BRC — BRADY CORP

US Industrials Manufacturing equity mkt cap 4.3B
91.29 +0.62% today
USD · as of 2026-08-21

Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21

499 daily closes shown
52w low 70.96 · high 98.24

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Performance

1 day+0.62%
1 week-3.03%
1 month-2.55%
3 months+7.96%
6 months+2.22%
Year to date+16.07%
1 year+25.50%
3 years+84.02%
5 years+68.18%

Technicals

RSI 1428.5
vs 50-day avg-0.50%
vs 200-day avg+7.08%
Volatility 1y33.7%
Max drawdown 1y-26.34%
Avg volume 30d165.5K
Daily bars held2,674
History from2016-01-04

Dividends

Yield (trailing 12m)1.07%
Paid last 12m0.9800
Payments in 12m4
Paying since2016-01-06

Measured signals that fired on BRC

datesignal measured base rate
2026-08-05Breakout to a 52-week high
price
-1.00% over 21 days · t = -8.58 · n = 24,386
statistically distinguishable from its control group
2026-08-04Bollinger bandwidth breaks out of its own compression
structure
-0.63% over 21 days · t = -2.80 · n = 7,196
statistically distinguishable from its control group
2026-07-30Fair value gap, bearish
structure
-0.45% over 21 days · t = -3.29 · n = 108,591
statistically distinguishable from its control group
2026-07-28Fair value gap, bullish
structure
-0.67% over 21 days · t = -6.43 · n = 111,973
statistically distinguishable from its control group
2026-07-27Breakout to a 52-week high
price
-1.00% over 21 days · t = -8.58 · n = 24,386
statistically distinguishable from its control group
2026-07-07Equal highs taken out
structure
-0.70% over 21 days · t = -8.28 · n = 68,636
statistically distinguishable from its control group

Excess return against a matched control group, on a point-in-time universe that includes delisted companies. Most families do not survive that. How the measurement works →

Insider transactions (Form 4)

dateinsiderwhatshares pricevalue
2026-08-03Thornton Ann
CFO and Treasurer
Grant or award1.6K0.000
2026-08-03DeBruine Thomas F
Chief Operating Officer
Grant or award1.1K0.000
2026-08-03Gorman Andrew
General Counsel&Corp Secretary
Grant or award1.1K0.000
2026-07-02ALLENDER PATRICK W
Director
Grant or award26791.9424.5K
2026-06-10Nargolwala Vineet A
President & CEO
Open-market purchase13.0K76.861.0M
2026-06-10Nargolwala Vineet A
President & CEO
Grant or award25.7K0.000
2026-06-08Bojarski Olivier
President Americas & Asia
Grant or award15.5K0.000
2026-06-08Nargolwala Vineet A
President & CEO
Grant or award39.7K0.000
2026-04-06ALLENDER PATRICK W
Director
Grant or award30480.2224.4K
2026-01-09ALLENDER PATRICK W
Director
Grant or award29682.2124.3K

Open-market purchases (code P) are the informative ones. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are compensation mechanics, not decisions. How to read a Form 4 →

Largest institutional holders

managervalueshares
FMR LLC531.3M6.5M
BlackRock, Inc.336.1M4.1M
VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC212.7M2.6M
NEUBERGER BERMAN GROUP LLC194.7M2.4M
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC151.2M1.9M
FIRST TRUST ADVISORS LP135.5M1.7M
FRANKLIN RESOURCES INC129.8M1.6M
STATE STREET CORP127.8M1.6M
DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP116.8M1.4M
KAYNE ANDERSON RUDNICK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLC78.0M960.4K

13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →

Short selling

Avg short volume, 90d57.9% of tape
Days observed61

This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →

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