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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-23): Designation Watch · Gem Score -5 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 49 · Value -50 · Sentiment -4 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $168.81 vs $209.70 at analysis
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Electronic Arts Inc.
EA NASDAQElectronic Arts Inc. is a global digital interactive entertainment company that develops, markets, publishes, and distributes video games, content, and online services for consoles, PCs, and mobile devices. The company focuses on a broad portfolio of game genres, including sports, first-person shooters, action, role-playing, and simulation. Its portfolio features prominent franchises such as Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, Apex Legends, Battlefield, and The Sims, which are distributed digitally and through retail partners worldwide. Electronic Arts Inc. generates a significant share of its revenue from live services and in-game content, reflecting its emphasis on ongoing player engagement and online connectivity across platforms. The company serves a large global player base with games and services tailored for both casual and competitive audiences. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and founded in 1982, Electronic Arts Inc. occupies a central position in the electronic gaming and multimedia industry, acting as a key content provider for major game platforms and digital distribution ecosystems.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 3.51
Total Equity: $6.76B
Shares: 253,000,000
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $2.86B
EBITDA: $1.38B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $2.86B
Revenue: $7.53B
Revenue: $7.53B
Revenue: $7.53B
Total Equity: $6.76B
Tax Rate: 24.8%
Equity: $6.76B
Total Debt: $0.00
Cash: $2.86B
Current Liabilities: $3.80B
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $0.00
Total Equity: $6.76B
Shares: 253,000,000
Shares: 253,000,000
CapEx: -$230.00M
Shares: 253,000,000
Stock Price: $209.70
Net Income: $887.00M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 16, 2026 12:29am (7d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $7.0B | $7.4B | $7.6B | $7.5B | $7.5B |
| Cost of Revenue | $1.9B | $1.8B | $1.7B | $1.5B | $1.6B |
| Gross Profit | $5.1B | $5.6B | $5.9B | $5.9B | $5.9B |
| Operating Expenses | $4.0B | $4.3B | $4.3B | $4.4B | $4.8B |
| Operating Income | $1.1B | $1.3B | $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.2B |
| Net Income | $789.0M | $802.0M | $1.3B | $1.1B | $887.0M |
| EBITDA | $1.3B | $1.5B | $1.7B | $1.7B | $1.4B |
| EPS | $2.78 | $2.90 | $4.71 | $4.28 | $3.55 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $2.76 | $2.88 | $4.68 | $4.25 | $3.51 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 16, 2026 12:10am (7d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $2.7B | $2.4B | $2.9B | $2.1B | $2.9B |
| Total Current Assets | $4.2B | $4.0B | $4.2B | $3.3B | $4.0B |
| Total Assets | $13.8B | $13.5B | $13.4B | $12.4B | $13.1B |
| Current Liabilities | $3.5B | $3.3B | $3.1B | $3.5B | $3.8B |
| Long-Term Debt | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Liabilities | $6.2B | $6.2B | $5.9B | $6.0B | $6.4B |
| Total Equity | $7.6B | $7.3B | $7.5B | $6.4B | $6.8B |
| Retained Earnings | $7.6B | $7.4B | $7.6B | $6.5B | $6.6B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 16, 2026 12:29am (7d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $1.9B | $1.6B | $2.3B | $2.1B | $2.6B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$188.0M | -$207.0M | -$199.0M | -$221.0M | -$230.0M |
| Free Cash Flow | $1.7B | $1.3B | $2.1B | $1.9B | $2.3B |
| Acquisitions (net) | -$3.4B | $0 | $0 | $0 | -$17.0M |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends Paid | -$193.0M | -$210.0M | -$205.0M | -$199.0M | -$191.0M |
| Stock Buybacks | -$1.3B | -$1.3B | -$1.3B | -$2.5B | -$769.0M |
| Net Change in Cash | -$2.5B | -$308.0M | $476.0M | -$764.0M | $728.0M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 16, 2026 12:29am (7d ago)| Metric | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +6.2% | +1.8% | -1.3% | +0.9% |
| Gross Profit Growth | +9.8% | +3.9% | +1.2% | +0.5% |
| Operating Income Growth | +18.0% | +14.0% | +0.1% | -23.6% |
| Net Income Growth | +1.6% | +58.7% | -11.9% | -20.9% |
| EBITDA Growth | +18.1% | +12.4% | +0.6% | -20.1% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:55pm (12d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-27 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2026-02-25 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-03 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-27 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-28 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-26 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-27 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-28 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-29 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-27 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-28 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-29 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-30 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-28 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-29 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-30 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-07 | $0.19 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-08 | $0.17 | — | — | — |
| 2021-12-07 | $0.17 | — | — | — |
| 2021-08-31 | $0.17 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Risk : Reward — if the last quarter repeats
Live · as of 2026-08-19 08:50Even the bull case prices 42% below today — the ratio here measures the model-vs-market gap, not payoff odds. Another quarter like the worst recent one costs 89%.
| Case | Growth | Margin | Fair value | vs price ($209.70) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull — recovery | +20% | 17.3% | $120.83 | -42% |
| Base — stabilizes | +13% | 15.0% | $86.30 | -59% |
| Bear — keeps slipping | +7% | 12.8% | $60.09 | -71% |
| Stress — last quarter repeats | -9% | 7.9% | $23.43 | -89% |
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-16AAA development is largely information work — art, animation, environments, QA, localization, voice — and generative tooling can cut cost and cycle time per unit of content, on a base that already carries 79% gross margin and roughly $2.3B FCF.
AI collapses the cost of making games for everyone, flooding a fixed pool of player attention; combined with UGC platforms, EA's paid live-service hours face substitution from effectively free, endlessly generated content.
AI Lens thesis
What the market may be underestimating
Downside Likeness, voice and union constraints in sports and cinematic titles mean EA's largest franchises may be the least able to use generative content freely, so peers without license obligations capture more of the cost curve than EA does. Meanwhile any AI savings can be absorbed by a content arms race rather than reaching operating margin, which already slipped to 15.4%. production cost deflation could also devalue EA's back catalog by making remakes and imitations trivial. per compdeflation reaching entrants faster than incumbents is the core risk. content cost deflation is symmetric; license exclusivity is not. the risk is EA pays full AI cost while capturing partial AI benefit. watch opex per shipped title. watch operating margin. watch Ultimate Team bookings. watch playtime share. watch license renewals. watch guild agreements on AI likeness. watch UGC platform hours. watch new IP cadence. watch marketing spend efficiency. watch headcount per title. cheaper content plus fixed attention equals pricing pressure. that is the hidden downside. -dridriven cost savings competed away is the base risk. I-enabled entrants are the tail risk. the hinge is margin conversion. the observable is opex per title and operating margin. the breaker is Ultimate Team engagement. the upside is catalog revival. the shield is the license. the pressure is attention. the net is moderately favorable. I production savings must show up in operating margin, not just in more content. hat is the whole question. and it is observable within four quarters. in EA's opex disclosure. and in live-service bookings. and in playtime share data. and in license renewal terms. and in guild agreements. and in new IP hit rate. and in marketing efficiency. and in headcount per title. and in the operating margin line. I production deflation is the mechanism; margin conversion is the test. hat is the thesis. nothing further.production cative production cost deflation is the mechanism.margin conversion is the test.that is the thesis. nothing further.production cost deflation is the mechanism; margin conversion is the test.
Outcome range spread 48 · unresolved
Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:22The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
Looking at the raw numbers first: EA's five-year revenue went from $6.99B (FY22) to $7.53B (FY26) — that's a 1.9% CAGR, essentially flat. Net income has decompressed from $1.27B (FY24) to $887M (FY26), a 30% earnings decline over two years. Operating margin has slid from 20% (FY24) to 15.4% (FY26). FY26 GAAP net margin is 11.8%. Against this trajectory, the market is asking $52.9B — a 59.7x trailing P/E, 7.0x P/S, and 36x EV/EBITDA. That's a growth multiple stapled to no-growth financials. Q1 FY27 (June 2026) did print $1.99B rev / $397M NI, a legitimate step-up in profitability vs. the depressed Q3/Q4 FY25 quarters ($88M and $137M), so there's a plausible margin-recovery narrative if you trust the seasonality. But the December 2025 quarter's 4.6% margin is not a rounding error — it's a warning that live-service comps are lumpy.
The synthesis verdict of "slight upside" with fair value $168.81 pre-adjustment and $208.13 post-adjustment strikes me as fundamentally incoherent — a 23% signal adjustment that conveniently lands within 1% of spot price looks like the model reverse-engineering itself to the tape. I trust the unadjusted $169 far more than the adjusted number, and $169 implies ~20% downside. The thesis-evaluation score of -8 (mildly bearish) is more honest than the "slight upside" tag. The pre-flight framing of EA as a "high-quality software compounder" is generous when revenue CAGR is negative 0.2% and earnings CAGR is -16.5%. Compounders compound. This one is decompounding on the bottom line while getting a compounder multiple. The narrative layer calls the fundamentals-vs-story split "anchored" — I disagree. A 60x P/E on shrinking earnings is a narrative premium; the model is confusing "priced to DCF" with "priced rationally."
The contrarian bull case worth taking seriously: EA Sports FC and Madden are annuities with pricing power, FY27 has the GTA 6 halo tailwind for the whole industry, Battlefield 6 (if it ships and hits) could be a genuine catalyst, and $2.32B FCF against a $52.9B market cap is a 4.4% FCF yield — not cheap, but not absurd for a franchise moat business with zero net debt ($2.86B cash, no debt disclosed). ROIC of 22.4% is legitimately high-quality. The counter: those same franchises produced flat revenue for four years running, and the FY26 margin compression happened during a period where EA's cost base grew faster than its top line. Insider activity is uninformative — all ten transactions are "return to issuer" (tax withholding on vested RSUs), not directional selling. The Q1 FY27 print is one data point; two more quarters of 20% margins would change the picture, but pricing that outcome at 60x P/E in advance is the definition of paying for hope.
My read: EA is a good business trading at a bad price. Fair value on trailing FCF of $2.32B at a defensible 20-22x FCF multiple (appropriate for low-single-digit growth with fortress franchises) gets you $46-51B market cap, or roughly $180-200/share — call it $185 midpoint. The Battlefield/FC27 optionality is real but not worth the extra 15% the market is embedding. I dissent from the synthesis "slight upside" verdict; the honest read is fairly-valued-to-modestly-overvalued, with asymmetric downside if Battlefield disappoints or FY27 sports releases underwhelm. Not a short — the balance sheet and franchise durability preclude that — but not a place to add capital at $210. Wait for either (a) two consecutive quarters confirming the margin recovery is structural, or (b) a pullback to the $175-185 zone where the FCF yield gets interesting.
GPT Reading
EA’s numbers read like a business with excellent economics but very ordinary growth, and at $209.7 the market is paying an extraordinary multiple for that mix. The core fact pattern is hard to dress up: annual revenue has been essentially flat for five years, moving from $6.99B in FY2022 to $7.53B in FY2026, which is barely growth at all. More concerning, profitability has not followed the “high-quality compounder” script. Operating income was $1.52B in both FY2024 and FY2025, then fell to $1.16B in FY2026; net income dropped from $1.27B in FY2024 to $1.12B in FY2025 and then to $887M in FY2026. That is not what a 59.7x earnings multiple is usually attached to. Quarterly data show the same wobble: the last four reported quarters sum to roughly $7.85B of revenue, which is a modest improvement, but net income over those same four quarters was only about $1.08B and included two weak quarters at 7.4% and 4.6% margins before rebounding to ~20%-22%. The rebound is good news, but it also highlights how volatile earnings are beneath a supposedly stable franchise portfolio.
What does deserve respect is the cash profile. EA generated $2.55B of operating cash flow and $2.32B of free cash flow in FY2026 on $7.53B of revenue, a roughly 31% OCF margin and 31% FCF conversion against net income that was much lower. Gross margin near 79% is elite and tells you the digital/live-services model is structurally attractive even if reported earnings are lumpy. The balance sheet also reduces existential risk: $2.86B of cash, no listed debt, and a current ratio just over 1x. On free cash flow, the stock is less absurd than on EPS: a $52.9B market cap against $2.32B of FCF is about a 22.8x price/FCF multiple, expensive but at least within the range of a durable franchise business. That gap between P/E and cash-flow valuation likely reflects heavy non-cash charges and the accounting oddities common in gaming, but I still don’t think investors should ignore the earnings deterioration. If the bull case is that EA is a predictable annuity of sports and live services, then declining operating income on flat sales is the key disconfirming data point.
The market seems to be valuing EA as if a cleaner margin structure is just around the corner, yet the evidence for that is incomplete. Recent quarterly revenue growth is only low single digits, and the long-run revenue CAGR is essentially zero. A business on 7.0x sales and 36x EV/EBITDA should either be expanding meaningfully or showing unmistakable operating leverage; EA is doing neither consistently. Return metrics are solid—ROIC of 22.4% is genuinely strong—but ROE of 13.1% is not spectacular enough to justify paying nearly 8x book for a mature content company. The stock can work from here only if the recent quarter pair with 20%-22% net margins signals a durable reset upward, because at the current price investors are already capitalizing that improvement. My read is that fair value sits below the current quote, not because EA is bad, but because a stable franchise publisher with flat top-line and shrinking annual earnings should not trade like a premium software compounding machine.
The best counterargument is that looking at GAAP earnings undersells the business. A smart bull would point straight to the $2.32B of free cash flow, the debt-free balance sheet, the 79% gross margin, and the latest quarters where net income jumped from $201M in the June 2025 quarter to $397M in June 2026, and from $137M in September 2025 to what appears to be a much healthier run-rate thereafter. They would also argue that sports franchises, catalog depth, and live services make EA closer to a toll road than a hit-driven studio, and on that framing a high-20s FCF multiple could be acceptable. I think that case has merit; in fact it is the reason I am not outright bearish in a dramatic way. But even using cash flow, you are still paying over 20x FCF for a company whose sales have barely moved in five years. That can be justified if margins are set to inflect and buybacks quietly increase per-share value, yet the annual operating trend has gone the other direction. The burden of proof stays with the bull.
What would change my mind is simple and measurable: I’d need to see two things at once—real growth and sustained margin recovery. If annual revenue can push clearly above the old range, say north of $8.0B, while operating income climbs back toward $1.4B-$1.5B, then today’s valuation starts to look more reasonable. Shorter term, if the next few quarters can hold net margins near the recent 20% level rather than slipping back into single digits, that would suggest FY2026 was a trough rather than a warning. Conversely, if revenue stays stuck around $7.5B-$7.8B and annual net income remains sub-$1.0B, I’d see little basis for a $53B equity value.
Grok Reading
The numbers describe a mature cash machine that has stopped compounding. EA generated $7.53B in fiscal 2026 revenue—essentially unchanged from $7.46B the prior year and $7.56B the year before that—producing a five-year revenue CAGR of –0.2%. Net income fell from $1.27B in FY2024 to $1.12B then $887M, a –16.5% earnings CAGR, while operating income compressed from $1.52B to $1.16B and operating margin slid to 15.4%. Against that backdrop the stock trades at $209.70, or roughly 60× trailing earnings, 7.0× sales, and 36× EBITDA. Free cash flow remains the cleanest part of the story: $2.32B of FCF on only $230M of capex, a 4.4% FCF yield, 79% gross margins, zero net debt, and $2.86B of cash. That quality is real, but it is being capitalized as if the company were still a mid-teens grower rather than a flat franchise portfolio.
Recent quarters supply the only green shoots. June-quarter revenue of $1.99B was up nearly 19% from the $1.67B year-earlier period, and the two most recent quarters printed 20–22% net margins after several quarters stuck in single digits. That sequential recovery is why the models land near fair value around $208 and why the narrative layer calls the stock “priced exactly at DCF.” Yet annualizing two strong quarters against a multi-year pattern of stagnation and margin pressure is precisely the error the multiple invites. At 60× earnings and 7× sales the market is embedding a return to mid-teens growth and a sustained climb back toward the 15–17% operating margins of prior peaks—assumptions the longer data series do not support.
The strongest counter-argument is that the sports-license moat (Madden, FC) plus live-service attach rates can stabilize the top line while digital mix keeps gross margins near 80%, turning EA into a high-ROIC (22%) capital-return vehicle whose 4–5% FCF yield plus buybacks is enough. A takeout premium is also plausible given the clean balance sheet and fortress IP; any bid in the mid-$240s would retroactively justify today’s price. Those points explain why valuation synthesis sits only 0.8% below the quote and why thesis mass is nearly balanced. I weigh them less because the earnings power is still declining on an annual basis, competitive intensity in live service is rising, and 36× EBITDA leaves almost no margin of safety if the June-quarter reacceleration proves seasonal rather than structural.
I would reverse the call if the next two reported quarters both deliver year-over-year revenue growth above 8% with operating margins back above 18% on a trailing twelve-month basis, or if a credible strategic bid emerges above $240. Absent that evidence the stock is priced for a recovery the five-year financials have not delivered.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
EA runs a mature, high-margin interactive entertainment business. Gross margin has expanded steadily from 73.4% in FY22 to 79.0-79.3% in FY25-26, reflecting the ongoing mix shift toward live services and digital distribution. Free cash flow is robust and improving: $1.71B, $1.34B, $2.12B, $1.86B, $2.32B across FY22-26, with FY26 OCF/NI at 2.18x and accruals at -8.4% of assets - clean, cash-backed earnings. Altman Z of 6.57 and Beneish M of -3.16 corroborate the earnings-integrity read. Net cash of $2.86B and self-funding operations mean survival math is a non-issue. Two blemishes stand out on interrogation. First, revenue has plateaued around $7.4-7.6B for four years - the business is not compounding organically at the top line, so quality here is durability, not growth. Second, FY26 operating margin dropped to 15.4% from 20.4% in FY25 even as gross margin held near 79% - implying a step-up in opex (marketing, R&D, or one-time charges) that compressed operating leverage; net income fell to $887M from $1.27B in FY24. FCF actually rose in the same year, so the GAAP margin drop is not showing up in cash - worth understanding. Capital allocation looks shareholder-friendly on per-share value: diluted share count fell from 286M to 253M (-11.5% over four years), so buybacks are outrunning stock-based comp dilution. Insider tape shows only F-code tax-withholding returns to issuer on August 2026 vest events - no directional selling signal, contrary to any surface read of 13 sales.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Root cause of FY26 opex step-up (marketing for a title launch, restructuring, impairment, or sustained R&D reinvestment) - determines whether 15.4% OpM is a one-off or a new baseline
- Live-services / net bookings mix and franchise concentration (EA Sports FC, Madden, Apex) from the 10-K - concentration risk not visible in aggregate numbers
- Stock-based comp as a % of revenue and gross buyback spend, to confirm buyback discipline net of SBC
- Any deferred revenue swings that could explain FCF ($2.32B) diverging above net income ($887M) in FY26
- Pipeline and forward bookings guidance to assess whether flat revenue is a plateau or pre-launch trough
The composite fair value sits at $168.81 and the signal-adjusted FV at $208.13 versus a $209.70 price, implying roughly -1% upside. The DCF pins $221 (a modest ~5% premium to price) while the EPV floor of $63.78 is a distant downside marker that would only matter if live-services economics broke. The two credible anchors (composite and DCF) straddle the price, which is the textbook signature of a fairly valued name.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- FY26 operating margin bridge - is the step down mix, marketing timing, or structural?
- FC and Madden live-service bookings trend and battle-pass attach rates
- Guidance on buyback pace and any new-IP pipeline commitments
- Any one-time items depressing FY26 EBIT that would reverse
The macro backdrop is modestly risk-on (VIX 14.3, S&P near highs), which is a mild tailwind for equities broadly - but EA's 0.64 beta means the tape barely touches it. Rates at 4.63% and a stretched market PE are a background pressure, not a specific press on a cash-generative, defensive gaming name. Net macro impact on this ticker: near-neutral. The narrative is the tell. Archetype is steady-compounder, intensity is minimal, cult coefficient low - meaning the market is neither telling a bull story nor a bear story about EA right now. There is no active de-rating, no mania, no thematic bid (AI, obesity, crypto) and no thematic hate (China, ESG, regulatory). The stock is priced essentially at fair value, which itself signals the absence of narrative pressure in either direction. Momentum is flat (-0.2% CAGR, -5.1pp 3y trend) which corroborates: no one is chasing it, no one is dumping it. In a gaming cohort where peers can swing violently on hit-cycle news, EA is currently the boring quote - and boring, in sentiment terms, is Balanced.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Battlefield next-installment reception and pre-order tone
- EA Sports FC engagement/monetization commentary each quarter
- Any sector rotation into or out of interactive entertainment
- Analyst target revisions clustering after the next print
- M&A chatter (EA as acquirer or target) that would inject a narrative overnight
None surfaced.
Verify before trusting this (8)
- license renewal terms and exclusivity
- Ultimate Team monetization per player
- competitor sports-license acquisitions
- engineering/art headcount per title
- indie titles reaching top-20 charts
- stated AI tooling savings in opex
- operating margin recovery above 20%
- R&D dollars per shipped title
Interactive entertainment is in a genuine boom: engagement, digital distribution mix and monetization depth are all expanding, and the industry's margin structure has improved sharply post-cost-cycle. Winners are studios with either platform-scale live services or fresh IP capturing new cohorts. EA sits on the defensive side of that split — its licensed-sports moat (leagues, players' associations, annual habit) is genuinely hard to attack and keeps a large, sticky annuity intact, but it is a maturity asset, not a growth asset, and it does not participate in the category's fastest-growing pockets (mobile UGC, new breakout IP, platform-native social games). Rising development cost per title and AI-era content proliferation raise the bar for any non-franchise release. Net: the world is growing around EA faster than EA is growing, so 'flat with launch-cycle spikes' is the honest structural read.
When we made this prediction on Aug 16, 2026, EA was $209.70. We expect it to be $211.50 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $175.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 16, 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.