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PRKS

United Parks & Resorts Inc. Common Stock

Health Care · ·

$44.26

$1.80 (-3.9%)

Market Cap

$2.09B

Day Range

$43.72 - $45.50

52-Week Range

$28.77 - $56.95

Beta

Next Earnings

04.11.2026

PRKS is a stock from the Healthcare sectorPharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, and health insurance — less sensitive to economic cycles, but exposed to regulation and FDA approvals.

🏢 Similar Stocks in the Same Sector

-0.2% (1Y)

Investor Score
49/ 100D+
🟡 Moderate

This score and all analysis on this page are for informational and educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Read the full disclaimer

📈64C+Technical
💰52C-Fundamental
🚀26FGrowth
💎38FValuation
📰50C-News
🏦63C+Quality
⚠️40DRisk

Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%

🔍 Cross-Check

Overall Score

🟡 Mixed

Technical Trend

🟢 Bullish

Insiders

🔴 Bearish

✅ Why is the score relatively high?

  • 🟢 Operating margin is stable or improving over time
  • 🟢 Debt/equity: -5.12
  • 🟢 Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🟢 Price is above the 200-day average
  • 🟢 RSI 52.7 — healthy positive momentum

⚠️ What's concerning?

  • 🔴 Estimated fair value: $3.86 vs. price $44.26 (-91.3%)
  • 🔴 ATR: 5.0% of price
  • 🔴 Current ratio: 0.74
  • 🔴 Return on equity (ROE): -38.6% (negative)
  • 🔴 Revenue growth (last year): -3.6%

🚦 Quality & Risk Checks

🟢 Operating margin stability🟢 Conservative leverage🔴 Daily volatility (ATR)🟢 Leverage risk🔴 Liquidity risk

📰 News Trend

Based on real financial news (Finnhub)
🟡 Mixed

Everyone's writing about United Parks & Resorts Inc. Common Stock. News trend score: 50. Reason: The mix of positive and negative articles is balanced — 7 vs. 7 out of the last 20 articles.

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 an uptrend (6 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 neutral)

Conclusions

  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 50Price is above the 50-day average
  • 🟢Price vs. SMA 200Price is above the 200-day average
  • 🔴MACDMACD histogram is negative — falling momentum
  • 🟢RSIRSI 52.7 — healthy positive momentum
  • 🟡Stochastic%K 42.4 — neutral range
  • 🟡ADX (trend strength)ADX 16.0 — weak trend/choppy
  • 🟢Volume trendRising volume supports the price advance
  • 🟢Relative strength vs. S&P 500+29.8% over the last 3 months relative to the index
  • 🟢ROC (rate of change)ROC 12 days: 3.3%
  • 🔴Parabolic SARPrice is below the SAR point — downtrend
  • 🔴CMF (money flow)CMF 20 days: -0.05

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.

Markup

The stock is in a clear uptrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.

Low confidence

Evidence Behind This Read

  • 🟢Rising price trendA 23.2% change over the last 50 days, with no defined trading range.
  • 🔴Divergence between price and cumulative money flow (A/D Line)Price and the cumulative Accumulation/Distribution Line are moving in opposite directions — a classic Wyckoff sign that the move isn't backed by real money, and may be less stable than it looks.
  • 🟢Bar with selling-climax characteristicsOn 2026-07-27: volume 2.1x the average and a spread 1.5x wider, with a close suggesting counter-absorption.

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

🟢 Uptrend

The price is above the 200-day average — per the market-structure method, this environment mainly favors looking for buying (Long) opportunities.

2️⃣ Value Zone

🟢 Price in value zone

The price is close to the 50-day moving average — per the method, this is a reasonable area to look for an entry, rather than chasing the price far from it.

3️⃣ Suggested Exit Point (ATR-based)

Method formula: Stop-loss = support minusone ATR margin — this way the stop adapts to the stock's actual volatility, rather than an arbitrary number.

Entry

$46.06

Stop-Loss

$33.79

Risk per Share

$12.27

Direction

Long

Profit Targets by Risk/Reward Ratio (R)

1:2 R

$70.61

1:3 R

$82.88

1:5 R

$107.43

💰 Position Size Calculator

A core principle of the method: never risk a fixed dollar amount — risk a fixed percentage of equity, and let the position size vary according to the risk per share.

Suggested Position Size

8 sh.

💰 Financial Health

Profitability

Gross Margin

Operating Margin

22.0%

Net Margin

10.1%

EBITDA Margin

32.5%

Efficiency

ROE

-38.6%

ROA

6.4%

ROIC

EPS

$3.09

Balance Sheet

Cash

$99.76M

Total Debt

$2.23B

Current Ratio

0.74

Debt/Equity

-5.12

Conclusions

  • 🟢Operating marginOperating margin: 22.0% — strong
  • 🟡Net marginNet margin: 10.1% — reasonable
  • 🔴Return on equity (ROE)Return on equity (ROE): -38.6% (negative)
  • 🟡Return on assets (ROA)Return on assets (ROA): 6.4% — reasonable
  • 🔴Current ratio (liquidity)Current ratio: 0.74
  • 🟢Debt-to-equityDebt/equity: -5.12
  • 🟡Interest coverageInterest coverage: 2.7x

🚀 Growth

Revenue

Earnings per Share (EPS)

Net Income

Free Cash Flow (FCF)

Conclusions

  • 🔴Revenue growth (last year)Revenue growth (last year): -3.6%
  • 🔴Earnings per share (EPS) growthEarnings per share (EPS) growth: -19.3%
  • 🔴Free cash flow growthFree cash flow growth: -29.8%
  • 🔴Net income growthNet income growth: -26.0%

💎 Fair Value (Valuation)

Current Price

$44.26

Estimated Fair Value (DCF)

$3.86

Gap

-91.3%

🔴 Appears expensive relative to estimated value

Show all model (DCF) assumptions →

Year 1 Growth Rate

-1.3%

Discount Rate (WACC)

9.0%

Terminal Growth Rate

2.5%

Projection Years

5

YearGrowth RateProjected FCFPresent Value
1-1.3%$160.44M$147.19M
2-0.4%$159.85M$134.54M
30.6%$160.78M$124.15M
41.5%$163.26M$115.66M
52.5%$167.35M$108.76M

Base FCF (last actual year)

$162.60M

Terminal Value

$2.64B

Present Value of Terminal Value

$1.72B

Enterprise Value

$2.35B

Net Debt

$2.13B

Equity Value

$212.06M

*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

-$7.93

Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)

-$9.13

Conclusions

  • 🔴DCF Fair ValueEstimated fair value: $3.86 vs. price $44.26 (-91.3%)
  • 🟡Tangible Net Asset Value (NAV)NAV per share: -$9.13
  • 🟡P/EP/E: 15.1

🕴️ Insider Trading

Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 1 sales out of the last 25 filings.

NameTransaction TypeDateSharesChangePrice
Schaefer KimberlyGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202642,740+415
Gray WilliamGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202676,721+1,258
Lipman NathanielGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202620,316+207
Hill Path Capital Partners LPGrant/Award from Employer30.6.2026105,877+1,821
CHAMBERS JAMES P.Grant/Award from Employer30.6.202665,558+1,098
Hill Path Capital Partners Co-Investment S LPGrant/Award from Employer30.6.2026105,877+1,821
Narang Neha JoganiGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202657,376+830
Hartnett TimothyGrant/Award from Employer30.6.202681,378+1,821
MOLONEY THOMAS EGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202686,399+5,404$46.25
Schaefer KimberlyGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202642,325+5,404$46.25
Gray WilliamGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202675,463+5,404$46.25
Lipman NathanielGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202620,109+5,404$46.25
ROSS SCOTT IGrant/Award from Employer16.6.2026104,056+5,404
CHAMBERS JAMES P.Grant/Award from Employer16.6.202664,460+5,404
Hill Path Capital Partners S GP LLCGrant/Award from Employer16.6.2026104,056+5,404
Narang Neha JoganiGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202656,546+5,404$46.25
Hartnett TimothyGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202679,557+5,404$46.25
Maruyama YoshikazuGrant/Award from Employer16.6.202653,145+5,404$46.25
Forrester James W JrGrant/Award from Employer29.5.202627,883+1,245
Miller Kyle RobertGrant/Award from Employer29.5.202651,954+12,459
Finazzo Christopher L.Open Market Sale22.5.2026130,285-8,000$36.76
Swanson MarcGrant/Award from Employer29.4.2026391,092+983
Swanson MarcTax Withholding in Shares29.4.2026390,728-364$34.36
Connelly Kevin M.Grant/Award from Employer29.4.20265,029+151
Connelly Kevin M.Tax Withholding in Shares29.4.20264,923-45$34.36

📉 Short Interest

Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.

Monthly Trend — Open Short Interest

-7.0%

5,664,399 shares short as of 2026-07-15 · vs. 6,093,981 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

+5.7%

75.9% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 71.8% 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) — 7 positive, 6 neutral, 7 negative out of the last 20 articles.