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margin_compression_severe on Healthier Choices Management Corp. (HCMC)

SIC 2100 — Tobacco Products · CIK 844856 · default direction: short

Definition

Fires on >500 bps year-over-year decline in operating margin. Captures the 'good business getting worse' pattern.

Every time the signal fired on HCMC

FYFiling dateEvent date1d5d20d60d252d
FY20242025-04-142025-04-14+0.00%+0.00%+100.00%+100.00%+100.00%
FY20232024-03-272024-03-27-50.00%-50.00%-50.00%-50.00%-50.00%
FY20192020-05-132020-05-13-50.00%-50.00%+0.00%-50.00%+1700.00%
FY20162017-03-272017-03-27+0.00%+0.00%+0.00%+0.00%+0.00%
FY20142015-03-312015-03-31+0.00%-14.42%-28.84%-67.27%-100.00%
FY20122013-03-292013-04-01+3.64%-10.00%-27.27%+80.00%+140.17%

Forward returns are stock returns from event date (next trading day after filing). Sign is raw stock direction; the trade direction is in the calibration table below.

Universe-wide calibration (this signal across all companies)

Horizonn eventsGross stock retHit rateTrade dirNet PnLCost (bps)r/σ net
1d2,429+2.00%+36.27%short-2.03%46-0.02
5d2,429+3.35%+38.74%short-2.80%47-0.02
20d2,364+6.26%+38.32%short-4.81%52-0.03
60d2,266+78.74%+40.47%short-75.14%65-0.03
252d2,195+41.39%+39.77%short-31.94%126-0.09

Net PnL is direction × stock return − round-trip execution cost (5 bps half-spread + ADV-tiered borrow). See margin_compression_severe methodology for the full audit.


Data: /api/company/844856/financials