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Watsco, Inc. ·

$326.71
-3.39 (-1.03%)
Aug 10, 2026 · 4:00 PM ET
Mkt cap$13.48B
P/E · fwd28.0 · 24.4
Div yield4.04%
Beta 1y1.17
Volume328.2K0.79× avg
52-wk range -28.8%301459
The five reads
At a glance the decision-relevant reads, first
GLOBAL TAPE
Overseas lean+0.65%
FrankfurtWC3-0.97%
ZurichWC30.00%
MéxicoWSO*+2.92%
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.

16
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 readUnder pressurefact

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 formingBroadening range50- and 200-day averages are converging — watch for a regime flip.
259.3302.7346.1389.5432.9Broadening rangeS · 323S · 319S · 314R · 332R · 337R · 341max pain 310
Drag or arrow-key the chart for daily OHLCV · 126 sessions through Aug 10, 2026 · prev close $330.10 (dashed)
Open
$329.77
Prev close
$330.10
Volume
328.2K
avg 414.5K
Rel. volume
0.79×
below normal
Market cap
$13.48B
Shares out
35.53M
float 35.58M
Day range
$324.47$333.29
52-week range
$300.66$459.00
-28.8% from high+8.7% above low

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
Price-factor lean cohort-relative · momentum + low-vol
Price-factor lean — not shown at this market cap (these factors carry no validated edge above small-cap).
Where this is validated: survivorship-free factor study (micro/small caps only), |t|>3.2. Cohort-relative ranking, not a price forecast or buy/sell advice. Calibration tracked live.
-3
net · leaning
1 bull / 2 bear factors
Factor breakdown 8 factors · signed points sum to net -3
Analyst moves90d-1 pts
2 price-target cut(s) in 90d
Earnings4 quarters-3 pts
latest EPS missed by 9%
Insider flow120d
Estimate revisionsWeeks
Sentiment1–30d+1 pts
7d sentiment elevated (83/100)
Longer-horizon context weighs the read · not a 30-day timing call
Institutional (13F)Latest 13F
1 institutional holder(s) added/opened last quarter (demoted — validated negative IC, not scored (QUANT_SIGNAL.md))
Quality / valueTTM
Filing forensicsLatest FY
Risk flagsDaily
Net tally
-3
1 bull − 4 bear
Factors agreeing
1↑ 2↓
of 9 tracked
Read strength
leaning
30d horizon
Strongest factor
Earnings
-3 pts
Model
QTick Engine
WSO track record
Building
5 of 16 resolved
Forensic flags filing red flags · backtested edge where shown
No filing red flags in the latest fiscal year.
Territory — competitor / supplier graph
GWWPeer+1.8%
FASTPeer+0.6%
FERGPeer+2.8%
WCCPeer+2.2%
WSO-BPeer+1.0%

Where the reads agree

Cross-category read

A decorrelated view across the categories already scored elsewhere on this page — where they agree, where they conflict, and how lopsided the split is. Not a new signal, a different angle on ones that already exist.

Category reads n=4 categories voting
Streetleans down
Eventleans down
Trendleans down
Riskleans up n=5
1 lean up, 3 lean down — modal read: bear.
Where they conflict
Risk leans up while Trend leans down.
Risk leans up while Event leans down.
Risk leans up while Street leans down.
1 of 4 weighted reads lean the other way — minority weight share 0%.
Named patterns
Tape is deteriorating with risk flags lit.partial descriptive — a pattern in the current reads, not a validated signal
Cheap, but low-quality and credit-stressed.partial descriptive — a pattern in the current reads, not a validated signal
High quality, solvent and trending.partial descriptive — a pattern in the current reads, not a validated signal
Trend, crowded short positioning and option fuel.partial descriptive — a pattern in the current reads, not a validated signal
Tape turning up while fundamentals/credit are still stressed.partial descriptive — a pattern in the current reads, not a validated signal
Trend that is heavily rate/macro-driven.partial descriptive — a pattern in the current reads, not a validated signal
In detail
A pattern, not a validated signal
This regroups categories the page already scores elsewhere into one cross-category view — it does not add a new tally. Descriptive only — a decorrelated read of where the evidence agrees and conflicts, not a forecast and not advice. Patterns are condition lists, not outcome predictions, and are not yet validated to the proof bar.
-3 net
leaning
1 bull / 2 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.

90
/ 100
Integrity score
A
0 critical · 1 watch · 4 clear of 5 scored tests
4 clear1 watch0 critical
Test battery
!
5 forensic tests · 4 passed clean · 1 flagged for watch
Clear
Bankruptcy distressZ 11.63
Altman-Z in the Safe
Clear
Earnings manipulationM -2.61
Likely clean
Clear
LeverageD/E 0.11
debt-to-equity 0.11×
!Watch
Profitability qualityF 5/9
Piotroski F-score 5 of 9
Clear
Filing forensics0 flag(s)
no filing red flags 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 53.7%46.1% Downside
Skew favours upside · base rate 50/50
Historically, names tripping 0 validated red flags finished lower 12 months later in 46% of cases (n=20,692) — a survivor-biased floor, not a forecast. · n=20,692
Expected move · 1wk±—
Upside target$331.84 +1.6% · level, not a call
Invalidation / stop$323.02 -1.1% · level, not a call
Reward : risk1.4 : 1
BullClose above $332 opens continuation.
BaseChop between stop and target into the next catalyst.
BearA break of $323 invalidates the setup.
Pullback risk · experimental
LowElevatedHigh
Historically, large names in this tape state saw a ≥10% pullback within 63 trading days in 78% of cases (n=5,188).
1.23×the segment norm — 78% saw a ≥10% pullback within 63dn=5,188 · observational
Resolved up vs down · 63d64% up · 36% down same historical group as the pullback read · 5,188 cases · flat outcomes count on neither side — a historical rate, not a call
Conditioned onneutral · high vol · neg momentum the past setups matched against this one
  • 1.23× the large unconditional rate
  • price is at the modeled bottom zone (2/6 bottoming checks met) — risk word capped at In line
  • 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$292.94 – $325.08 -0.5% from spot · level, not a call
s1$323.02 basis
pivot low$300.66 basis
low 52w$300.66 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 confirmation2 of 6 signs in find-bottom score 40/100 — pinned to 0 until the checklist clears
Capitulation flush, then quietin
Selling volume dried upnot yet
A higher low printedin
Back above the 20-day linenot yet
Momentum diverging upnot yet
Heaviest volume on an up daynot 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 readDowntrendwhere 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-12.5%
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.
Pattern outcomes · derived analysis

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 -0.24 over 40 bars
Bearish haramiBelow a coin flip
forward win-rate46.1%n=185,150
forward win-rate47.2%n=86,709
forward win-rate47.1%n=27,481
small body inside prior bullish
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 readLaggardwhere 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
1-month-17.0%
3-month-8.9%
6-month+8.8%
Year-to-date-12.9%
1-year+21.0%
12-1 momentum-5.5%
Relative strength vs S&P 500
19.5
RS-rank
percentile vs market
laggingleading
Relative strength line (β-adj)-26.73
In detail
What relative strength tells you
A rank of 19.5 means WSO has outpaced 19.5% 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.

6.5%6-month large-drawdown risk vs 9.3% for its segment
Low drawdown riskNames like this hit a large drawdown within 6 months at 0.7× the rate of the ADV-Q5 mega segment — observational, never a sell.
Beta · 1-year
1.17
more sensitive than market
Beta · 3-year
0.98
Realized vol · 30d
55.8%
annualized
Max drawdown · 1y
-31.7%
The drawdown read · 6-month, segment-graded
Where it sits0.7×
LowHigh
vs the ADV-Q5 mega segment base rate · observational
6.5%6-month large-drawdown risk, vs 9.3% for its segment
Max drawdown, trailing year-0.32 driver
Distance from 52-week high-0.28 driver
Parkinson range volatility0.33 driver
Log price (level)5.79 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 0.7× that base rate.
Tape state & tail · nightly, adjusted bars
Neutral tape43/100
SettledKnifing
State: neutral — No dominant short-horizon pressure in the tape.
Selling pressure63 elevated
−11.9%a 1-in-200 day for this name — 1.3× what a normal curve expects
In detail
Reading risk
A beta of 1.17 means that, historically, a 1% move in the S&P has come with a ~1.17% move here. Realized vol ran 56% and the largest drawdown observed in the trailing year was 32% — 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)

Macro sensitivity

Coverage
Data not available.

Valuation

Valuation

Is the stock cheap or expensive? Each multiple is graded and explained in plain English.

The readLeans cheapwhere 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 covered28.0×Fair
Forward P/EPrice ÷ next year's expected profit24.4×Fair
PEG ratioValuation set against expected growth — lower can look cheaper, but one cutoff is not a verdictn/an/a
Earnings yieldProfit as a % of price, like a bond yield3.57%Fair
Earnings yield − risk-freeEarnings yield minus the government-bond yield at the same date-1.26%Spread
Dividend yieldAnnual indicated cash dividend as a % of price4.04%Income
What you pay for the business
Price / SalesPrice ÷ annual revenue; graded vs own 5y history when covered1.9×Cheap
Price / BookPrice ÷ net assets on the books4.85×Fair
EV / EBITDAWhole-company value ÷ operating cash earnings18.4×Fair
EV / FCFWhole-company value ÷ positive free cash flow25.3×Fair
Price / FCFPrice ÷ free cash flow generated25.2×Fair
FCF yieldFree cash flow as a % of market value3.97%Fair
P/E vs own 5yFive-year median 29.5×40th pctFair
P/S vs own 5yFive-year median 2.0×27th pctCheap
Peers today territory performance, for valuation context
GWWPeer+1.8%
FASTPeer+0.6%
FERGPeer+2.8%
WCCPeer+2.2%
WSO-BPeer+1.0%

Fundamentals & quality

Fundamentals / quality

How good is the underlying business? Scale, profitability and balance-sheet strength, graded.

The readReturns exceed capital costwhere it sitsreturn on capital vs its estimated cost of funding

Scale, profitability and balance sheet, with industrial return on capital compared directly with its estimated funding cost.

Scale & growth
Revenue · TTMTotal sales over the last 12 months$7.24BScale
EPS · TTMProfit earned per share$11.27Profit
Net marginCents of profit kept per $1 of sales6.9%Weak
Revenue growthSales vs a year ago-5.0%Weak
EPS growthProfit-per-share vs a year ago-7.5%Weak
Margin trajectoryAre profit margins widening or shrinking?n/an/a
Returns & balance sheet
ROEProfit generated on shareholders' equity17.9%Strong
ROICAfter-tax operating profit earned on the capital the business uses20.4%Strong
WACCEstimated blended cost of debt and equity10.5%Hurdle
ROIC − WACCReturn on capital above or below its funding cost+9.9%Strong
Incremental ROIC · ~3yWhat the last three years of new investment has actually earned-19.3%Weak
Gross / Op marginProfitability before & after operating costs28% / 10%Weak
Free cash flowCash left after running & investing$535.06MStrong
Cash self-fundingSelf-funding on trailing free cash flow, or months of cash left at the current burnSelf-fundingCash
Debt / EquityGross borrowings vs equity — negative book equity is not gradeable0.17Strong
Current ratioCan it cover near-term bills? Over 1.5 is healthy4.12Strong
Total assets · YoYBalance-sheet growth — a fact, not a signal · grew faster than 36% of the measured cross-section · as of 2026-08-09-1.4%Fact
Last filed 2026-08-11

Inventory ledger

The stockroom
Data not available.

Segments & geography

Where the revenue lives
Data not available.
Credit & safety · derived analysis

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 readSolventwhere 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.

14.38
σ to default
0.00%model-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 )
Structural snapshot as of 2026-06-06
Distance-to-default band
distress · 0cautionsafe8σ+
Debt-service capacity
Interest coveragen/a operating income / absolute interest expense
Long-term debt / assetsn/a 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-Score11.6 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.
Dilution radar · derived analysis

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 readwhere 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
LeastMedianMost
0percentile100
Peer percentile55th above median
Stock comp / revenue0.5% latest fiscal year
Stock comp / OCFoperating cash flown/a not covered
Gross buyback yield+0.03% TTM repurchases / market value
Net buyback yield-0.09% TTM repurchases minus issuance / market value
Diluted / basic share gapn/a latest fiscal-year per-share overhang proxy
SBC trendflat 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

Analyst & estimates

Consensus, price targets, forward estimates, and the company's recent results versus consensus.

The readwhere it sitswhere Wall Street sits · not QTick

Targets matter less than which way estimates are heading and how often the company beats them.

Consensus rating
Hold
26 analysts · score n/a/5
Strong buy 7%Buy 14%Hold 71%Sell 7%Strong sell 0%
12-month price target
low $330.00now $326.71high $485.00
Mean target$382.00 (+16.9%)
Forward estimates & revisions
Forward EPS consensus
Revision breadth · 30d
Revision momentumCut 0.4% · 30d
Beat-rate · 8q
The consensus EPS level, the share of analysts raising, and the realised beat-rate all come from the same estimate capture, which does not cover this name. The rating, target band and street moves above are from a separate source and are current.
EPS surprise history
No reported-vs-estimate pairs on file for this name
Recent rating changes
Street moves · last 90 days
target $330DA Davidsonfirm credibility 39/10030 Jul
target $420Bairdfirm credibility 40/10028 Jul
target $405Morgan Stanleyfirm credibility 47/10010 Jul
target $385DA Davidsonfirm credibility 39/10016 Jun
Earnings bias · derived analysis

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 readMisses oftenwhere 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.

40%of names with this beat profile beat againn=17,552 · observational
Consensus habit · trailing 8 quarters
Consensus-surprise habitnot management guidanceconsensus runs high for this name — it usually falls short n=8
Trailing beat rate25% beat ≤2 of the last 8 · n=8
40%of names that beat ≤2 of the last 8 went on to beat again — 0.64× the segment average (cohort record since 2000, not this stock alone)n=17,552 · observational
survivor-tilted universe (currently-listed names; large-cap-skewed coverage)
What the tape does with it
25%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-1.7% n=3
Avg reaction on a miss-1.7% n=9
undetermined — needs ≥4 measured beats
Earnings-day move · typical±1.7% p90 ±1.7% · worst ±1.7% (2026-04-28) · n=12
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 readFunds reducingwhere 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
Institutional112.4%
Insider0.4%
Institutional flowFunds reducing
Fund concentration
Activist stakeNone on file
Insider & short
Insider 90d net
10b5-1 vs discretionaryscheduledMostly programmatic
Short interest · %float0.0%
Short interest · 30d Δ
Options positioning
Put/call · OI
Put/call · volume
Implied movenext exp.±6.0%
IV skew (25Δ)+6.8% put-skewed
In detail
Reading the positioning
Institutions have begun trimming. The options market shows put-skewed IV — leaning defensive.
Recent transactions Form 4 + congressional
FilerSourceActionValueDate
Rep. Valerie HoyleHouse · CongressSell$1,001 - $15,00023 Sep
Rep. Lisa McClainHouse · CongressSell$1,001 - $15,00013 Aug
Rep. Lisa McClainHouse · CongressBuy$1,001 - $15,00017 Jun
Rep. Keith SonderlingHouse · CongressSell$1,001 - $15,00028 Mar
Rep. Valerie HoyleHouse · CongressBuy$1,001 - $15,00029 Oct
13F filers · last quarter
Renaissance TechnologiesAdded+0.2M sh · $79M
Institutional flow · derived analysis

Conviction weighting, not a transaction list

Derived · who's actually buying

Insider buys are weighted by how senior the buyer is and whether several bought at once, alongside how fast big funds moved in or out quarter to quarter.

The readContinuing holders trimmingwhere it sitscontinuing holders only — excludes new and exited funds

Insider buys, weighted by how senior the buyer is and whether several buy at once — plus how fast big funds are moving in or out.

How strong the insider buying is
Clustered exec buys · n/an/a / 18.44
018.44
Intensity index — explicitly not a probability
Distinct exec buyers
n/a
Buy clusters · last 90d
90d agotoday
Fund holders · quarter on quarter
+55new fundsexited−117
Net registered funds -62 this quarter
Continuing holdersTrimming on balance funds that held through both quarters
In detail
Reading the flow
No clustered executive buying this window. Among funds that held the name through both quarters, more trimmed than added. Separately, the registered-holder count moved -62 quarter-over-quarter (55 new, 117 exited). The two count different populations, so they can point opposite ways. Conviction is intensity, not a forecast.

Options microstructure

Options microstructure

Computed over the stored full chain — where dealer hedging concentrates. Prices here are the chain snapshot's own, not the header quote.

The readHedging leans steadyingwhere it sitswhere options exposure sits

The busiest option strikes are where hedging is concentrated, which can slow or sharpen a move nearby. Context — not support and resistance.

Open-interest by strike · gamma walls
Puts OI (k)Calls OI (k)
0
470
0
0
460
0
0
450
0
0
440
0
0
430
0
0
420
0
0
410
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400
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390
0
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370
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360
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340
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330
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WALL0
310
0WALL
chain spot $359.47 max pain $310 (-13.8%)
Dealer regime & expected move
Gamma exposure (GEX)
Positive
long
Max pain$310.00 (-13.8%)
Put/call · OI
Call wall$310.00 resistance
Put wall$310.00 support
Expected move · session±2.6%
Expected move · week±5.9%
Gamma map · derived analysis

Where dealer hedging concentrates

Derived · dealer hedging · marquee

Open interest is free everywhere. What it does — whether dealer hedging dampens or amplifies a 1% move, and the strikes where that hedging concentrates — is the derived read.

The readHedging may steady moveswhere it sitswhere dealer hedging sits

Whether dealer hedging leans toward steadying the price or sharpening the next move, and the strikes where that hedging is concentrated.

Open-interest concentrations
Call-side concentration$320.00
Put-side concentration$330.00
Spot$359.47
The put-side concentration is not below the call-side one in this snapshot, so the two do not form an interval price can sit between. The strikes are shown as positioning references; no support / resistance reading is drawn from them.
Dealer regime
Long gamma — hedging can steady moves
Net dealer gamma+$322,346 per 1% move
ATM implied vol0.5%
Expected move · 1d±2.6%
Expected move · 1w±5.9%
OTM IV skew (25Δ)+6.8% put-skewed
In detail
Reading the gamma map
Dealers are long gamma, so their hedging leans against moves. The call- and put-side concentrations do not form an ordered interval in this snapshot, so no support or resistance level is read off them here. Net gamma of +$322,346 is the dollar hedging effect per 1% move — the consequence a raw chain never tells you.
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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 readLagging groupfact

How nearby companies are trading. Moving with them is a sector story; breaking away is specific to this stock.

TickerRelationshipTodayRelative move
WSOThis stock-1.03%
GWWPeer+1.76%
FASTPeer+0.60%
FERGPeer+2.76%
WCCPeer+2.24%
WSO-BPeer+0.96%
In detail
Lagging its peers
WSO is -2.7% behind the peer average (+1.66%). Divergence from the group is where the stock-specific signal lives.
Supply map how the territory wires together
No mapped supplier, customer or competitor links for WSO yet.

Customer momentum

The customer chain
Data not available.

News & market context

The Story · news & social

Coverage published around the move, with the crowd's mood shown next to each.

The readCrowd mixedfactread as contrarian context

What moved the stock, plus how bullish the crowd is — which tends to be loudest right at the turning points.

Latest headlines 00▼ of 45
News
WSO fell −1.03% since the last close, amid recent coverage: “Why Watsco (WSO) International Revenue Trends Deserve Your Attention” (Zacks).
Why it moved-1.03%·2026-08-11·source
Neutral
Is Softer International Revenue and Lower EPS Reshaping the Investment Case for Watsco (WSO)? - Yahoo Finance
NEWSYahoo Finance·3h ago
Neutral
Is Softer International Revenue and Lower EPS Reshaping the Investment Case for Watsco (WSO)?
NEWSSimply Wall St.·3h ago
Neutral
Why Watsco (WSO) International Revenue Trends Deserve Your Attention
NEWSZacks·Mon
Neutral
Why Watsco (WSO) International Revenue Trends Deserve Your Attention - finance.yahoo.com
NEWSfinance.yahoo.com·Mon
Headline tone
100/100 · 7-day
flat
Polarity of the headlines themselves, scored 0-100 with 50 neutral — a read on the coverage, not on the crowd.
Social sentiment
No Reddit or StockTwits posts on file for this name in the last 7 days.
Risk case · derived analysis

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
Of 1242 large names tracked 2016-2026, 0.2% were delisted for cause within 24 months and 3.0% were acquired — historical frequencies for the cohort, not a forecast for this name.
Cohortlarge 2016-2026
12m outcomesfor-cause 0.1% [0.0%–0.2%] acquired 1.6% [1.3%–1.8%] · still listed 98.0% · n=1321
24m outcomesfor-cause 0.2% [0.1%–0.4%] acquired 3.1% [2.5%–3.7%] · still listed 96.0% · n=1242
36m outcomesfor-cause 0.4% [0.1%–0.7%] acquired 4.5% [3.6%–5.4%] · still listed 94.0% · n=1182
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
3.3%max defensible size 3.2% - tail bindsn=15,197 · observational
Segmentlarge routing cohort
Vol tercilemid realized vol bucket
Momentum signneg trailing return direction
Half-Kelly53.5% Kelly criterion / 2
Tail cap3.2% VaR / CVaR limit
Cat cap90.1% catastrophe-rate limit
Binding constrainttail
Lottery profile
No lottery signal — trailing-21d max daily return is within the normal range for its cohort (large).
Cash runway · non-burner
Positive free cash flow — burner runway risk does not apply. Non-burner: catastrophe rate 6.1% (n=297414).
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-1.7% 2026-04-28
Daily sigma (21d)3.52% baseline volatility used for z-score
Reaction sizez<1 first-day move ÷ its normal daily move
Strength of evidence7.46 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 yield3.17% profile value · percentage points
FCF coverage1-2x free cash flow vs dividend
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 · trailing 2 years
Restatements on file2 latest: 2025-12-31
Filings here were later materially revised. Historically, flagged quarters restated at 34.0% vs 5.5% unflagged (6.2x).
34.0%restatement rate for flagged quarters — reference sample count not stored
Unflagged rate5.5% baseline for quarters without restatements
Relative rate6.2× flagged vs unflagged quarters
In detail
What a restatement means here
A restatement means a filing was later materially revised — not necessarily fraud, but a signal the original numbers were unreliable. Historically, quarters flagged here were restated at 34.0% vs 5.5% — 6.2× the unflagged rate.

Calibration scorecard

Auditable track record

Every rating we publish is fingerprinted, tracked, and resolved in public. Here's how we've actually done.

16
calls logged
track record builds as calls resolve (5/8)
Resolved
5
resolved, below the publication threshold
Open calls
11
tracked, unresolved
WSO track record
building
published once resolved
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