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Cellebrite DI Ltd. (CLBT)

Technology

No action
Fundamental
3
Sentiment
2
Technical
3

Do Nothing: qualitativeScore is 2 (below required floor of 3); strategy requires qualitativeScore ≥ 3 before any bullish entry.

Analysis as of 2026-09-17· more than 2 trading days ago

Company overview

Cellebrite DI Ltd. provides digital intelligence solutions for authorized investigations, enabling efficient data collection and analysis. Its offerings include the Universal Forensic Extraction Device for accessing digital evidence, and tools like Seeker and OSINT Analyze for video and open-source data analysis. The company serves government and enterprise clients globally, with headquarters in Israel.

Fundamental

fair
Fundamental3
Solid fundamentals

Cellebrite has strong cash flow, high margins, and a net-cash balance sheet, but faces valuation concerns and execution uncertainties.

Cellebrite shows strong cash generation, high margins, and a net-cash balance sheet, supported by solid multi-year revenue growth. Recent SEC updates point to longer sales cycles, a reset of 2026 ARR/revenue expectations, and a CEO transition, which adds near-term uncertainty. Valuation is still rich (P/E and EV/EBITDA elevated) and intrinsic-value outputs are not consistently supportive, so the setup looks more like a watchlist name than a straightforward value entry right now.

Sentiment

weak
Sentiment2
Weak sentiment

Sentiment is weak, with a recent CEO transition and guidance cut impacting confidence.

Dominant near-term item is the U.S. redomicile ongoing process (announced 2026-09-14, TBD, neutral market reception); sentiment delta is determinate but flat (~+0.08 → ~+0.08). One moderate red flag fires — abrupt CEO exit (~Aug 20) with no named successor surfaced (≤60d) — applying the moderate cap, and with no rewarded bullish element in-window plus the Q2 miss/guidance-cut overhang still digesting, the setup is weak/forming.

Technical

fair
Technical3
Early base-repair

The stock is in an early base-repair phase, reclaiming short-term moving averages but below key longer-term levels.

CLBT is base-building after the early-August crash (capitulation low $9.58 on 08-13): price has reclaimed the SMA20 ($11.58) and EMA9 ($11.55), the MACD histogram is positive and expanding (0.08 → 0.12), RSI has recovered from 37.66 to 46.94, and Williams %R is off the oversold extreme (-85.5 → -44.2). But the tape remains below the EMA21 ($11.87), SMA50 ($13.38) and SMA200 ($14.46), the MACD line is still negative (-0.46), and ADX 27.94 mostly measures the prior decline rather than a new upmove — an early repair bounce, mixed, chart score 3. The trade plan is blocked outright by the qualitative override gate: qualitativeScore 2 (upstream moderate red flag — abrupt CEO exit ~2026-08-20/21 with no successor surfaced) is below the required floor of 3, and the shadow sum-gate branch is disabled (flag false). All other Step-00 gates passed: price $11.82 ≤ $25, fundamentalScore 3 ≥ 3, symbol resolved, max overnight gap 2.23% ≤ 5%, recent 3-session dollar volume ~$27.3M ≥ $1.5M, all 18 indicators loaded, no dividend or confirmed-earnings event inside the 15-trading-day holding window (horizon 2026-10-08; next confirmed earnings 2026-11-11), ATR14 4.8% of price ≥ 1.0% floor, and the feed is current (dataAsOf 2026-09-17).

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