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LNC · Lincoln National Corporation

$40.17 +0.83% Oct 26 close

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Lincoln National Corporation

Lincoln National Corporation is a mid-cap Multi-Line Insurance company in the Finance sector with a market cap of $8B.

Finance Multi-Line Insurance stock Stage 2 · Advancing Base 1

$40.17 latest close

⚠ Risk Signals

Head & Shoulders Top Neckline ~40.29 has broken. Measured-move risk extends toward ~32.91; a fast reclaim of 40.29 would be a failed breakdown (often bullish).

Bearish structure on the daily chart — a heads-up for anyone holding, not a short signal. Does not affect the bullish setup score.

Market Structure

Trend structure: range

Latest event: bos (bearish)

Resistance 41.93–42.28 · 5 touches · strong

Resistance 42.43–42.77 · 5 touches · strong

Support 38.38–38.60 · 4 touches · moderate

Resistance 46.61–46.82 · 3 touches · moderate

Support 36.26–36.46 · 3 touches · moderate

Momentum Turn Watch

Daily Bullish RSI Divergence + MA Price made a lower low ($39.73→$39.28) while RSI made a higher low (32→35). The second low is testing a stable 200-day MA near $39.14.

Daily Bullish MACD Divergence Price made a lower low ($39.73→$39.28) while MACD made a higher low (-0.83→-0.72). The second low is testing a stable 200-day MA near $39.14.

Bollinger Squeeze Bollinger band width (6.4%) is in the bottom quartile of its last 120 sessions — Legend's width-percentile squeeze (not a TTM/Keltner squeeze), so volatility is compressed and a sharper move often follows.

Early technical context only. Wait for price, volume, and the canonical setup trigger to confirm; this signal does not change readiness or the setup score.

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Earnings

Pre-earnings setup

Next earnings Wednesday, October 28, 2026 Before market open Exact clock time not supplied by source

Ordinary position sizing suppressed. Earnings are less than three full trading sessions away; treat the gap as event risk, not ordinary stop-distance risk.

Deterministic evidence

LNC+0.83%

Sector proxy · XLF+0.21%

Broad market · SPY+0.71%

Same completed session window ending 2026-10-26. LNC was +0.62 points vs XLF. +0.12 points vs SPY.

CatalystPending Stock reactionPositive Sector reactionWeak Opening surgePending Event riskEarnings-driven

Session internals Mixed

Rule: direction and internals disagree — it met neither the strong nor the weak rule. Judged on internals, not on the size of the move.

Vs prior close+0.83% From the open+0.40% Range position21% GapNo gap

QQQ confirmationConfirming (+1.11%) SMH confirmationConfirming (+2.74%)

Short-term conviction -1 points.

A sourced earnings report is still pending inside the risk window; ordinary technical conviction is reduced until it is out.

Price bars, sourced event fields, and benchmark math only. This can adjust displayed short-term conviction; it does not change the stored scanner score or readiness.

Ask a Legend to interpret this evidence → Commentary only — never scanner evidence or a sizing recommendation.

Price $40.17 +0.8% Oct 26 close

52W High $47.67 15.7% below high

Wks Since High 11w

Base Depth 18.4%

SMA 50 $41.95

Avg Vol 1,939,151

Rel Vol (Oct 26) 1.16× 1.39× on up days

More stats

52W Low $32.18

Tight Wks 0

Base B1

SMA 200 $39.01

Group Rank #49/66

ADR% 2.5%

ATR(14) $1.13 (2.8%)

Vol Pace (live) N/A

A/D Days 11A / 15D

A/D Rating E

Earnings tomorrow

Position in 52-week range 52ndpercentile of the 52-week range

$32.18low

$47.67high

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Technical Analysis Report Card

$LNC · $40.17 · as of 2026-10-26 · multi-factor read

/ 100

Sell

Trend · Daily / Weekly / Monthly

Daily ▼ Downtrend

Weekly ▼ Weak / rolling over

Monthly ▼ Weak / rolling over

Moving Averages

50-day$41.95 ↓

100-day$41.12 ↓

200-day$39.01 ↑

Bullish (50 > 200)

RSI (14)

Reading45.4 · Neutral

Neutral — momentum is balanced between buyers and sellers.

MACD (12/26/9)

StateImproving

Histogram+0.084

Improving — MACD crossed above its signal line but still below zero. Histogram expanding.

Bollinger Bands (20,2)

%B / Width41% · 6.4%

Squeeze — volatility compressing

Mid-band — no directional band edge in play. Bands are squeezing — volatility is compressing, often a precursor to a sharp move.

Volume · Buyer vs Seller

Up/Down vol1.39 · Neutral

Rel volume1.16×

Pocket pivots · 10d0

5d vs 50d vol98%

Heavy vol up / down0 / 2

Balanced — up/down volume is roughly even; no clear hand. Recent volume is easing versus its baseline.

2 heavy-volume down days vs 0 up in the last 20 sessions — supply is showing.

Support & Resistance

R · $42.72swing level

R · $45.90swing level

R · $47.6752-week high

Price · $40.17now

S · $38.95swing level

S · $35.28swing level

S · $33.89swing level

Fibonacci · Uptrend swing

23.6%$44.26

38.2%$42.15

50.0% ◄ price here$40.45

61.8%$38.74

78.6%$36.31

Retracement support zones measured from the recent swing low up to the high.

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Daily downtrendWeekly downtrendMonthly downtrendAbove 200-day MA50/200 bullish

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Generic technical analysis generated mechanically from price & volume — educational research only, not financial advice or a personalized recommendation. Levels are illustrative; confirm on your own chart. New to these terms? →

Base & Breakout

Breakout follow-through

No active breakout tracked — Legend AI monitors daily for pivot-point breaks. What's a breakout?

Latest candle: Shooting Star — Long upper shadow with a small body near the low — sellers rejected higher prices. A caution flag when price is extended above a pivot.

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RS Line vs SPY 52-week relative strength · blue = RS line · dashed = MA50 · dot = NH

Accumulation / Distribution last 65 sessions · green = acc on high vol · red = dist on high vol Net -2 E

Forming Patterns (predictive — not confirmed)

Falling Wedge bullish forming

69% built

Possible falling wedge — selling pressure narrowing. Watch for a break above falling resistance ~40.52 to confirm a reversal higher; a close below ~38.36 invalidates it.

Confirms above 40.52

Invalidates at 38.36

Upper Trendline 40.52

Lower Trendline 38.36

9 highs / 9 lows, range narrowed 38%, slopes top -0.30%/bar · bottom -0.24%/bar

Predictive pattern recognition is educational — most forming structures never confirm. Wait for the confirmation level before treating this as a setup.

No patterns detected

This symbol didn't match any pattern in the latest scan.

Minervini Trend Template

4/8

Grades the price structure — moving-average stacking, distance from the 52-week high/low, and relative strength above the ≥70 uptrend bar. This is the technical trend check; the company's fundamentals and ≥80 RS leadership are scored separately in the Grade Card.

Price above SMA 150 & 200 $40.17 vs SMA150 $39.30 / SMA200 $39.01

SMA 150 above SMA 200 SMA150 $39.30 vs SMA200 $39.01

SMA 200 trending up Slope -0.51 over 20 days

SMA 50 above SMA 150 & 200 SMA50 $41.95

Price above SMA 50 $40.17 vs SMA50 $41.95

30%+ above 52-week low +24.8% from $32.18

Within 25% of 52-week high -15.7% from $47.67

RS score above 70 RS 50

Fundamentals

52W Range

52%

Mkt Cap SEC

7.6B

EPS QoQ

+35%

Rev YoY

-1%

ROE

22%

D/E

0.57

EPS TTM

$5.83

P/E TTM

6.9x

Float

191M

Insider

No Buy

Company

Company profile

Lincoln National Corporation

LNC · NYSE · Finance · Multi-Line Insurance

Scan History

Sep 17

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Sep 16

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44 -5.4%

Sep 16

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44 -5.4%

Aug 11

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40 -9.6%

Aug 11

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39 -9.6%

Aug 10

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41 -12.1%

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