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ALGN — Align Technology

Healthcare

Yahoo Finance
Last price
$186.72
2025-05-15
52w high
$280.32
-33.4% off high
5yr return
-69%
since 2021-05-24
Active modes
0/3
BUY or WATCH
Price chart — last 12 months
Price with 50-day & 200-day MAs. Colored dots mark historical reversal-signal firings — see legend below.
Signal events on chart (last 252 days)
RSI crossed 50×14
50DMA reclaimed×8
Golden cross—
Higher lows (5)×8
Volume accumulation×16
Bullish RSI divergence×4
Oversold / Fear
SKIP
⚠️ Pullback2/8·16w

Quality gate failed: operating margin 14.5% < 15%; insufficient data: ROIC; revenue CAGR 0.5% < 8%.

↻ Above 50DMA today after 34 of last 60 days below it · Earnings in 10 days (catalyst window)
Acceleration
SKIP
⚠️ Pullback2/8·16w

Quality gate failed: operating margin 14.5% < 15%; insufficient data: ROIC; revenue CAGR 0.5% < 8%.

↻ Above 50DMA today after 34 of last 60 days below it · Earnings in 10 days (catalyst window)
Quality at Fair Price
SKIP
⚠️ Pullback2/8·16w

Quality gate failed: operating margin 14.5% < 15%; insufficient data: ROIC; revenue CAGR 0.5% < 8%.

↻ Above 50DMA today after 34 of last 60 days below it · Earnings in 10 days (catalyst window)
Score trajectory
How the score has evolved across recent scans for each mode. Rising score = setup forming.
Annual fundamentals
From yahoo fundamentalsTimeSeries (annual cadence).
Year-endRevenueFCFGross %Op %ROICEPS
2025-12-314.03B593.22M67.2%14.5%—$—
2024-12-314.00B738.23M70.0%16.8%—$—
2023-12-313.86B785.78M70.1%17.0%—$—
2022-12-313.73B568.73M70.5%17.5%—$—
2021-12-313.95B1.17B74.3%24.7%—$—
2020-12-312.47B662.17M71.3%15.7%—$—
2019-12-312.41B747.27M72.5%21.4%—$—
Universe metadata
Healthcare

Hand off to Claude for qualitative deep-dive

Claude deep-dive prompt

My stock-scanner has flagged ALGN with the following signals across multiple scoring modes:

1. Quality gate failed or no signals firing across all 3 modes — the framework currently sees no setup. Why might that be?

Please do a current deep-dive on ALGN:

1. What's the actual business / what do they sell, in plain English?
2. Recent news + narrative: why is the market pricing this where it is right now? What's the bear case being priced in?
3. Is the long-term thesis intact, or has something fundamentally broken (moat erosion, secular decline, management issues)?
4. What's the upcoming catalyst calendar — earnings, product launches, regulatory dates?
5. Compare to peers: cheaper than peers / more expensive / similar?
6. If buying: is now the right entry, or is there a smarter staged-accumulation plan? Suggest specific price levels.
7. What's the biggest risk to a long position from here?

Use web search for any recent news (last 30 days) to ground your answer in current reality, not training cutoff.