Forrester Research, Inc. (FORR)
Industrials
- Fundamental
- 3
- Sentiment
- 2
- Technical
- 2
Do Nothing: no run-date source in a partial cached run (runDate absent; inherited currentDate 2026-09-09 untrusted) so chart and event windows cannot be anchored; independently, qualitativeScore 2 is below the required floor of 3 and liquidity fails both floors (20-day avg dollar volume ≈ $1.09M vs $5M; recent 3-session ≈ $1.22M vs $1.5M).
Company overview
Forrester Research, Inc. provides research and advisory services through its Research, Consulting, and Events divisions. The company offers subscription-based research insights, conducts client-specific consulting projects, and hosts conferences on various business and technology topics. Forrester serves clients globally with a focus on enhancing customer experience and technology adoption.
Fundamental
fairForrester's liquidity is solid, but declining revenue and profitability challenges keep the fundamentals mixed.
FundamentalScore 3/5 (Mixed): The balance sheet is liquid and leverage appears manageable (as of 2026-06-30: ~$130.8M cash + marketable investments vs ~$35.0M borrowings; no going-concern language). The stock also looks inexpensive on EV/Sales (~0.61) with a positive trailing free-cash-flow yield (~7.86%). Offsetting this, revenue has been declining for several years (FY2025 -8% YoY; FY2026 guidance implies further contraction) and profitability remains weak/volatile with recurring impairment and restructuring, reflected in a sub-1.8 Altman Z-score (~1.60) and negative interest coverage on trailing results.
Sentiment
weakMedia and retail sentiment are neutral with no significant catalysts or engagement.
Forrester Research presents an Absent short-term setup: the 14-day tape is determinate but flat (baseline polarity 0.00 vs scoring +0.03), dominated by the company's own research blogs and third-party vendor "Wave" citations, with no forward-dated or recently-triggered actionable catalyst (the Q2 beat is six weeks trailing and fully digested). Reddit is silent, the legal/regulatory screen is clean, and no red-flag caps apply — the next real trigger is an as-yet-undated Q3 earnings print.
Technical
weakDespite a strong uptrend, technical action is blocked by liquidity and data limitations.
The raw chart read is strong — price (12.04) sits above the SMA20 (11.94), SMA50 (10.90) and SMA200 (7.80) in a well-established multi-month uptrend, ADX14 at 53.83 signals a powerful trend, RSI14 cooled to 55.90 after peaking at 67.3, and the two-day dip from the 12.75 high toward the EMA21/SMA20 zone resembles a healthy pullback. However, this run is a partial cached input with no runDate, so the read cannot be trusted as a claim about the current market, and the qualitative override (qualitativeScore 2 < 3) plus the liquidity floors independently hard-block any entry. Per the stale-feed gate the technicalScore is capped at 2.
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