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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-23): Designation Low · Gem Score -39 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality -15 · Value -59 · Sentiment -33 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $13.61 vs $42.83 at analysis
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BP p.l.c.
BP NYSEBP p.l.c. Sponsored ADR is a depositary receipt representing BP p.l.c., an integrated energy company focused on oil and gas operations worldwide. The business is involved in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of hydrocarbons, with activities spanning upstream development, downstream fuel and product distribution, and related energy services. It serves a broad industrial base across transportation, manufacturing, and commercial energy markets through a combination of physical assets, supply networks, and trading operations. BP also maintains exposure to broader energy and corporate activities tied to its global portfolio. As a Sponsored ADR, the security provides U.S. market participants access to BP p.l.c. through a U.S.-listed instrument linked to the company’s ordinary shares.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
This company does not file structured financial statements with the U.S. SEC, so quarterly figures aren't available from our filings-based data engine. Annual figures shown here come from the sources that do cover it.
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): N/A
Total Equity: $74.00B
Shares: N/A
Total Debt: $57.96B
Cash: $36.56B
EBITDA: $30.46B
Total Debt: $57.96B
Cash: $36.56B
Revenue: $192.55B
Revenue: $192.55B
Revenue: $192.55B
Total Equity: $74.00B
Tax Rate: 83.3%
Equity: $74.00B
Total Debt: $57.96B
Cash: $36.56B
Current Liabilities: $80.58B
Long-Term Debt: $54.60B
Total Debt: $57.96B
Total Equity: $74.00B
Shares: N/A
Shares: N/A
CapEx: -$13.22B
Shares: N/A
Stock Price: $42.93
Net Income: $55.00M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 5, 2026 9:43am (18d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $164.2B | $248.9B | $213.0B | $194.6B | $192.5B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Expenses | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income | $18.1B | $18.0B | $27.3B | $11.3B | $12.6B |
| Net Income | $7.6B | -$2.5B | $15.2B | $381.0M | $55.0M |
| EBITDA | $32.9B | $32.4B | $43.3B | $27.9B | $30.5B |
| EPS | — | — | — | — | — |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 5, 2026 9:43am (18d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $30.7B | $29.2B | $33.0B | $39.2B | $36.6B |
| Total Current Assets | $92.6B | $107.7B | $104.1B | $102.8B | $101.8B |
| Total Assets | $287.3B | $288.1B | $280.3B | $282.2B | $278.5B |
| Current Liabilities | $80.3B | $99.0B | $86.1B | $82.2B | $80.6B |
| Long-Term Debt | $55.6B | $43.7B | $48.7B | $55.1B | $54.6B |
| Total Liabilities | $196.8B | $205.1B | $194.8B | $203.9B | $204.5B |
| Total Equity | $90.4B | $83.0B | $85.5B | $78.3B | $74.0B |
| Retained Earnings | — | — | — | — | — |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 5, 2026 9:43am (18d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $23.6B | $40.9B | $32.0B | $27.3B | $24.5B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$10.9B | -$12.1B | -$14.3B | -$15.3B | -$13.2B |
| Free Cash Flow | $12.7B | $28.9B | $17.8B | $12.0B | $11.3B |
| Acquisitions (net) | -$186.0M | -$3.5B | -$799.0M | $53.0M | -$935.0M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | -$4.6B | -$4.7B | -$5.2B | -$5.4B | -$5.6B |
| Stock Buybacks | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Change in Cash | -$430.0M | -$1.5B | $3.8B | $6.2B | -$2.6B |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 5, 2026 9:43am (18d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +51.6% | -14.4% | -8.6% | -1.1% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income Growth | -0.2% | +51.6% | -58.7% | +11.9% |
| Net Income Growth | -132.9% | +712.7% | -97.5% | -85.6% |
| EBITDA Growth | -1.6% | +33.7% | -35.5% | +9.1% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 13, 2026 9:24am (10d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-15 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2026-02-20 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-14 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-15 | $0.50 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-16 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-21 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-08 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-09 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-16 | $0.44 | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-15 | $0.44 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-09 | $0.44 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-10 | $0.44 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-11 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-16 | $0.40 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-09 | $0.36 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-11 | $0.36 | — | — | — |
| 2022-05-12 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2022-02-17 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-10 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
| 2021-08-12 | $0.33 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-14AI-driven demand for electricity is a direct volume/price tailwind for natural gas and LNG — an asset class BP owns physically — while machine learning on seismic, reservoir and rotating-equipment telemetry lowers unit development cost and refinery unplanned downtime.
BP's most information-processing profit pool — the trading and supply arm — is exactly where AI-armed rivals (Vitol, Trafigura, Glencore, quant funds) compete edge away; and any upstream cost saving BP achieves is also achieved by every competitor, pushing the marginal cost curve and long-run price down rather than widening margin.
Whether AI-enabled gains stay proprietary long enough to show up as a widening relative cost advantage. Watch upstream unit production cost per boe versus peers and the disclosed contribution of trading to segment earnings.
Producing reserves, refineries, LNG liquefaction and shipping slots, port and pipeline access, tens of thousands of retail sites, and the regulatory/operating licences and safety record required to hold them — none of which cheap software creates.
AI Lens thesis
AI reaches BP through three narrow channels and one broad one. Narrow: (1) subsurface and drilling optimisation lifting recovery per dollar; (2) predictive maintenance and refinery/plant optimisation lifting utilisation on a business running only 6.6% operating margin, where a few hundred basis points of opex matter on ~$193B revenue; (3) algorithmic trading, where AI is a double-edged sword because alpha is relative. Broad: AI datacentre electricity load is a genuine second-order demand support for gas, LNG and power trading. What AI cannot do is create a barrel, a liquefaction train, or a licence to operate — so as intelligence commoditises, BP's physical and permitted assets become relatively scarcer. The offset is the commodity logic: sector-wide AI cost deflation is passed to buyers via price, so BP captures only its relative advantage, and the structural demand and transition questions that actually dominate the equity are not AI questions at all.
What the market may be underestimating
Upside Long-dated gas and power offtake to hyperscalers can convert BP's most commoditised molecule into contracted, utility-like cash flow — a re-rating of asset quality, not just a volume bump.
Downside Trading is the least capital-intensive, highest-return part of BP and the most AI-erodable; if machine execution compresses physical-arbitrage spreads industry-wide, BP loses the earnings buffer that has smoothed its weak reported net income.
Outcome range spread 31
Claude Reading
The raw numbers tell a story the models are partly missing. BP generated $24.5B in operating cash flow and $11.3B in FCF on $192.6B in revenue in 2025 — that's a 5.8% FCF margin, respectable for an integrated major in a soft price environment. But net income collapsed to $55M from $15.24B in 2023, and the 102% payout ratio on a 4.65% yield is the tell: BP is funding its ~$5.1B dividend out of FCF ($11.3B) minus buybacks and debt service, not earnings. That's sustainable at current commodity prices but has zero cushion. Net debt sits at $21.4B against $74B equity — leverage is manageable (D/E 0.78), not alarming. EV/EBITDA of 4.3x is genuinely cheap versus Shell (~5x), XOM (~6.5x), CVX (~6x), so the "structurally impaired" discount the market is applying is roughly 25-35% versus peers.
The rule-based classifier calling this "high_growth_profitable" is simply wrong — revenue CAGR is -4.9%, earnings CAGR -94%, this is late-cycle cyclical with impairment noise, full stop. Ignore that tag. The synthesis verdict of $13.61 fair value versus $42.93 price (-75.9%) is also wrong, and dangerously so: it's clearly anchoring DCF to depressed 2025 earnings ($55M NI) rather than mid-cycle earnings power. BP earned $15.24B in 2023 on similar asset base — normalized earnings are probably $8-12B, implying normalized P/E of 9-14x at current price, which is reasonable-to-cheap for a major. A DCF that outputs $13.61 for a company throwing off $11B in FCF is a broken DCF. The pre-flight and narrative layers are more honest: this is a commodity cycle bet dressed as an income stock, and the fair-value question reduces to your view on Brent over 2026-2028.
Where I'd push back on the bear case: the "failed energy transition" narrative is stale. BP under Auchincloss has explicitly pivoted BACK to hydrocarbons in 2024-2025, cutting renewables capex — that's actually bullish for near-term FCF, not bearish, because the value-destroying capital allocation is being wound down. Elliott's activist stake (disclosed early 2025) is a real catalyst the models don't mention. On the other side, the contrarian bear worth taking seriously isn't stranded assets — it's that 2023's $15B earnings required $85 Brent, and at $65-70 Brent BP earns maybe $6-8B, making the current $110B market cap a 14-18x normalized multiple, not cheap. The dividend is one oil-price shock away from a cut, as the 2020 precedent showed (BP cut 50% then). The 4.65% yield is not a floor; it's a fragile promise.
I dissent from the synthesis verdict but only partially from the market-forces "value trap" framing. Fair value here is not $13, and it's not $70 either — it's roughly $38-48 depending on your Brent deck, which brackets the current $42.93. The stock is fairly valued, not egregiously overvalued. What you're being paid for: 4.65% yield plus buybacks (~3-4% more) equals ~8% capital return while you wait, backed by real FCF. What you're risking: another dividend cut in a recession scenario, continued underperformance versus XOM/CVX (which have better Permian assets and cleaner balance sheets), and activist disappointment if Elliott's playbook stalls. The models converging on "overvalued at $13" are quantitatively unserious; the models flagging governance and cyclical fragility are directionally right but overstating the downside. I'd own XOM or CVX before BP for the same exposure with better assets, but BP at $43 is not the shorting opportunity the -75.9% signal suggests. If anything, it's a pair-trade candidate (long XOM / short BP) rather than an outright short.
GPT Reading
The headline numbers look ugly if you anchor on reported net income, but for an integrated oil major BP’s P&L is clearly being distorted by below-the-line noise rather than by a broken operating engine. In 2025 BP did $192.6B of revenue, down only 1.1% from $194.6B in 2024, and still generated $12.6B of operating income versus $11.3B the year before. Yet net income was just $55M, after $381M in 2024 and $15.2B in 2023. That collapse is too extreme relative to the operating line to be read as core earnings power evaporating; it says charges, impairments, mark-to-market swings, or other non-operating items are dominating the reported bottom line. The market seems to understand that better than the model does: a 2,010x P/E and 0.03% net margin are not economically meaningful for a company that produced $24.5B of operating cash flow and $11.3B of free cash flow in the same year. On EV/EBITDA of 4.3x and EV/revenue of 0.69x, BP screens like a normal, somewhat discounted major, not like a business heading toward insolvency or secular collapse.
The real story is that BP is a mature cyclical asset with decent cash generation but weaker operating quality than the best-in-class U.S. majors, and the stock price mostly reflects that already. Revenue has fallen from $248.9B in 2022 to $192.6B in 2025, a roughly 23% drop, while operating income has gone from $18.0B in 2022 and $27.4B in 2023 to $12.6B in 2025. So yes, earnings power has normalized down hard from the post-invasion commodity spike, and the negative growth rates are real. But the business is still throwing off enough cash to cover $13.2B of capex and leave $11.3B of free cash flow. Against a $110.6B market cap, that is about a 10% FCF yield, and with $36.6B of cash against $58.0B of debt, net debt is only about $21.4B — not trivial, but manageable for a company of this scale. Equity of $74.0B also means the balance sheet is not screaming distress. At roughly $43, I see BP as priced for mediocre oil, middling execution, and some strategic credibility discount; that is close to fair, maybe modestly cheap, but nowhere near the catastrophic overvaluation implied by the mechanical DCF.
The biggest disconnect in the bearish quantitative read is treating depressed or distorted accounting earnings as if they represent normalized distributable economics. A payout ratio above 100% looks alarming, but when net income is nearly zero, that metric becomes as misleading as the P/E. Dividends are paid from cash, and BP’s 4.65% yield is backed by double-digit billions of operating cash flow, not by the $55M accounting profit. Likewise, the “high-growth profitable” label is nonsense, but so is the idea that the shares should trade anywhere close to $10–14 on these cash flows. A company generating $11.3B of free cash flow with enterprise value implied at only a low-single-digit EBITDA multiple simply is not obviously overvalued unless you assume a severe and durable collapse in commodity realizations and margins from here.
The best case against my view is straightforward: BP’s trend is deteriorating, not stabilizing. Revenue is down from $213.0B in 2023 to $192.6B in 2025, operating margin is only 6.6%, ROIC is a weak 2.2%, and the earnings CAGR is catastrophic. If the near-zero net income is not mostly “noise” but instead evidence of recurring write-downs and structurally impaired asset quality, then BP deserves a steep discount because those charges are the economics. The 4.6% dividend yield could still be at risk if free cash flow retreats from $11.3B toward mid-single-digit billions in a lower oil-and-gas price environment, especially with $58B of debt and a capital-intensive asset base. And the strategic issue matters: if BP continues to lag peers operationally while also confusing investors on capital allocation between hydrocarbons and transition spending, the stock can remain cheap for years without ever rerating.
What would change my mind is not another accounting-earnings shock by itself, but evidence that cash generation is breaking. If operating cash flow drops materially below about $18B and free cash flow falls under roughly $7B without a corresponding deleveraging or capex reset, then the dividend and buyback case weakens enough that $43 would look too high. I would also turn more bullish if BP can show that 2025’s $55M net income was truly exceptional noise by converting similar revenue into operating income north of $14–15B while holding capex near current levels and sustaining double-digit billions of annual FCF. Absent that, this is not a great company, but it also does not look remotely like a stock that should be three-quarters lower.
Grok Reading
The numbers describe a cash-generative hydrocarbon major whose accounting earnings have been vaporized while free cash flow remains material. Revenue has slid from $248.9B in 2022 to $192.6B in 2025, a −4.9% CAGR, and net income has collapsed from $15.24B in 2023 to $381M and then $55M—producing a meaningless 2010× P/E and a 0.03% net margin. Yet operating income stabilized at $12.64B in 2025 after $11.30B in 2024, operating cash flow printed $24.49B, and free cash flow was still $11.27B after $13.22B of capex. On a $110.6B equity value and roughly $21B net debt, that is an EV/EBITDA of 4.3× and an FCF yield near 10%. The 4.65% dividend costs roughly $5B and is covered almost twice by FCF even though the 102% payout ratio against near-zero GAAP earnings looks alarming. The rule-based “high_growth_profitable” label is simply wrong: this is a mature, shrinking, still-cash-positive integrated oil company, not a growth compounder. The valuation engine’s $10–14 fair-value band implies a 30–40% FCF yield and treats BP as distressed; the balance sheet (cash $36.6B, debt/equity 0.78, current ratio 1.26) does not support that framing.
What the market is actually doing is pricing permanent strategic impairment and commodity mean-reversion. ROE and ROIC near zero, earnings CAGR of −94%, FCF CAGR of −20%, and “lagging sector peers” all justify a discount to historical major multiples. The operating-to-net income gap—$12.6B of EBIT turning into $55M of NI—signals heavy below-the-line charges, impairments, or one-offs that make trailing earnings useless as a capitalization base. EV/revenue of 0.69× and EV/EBITDA of 4.3× are cheap only if mid-cycle oil and gas cash flows hold; if Brent structurally settles in the $50–60 zone the DCF models appear to embed, both EBITDA and FCF compress and the multiple re-rates lower. The dividend is FCF-covered today but the trajectory of FCF is down, so the 4.65% yield is not a fortress coupon—it is a call on management’s willingness to keep returning capital as the earnings base shrinks.
The strongest case against a constructive cash-flow read is exactly the synthesis stack: composite fair value near $13.60 (signal-adjusted ~$10.30), “value trap” market-forces verdict, payout above 100% of earnings, fragile late-cycle narrative, and macro/sector headwinds. A smart opponent would argue that $11B of FCF is the peak-cycle residue of a business whose reserve replacement, transition capex, and competitive position are all deteriorating, so capitalizing current FCF is the classic value-trap error. They would also note that European majors have already been re-rated lower for governance and energy-transition credibility, and BP’s failed transformation rhetoric has left it with neither a clean hydrocarbon story nor a credible low-carbon one. I weigh that less heavily than the models because the cash is real, net leverage is modest, and a 4.3× EV/EBITDA multiple already embeds a large probability of structural decline; moving from here to a $10–14 equity value requires FCF to roughly halve and stay there, which is a severe oil-price and volume assumption, not the base case implied by current operations.
I would flip to a clear overvalued/avoid stance if 2026 free cash flow falls below ~$7B, if the dividend is cut without a simultaneous reset that stabilizes the equity story, or if oil settles into a sustained sub-$60 regime while upstream volumes keep declining. I would flip more decisively bullish if operating income re-expands above $18–20B with net income normalizing above $8B, FCF holds above $10B through a full year of softer prices, and management demonstrates capital discipline that peers are already showing. Until one of those paths clarifies, the stock screens inexpensive on enterprise cash metrics and expensive only on a DCF that assumes the cash engine is already dead.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
BP throws off real cash - $11.27B FCF in the most recent year on top of $12.00B and $17.75B in the two prior - and holds $36.56B of liquid cash, so self-funding is not in question. OCF/NI of 101x and accruals at -9% of assets say the reported numbers, such as they are, are backed by cash. But the trajectory is unfriendly: revenue has fallen from $248.89B (2022) to $192.55B, operating margin has compressed from 12.8% in 2023 to 6.6%, and net income has collapsed from $15.24B (2023) to $381M (2024) to just $55M in the latest year. That is a business earning almost nothing on the bottom line despite $192B of sales.
Verify before trusting this (7)
- Composition of the FY latest net income - impairments, legal charges, or asset write-downs versus underlying operating earnings
- Gross debt maturity schedule and refinancing needs over the next 24 months against the $36.56B cash
- Share count trajectory and buyback pace (diluted share CAGR unavailable) - is per-share value being protected via repurchases
- Dividend policy and payout ratio versus FCF - how much of the $11.27B FCF is committed
- Segment mix: upstream vs downstream vs low-carbon capex allocation and returns
- Any ongoing Gulf of Mexico or litigation provisions still hitting the P&L
- Insider transaction tape (not provided) to gauge management conviction
The e2e composite pegs fair value at $13.61 (DCF $14.13, EPV floor $10.76) against a $42.83 price - implying -76% downside. That gap is too wide to take literally; the EPV floor is almost certainly capitalizing depressed trough earnings and the DCF looks like it is punishing cyclically weak FCF without normalizing through-cycle. For an integrated major, a more honest deserved-value frame is EV/EBITDA and dividend-supported yield: on mid-cycle earnings power BP arguably deserves something in the mid-$30s to low-$40s, roughly where it trades. So the real read is not '76% overvalued' but 'fully priced with no margin of safety, and the quantitative anchors are screaming caution.'
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Through-cycle mid-cycle earnings and FCF assumptions used in the DCF - is it capitalizing trough?
- Net debt trajectory and buyback pace vs dividend coverage at $70 Brent
- Any impairments or one-offs distorting recent EPS
- Upstream production guidance and reinvestment rate
- Management capital-return commitments through 2025-2026
The macro tape is mildly risk-on (VIX 14.6, S&P near highs), but with beta -0.21 BP essentially ignores that lift - the market's positive impulse does not translate here. What actually presses on the name is the energy narrative: a strong-intensity but fragile cyclical-late-stage story, with Iran-war-driven crude keeping cash flows and the 5%+ dividend visible, yet an accelerating energy-transition counter-narrative and a UK North Sea exit story overhang the group. Net: not much macro push, real narrative crosscurrents. On the news flow, headlines are mixed to slightly constructive - a Venezuela/ADNOC gas license adds resource optionality, Shah Deniz automation signals project progress, and Iran-conflict pricing is boosting reported profits. But the standout item is new CEO Meg O'Neill's 'blunt diagnosis' framing her first call as a confession of underperformance versus peers - that is a sentiment negative in the near term (management admitting the story is broken) even if it sets up a turnaround narrative later. Analyst tone is not provided, but the Shell-versus-BP framing in the press keeps BP as the laggard sibling. Momentum is strong negative (-4.9% CAGR, -7.1pp 3y, leverage creeping up), which is the clearest ongoing headwind - the tape on THIS name has been persistently soft even while the sector narrative flirts with a repricing higher. Overall the forces roughly cancel: commodity/Iran tailwind and asset-license news versus a fragile story, a self-flagellating CEO, UK fiscal hostility, and negative price momentum.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Whether O'Neill follows the 'confession' with a concrete capital-discipline or portfolio action within one to two quarters
- Crude price path if Iran-conflict premium fades - the bull case leans heavily on it
- Any activist or strategic-review headlines (BP has been a recurring name in that speculation)
- Sell-side target revisions post-Q2 - direction of tone shift is not visible in the brief
- Whether the Shell-versus-BP performance gap narrative widens in the financial press
AI reaches BP through three narrow channels and one broad one. Narrow: (1) subsurface and drilling optimisation lifting recovery per dollar; (2) predictive maintenance and refinery/plant optimisation lifting utilisation on a business running only 6.6% operating margin, where a few hundred basis points of opex matter on ~$193B revenue; (3) algorithmic trading, where AI is a double-edged sword because alpha is relative. Broad: AI datacentre electricity load is a genuine second-order demand support for gas, LNG and power trading. What AI cannot do is create a barrel, a liquefaction train, or a licence to operate — so as intelligence commoditises, BP's physical and permitted assets become relatively scarcer. The offset is the commodity logic: sector-wide AI cost deflation is passed to buyers via price, so BP captures only its relative advantage, and the structural demand and transition questions that actually dominate the equity are not AI questions at all.
None surfaced.
Verify before trusting this (8)
- LNG contracted volumes and tenor
- Gas-to-power offtake agreements
- Reserve replacement ratio
- Terminal and shipping utilisation
- Peer-relative finding & development cost
- Recovery factor improvements disclosed
- Industry breakeven oil price trend
- Drilling days per well
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When we made this prediction on Aug 14, 2026, BP was $42.83. We expect it to be $36.50 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $34.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 14, 2026.
Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.