Revenue expanding at roughly 99% year-over-year and two consecutive outsized earnings beats deliver a compelling growth narrative with 25% upside to the analyst-derived target and a 3.6-to-1 favorable risk/reward—but below-minimum business quality, near-zero returns on equity and assets, and implied volatility above 400% indicate this is a high-risk recovery story that does not yet clear the quality bar for a standard position.
Thesis pillars
- Hypergrowth Revenue Trajectory→Stable
- Outsized Recent Earnings Beats↓Deteriorating
- Quality Below Minimum Threshold↑Improving
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Compass, Inc. (COMP) Stock Analysis
Range Bound setup
Real Estate · Real Estate Services
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $12.00: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 6.0/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality.
Compass runs a tech-enabled residential real estate brokerage serving 37,000+ professionals across 39 states under the Compass brand; the January 2026 acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate expanded the combined network to 340,000+ professionals under Coldwell Banker, Century 21,... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $12.00: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 6.0/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality. Chart setup: RSI 55 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Score 6.0/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/8 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news boost analyst 0.70, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
Recent developments
updated 2026-07-20Recent Developments — Compass, Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS Barclays Maintains Overweight on Compass, Raises Price Target to $15 — benzinga Jul 14, 2026 positive
- NEWS Watching Compass; Hearing Zacks Counterstrike Newsletter Mentions Stock As A Buy — benzinga May 12, 2026 positive
- NEWS Morgan Stanley Maintains Equal-Weight on Compass, Raises Price Target to $12.5 — benzinga May 6, 2026 positive
- NEWS Davita, Bloomin' Brands, Compass And Other Big Stocks Moving Higher On Wednesday — benzinga May 6, 2026 positive
- NEWS Why Veeco Instruments Shares Are Trading Higher By 21%; Here Are 20 Stocks Moving Premarket — benzinga May 6, 2026 positive
Generated 2026-07-20T05:32:10Z.
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Quality Signals
Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHProductowned-brokerage business10-K Item 1: 'In 2025, we earned substantially all of our revenue and earnings from our owned-brokerage business'
- HIGHCustomerreal estate benefit program client10-K Item 1: 'our real estate benefit program revenues are highly concentrated, with one client-directed real estate benefit program contributing a substantial majority'
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1 floor-breaker·1 ceiling hit
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $12.00: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 6.0/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality. Chart setup: RSI 55 mid-range, Bollinger mid-band. Prior stop was $11.16. Score 6.0/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $12.11 (+0.9% upside). Prior stop was $11.16. Stop-loss: $11.16.
Concentration risk — Product: owned-brokerage business; Concentration risk — Customer: real estate benefit program client; Target reached (0.9% upside).
Compass, Inc. trades at a P/E of 600.0 (forward 15.4). TrendMatrix value score: 5.1/10. Verdict: Sell.
18 analysts cover COMP with a consensus score of 4.0/5. Average price target: $14.
What does Compass, Inc. do?Compass runs a tech-enabled residential real estate brokerage serving 37,000+ professionals across 39 states under the...
Compass runs a tech-enabled residential real estate brokerage serving 37,000+ professionals across 39 states under the Compass brand; the January 2026 acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate expanded the combined network to 340,000+ professionals under Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Sotheby's International Realty, ERA, and other brands. Revenue is primarily earned from owned-brokerage commission splits and franchise royalties, with integrated title, escrow, mortgage, and relocation services.