Tredegar Corporation (TG)
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- Fundamental
- 3
- Sentiment
- 2
- Technical
- 2
Do Nothing: qualitativeScore is 2 (below the required floor of 3; shadow branch inactive — flag false), and liquidity is untradeable — 20-day average dollar volume $1,142,489 is below the $5,000,000 floor and the recent 3-session average dollar volume $1,267,890 is below the $1,500,000 recent-liquidity floor. The chart is additionally in a strong downtrend (technicalScore 2), so no bullish setup exists.
Company overview
Tredegar Corporation is a global producer of aluminum extrusions, polyethylene films, and polyester films, serving various industries including construction, automotive, and consumer goods. The company operates through three divisions: Aluminum Extrusions, PE Films, and Flexible Packaging Films, offering products for applications such as building materials, protective films for electronics, and food packaging. Founded in 1955, Tredegar is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
Fundamental
fairTredegar shows improved near-term fundamentals but faces volatility and cyclicality challenges.
Tredegar shows a clear near-term rebound (positive earnings and improved operating cash flow) alongside solid liquidity and covenant compliance per recent SEC filings. The stock screens as inexpensive on earnings/EV multiples and offers a healthy free-cash-flow yield, but its multi-year track record is volatile and highly exposed to cyclical end markets, raw-material costs, and trade/tariff risk. With insider selling activity and negative discounted-cash-flow outputs adding uncertainty, this reads more like a value-oriented watchlist candidate than a straightforward high-confidence fundamental compounder.
Sentiment
weakSentiment is flat with no significant media or retail interest and no actionable catalysts.
Tredegar's window is a leadership-transition story — new CFO effective Sep 21 (announced) and a general-counsel exit effective Oct 1 (announced) — against a flat scoring-window tape (polarity ≈ +0.01 on 7 scorable items); the 30–90d baseline had no scorable coverage, leaving the sentiment delta indeterminate, and Reddit participation is absent. Red-Flag Screen clean with no cap applied; with no genuinely market-rewarded bullish element and no adverse catalyst in-window, the setup reads weak and catalyst-thin.
Technical
weakThe stock is in a strong downtrend with no bullish technical setup evident.
Price 6.89 sits below every moving average in the suite (SMA20 7.59, SMA50 7.66, SMA200 8.12, EMA9 7.21, EMA21 7.48) with MACD negative and widening (-0.23 line / -0.12 signal / -0.11 histogram) and ADX 26.47 rising while price is under the MAs — the textbook signature of a strong, intact downtrend rather than a pullback. RSI 32.16 and Williams %R -68.24 are weak with at most bounce potential, and dollar volume ($1.14M 20-day average) is far below the $5M floor. There is no bullish trend, momentum, or volume confirmation to score, so the chart earns 2 (weak bearish / bounce-only). Independently of the chart, the qualitative override gate (qualitativeScore 2 < 3) hard-blocks any trade plan.
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