BYD
Boyd Gaming Corporation Common StockConsumer Discretionary · ·
$84.12
▼ $0.20 (-0.2%)
Market Cap
$6.11B
Day Range
$83.96 - $85.30
52-Week Range
$76.33 - $91.41
Beta
—
Next Earnings
21.10.2026
BYD is a stock from the Consumer Cyclical sector — Retail, automotive, and leisure — demand rises and falls with economic sentiment and consumers' disposable income.
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Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
🔍 Cross-Check
Overall Score
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🔴 Bearish
Insiders
🔴 Bearish
✅ Why is the score relatively high?
- 🟢 Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 264.5%
- 🟢 Net income growth: 218.9%
- 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
- 🟢 Return on equity (ROE): 70.7% — strong
- 🟢 Net margin: 45.0% — strong
⚠️ What's concerning?
- 🔴 Estimated fair value: $58.29 vs. price $84.12 (-30.7%)
- 🔴 Current ratio: 0.54
- 🔴 Free cash flow growth: -30.2%
- 🔴 Price is below the 50-day average
- 🔴 Price is below the 200-day average
🚦 Quality & Risk Checks
📰 News Trend
Based on real financial news (Finnhub)Everyone's writing about Boyd Gaming Corporation Common Stock. News trend score: 68. Reason: 6 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 3 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
📈 Technical Analysis
Based on the last 251 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (0 bullish · 9 bearish · 2 neutral)
Conclusions
- 🔴Price vs. SMA 50 — Price is below the 50-day average
- 🔴Price vs. SMA 200 — Price is below the 200-day average
- 🔴MACD — MACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
- 🔴RSI — RSI 41.4 — weak/negative bias
- 🔴Stochastic — %K 8.2 — oversold
- 🟡ADX (trend strength) — ADX 12.8 — weak trend/choppy
- 🔴Relative strength vs. S&P 500 — -5.9% over the last 3 months relative to the index
- 🔴Bollinger Bands — Price is in the lower third of the Bollinger Bands (12%B) — weakness (chance of a recovery)
- 🔴ROC (rate of change) — ROC 12 days: -3.5%
- 🔴Parabolic SAR — Price is below the SAR point — downtrend
- 🟡CMF (money flow) — CMF 20 days: -0.02
Wyckoff Method Analysis
A market-structure read based purely on real price and volume data — not full classic Wyckoff schematic identification (Phase A-E), but a quantitative analysis of what can reliably be computed: trading ranges, "effort vs. result", volume within the range, and Spring/Upthrust detection.
The stock is in a trading range, but the picture isn't yet clear enough on the likely direction.
Low confidence
$81.35
Range Bottom
$91.41
Range Top
50
Trading Days in Range
Evidence Behind This Read
- 🟡Trading range identified — The stock is trading in a 12.4% range (between 81.35 and 91.41) over 50 trading days.
- 🟢Trading volume in the range is declining — Declining volume across the range suggests supply (in accumulation) or demand (in distribution) is being exhausted — usually a sign the range is nearing its end.
- 🔴Bar with buying-climax characteristics — On 2026-07-24: volume 2.2x the average with a spread 2.0x wider — this event may have opened the current range.
The Wyckoff Method, developed by Richard Wyckoff in the early 20th century, reads the balance of supply and demand through price and volume, based on the premise that large investors ("smart money") quietly accumulate shares before rallies and quietly distribute them before declines. The read here is based solely on real price and volume data — full, precise identification of classic Wyckoff patterns (such as Phases A-E) requires human chart-reading experience and judgment, so this is an approximate algorithmic read, not a substitute for professional analysis. This should not be considered investment advice.
🎯 Trade Planning (M.A.E.E Framework)
Based on a mechanical trading method: market structure → value zone → ATR-based exit point. Not investment advice — a calculation tool only.
1️⃣ Market Structure
🟡 Range
The price is oscillating around the 200-day average with no clear direction — the method recommends great caution here (buying at the bottom of the range / selling at the top) or avoiding trading altogether.
2️⃣ Value Zone
🟡 Price far from value zone
The price is currently far from the 50-day average — the method recommends waiting for a "pullback" before entering, rather than chasing prices.
💰 Financial Health
Profitability
Gross Margin
—
Operating Margin
18.3%
Net Margin
45.0%
EBITDA Margin
25.7%
Efficiency
ROE
70.7%
ROA
28.0%
ROIC
—
EPS
$22.56
Balance Sheet
Cash
$353.41M
Total Debt
$2.05B
Current Ratio
0.54
Debt/Equity
0.78
Conclusions
- 🟡Operating margin — Operating margin: 18.3% — reasonable
- 🟢Net margin — Net margin: 45.0% — strong
- 🟢Return on equity (ROE) — Return on equity (ROE): 70.7% — strong
- 🟢Return on assets (ROA) — Return on assets (ROA): 28.0% — strong
- 🔴Current ratio (liquidity) — Current ratio: 0.54
- 🟡Debt-to-equity — Debt/equity: 0.78
🚀 Growth
Revenue
Earnings per Share (EPS)
Net Income
Free Cash Flow (FCF)
Conclusions
- 🟡Revenue growth (last year) — Revenue growth (last year): 4.1%
- 🟢Earnings per share (EPS) growth — Earnings per share (EPS) growth: 264.5%
- 🔴Free cash flow growth — Free cash flow growth: -30.2%
- 🟢Net income growth — Net income growth: 218.9%
💵 Dividends
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
Annual Dividend per Share
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 15.6.2026 | $0.200 |
| 16.3.2026 | $0.200 |
| 15.12.2025 | $0.180 |
| 15.9.2025 | $0.180 |
| 16.6.2025 | $0.180 |
| 17.3.2025 | $0.180 |
| 16.12.2024 | $0.170 |
| 13.9.2024 | $0.170 |
| 14.6.2024 | $0.170 |
| 14.3.2024 | $0.170 |
| 21.12.2023 | $0.160 |
| 14.9.2023 | $0.160 |
💎 Fair Value (Valuation)
Current Price
$84.12
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
$58.29
Gap
-30.7%
🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value
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Year 1 Growth Rate
4.8%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.8% | $407.10M | $373.49M |
| 2 | 4.2% | $424.30M | $357.12M |
| 3 | 3.6% | $439.78M | $339.59M |
| 4 | 3.1% | $453.30M | $321.13M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $464.64M | $301.98M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$388.46M
Terminal Value
$7.33B
Present Value of Terminal Value
$4.76B
Enterprise Value
$6.46B
Net Debt
$1.69B
Equity Value
$4.76B
*The DCF model is an estimate based on assumptions — not a guaranteed forecast. You can change the assumptions to examine different scenarios.
Book Value per Share
$31.92
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$2.15
Conclusions
- 🔴DCF Fair Value — Estimated fair value: $58.29 vs. price $84.12 (-30.7%)
- 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV) — NAV per share: $2.15
- 🟢P/E — P/E: 3.7
🕴️ Insider Trading
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 8 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hirsberg Josh | Open Market Sale | 28.7.2026 | 422,969 | -12,777 | $89.76 |
| ROETH GEORGE C | Grant/Award from Employer | 22.7.2026 | 2,043 | +2,043 | — |
| Andersen Stacia J.P. | Grant/Award from Employer | 22.7.2026 | 2,043 | +2,043 | — |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.6.2026 | 1,642,506 | +30,351 | — |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Tax Withholding in Shares | 30.6.2026 | 1,611,683 | -30,823 | $88.33 |
| Clinton Uri | Open Market Sale | 9.6.2026 | 56,818 | -3,468 | $87.69 |
| SMITH KEITH | Open Market Sale | 3.6.2026 | 996,981 | -100,000 | $85.90 |
| SPADAFOR CHRISTINE J. | Open Market Sale | 13.5.2026 | 8,757 | -1,237 | $80.91 |
| WHETSELL PAUL W | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 25,358 | +2,347 | — |
| BOYD WILLIAM R | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 17,535 | +2,347 | — |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 1,612,155 | -2,347 | — |
| Bailey John Robert | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 29,858 | +2,347 | — |
| SPADAFOR CHRISTINE J. | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 9,994 | +2,347 | — |
| Thoman A. Randall | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 12,854 | +2,347 | — |
| Hartmeier Michael A. | Grant/Award from Employer | 7.5.2026 | 8,315 | +2,347 | — |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Open Market Sale | 5.5.2026 | 1,609,808 | -62,914 | $84.03 |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Open Market Sale | 1.5.2026 | 1,672,722 | -37,086 | $85.27 |
| Thompson Stephen S. | Open Market Sale | 27.2.2026 | 22,009 | -19,530 | $83.59 |
| Hirsberg Josh | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 26.2.2026 | 459,670 | +23,924 | $17.75 |
| Hirsberg Josh | Open Market Sale | 26.2.2026 | 435,746 | -23,924 | $85.86 |
| Hirsberg Josh | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 26.2.2026 | 0 | -23,924 | — |
| SMITH KEITH | Grant/Award from Employer | 23.2.2026 | 1,096,981 | +35,608 | — |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Grant/Award from Employer | 22.2.2026 | 1,713,332 | +8,953 | — |
| JOHNSON MARIANNE BOYD | Tax Withholding in Shares | 22.2.2026 | 1,709,808 | -3,524 | $86.20 |
| SMITH KEITH | Grant/Award from Employer | 22.2.2026 | 1,102,607 | +63,188 | — |
📉 Short Interest
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest
4,167,089 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 3,837,176 on 2026-06-30
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
Weekly Trend — Daily Short-Sale Activity
68.9% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 71.2% the prior week
Based on daily short-sale volume (Reg SHO) — a different metric from the open short interest above: this is daily trading volume, not an open position, so it updates weekly rather than biweekly.
📰 News & Sentiment
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 6 positive, 11 neutral, 3 negative out of the last 20 articles.
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