PACCAR (PCAR) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
PACCAR's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
PCAR closed at $131.03 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +3.6% from its 50-day average and +10.9% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +19.8%, beating SPY by 16.7%. It remains 5.9% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +3.6% from its 50-day average and +10.9% from its 200-day average. Over three months, PCAR returned +19.8% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +3.6%
- vs 200-day
- +10.9%
- From 52W high
- -5.9%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
PCAR appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 6 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 2 call-side, 4 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session placed its call-side signature #22. Its larger composite score was 1.02, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-21 | #22 | — |
| 2026-08-18 | #27 | — |
| 2026-08-11 | — | #25 |
| 2026-07-08 | — | #16 |
| 2026-06-12 | — | #29 |
| 2026-06-10 | — | #5 |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.593 calls, 0.087 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long PACCAR position in their latest filing, worth $120M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gates Foundation Trust Michael Larson · PCAR | $120M | 0.35% | 1.00M | 0.0% unchanged | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open PCAR Financials →How PCAR trades — the working manual
PACCAR manufactures Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF trucks and supports them through parts and financial services. For the stock, truck orders and production are cyclical, while parts, pricing, manufacturing discipline and credit performance determine how much earnings resilience remains when freight and replacement demand slow.
What can move the tape
- 01Heavy-duty truck orders, backlog, production and market share in North America and Europe.
- 02Truck pricing, material costs and factory utilization through the commercial-vehicle cycle.
- 03Parts revenue and margin from the installed fleet and distribution network.
- 04Financial-services portfolio growth, credit losses, capital spending and cash returns.
What can fool the read
- 01Freight weakness and lower fleet profitability can cause customers to defer replacement orders.
- 02Supplier constraints or manufacturing interruptions can prevent backlog from converting into deliveries.
- 03Emissions rules and powertrain transitions require investment before demand and returns are certain.
- 04Credit losses can rise in the finance portfolio as the truck cycle deteriorates.
PACCAR triggered 3 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was PCAR on 2026-08-04: 1.8× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +4.8% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported PCAR events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
PCAR stock questions
Is PCAR stock in an uptrend?+
PCAR is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +3.6% from its 50-day average and +10.9% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in PCAR mean?+
PACCAR's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the PCAR 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are PCAR's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated PCAR Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no PCAR earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.