Balchem Corporation(BCPC)
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- 52-Week Range
- $139.17 – $183.90
- YTD
- +7.31%
- IV Rank (30D)
- 14.59
- Straddle Price
- $11.75
- P/C Vol Ratio
- 0.19
- Market Cap
- $5.3B
A blended fair-value estimate combining up to six valuation methods. Each method is weighted by how well it fits the company — DCF down-weights for unprofitable names; DDM only fires for steady dividend payers; comparables down-weight when peer multiples disagree.
- DCF (quality-aware) — projects free cash flow with a horizon that scales to business quality. True compounders (quality 6/6) get 10 years explicit + 10 years fade before terminal; cyclical/struggling names (quality 0-1) get a 5-year terminal cliff. Quality is scored from ROE, gross margin, growth, FCF margin, debt load, and FCF consistency — the same factors that drive market premium for compounders.
- Market-Implied Growth (in Model Inputs) — reverse-DCF that answers "what growth rate is the market pricing in?". Lets you sanity-check the deviation: if implied growth is plausible for the business, the model's bearish flag may be wrong; if implausible, the market may be over-extrapolating.
- DDM (Gordon Growth Dividend Model) — values the stream of future dividends. Only used when trailing yield ≥ 2% and dividend payments are stable — below that the dividend is a token payout and Gordon (which values only the dividend stream) systematically underprices growth names, so those route to DCF + comparables + market anchor instead.
- P/E, EV/EBITDA, P/B, P/S — applies the peer-group median multiple to this company's per-share metric. Peers come from the same set as the "Related symbols" card. Earnings/sales metrics are forward-tilted by the company's recent revenue growth (capped at 25%) so they're comparable to peers' growth-embedded multiples — mimics how analysts use NTM rather than TTM. Per-multiple weights are biased by company quality (e.g. P/B down-weighted for asset-light tech).
- Market Anchor (SMA50) — the 50-day moving average, weighted by recent trading-range stability (tighter Bollinger bands → higher weight). Captures information fundamentals miss (forward consensus, sentiment, supply/demand) — but only when recent trading is steady enough that the market has converged on a view. During wild breakouts or breakdowns the anchor's weight collapses.
- Options Expected (B-L 30d) — the risk-neutral expected stock price at 30-day options expiration, derived from the full implied-volatility surface via Breeden-Litzenberger (second derivative of call price wrt strike → implied PDF, then E[S_T]). Forward-looking, captures all options-implied information (smile, skew, term structure) in one number. Weighted by chain liquidity. SP500-only at present (pre-computed daily). Backtest evidence: adds modest alpha across most bucket × holding combos.
- Blended value — weighted average. Confidence reflects how many methods fired and how tight peer dispersion is.
- Deviation pill — green when blended FV ≥ 10% above current price (undervalued); red when ≥ 10% below; grey otherwise.
| 10-yr Treasury (rf) | 4.58% |
| Beta vs SPY | 1.00 |
| Cost of Equity (CAPM) | 10.08% (VRP-adj) |
| WACC | 9.26% |
| Volatility Risk Premium | +21.9pp (IV − HV30), ERP adj +50bps |
| Effective Tax Rate | 21.0% |
| Rev. Growth (YoY, DCF input) | +30.0% |
| DCF Horizon | 5 years explicit + fade |
| Forward Tilt (NTM/TTM) | ×1.10 (applied to P/E, EV/EBITDA, P/S) |
| Free Cash Flow (TTM) | $0.2B |
| Return on Equity (TTM) | 12.3% |
| Book / Price | 14.6% |
| Gross Margin (TTM) | 24.9% |
| FCF Margin (TTM) | 3.2% |
| Debt / Equity | 1.13 |
| Quality Score | 1/6 — cyclical/struggling (5y DCF) |
| SMA 50 | $162.81 (Market Anchor value) |
| SMA 20 / Bollinger Mid | $166.34 |
| Bollinger Width / SMA20 | 4.3% (drives anchor stability) |
| Net Debt | $1.5B |
| Market Cap | $11B |
| Method | Implied Price | Weight | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| DCF | $96.72 | 26% | |
| DDM (Gordon) | $19.84 | 0% | |
| Peer P/E | n/a | 0% | median 32.5× · 6 peers |
| Peer EV/EBITDA | $177.05 | 8% | median 19.7× · 7 peers |
| Peer P/B | $66.18 | 8% | median 2.7× · 8 peers |
| Peer P/S | $166.94 | 8% | median 1.8× · 8 peers |
| Market Anchor (SMA50) | $162.81 | 51% | stability 100% (BB-width) |
| Options Expected (B-L 30d) | n/a | 0% |
- Industry (SIC)
- CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS (2800)
- Exchange
- XNAS
- Market Cap
- $5.3B
Balchem Corp is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for various industries. The company's reportable segments are; Human Nutrition and Health, which generates maximum revenue, and provides human-grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications; Animal Nutrition and Health, which provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the essential nutrient choline chloride; and the Specialty Products …
Each spoke is this symbol's rank within its sector (0–100; the dotted ring marks the sector median at 50). Higher is more constructive for a long. One spoke — News sentiment — is an absolute reading, not a sector rank. Grayed spokes have no data. A fuller shape is a summary, not a recommendation.
| Month | Avg Return | Years of Data |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | -4.24% | 20 |
| Feb | +1.66% | 20 |
| Mar | +4.28% | 20 |
| Apr | -0.36% | 20 |
| May | +1.48% | 20 |
| Jun | +1.19% | 20 |
| Jul | +2.49% | 20 |
| Aug | +1.82% | 19 |
| Sep | +2.74% | 19 |
| Oct | +1.65% | 19 |
| Nov | +3.14% | 19 |
| Dec | +0.39% | 20 |
Quick-reference for reading the values below. Indicators combine to confirm a view — no single one is a trade signal on its own.
- SMA 20 / 50 / 200 — price above = uptrend, below = downtrend. SMA 50 crossing SMA 200 is the golden/death cross.
- EMA 12 / 26 — faster-reacting averages; 12 above 26 is short-term bullish.
- MACD — bullish when MACD > signal (green badge), bearish when below. Divergence from price often precedes reversals.
- ADX (14) — trend strength regardless of direction. <20 range, 20–25 weak trend, 25–50 trend, >50 strong trend.
- +DI / −DI — +DI > −DI favors bulls; the reverse favors bears. Read alongside ADX.
- RSI (14) — <30 oversold, >70 overbought. 40–60 is neutral; trending names can stay extreme.
- Stochastic %K / %D — <20 oversold, >80 overbought. %K crossing %D is an early momentum signal.
- Williams %R — inverted scale: <−80 oversold, >−20 overbought.
Oscillators work best in range-bound markets; in strong trends they give premature reversal signals.
- Bollinger Bands — price at upper band = overbought, lower = oversold. Narrow bands (squeeze) often precede expansion.
- OBV — cumulative volume; rising OBV confirms uptrend, falling OBV confirms downtrend. Divergence from price is a warning.
- Vol SMA 20 / Vol ROC — today's volume vs. 20-day average. Positive ROC with price move = conviction.
- ATR / True Range — average daily $ move; sizing and stop-loss reference.
- HV 20 / 30 / 60 — realized (historical) volatility. Compare to IV on the options cards: IV > HV = rich premium.
Confluence matters: trend + momentum + volume agreeing carries far more weight than any single indicator. For how these feed the spread scanner score, see the algorithm docs →
Trend Indicators
Momentum Oscillators
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Data Summary
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| Earnings Date | Timing | Expected Move | Actual Move | Ratio | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-26 | Pre-Market | 5.26% | 3.42% | 0.65x | Within |
| 2024-10-25 | Pre-Market | 5.21% | 1.46% | 0.28x | Within |
| 2025-02-21 | Pre-Market | 6.01% | 1.48% | 0.25x | Within |
| 2025-04-24 | Pre-Market | 6.98% | 3.02% | 0.43x | Within |
| 2025-07-31 | Pre-Market | 5.10% | 0.25% | 0.05x | Within |
| 2025-10-21 | Pre-Market | 5.57% | 4.06% | 0.73x | Within |
| 2026-02-20 | Pre-Market | 4.03% | 2.07% | 0.51x | Within |
| 2026-04-30 | Pre-Market | 5.11% | 6.76% | 1.32x | Exceeded |
- IV Rank (30D)
- 14.59
- IV Rank (7D)
- 100
- Avg IV
- 39.1%
- Straddle (30D)
- $11.75
- Straddle (7D)
- $2.95
- P/C Volume
- 0.19
Each spread is ranked by a composite score built in three stages. Full documentation →
score = P(profit) × (credit / spread_width)
P(profit) from short leg delta (1 − |delta|), penalised above 85%. Credit uses mid-price to handle illiquid chains fairly.
RR and BF (30-delta) from the persisted per-symbol skew snapshot — wing strikes picked by real greeks.delta, not a moneyness proxy. Put skew boosts bull puts, penalises bear calls. High butterfly boosts iron condors. Calendars are skew-neutral.
- RSI <40 bullish / >60 bearish
- MACD crossover + histogram trend
- Price vs SMA 50 & SMA 200
- Stochastic %K <20 / >80
- Williams %R <−80 / >−20
- Blended ATR + straddle expected-move penalty
- Bollinger Band signal (+ counter-trend penalty)
- BB width — vol contraction boost for ICs
- IV rank ≥ 75 → strong boost for credit spreads
- IV rank < 25 → penalty (selling cheap vol)
- Min open interest across all legs
- OI < 100 → −0.10 · OI < 500 → −0.05
score = base_score × skew_multiplier × tech_multiplier
Both multipliers are shown per spread. Beta is informational only — ATR already captures realized vol. Full algorithm documentation →
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IV(put wing) − IV(ATM), in vol pointsHow much the OTM put trades above (or below) the at-the-money strike. Measures the height of the put-side tail relative to ATM — i.e. how expensive crash insurance is on this name.
- Positive (typical) — wing IV > ATM IV. Standard equity put skew: portfolios bid up crash protection, so OTM puts trade richer than ATM.
- Near zero or negative (unusual) — wing IV ≤ ATM IV. Flat or inverted put side. Common when there's no fear demand, in tightly mean-reverting names, or right after an earnings catalyst clears.
- Percentile vs own 3-yr history: high = wings rich (good time to sell wing premium); low = wings cheap (good time to buy protection).
- Not directional — high or low wings don't predict up or down moves. It's a price tag on tail insurance, not a forecast.
IV(call wing) − IV(put wing), equal delta on each sideWhich side of the smile is the market paying up for? Measures the tilt of the surface — call skew vs put skew at matched deltas.
- Negative (typical) — puts richer than calls. Standard equity behavior: hedging demand makes puts carry a premium. Most large-caps sit in the −1 to −5 vol-point range.
- Strongly negative (< −5 pts) — heavy downside hedging, elevated fear, or an upcoming catalyst (earnings, FDA, macro event). Worth flagging.
- Positive — calls richer than puts. Unusual for equities; signals bullish momentum, short-squeeze positioning, or takeover/M&A speculation.
- Near zero — symmetric surface. Market sees roughly equal up/down risk. Rare for large-caps; more common in commodities and FX.
Wing-vs-ATM tells you how expensive the tails are. Risk Reversal tells you which side is favored. Combined:
- High wing percentile + deeply negative RR → strong put bid; stress or major event priced in. Owning protection costs a premium; selling put premium is dangerous.
- Low wing percentile + near-zero RR → complacency; insurance cheap and balanced. Good environment to add cheap downside hedges.
- Positive RR + elevated wings → call-side fear-of-missing-out; common in squeeze setups. Upside calls expensive, downside puts not bid.
Percentile is the rank of today's reading within ~3 years of this symbol's own history. High percentile = wings are rich relative to history; not a directional signal. Skew is read off the chain in real time, not from CBOE SKEW.
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- Beta (1Y vs SPY)
- 0.16
- Correlation (SPY)
- 9.6%
- R²
- 0.01
- Ann. Volatility
- 21.3%
- SPY Volatility
- 12.6%
Low volatility - stock moves less than market
Institutional managers with $100M+ AUM file Form 13F-HR quarterly, due 45 days after quarter end. Holdings are reported gross at quarter-end market value — they are a snapshot, not a real-time position.
- Shares — long equity positions in this name, aggregated across share classes.
- Calls / Puts — notional value of long call / put exposure where this ticker is the underlying.
- % of Float — holder's reported shares divided by the latest diluted shares outstanding. Sums above 100% indicate large custodian / prime broker positions where the same shares are reported by multiple filers.
- Custodian badge — filers with more than 5,000 holdings are typically broker-dealers / custodians reporting customer-held shares, not active managers.
Each filer is counted once at its latest 13F-HR filing. New filings are ingested on a weekly cadence.
| # | Filer | Notional Value | % of Total | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PEAK6 LLC | $6.78M | 71.17% | 2026-03-31 |
| 2 | JANE STREET GROUP, LLC Custodian | $1.75M | 18.33% | 2026-03-31 |
| 3 | CITADEL ADVISORS LLC Custodian | $999.93K | 10.50% | 2026-03-31 |
| # | Filer | Notional Value | % of Total | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP Custodian | $627.08K | 75.51% | 2026-03-31 |
| 2 | CITADEL ADVISORS LLC Custodian | $203.38K | 24.49% | 2026-03-31 |
| Filed | Reporter | Role | Action | Shares | Avg Price | Net $ | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-13 | David B Fischer | Director | Award (A) | +870 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | Kathleen B Fish | Director | Award (A) | +870 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | Daniel E Knutson | Director | Award (A) | +870 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | Olivier Rigaud | Director | Award (A) | +870 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | MONICA VICENTE | Director | Award (A) | +870 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | George Graham | SVP and Chief R&D Officer | Award (A) | +700 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | Frederic Boned | SVP/GM, Human Nutri. & Health | Mixed | +3,763 | $178.50 | -$241.7K | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | Martin Luther Reid | SVP Chief Supply Chain Officer | Mixed | +2,098 | $178.57 | -$214.5K | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | Michael Brent Tignor | SVP & Chief HR Officer | Mixed | +1,973 | $178.51 | -$206.4K | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | Matthew David Wineinger | Director | Award (A) | +870 | — | EDGAR | |
| 2026-02-13 | Carl Martin Bengtsson | EVP & Chief Financial Officer | Mixed | +5,610 | $178.55 | -$485.3K | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | William A. Backus | VP & Chief Accounting Officer | Mixed | +1,219 | $178.59 | -$167.0K | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | Hatsuki Miyata | EVP, CLO, & Secretary | Mixed | +2,899 | $178.48 | -$188.8K | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | Theodore L Harris | Chairman, President & CEO | Mixed | +15,439 | $178.58 | -$1.82M | EDGAR |
| 2026-02-13 | Job Leonard van Gunsteren | SVP and GM, Specialty Products | Mixed | +961 | $178.60 | -$145.4K | EDGAR |
| # | Insider | Role | Shares | Disclosed Exposure | Lifetime OM Net | Filings | Last Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theodore L Harris | Chairman, President & CEO | 92,395 | $15.09M | -$9.86M | 22 | 2026-02-13 |
| 2 | FRANK FITZPATRICK | Vice President | 68,726 | $11.23M | -$23.18M | 45 | 2017-02-23 |
| 3 | DINO A ROSSI | Director | 56,068 | $9.16M | -$198.76M | 65 | 2017-01-06 |
| 4 | KENNETH P MITCHELL | Director | 51,366 | $8.39M | -$788.0K | 6 | 2010-02-23 |
| 5 | Perry W Premdas | Director | 51,008 | $8.33M | $160.7K | 18 | 2023-02-10 |
| 6 | ROBERT T MINIGER | VP Human Resources | 50,926 | $8.32M | -$823.0K | 2 | 2008-05-14 |
| 7 | DANA E. PUTNAM | V P & General Manger | 46,561 | $7.61M | -$2.88M | 5 | 2013-06-07 |
| 8 | Paul H Richardson | VP, R&D | 42,588 | $6.96M | -$3.77M | 12 | 2011-05-10 |
| 9 | DAVID F LUDWIG | Vice President | 36,685 | $5.99M | -$18.01M | 50 | 2019-11-13 |
| 10 | ELAINE R WEDRAL | Director | 29,697 | $4.85M | -$2.81M | 17 | 2013-12-24 |
What is Form 144? A notice of intent to sell restricted or control stock under Rule 144. Affiliates (officers, directors, 10%+ owners) and holders of restricted shares must file Form 144 when planning to sell more than 5,000 shares or $50,000 in any 3-month rolling window.
How it relates to Form 4: Form 144 is filed before the trade (up to 90 days in advance); Form 4 is filed within 2 business days after the trade executes. Not every Form 144 results in a sale — the filer may cancel or delay. Look for the corresponding Form 4 on the Insider Activity card to confirm a sale actually happened.
10b5-1 plans: Trades made under a pre-scheduled Rule 10b5-1 plan are not discretionary — they execute automatically on dates set months earlier, regardless of news. High 10b5-1 percentages mean less per-filing signal value, though cumulative selling volume still matters.
"Notice value": Aggregate market value the filer wrote into the Form 144 — i.e. the size of the planned sale, not necessarily the executed dollars. Amendments (Form 144/A) and post-cancellation refilings can inflate this if you sum naively; the rollup above excludes filings with zero stated value.
Source & freshness: Parsed directly from EDGAR primary-doc XML. Daily refresh; new filings typically appear here the morning after they hit EDGAR.
| Filed | Filer | Role | Shares | Notice Value | Planned Sale | Broker | Plan | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-08 144/A | Fischer David B | Director | 2,000 | $308.4K | 2025-12-03 | Stifel Nicolaus & Company Inc | — | EDGAR |
| 2025-12-04 | van Gunsteren Job Leonard | Officer | 6,000 | $919.7K | 2025-12-04 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2025-12-03 | Fischer David B | Director | 2,000 | $308.4K | 2025-12-03 | Stifel Nicolaus & Company Inc | — | EDGAR |
| 2025-12-03 | Fischer David B | Director | 6,000 | $923.5K | 2025-12-03 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2025-11-12 | Reid Martin Luther | Officer | 1,200 | $185.3K | 2025-11-11 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2024-11-06 | Lee Joyce J. | Former Director | 4,476 | $809.6K | 2024-11-06 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2024-11-05 | Lee Joyce J. | Former Director | 2,000 | $350.0K | 2024-11-05 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2024-07-31 | van Gunsteren Job Leonard | Officer | 7,750 | $1.40M | 2024-07-31 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2024-07-30 | Backus William A. | Officer | 3,900 | $699.5K | 2024-07-30 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| 2024-05-24 | Griffin Jonathan Harrison | Former Officer | 2,500 | $383.9K | 2024-05-24 | Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. | — | EDGAR |
| # | ETF | Provider | Weight | $ Exposure | ETF AUM | As Of |
|---|
Quarterly filings sourced from SEC 10-Q / 10-K reports. TTM tiles aggregate the most recent four quarters; bars show the last ~12 quarters oldest → newest.
- Revenue — top-line sales. Look for consistent YoY growth; seasonal businesses need same-quarter comparisons (Q4 '24 vs Q4 '23).
- Net Income — bottom-line profit after all expenses. Can be volatile from one-time items; red bars = net loss.
- Diluted EPS — net income per share assuming options/converts are exercised. Direct input to the P/E ratio.
- Operating Cash Flow — cash generated from core operations, before capex and financing. Harder to manipulate than net income; growing OCF is a quality signal.
- Sequential growth — quarter-over-quarter trend. Accelerating bars are a momentum signal.
- YoY growth — compare to the same quarter a year earlier to remove seasonality.
- Quality — OCF should roughly track Net Income over time. Large divergence (net income ≫ OCF) flags accruals risk.
- Margins — scan the bar ratios: Net Income / Revenue tells you margin trend without needing a separate chart.
TTM (trailing-twelve-month) smooths seasonality and is used for the P/E calculation. Filings appear 30–90 days after the period closes.
| P/E Ratio | 53.5 |
| P/B Ratio | 4.2 |
| P/S Ratio | 5.0 |
| EV/EBITDA | 20.9 |
| TTM Revenue | $3.3B |
| TTM Net Income | $0.1B |
| TTM EPS | $3.09 |
| ROE | 12.3% |
| Dividend Yield | 0.58% |
| Debt/Equity | 0.15 |