Free cash flow is deeply negative relative to net income, all four available reported quarters missed estimates by nearly 100% on average, and the overall quality score has fallen below minimum thresholds — despite technical momentum that has carried the stock near a 52-week high with rising accumulation volume, the fundamental picture does not support new exposure at current levels.
Thesis pillars
- Quality Below Minimum No Moat↓Deteriorating
- Technical Strength Fundamental Divergence↓Deteriorating
- Deeply Negative Free Cash Flow↑Improving
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Brookfield Corporation (BN) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup
Financial Services · Asset Management
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.56: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.90; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend.
Brookfield Corporation is a multi-asset manager focused on real estate, credit, renewable power and transition, infrastructure, venture capital, and private equity including growth capital and emerging growth investments. It manages a range of public and private investment... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.56: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.90; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 62. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
Recent developments
updated 2026-08-15Recent Developments — Brookfield Corporation
Latest news
- NEWS Bill Ackman Exits Alphabet, Raises Bets on Microsoft & Meta — benzinga Aug 14, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Scotiabank Maintains Sector Outperform on Brookfield, Raises Price Target to $54 — benzinga Aug 14, 2026 positive
- NEWS Bill Ackman’s New Stock Picks Are Here. These ETFs Could Be Worth Watching — benzinga Aug 13, 2026 positive
- NEWS Brookfield Q2 Adj. EPS $0.66 Beats $0.65 Estimate, Sales $19.406B Beat $1.667B Estimate — benzinga Aug 13, 2026 positive
- NEWS Stock Market: Will S&P 500 Open Up or Down Today? — benzinga Aug 13, 2026 neutral
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
No near-term catalyst priced in. Thesis progression will come from fundamentals grinding, not event reaction.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.56: Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 5.5/10. Specifically: Elevated put/call ratio: 1.90; Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 62. Prior stop was $41.69. Score 5.5/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $47.15 (+7.5% upside). Prior stop was $41.69. Stop-loss: $41.69.
Quality below floor (3.9 < 4.0).
Brookfield Corporation trades at a P/E of 81.2 (forward 7.5). TrendMatrix value score: 6.9/10. Verdict: Sell.
20 analysts cover BN with a consensus score of 3.9/5. Average price target: $54.
What does Brookfield Corporation do?Brookfield Corporation is a multi-asset manager focused on real estate, credit, renewable power and transition,...
Brookfield Corporation is a multi-asset manager focused on real estate, credit, renewable power and transition, infrastructure, venture capital, and private equity including growth capital and emerging growth investments. It manages a range of public and private investment products and services for institutional and retail clients. It typically makes investments in sizeable, premier assets across geographies and asset classes. It invests both its own capital as well as capital from other investors. Within private equity and venture capital, it focuses on acquisitions, early ventures, control buyouts, financially distressed buyouts, corporate carve-outs, recapitalizations, convertible, senior and mezzanine financings, operational and capital structure restructuring, strategic re-direction, turnarounds, and underperforming midmarket companies. It invests in both public debt and equity markets. It invests in private equity sectors with focus on business services including infrastructure, healthcare, road fuel distribution and marketing, and real estate; industrials including manufacturers of automotive batteries, graphite electrodes, smart cards, returnable plastic packaging, consumable products for lab testing, and sanitation management and development; and residential/infrastructure services. The firm provides essential business services including business process outsourcing, financial services, software and technology services, and real estaterelated services, among others. The firm also invests in energy transition. It targets companies that likely possess underlying real assets, primarily in sectors such as industrial products, building materials, metals, mining, homebuilding, oil and gas, paper and packaging, manufacturing, and forest products. It invests globally with focus on North America including Brazil, the United States, and Canada; Europe; Australia; the Middle East and North Africa; and Asia-Pacific. The firm considers equity investments in the range of $2 million to $500 million. It has a four-year investment period and a 10-year term with two one-year extensions. The firm prefers to take both minority and majority stakes. Brookfield Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.