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Consumer Discretionary · ·
$11.62
▼ $0.50 (-4.1%)
Market data updated: 09/30 01:10 PM
Fundamentals updated: 09/30/2026
News analyzed: 09/30/2026
Market Cap
Not available
Day Range
$11.55 - $12.20
52-Week Range
$11.14 - $27.61
Beta
—
Next Earnings
04.11.2026
Support
$11.14
Resistance
$16.19
QXO is a stock from the Consumer Cyclical sector — Retail, automotive, and leisure — demand rises and falls with economic sentiment and consumers' disposable income.
-38.0% (1Y)
Strengths: 8/29 factors positiveRisk: Medium
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
Weighted: Technical 25% · Fundamental 20% · Growth 15% · Valuation 15% · News 10% · Quality 10% · Risk 5%
Overall Score
🔴 Bearish
Technical Trend
🔴 Bearish
Computed directly from the same signals behind the score above — not AI-generated.
Biggest positive driver
Revenue growth (last year)
Revenue growth (last year): 11925.0%
Growth
Biggest negative driver
Operating margin
Operating margin: -3.6% (negative)
Fundamental
What to watch next
When today echoes the past.
NO RELIABLE ECHO FOUND
Only 2 historical analog(s) found after removing overlapping dates — too few for a statistically meaningful comparison.
Historical matches considered: 2
TIME ECHO identifies historical situations that resemble the current market state. Historical outcomes are not guarantees of future performance. Similarity does not imply causation, and results may change as new data becomes available.
🗓️ What Changed This Week
🌱 Building History
We don't have a real data point from a week ago for this stock yet. The weekly comparison will appear once enough history has accumulated.
📊 Score History
43
Today
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30D
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90D
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1Y
🐂🐻 Investment Thesis
🐂 Bull Case
🐻 Bear Case
🔍 What Could Prove This Wrong
This isn't a price-direction forecast — just a synthesis of real, already-computed data, and future conditions that could change the picture.
🧬 STOCK DNA
This stock's profile across 8 real dimensions — a research tool, not a recommendation
Growth
46
Quality
47
Value
50
Momentum
34
Risk
46
Sentiment
62
Fundamental
36
Institutional
No data available
Stocks with a similar DNA right now
Not enough comparably-scored stocks yet to show similar matches.
This stock hasn't been analyzed by StockIQAI's movement engine yet — coverage is still expanding. Check back soon.
Recent media coverage of QXO, Inc. has centered on its strategic shifts and market perception. Analysts highlight its acquisitive approach for long-term growth despite risks like dilution and integration challenges, while Jim Cramer and DA Davidson have raised optimistic price targets ($24–$26) tied to potential rate cuts. The company recently appointed Ken West as President and COO, signaling leadership changes. However, concerns persist over earnings dilution and near-term volatility, with mixed views on its valuation as a potential bargain.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about QXO, Inc.. News trend score: 62. Reason: 7 of the last 20 articles are positive, versus 5 negative.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
15
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
75
Psychology
52
Fundamentals
36
Technical
34
Valuation
50
A significant decline over time, but on unusually low trading volume — holders unwilling to accept the loss.
The stock is moving in lockstep with its peers at the same intensity, rather than on its own data.
A sharp drop, unusual volume, and negative news sentiment all at once — selling pressure that looks emotional.
The price is holding at a real, documented historical support/resistance level (a 50-day high or low).
Price, volume, and sentiment accelerating together — a sign investors are chasing the price, not just following it.
Price (3M)
-30%
Market Narrative
42
Fundamental Reality
75
Narrative Gap
-33
🔀 Psychology Acceleration
News attention/sentiment is running well ahead of the price move itself.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The market’s dominant *Loss Aversion* (score 43) reflects a reluctance to crystallize losses after a 12% drop, despite subdued volume and neutral momentum. The *Anchoring* score (32) hints at traders fixating on the 3.4% support level, while low *FOMO* (5) and *Euphoria* (7) scores confirm no urgency or overoptimism. The key tension lies between the narrative gap (reality > narrative) and the psychological reluctance to act—traders may wait for clearer signals before committing. The open question: *Will the 3.4% support hold, or will the 12% decline reignite loss-avoidance selling?*
Updated: 09/09/2026, 07:16 AM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
"QXO (QXO) is rebuilding business models for greater value"
"per-share dilution remain unresolved concerns"
"QXO Names Ken West as Chief Operating Officer"
"QXO's near-term outlook remains challenging despite Q2 beat"
Signal classification confidence: High (confidence in the behavioral read, not a price prediction). Describes observable market behavior, not what any individual investor thinks, and is not a buy/sell signal.
🏛️ Investor DNA — Historical Investors
A Historical Strategy Simulation: assuming each investor follows their documented principles, how would they rate this stock today? This is not a prediction of what they would actually do.
🟢 Best match
Benjamin Graham — 100/100
🔴 Weakest match
Thorstein Veblen — 21/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
This stock sparks a sharp divide between value-focused and speculative methodologies. Benjamin Graham’s defensive and enterprising frameworks both rate it highly (100 and 88, respectively), praising its statistical discounts and liquidity—suggesting it meets core value criteria. Meanwhile, cycle-oriented thinkers like Howard Marks (74) and Samuel Armstrong Nelson (83) see it as favorably positioned, though Marks’ broader risk assessment (69) is more cautious. In contrast, growth-oriented investors like Philip Fisher (45) and Peter Lynch (45) dismiss it for lacking the signature quality or untapped upside, while efficient-market adherents (43) question its pickability. The extremes—Thorstein Veblen’s (21) skepticism of speculative growth and Jesse Livermore’s (14) outright trend opposition—highlight how the stock’s mixed momentum and valuation either align with contrarian value plays or clash with momentum-driven strategies.
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🟢 100
Attractive to a Defensive Graham Investor
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🟢 97
Strong liquidity — would likely survive a real credit squeeze
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟢 95
No obvious signs of crowd mania
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟢 93
Looks early-to-mid cycle, not overextended
Key question
Where are we in the cycle right now — near a hot extreme, or a cold one?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🟢 91
Deep statistical discount — a real Enterprising Investor candidate
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 45%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🟢 87
Cycle position looks favorable — closer to oversold than overbought
Key question
Is the price overextended, or is there still room to move?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟢 72
Risk appears reasonably priced — no obvious cycle-timing red flag
Key question
What is the market probably misunderstanding about the risk here?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟢 69
Looks like a real 'buy and hold for a decade' candidate
Key question
Is this a stock I'd be happy to hold and forget about for a decade?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🟡 53
No clear edge either way
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🟡 51
Moderate risk to capital
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🟡 47
Mixed case — the evidence for picking this stock over an index is not strong
Key question
Do I actually have an edge here, or do I just think I do?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🟡 45
Doesn't show the quality/growth signature Fisher required
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🟡 45
Mixed — growth exists but the price already reflects much of it
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🟡 40
Moderate — holdable, but not effortless
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🔴 25
Negative trend — against Livermore's core rule of trading with the trend
Key question
What is the price telling me right now?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🔴 21
Pattern Veblen would flag as growth pursued for its own sake
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Based on the last 289 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🔴 Most indicators support a downtrend (2 bullish · 7 bearish · 2 neutral)
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 clear downtrend with no defined trading range in the period examined.
Medium confidence
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.
Gross Margin
23.0%
Operating Margin
-3.6%
Net Margin
-4.1%
EBITDA Margin
-2.0%
ROE
-2.9%
ROA
-1.8%
ROIC
—
EPS
-$0.63
Cash
$2.36B
Total Debt
$3.06B
Current Ratio
3.58
Debt/Equity
0.31
Total dividend per share paid each year, over the last 5 years.
| Ex-Dividend Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 5.6.2024 | $26.184 |
| 4.6.2024 | $26.184 |
| 17.8.2023 | $1.600 |
| 16.8.2023 | $1.600 |
How is Fair Value calculated? →
Not enough cash-flow data to calculate a DCF model for this stock.
Book Value per Share
$15.83
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
$1.27
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 7 positive, 8 neutral, 5 negative out of the last 20 articles.
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QXO, Inc. (QXO) currently has a StockIQ AI score of 43/100, rated "Weak". The score is a weighted average across up to 7 categories (technical, fundamental, growth, fair value, news, quality, risk), based on real data only.
QXO currently scores 43/100 (Weak) across the categories we measure. StockIQ doesn't give buy/sell recommendations — use this as one data point in your own research, not as investment advice.
QXO's technical score is 34/100, which currently reads as bearish — based on real price/volume signals (moving averages, RSI, MACD, and more), not a prediction of what happens next.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Revenue growth (last year): 11925.0%; Debt/equity: 0.31; Current ratio: 3.58.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Operating margin: -3.6% (negative); Net margin: -4.1% (negative); Operating margin is eroding over time.
Yes — QXO has a real recorded dividend payment history on StockIQ. See the Dividends section on this page for the actual per-share amounts and dates.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 0 purchases and 0 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Kenneth J | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.9.2026 | 218,531 | +218,531 | — |
| West Kenneth J | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.9.2026 | 75,857 | +75,857 | — |
| West Kenneth J | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.9.2026 | 480,769 | +480,769 | — |
| OTERO MADELINE | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.7.2026 | 32,637 | +32,637 | — |
| Covington Alec C | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.7.2026 | 9,639 | +9,639 | — |
| OTERO MADELINE | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.7.2026 | 32,637 | +32,637 | — |
| Covington Alec C | Grant/Award from Employer | 15.7.2026 | 9,639 | +9,639 | — |
| Covington Alec C | Grant/Award from Employer | 1.7.2026 | 3,494 | +3,494 | — |
| Covington Alec C | Grant/Award from Employer | 1.7.2026 | 150,368 | +150,368 | — |
| Covington Alec C | Grant/Award from Employer | 1.7.2026 | 150,368 | +150,368 | — |
| Covington Alec C | Grant/Award from Employer | 1.7.2026 | 153,862 | +3,494 | — |
| Kissel Mary E. | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | +12,111 | — |
| Harik Mario A | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | -12,111 | — |
| Harik Mario A | Grant/Award from Employer | 5.5.2026 | 9,274 | +9,274 | — |
| Harik Mario A | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | +12,111 | — |
| Kushner Jared Corey | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | -12,111 | — |
| Landry Allison | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | -12,111 | — |
| Landry Allison | Grant/Award from Employer | 5.5.2026 | 9,274 | +9,274 | — |
| Colucci Marlene M | Grant/Award from Employer | 5.5.2026 | 9,274 | +9,274 | — |
| Colucci Marlene M | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | +12,111 | — |
| Aiken Jason W | Grant/Award from Employer | 5.5.2026 | 9,274 | +9,274 | — |
| Aiken Jason W | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | -12,111 | — |
| Aiken Jason W | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | +12,111 | — |
| Landry Allison | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | +12,111 | — |
| Colucci Marlene M | Exercise of Derivative Securities | 5.5.2026 | 12,111 | -12,111 | — |
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
108,660,843 shares short as of 2026-09-15 · vs. 105,412,224 on 2026-08-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
53.3% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 54.2% 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.
Full breakdown of every data type and its source: Data Sources · Methodology