirmed bottoming reads still saw a ≥10% drawdown inside the next quarter (25-year study) — confirmation marks a turn forming, not safety.n=1,203 · observational
Trend & technical structure
Trend & technicals
The price chart's vital signs, in plain English. Expand any row for what it actually means for you.
The readUptrend intactwhere it sitsmoving-average posture · fact
Moving averages describe the direction; RSI and the bands describe how stretched the move is. Neither predicts the next one.
Average prices (the trend)
Price vs 200-day●+4.1%
Momentum, bands & levels
In detail
The simple version
When price sits aboveits averages with momentum rising, the trend is healthy. When RSI is near the extremes or the price looks "stretched," the move is overdone and often takes a breather. Think of these as a weather report — conditions, not instructions.
Do these patterns even work?
Derived · what patterns actually did
Every charting site detects the pattern. We publish what happened next — the forward win-rate and sample size at each horizon, including the famous patterns that historically meant nothing.
The readForward win-rates, with sample sizewhere it sits
How often each chart pattern was actually followed by a gain, and how many past cases that's based on — including famous ones that didn't work.
Each bar is the win-rate — how often the price was higher that many days after the pattern appeared. The line marks 50%, a coin flip: green beats it, red is worse than chance. Every bar is a platform-wide cohort base rateacross every stock that has shown this pattern (cohort record, not this ticker's own history alone).
Pattern10-day21-day63-day
DowntrendBelow a coin flip
forward win-rate46.9%n=1,231,607
forward win-rate47.2%n=577,208
forward win-rate47.4%n=182,081
slope -0.07 over 40 bars
Tweezer bottomBelow a coin flip
forward win-rate44.5%n=335,342
forward win-rate45.6%n=157,285
forward win-rate47.0%n=49,662
matching lows
Head and shouldersBarely beats chance
forward win-rate49.4%n=487,217
forward win-rate50.6%n=229,190
forward win-rate51.4%n=72,812
head above two ≈-equal shoulders — bearish reversal
Falling wedgeBarely beats chance
forward win-rate49.5%n=420,241
forward win-rate50.1%n=197,840
forward win-rate50.4%n=62,771
falling & converging — bullish
Snapshot as of 2026-08-11
In detail
Why we show you the losers
Famous reversal signals like a bullish engulfing have historically closed higher less than half the time at short horizons — below a coin flip. We publish the win-rate and the sample size on every cohort, so a 42-case base rate never masquerades as an 8,500-case one. Objective base rates, not forecasts.
Momentum & performance
Momentum / performance
Trailing returns and relative strength versus the benchmark.
The readIn linewhere it sitsRS percentile vs market
How the stock has returned, and whether it's beating the market. A strong run shows recent leadership — leadership reverses without warning.
Trailing returns
Relative strength vs S&P 500
50.3
RS-rank
percentile vs market
percentile vs market
Relative strength line (β-adj)◐-4.90
In detail
What relative strength tells you
A rank of 50.3 means LIN has outpaced 50.3% of the market over the past year. That is what it has done, not a promise about what comes next — leadership can reverse without warning.
Risk profile
Risk
Volatility and sensitivity, regressed against SPY from adjusted bars — then the landmine check: what could actually go wrong here.
The readLow drawdown riskwhere it sitsvs the ADV-Q5 mega segment base rate · observational
Beta is how much it moves with the market; volatility and the worst drop show how rough the ride has been. Historical context, not a position-size rule.
0.6%6-month large-drawdown risk vs 9.3% for its segment
Beta · 1-year◐
0.11
less sensitive
Beta · 3-year◐
0.48
Realized vol · 30d◐
24.4%
annualized
Max drawdown · 1y●
-19.2%
The drawdown read · 6-month, segment-graded
Where it sits0.1×
LowHigh
vs the ADV-Q5 mega segment base rate · observational
0.6%6-month large-drawdown risk, vs 9.3% for its segment
Max drawdown, trailing year●-0.19 driver
Distance from 52-week high●-0.10 driver
Parkinson range volatility●0.18 driver
Log price (level)●6.20 driver
Observational 6-month large-drawdown risk ranking — not a forecast, not alpha. Historical distress rate for this ADV-Q5 mega segment: 9.3%. This name reads 0.1× that base rate.
Tape state & tail · nightly, adjusted bars
Neutral tape39/100
SettledKnifing
State: neutral — No dominant short-horizon pressure in the tape.
Selling pressure●52 elevated
−6.4%a 1-in-200 day for this name — 1.8× what a normal curve expects · fat tail
In detail
Reading risk
A beta of 0.11 means that, historically, a 1% move in the S&P has come with a ~0.11% move here. Realized vol ran 24% and the largest drawdown observed in the trailing year was 19% — both are what happened, not a bound on what can. The drawdown band above is observational — a risk sort against names of the same segment, blind to balance-sheet failures that never showed in the price.
Failure modes
Coverage
Data not available — failure modes are routed per company type, and only the bank and crypto-treasury rulebooks are validated so far (this name routes as growth)
How rates push this name
Derived · rates & regime
The 10-year yield is public. Its measured pull on this specific stock — and how it trades around the macro calendar — is the derived layer.
The readLIN reacts ~1.1× as strongly as the market to The Fed (FOMC).where it sitshow it moved when rates moved · extremes trimmed
How much this stock actually moves when interest rates move, and how it behaves around big economic releases.
Sensitivity to 10Y yield ●
Rates are a LIN reacts ~1.1× as strongly as the market to The Fed (FOMC). for this name
Observations●504 rolling window
Fit · r²●n/a
Measured across 504 daily moves against the 10-year Treasury yield (FRED DGS10). Where the company-level link is weak or the sample is short, we fall back to the sector average rather than print a number we don't trust.
Behaviour around the macro calendar ●
Latest print · 10-Year Treasury Yield (2026-08-07) read as a neutral for this name. 10-Year Treasury Yield moved cooler than trend, but this name shows no clear, measured reaction to it.
× = how much more this stock moves on each release day vs a normal day. Amber = outsized (≥1.4×). Context, not a directional call.
Volatility regime ◔
The volatility engine runs on market-wide risk channels, not on individual names, so there is no 1-year volatility percentile for this symbol. The realized-volatility and drawdown reads in the risk section are the per-name measures.
Valuation
Valuation
Is the stock cheap or expensive? Each multiple is graded and explained in plain English.
The readLeans expensivewhere it sitsagainst its own 5-year range where we have it · standard bands otherwise
Price against earnings, sales, book value and cash flow. We mark the measures that don't apply rather than fake them.
What you pay for earnings
P/E (trailing)●Price ÷ last 12 months of profit; graded vs own 5y history when covered31.6×Fair
Forward P/E●Price ÷ next year's expected profit25.1×Fair
PEG ratio◐Valuation set against expected growth — lower can look cheaper, but one cutoff is not a verdict4.46Rich
Earnings yield◔Profit as a % of price, like a bond yield3.16%Fair
Earnings yield − risk-free●Earnings yield minus the government-bond yield at the same date-1.50%Spread
Dividend yield●Annual indicated cash dividend as a % of price1.30%Income
What you pay for the business
Price / Sales●Price ÷ annual revenue; graded vs own 5y history when coveredn/an/a
Price / Book◔Price ÷ net assets on the booksn/an/a
EV / EBITDA◔Whole-company value ÷ operating cash earningsn/an/a
EV / FCF◔Whole-company value ÷ positive free cash flown/an/a
Price / FCF◔Price ÷ free cash flow generatedn/an/a
FCF yield◔Free cash flow as a % of market valuen/an/a
P/E vs own 5y●Five-year median 34.3×58th pctFair
P/S vs own 5y●Five-year median 6.0×100th pctn/a
EV/EBITDA and P/FCF need positive operating cash earnings to mean anything (and don't apply to banks, where leverage is the product) — so we mark them n/a rather than print a misleading number.
Peers today territory performance, for valuation context
AIQUFPeer+0.7%
SHWPeer-1.9%
ECLPeer-0.3%
APDCompetitor+1.6%
PTPIFPeer0.0%
Fundamentals
The business
Data not available.
Inventory ledger
The stockroom
Data not available.
Segments & geography
Where the revenue lives
Data not available.
Distance from insolvency
Derived · distance from default
Not the debt total — how far this company's asset value could fall before its debts get hard to cover, and how that distance ranks against its peers.
The read—where it sitspercentile vs solvency universe
How far the company sits from real financial distress, plus how it ranks against peers — more than a debt total tells you.
n/a
σ to default
n/amodel-implied probability of default ●
Filing-forensics flags
0/4
SafeGreyDistress
Model-implied, not a credit rating.It estimates how far the company's assets would have to fall before it couldn't cover its debts, using a standard model (Merton). Higher is safer. (risk-free rate n/a, one-year horizon, asset volatility from —)
Distance-to-default band ●
distress · 0cautionsafe8σ+
Debt-service capacity
Interest coverage●n/a operating income / absolute interest expense
Long-term debt / assets●25.9% as filed; distinct from Merton D/V
In detail
How to read these two ratios
The credit engine uses the same stored thresholds shown here: coverage at or below 1× cannot cover interest, while 8× or more is its comfortable band; long-term debt at 10% of assets or less is its light band, while 60% or more is its heavy band. Missing XBRL tags stay n/a.
Altman solvency ●
Altman Z-Score●3.9 Safe
In detail
Why a percentile, not a number
The absolute Z-Score is shown whenever its filing inputs exist. The cross-sectional percentile is a separate field and stays n/a until a current universe rank is on file.
Forensic accounting ●
CleanNo validated forensic-accounting flags fired for this snapshot.
Are your shares being diluted?
Derived · ownership erosion
Raw share count is everywhere. The consequence — how fast the count is growing and where that ranks against peers — is the read that matters.
The read—where it sitsdilution percentile vs peers
How fast the share count is changing versus peers, with stock compensation, issuance and repurchases shown separately when covered.
5-year share-count CAGR ●
The CAGR needs annual filings roughly five years apart that both carry a share count. This name's filing history on file does not span that window, so no rate is published — the buyback and stock-comp rows below are measured independently and still hold.
Most-dilutive percentile vs peers
Peer percentile●n/a not covered
Stock comp / revenue◔0.3% latest fiscal year
Stock comp / OCF◔operating cash flown/a not covered
Gross buyback yield●+2.00% TTM repurchases / market value
Net buyback yield●+1.99% TTM repurchases minus issuance / market value
Diluted / basic share gap●0.6% latest fiscal-year per-share overhang proxy
SBC trend◔flat up to five fiscal years
Shares outstanding · indexed 5y ●
Indexing needs an unbroken run of annual share counts across the same five-year window the CAGR uses. Where a year is missing — or the reported counts switch share class mid-series — the chart is withheld rather than drawn across the gap.
Analyst & estimates
The Street
Data not available.
How this name behaves into the print
Earnings habit
The street's consensus-surprise habit — whether estimates run conservative or aggressive against what the company reports, not management's own guidance — the beat streak graded against names with the same profile, and what the tape does on good news.
The readSerial beaterwhere it sitsvalidated base rates · graded out-of-time
Whether the street sandbags this name, how often a beat streak like this persists (with its sample size), and what the tape does with good news.
80%of names with this beat profile beat againn=33,668 · observational
Consensus habit · trailing 8 quarters
Consensus-surprise habit●not management guidancebeats most quarters, by thin margins n=8
Trailing beat rate●100% beat 7–8 of the last 8 · n=8
80%of names that beat 7–8 of the last 8 went on to beat again — 1.28× the segment average (cohort record since 2000, not this stock alone)n=33,668 · observational
survivor-tilted universe (currently-listed names; large-cap-skewed coverage)
What the tape does with it
50%of the time it beat the estimate but fell anywayn=12 · observational
0%of the time it missed the estimate but rose anywayn=12 · observational
Avg reaction on a beat●-0.4% n=3
undetermined — needs ≥4 measured beats
Earnings-day move · typical●— needs ≥8 measured prints
Implied vs realized move●— insufficient options history
In detail
How to read the habit
This is a historical rate: among companies with the same recent beat record, that share beat again. It was checked on later periods than the ones it learned from, and against the plain long-run average. It describes the group, not this specific report.
Ownership & positioning
Ownership
Who holds it, how options lean, and the most recent insider, congressional and 13F transactions.
The read—where it sitspositioning band · not a vote
Who owns it and what insiders and big funds are doing. Steady buying reads positive; heavy selling reads cautious.
Holders
Institutional●89.0%
Insider●0.2%
Institutional flow●—
Fund concentration●—
Activist stake●None on file
Insider & short
Insider 90d net●—
10b5-1 vs discretionary◔scheduledMostly programmatic
Short interest · %float◔1.4%
Short interest · 30d Δ◔—
Options positioning
Put/call · OI●—
Put/call · volume●—
Implied move●next exp.±—
IV skew (25Δ)●—
In detail
Reading the positioning
Institutional flow data unavailable.
Recent transactions Form 4 + congressional●
FilerSourceActionValueDate
Rep. Thomas H. KeanHouse · CongressBuy$1,001 - $15,00026 Mar
Rep. Thomas H. Kean, Jr.House · CongressBuy$1001-$1500018 Feb
Rep. Ro KhannaHouse · CongressBuy$1001-$1500006 Feb
Rep. Ro KhannaHouse · CongressBuy$1001-$1500005 Feb
Rep. Ro KhannaHouse · CongressSell$1001-$1500029 Jan
13F filers · last quarter ●
Institutional flow
Coverage
Data not available.
Options
Options pressure
Data not available.
Gamma map
Coverage
Data not available.
Peers & supply chain
Territory · peers & supply chain
The names in this stock's orbit — how each is trading today, and how they wire together as suppliers, customers and competitors.
The readMoving with groupfact
How nearby companies are trading. Moving with them is a sector story; breaking away is specific to this stock.
TickerRelationshipTodayRelative move
LINThis stock+0.51%
In detail
Moving with the group
LIN is tracking the group (peer avg +0.01% today) — this is a sector move, not a single-name one.
Supply map how the territory wires together●
competitorsupplier
Customer momentum
The customer chain
Data not available.
News & social
The story
Data not available.
What this name did from here
Time machine
Each look-back point: the price then, the move to today, and what was going on — earnings, corporate events, news flow.
The readHigher than a year agofact
The price at each look-back point and the move to today, with what was happening at the time — the per-ticker face of the track record.
Look-backs · vs the $492.46 close of 2026-08-10
3 months ago●$493.16 -0.1% to today
6 months ago●$460.51 +6.9% to today
1 year ago●$472.42 +4.2% to today
3 years ago●$382.32 +28.8% to today
history starts 2023-06-01
In detail
Why we show the rear-view mirror
Every number on this page gets graded by what happens next. The time machine is the same idea pointed backwards: the state of this name at each past date and the move that followed, for any symbol — not a curated highlight reel.
The risk case
The case against
What can break: how hard this name has fallen before, a sensible position cap, whether it behaves like a lottery ticket, how much cash it has left, how it drifts after earnings, whether the dividend holds, and what changed in the filings — plus a crowding read when its three inputs agree.
The readCoverage incompletewhere it sitsan experimental model estimate · the history-based reads below are graded separately
The case against the stock: how hard it has fallen before, how much cash it has left, how it behaves after earnings, whether the dividend holds, what changed in the filings, and how crowded the trade is.
Avoid score · v2.1 isotonic model · experimental
The nightly batch has not scored this name yet — the model needs universe-wide ranking features that are not computed on demand.
Terminal fate · the cohort's ledger
Cohort●mega 2016-2026
12m outcomes●for-cause below the power floor still listed 100.0% · n=71
24m outcomes●for-cause below the power floor still listed 99.9% · n=60
36m outcomes●for-cause below the power floor still listed 99.8% · n=56
In detail
Reading the fate ledger
Each row is what happened to every tracked name in this size cohort over that window — delisted for cause, acquired, or still listed — with the band around each rate. These are the cohort's historical frequencies, not probabilities for this name, and the acquisition arm is never an acquisition forecast.
Max defensible position size
4.0%max defensible size 3.9% - tail bindsn=29,742 · observational
Segment●large routing cohort
Vol tercile●low realized vol bucket
Momentum sign●pos trailing return direction
Half-Kelly●77.2% Kelly criterion / 2
Tail cap●3.9% VaR / CVaR limit
Cat cap●90.1% catastrophe-rate limit
Binding constraint●tail
Lottery profile
No lottery signal — trailing-21d max daily return is within the normal range for its cohort (large).
Cash runway
No fundamentals row on file for this name.
Post-earnings drift · reaction vs sigma
+3.21% spread63-trading-day post-earnings drift, graded by reaction magnitude (bucket: z<1)
Drift odds at full strength (+3.21% / 63-day spread reference from measured post-earnings drift).
Latest earnings reaction●+1.0% 2023-04-27
Daily sigma (21d)●1.54% baseline volatility used for z-score
Reaction size●z<1 first-day move ÷ its normal daily move
Strength of evidence●7.46 Newey–West t — how consistent the pattern is, not how many cases
In detail
How post-earnings drift works
After an earnings reaction, how far price keeps drifting over the next 63 trading days depends on how big the first move was. A jump more than four times the stock's normal daily move usually spends the effect — the market has already repriced it. Milder reactions historically kept drifting, by about 3.2 percentage points in our sample.
Dividend reliability · evidence incomplete
Dividend yield●1.29% profile value · percentage points
The calibration stores historical within-period yield-tercile cells but not the mapping for today's yield, so no cut or suspension probability is published.
Filing restatements
No material restatement on file in the trailing 2 years.
Calibration scorecard
Auditable track record
Every rating we publish is fingerprinted, tracked, and resolved in public. Here's how we've actually done.
13
calls logged
track record builds as calls resolve (5/8)
track record builds as calls resolve (5/8)