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Technology · ·
$3.18
▲ $0.25 (+8.5%)
Market data updated: 09/18 11:50 AM
Fundamentals updated: 09/18/2026
News analyzed: 09/18/2026
Market Cap
$37.78M
Day Range
$2.80 - $3.19
52-Week Range
$2.00 - $13.00
Beta
—
Next Earnings
12.11.2026
XBP is a stock from the Technology sector — Software, hardware, chip, and computing-services companies — revenue tied to the pace of innovation and upgrade cycles.
-68.2% (1Y)
Strengths: 14/29 factors positiveRisk: High
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
🟡 Mixed
Technical Trend
🟢 Bullish
Insiders
🔴 Bearish
Computed directly from the same signals behind the score above — not AI-generated.
Biggest positive driver
Free cash flow growth
Free cash flow growth: 539.1%
Growth
Biggest negative driver
Operating margin
Operating margin: -12.1% (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
53
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
55
Value
55
Momentum
79
Risk
32
Sentiment
38
Fundamental
36
Institutional
40
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This stock hasn't been analyzed by StockIQAI's movement engine yet — coverage is still expanding. Check back soon.
Recent media coverage of XBP Global Holdings, Inc. highlights its strategic expansion in AI-driven automation and government contracts. The company secured a major deal with British Airways to deploy its **Plexus® AI** for aircraft maintenance, emphasizing sovereign agentic AI for operational efficiency. Additionally, XBP Europe was named to the **UK Government’s G-Cloud 15 Framework**, reinforcing its presence in public sector cloud procurement. Financial reports also noted **record Q2 margins**, while the company was recognized as a **major player in the 2026 IDC Mailroom Solutions MarketScape**, underscoring its leadership in hyper-automation and digital transformation.
AI summary based on English-language news sources only — not investment advice.
Everyone's writing about XBP Global Holdings, Inc.. News trend score: 38. Reason: 4 of the last 14 articles are negative, versus 2 positive.
News trend analysis is based on article sentiment only, and is not investment advice or financial counsel. Read the full disclaimer
🌡️ Emotional Temperature
27
🎯 Conviction (vs. Emotion)
52
Psychology
46
Fundamentals
36
Technical
79
Valuation
55
The stock is moving in lockstep with its peers at the same intensity, rather than on its own data.
Price, volume, and sentiment accelerating together — a sign investors are chasing the price, not just following it.
The price rise has far outpaced the actual improvement in fundamental data.
A sharp drop, unusual volume, and negative news sentiment all at once — selling pressure that looks emotional.
Extreme momentum, price far above its moving average, and a large premium over fair value.
Price (3M)
+54%
Market Narrative
48
Fundamental Reality
52
Narrative Gap
-4
🔀 Weak-Conviction Rally
Price is moving, but not accompanied by a matching rise in news attention/sentiment.
🧠 StockIQ Psychologist
The market behavior suggests **herding** dominates, as XBP’s decline mirrors peer movements (-3.1% vs. -3.9%), reducing independent decision-making. FOMO and euphoria signals (momentum, volume, 200-day distance) imply lingering optimism, but overconfidence (price vs. EPS divergence) hints at potential mispricing. The narrow narrative-reality gap (-2) suggests no extreme disconnect, but the key question remains: *Will momentum sustain or correct as fundamentals lag?*
Updated: 09/07/2026, 04:26 PM
What could change this?
👥 What the crowd believes
"'Plexus® AI’ — Sovereign Agentic AI solution automates aircraft maintenance lifecycles, drives operational efficiencies"
"named a Major Player in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Mailroom Solutions and Services"
"XBP Europe Named to UK Government’s G-Cloud 15 Framework"
"Q2 2026 Earnings Call Highlights: Record Margins and AI-Driven"
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
Howard Marks (Market Cycle) — 87/100
🔴 Weakest match
Samuel Armstrong Nelson — 9/100
🗣️ Why do they disagree?
This stock’s starkly divided verdicts reflect deep methodological disagreements about risk, valuation, and market psychology. Benjamin Graham’s Defensive Investor and Jesse Livermore’s trend-following approach both score highly (73), suggesting the stock aligns with their core principles—one prioritizing undervaluation and the other momentum—but their frameworks diverge entirely in focus. Meanwhile, Howard Marks’ cycle analysis (69) and Charles Mackay’s absence of crowd mania (72) imply a measured, non-speculative opportunity, while Peter Lynch (29) and Samuel Nelson (13) dismiss it outright, seeing either no growth premium or an overbought cycle. The split between Graham’s Enterprising Investor (44) and his Defensive counterpart underscores how even the same investor’s stricter standards can flip a stock from ‘attractive’ to ‘pass.’
Howard Marks (Market Cycle)
Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟢 87
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
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)
🟢 85
No obvious signs of crowd mania
Key question
Am I being swept along with the crowd, or thinking for myself?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis (1934) / The Intelligent Investor (1949)
🟢 73
Attractive to a Defensive Graham Investor
Key question
Where is my margin of safety?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing (2011) / Mastering the Market Cycle (2018)
🟢 73
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
Morgan Housel
The Psychology of Money (2020)
🟡 63
Moderate — holdable, but not effortless
Key question
Could I live with this volatility long enough for compounding to actually work?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Edgar Lawrence Smith
Common Stocks as Long-Term Investments (1924)
🟡 58
Reasonable but not a clear long-term holding
Key question
Is this a stock I'd be happy to hold and forget about for a decade?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Philip Fisher
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958)
🟡 57
Solid, but not the exceptional quality Fisher looked for
Key question
How exceptional is this business, really?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 35%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Benjamin Graham (Enterprising Investor)
The Intelligent Investor (1949) — the Enterprising Investor chapters
🟡 44
Not statistically cheap enough for the Enterprising Investor's looser safety bar
Key question
Is the stock statistically cheap enough to justify the extra risk?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 40%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Jesse Livermore
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923) / How to Trade in Stocks (1940)
🟡 42
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
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards (1989)
🟡 38
No real setup here — the discipline Schwager's wizards shared would say stay out
Key question
What's the risk/reward here, and where is my exit point?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Burton Malkiel & John Bogle
A Random Walk Down Wall Street (1973) / The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (2007)
🟡 37
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
Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)
🔴 35
Pattern Veblen would flag as growth pursued for its own sake
Key question
Is management building real value, or just building itself?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 45%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Gerald M. Loeb
The Battle for Investment Survival (1935)
🔴 33
Risk profile Loeb would flag as a real threat to capital
Key question
How much capital could I lose here if I'm wrong?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Walter Bagehot
Lombard Street (1873)
🔴 31
Liquidity position Bagehot would flag as a real risk
Key question
Does this company have enough liquidity to survive real stress?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Peter Lynch
One Up on Wall Street (1989)
🔴 29
Doesn't clear Lynch's growth-at-a-reasonable-price bar
Key question
Is the growth worth the price?
⚠️ Partial data for this stock — score is less reliable — Data availability: 35%
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Samuel Armstrong Nelson
The ABC of Stock Speculation (1903)
🔴 9
Cycle looks stretched toward overbought
Key question
Is the price overextended, or is there still room to move?
Fact → Principle → Simulation
Based on the last 281 trading days, calculated from real price data. Click an indicator for details and a chart.
🟢 Most indicators support an uptrend (9 bullish · 2 bearish · 0 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 uptrend 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
21.6%
Operating Margin
-12.1%
Net Margin
-24.7%
EBITDA Margin
-6.3%
ROE
14.8%
ROA
-55.1%
ROIC
—
EPS
$0.41
Cash
$11.63M
Total Debt
$1.43B
Current Ratio
0.07
Debt/Equity
-0.99
How is Fair Value calculated? →
Current Price
$3.18
Estimated Fair Value (DCF)
-$36.69
Model estimate — not a price target. Highly sensitive to growth/discount-rate assumptions.
Gap
⚠️ Extreme
Model output is extreme — likely a data/model limitation for this stock, not a reliable fair-value read.
Year 1 Growth Rate
10.0%
Discount Rate (WACC)
9.0%
Terminal Growth Rate
2.5%
Projection Years
5
| Year | Growth Rate | Projected FCF | Present Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10.0% | $18.67M | $17.13M |
| 2 | 8.1% | $20.19M | $16.99M |
| 3 | 6.3% | $21.45M | $16.56M |
| 4 | 4.4% | $22.39M | $15.86M |
| 5 | 2.5% | $22.95M | $14.91M |
Base FCF (last actual year)
$16.97M
Terminal Value
$361.86M
Present Value of Terminal Value
$235.18M
Enterprise Value
$316.64M
Net Debt
$1.42B
Equity Value
$-1.11B
*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
-$48.29
Tangible Book Value per Share (Tangible NAV)
-$54.01
Sentiment based on basic keywords (not AI) — 2 positive, 8 neutral, 4 negative out of the last 14 articles.
GlobeNewswire · 3.9.2026
Yahoo · 3.9.2026
Yahoo · 26.8.2026
GlobeNewswire · 26.8.2026
Benzinga · 26.8.2026
GuruFocus.com · 14.8.2026
GlobeNewswire · 13.8.2026
GuruFocus.com · 12.8.2026
GlobeNewswire · 4.8.2026
Yahoo · 4.8.2026
GlobeNewswire · 30.7.2026
Yahoo · 30.7.2026
Benzinga · 27.7.2026
Benzinga · 27.7.2026
XBP Global Holdings, Inc. (XBP) currently has a StockIQ AI score of 53/100, rated "Moderate". The score is a weighted average across up to 7 categories (technical, fundamental, growth, fair value, news, quality, risk), based on real data only.
XBP currently scores 53/100 (Moderate) 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.
XBP's technical score is 79/100, which currently reads as bullish — 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: Free cash flow growth: 539.1%; Debt/equity: -0.99; Price is above the 50-day average.
Based on the real signals StockIQ computed: Operating margin: -12.1% (negative); Net margin: -24.7% (negative); ATR: 8.9% of price.
StockIQ has no recorded dividend payment history for XBP.
Real transactions by officers and insiders, as reported to the SEC on Form 4 — 2 purchases and 3 sales out of the last 25 filings.
| Name | Transaction Type | Date | Shares | Change | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klein Randal T | Open Market Purchase | 19.5.2026 | 25,000 | +25,000 | $2.44 |
| Klein Randal T | Open Market Purchase | 19.5.2026 | 40,000 | +25,000 | $2.44 |
| Jonovic Andrej | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.4.2026 | 50,000 | +50,000 | — |
| Robu Vitalie | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.4.2026 | 12,500 | +12,500 | — |
| Avramovic Dejan | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.4.2026 | 32,500 | +32,500 | — |
| Robu Vitalie | Tax Withholding in Shares | 30.4.2026 | 9,187 | -9,187 | $2.90 |
| Robu Vitalie | Tax Withholding in Shares | 30.4.2026 | 84,041 | -9,187 | $2.90 |
| Robu Vitalie | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.4.2026 | 96,541 | +12,500 | — |
| Avramovic Dejan | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.4.2026 | 85,235 | +32,500 | — |
| Jonovic Andrej | Grant/Award from Employer | 30.4.2026 | 213,200 | +50,000 | — |
| Avramovic Dejan | Tax Withholding in Shares | 13.2.2026 | 3,006 | -3,006 | $7.73 |
| Robu Vitalie | Tax Withholding in Shares | 13.2.2026 | 6,424 | -6,424 | $7.73 |
| Robu Vitalie | Tax Withholding in Shares | 13.2.2026 | 93,228 | -6,424 | $7.73 |
| Avramovic Dejan | Tax Withholding in Shares | 13.2.2026 | 52,735 | -3,006 | $7.73 |
| LUTNICK HOWARD W | Open Market Sale | 6.10.2025 | 6,064,404 | -6,064,404 | — |
| LUTNICK HOWARD W | Open Market Sale | 6.10.2025 | 385,000 | -385,000 | — |
| LUTNICK HOWARD W | Open Market Sale | 6.10.2025 | 0 | -385,000 | — |
| Srivastava Sanjay | Grant/Award from Employer | 24.9.2025 | 40,323 | +40,323 | — |
| CHADHA PAR | Grant/Award from Employer | 24.9.2025 | 53,763 | +53,763 | — |
| CHADHA PAR | Grant/Award from Employer | 24.9.2025 | 259,621 | +53,763 | — |
| Srivastava Sanjay | Grant/Award from Employer | 24.9.2025 | 246,181 | +40,323 | — |
| Pryor Robert | Grant/Award from Employer | 9.9.2025 | 205,858 | +205,858 | — |
| Paolillo Regina | Grant/Award from Employer | 9.9.2025 | 205,858 | +205,858 | — |
| CHADHA PAR | Grant/Award from Employer | 9.9.2025 | 205,858 | +205,858 | — |
| Srivastava Sanjay | Grant/Award from Employer | 9.9.2025 | 205,858 | +205,858 | — |
Official FINRA data — the number of shares open in short positions, plus daily short-sale activity.
29,454 shares short as of 2026-08-31 · vs. 13,119 on 2026-07-31
Official biweekly report (FINRA Rule 4560) — no real higher-frequency data exists for this metric.
36.8% of trading volume this week was short selling, vs. 42.6% 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