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Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-23): Designation Watch · Gem Score +5 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 14 · Value -2 · Sentiment -15 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $165.10 vs $52.31 at analysis
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Truist Financial Corporation
TFC NYSETruist Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company and financial services provider headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company focuses on delivering a broad spectrum of banking, trust, and related financial solutions to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and public-sector clients across the United States, with a strong presence in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Truist Financial Corporation operates through wholesale and consumer businesses, offering retail, small business and commercial banking, corporate and investment banking, treasury and capital markets services, commercial real estate lending, and specialized lending. In addition, it provides wealth management, asset management, insurance brokerage, payments services, mortgage banking, and online and point-of-sale consumer lending. Through Truist Bank and other subsidiaries, the company distributes its products via an extensive branch network, ATMs, and digital channels, serving households, municipalities, and institutional clients. Founded in 1872 and headquartered at 214 North Tryon Street in Charlotte, Truist Financial Corporation today ranks among the largest U.S. commercial banks, playing a significant role in regional and national financial markets.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 3.82
Total Equity: $65.19B
Shares: 1,389,267,016
Total Debt: $69.80B
Cash: $36.38B
EBITDA: N/A
Total Debt: $69.80B
Cash: $36.38B
Revenue: $20.32B
Revenue: $20.32B
Revenue: $20.32B
Total Equity: $65.19B
Tax Rate: 16.4%
Equity: $65.19B
Total Debt: $69.80B
Cash: $36.38B
Current Liabilities: N/A
Long-Term Debt: $41.96B
Total Debt: $69.80B
Total Equity: $65.19B
Shares: 1,389,267,016
Shares: 1,389,267,016
CapEx: $0.00
Shares: 1,389,267,016
Stock Price: $52.03
Net Income: $5.31B
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 6, 2026 5:33pm (17d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $22.3B | $23.0B | $23.4B | $13.3B | $20.3B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gross Profit | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Expenses | $8.9B | $8.8B | $9.0B | $6.8B | $7.1B |
| Operating Income | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Income | $6.4B | $6.3B | -$1.1B | $4.8B | $5.3B |
| EBITDA | — | — | — | — | — |
| EPS | $4.51 | $4.46 | $-1.09 | $3.36 | $3.87 |
| EPS (Diluted) | $4.47 | $4.43 | $-1.09 | $3.36 | $3.82 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:36pm (12d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $20.3B | $21.4B | $30.6B | $39.8B | $36.4B |
| Total Current Assets | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total Assets | $541.2B | $555.3B | $535.3B | $531.2B | $547.5B |
| Current Liabilities | — | — | — | — | — |
| Long-Term Debt | $35.9B | $43.2B | $38.9B | $35.0B | $42.0B |
| Total Liabilities | $472.0B | $494.7B | $476.1B | $467.5B | $482.3B |
| Total Equity | $69.3B | $60.5B | $59.3B | $63.7B | $65.2B |
| Retained Earnings | $23.0B | $26.3B | $22.1B | $23.8B | $26.1B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 6, 2026 5:33pm (17d ago)| Metric | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | $7.9B | $11.1B | $8.6B | $2.2B | $5.7B |
| Capital Expenditure | -$442.0M | -$564.0M | — | — | — |
| Free Cash Flow | $7.5B | $10.5B | — | — | — |
| Acquisitions (net) | -$1.6B | -$4.7B | -$17.0M | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | -$3.2B | $8.5B | -$4.1B | -$4.0B | $6.7B |
| Dividends Paid | -$2.5B | -$2.7B | -$2.8B | -$2.8B | -$2.7B |
| Stock Buybacks | -$1.6B | -$250.0M | $0 | -$1.0B | -$2.5B |
| Net Change in Cash | $1.4B | $1.1B | $9.2B | $9.1B | -$3.4B |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 6, 2026 5:33pm (17d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | +3.3% | +1.5% | -43.2% | +53.0% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Operating Income Growth | — | — | — | — |
| Net Income Growth | -2.8% | -117.4% | +541.6% | +10.1% |
| EBITDA Growth | — | — | — | — |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 11, 2026 12:37pm (12d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-08 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2026-02-13 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2025-11-14 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2025-08-08 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2025-05-09 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2025-02-14 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2024-11-08 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2024-08-09 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2024-05-09 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2024-02-08 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2023-11-09 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2023-08-10 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2023-05-11 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2023-02-09 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2022-11-09 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2022-08-11 | $0.52 | — | — | — |
| 2022-05-12 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2022-02-10 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2021-11-10 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
| 2021-08-12 | $0.48 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-12Truist's cost base is overwhelmingly people and process — underwriting, servicing, fraud, KYC/AML, collections, contact centers, compliance reporting. Cheap AI compresses cost-per-transaction inside a bank whose revenue is set by rates and balances, not by headcount, so savings flow toward the efficiency ratio.
Deposits are the moat, and intelligence makes deposits more mobile: agentic cash-management and rate-shopping tools erode the inertia that lets Truist hold low-cost retail balances, raising deposit beta permanently and shrinking NIM even in a good credit environment.
Whether AI-driven expense reduction outpaces AI-driven deposit repricing. Watch noninterest expense per employee and headcount trend against interest-bearing deposit cost/beta in the same quarters — falling expense with stable non-interest-bearing deposit mix confirms the favorable read.
A bank charter, FDIC insurance, decades of primary-checking relationships across the Southeast, regulatory capital, and CRE/commercial underwriting relationships and liability-bearing capacity — none of which cheap software creates.
AI Lens thesis
Truist is not an information product; it is a balance sheet wrapped in a regulated distribution network. AI reaches it in three places: (1) opex — the largest lever, since a bank of this scale carries enormous labor in servicing, compliance, fraud and back-office reconciliation, and these are exactly the tasks LLMs and agents do cheaply; (2) credit and fraud modeling — modest incremental loss-rate benefit, but competitors get the same tools so it is table stakes rather than advantage; (3) the deposit franchise — the real structural risk, because AI-mediated money movement and third-party financial agents reduce the friction that makes cheap deposits sticky, and Truist's funding cost is the single biggest determinant of its earnings power. Because the monetized unit is net interest and fee income on balances, not seats or software, AI cannot commoditize the product itself; it can only change the cost of producing it and the price of funding it. Base case: a multi-year efficiency-ratio grind lower that lands mostly in shareholder returns because regional banking is oligopolistic in deposit gathering and does not competitively dissipate cost savings as fast as pure software does.
What the market may be underestimating
Upside Fraud, AML and KYC are areas where regulators tolerate spend but not errors; AI that cuts false-positive alert volumes materially reduces a large fixed compliance labor pool that has grown for a decade and has never had a deflationary technology applied to it.
Downside Truist's post-merger technology estate is heterogeneous; AI value depends on clean, unified data, and integration debt from BB&T/SunTrust could mean it pays for AI capability while peers with single core platforms convert it to expense reduction faster.
Outcome range spread 36
Claude Reading
The revenue series here is broken and the synthesis is drinking it. Annual "revenue" bouncing from $23.4B (2023) to $13.28B (2024) to $20.32B (2025) is not a real top-line trajectory for a bank of this scale — it's almost certainly a mix of interest income vs. net interest income vs. total revenue definitions colliding, likely compounded by the Truist Insurance Holdings divestiture that closed in 2024 (~$15.5B deal). The -6.8% revenue CAGR and 53% recent YoY are both artifacts. Any DCF built on this — which is how the synthesis arrives at a $131 "fair value" against a $52 tape — is garbage in, garbage out. A regional bank does not trade at 60% below DCF fair value while carrying an 8.1% ROE and 1.1x book; that gap is the model, not the market.
What the actual numbers say: net income run-rate is now $1.55B in Q2 2026, up from $1.24B a year prior — roughly 25% YoY earnings growth off a post-TIH-sale, cleaned-up base. Annualize the last four quarters and you get ~$5.83B NI, or ~$4.30 EPS on ~1.35B shares, putting the forward P/E closer to 12x, not 13.7x. ROE at 8.1% is subpar (USB/PNC/JPM run 11-15%), ROA at 0.97% is mediocre for a scale bank, and the 1.11x P/B discount to peers at 1.4-1.6x is *earned*, not irrational. The 4% dividend at a 50% payout is covered but not a steal — it's what the market pays for average regional bank ROE with lingering CRE overhang and a still-unproven post-merger operating model. Insider activity skews to sales (three sales, one award, in a 10-day July window), which is mildly negative but small-dollar and consistent with routine vesting.
The prior models are all over the map and I trust almost none of them at face value. The synthesis's $131 fair value is nonsense for reasons above. The market-forces "neutral, limited upside" read is directionally right but underweights that Truist has actually re-accelerated earnings post-divestiture — Q2 2026 NI is the highest print in the series. The narrative layer's "fallen angel, 0.4x book" bull story is factually wrong (P/B is 1.11x, not 0.4x), which tells me that engine hallucinated a data point; discount it. The pre-flight "mature earner, discount-to-USB/PNC" framing is the most honest read here — TFC is a middling regional trading at a deserved but not extreme discount to best-in-class peers, with optionality on ROE improvement as the TIH-sale capital gets redeployed and the loan book normalizes.
A contrarian bull would argue: post-TIH, Truist has $10B+ of excess capital, is buying back stock aggressively, and Q2 2026 NI of $1.55B annualizes to a ~9% ROE trajectory — closing half the gap to peers gets you to 1.3x book, or ~$61, plus you collect a 4% yield while waiting. That's a credible 20% total return case over 18 months if CRE losses don't spike. A contrarian bear counters: office CRE marks are still working through, NIM is peak-cycle and compresses as the Fed cuts, and the $69.8B debt vs. $65.2B equity ratio leaves little cushion if credit turns; deserved multiple is 1.0x book or $47. I lean modestly bullish — the earnings trajectory is real, the capital return story is real, and 12x forward earnings for a 4%-yielding scale bank with improving ROE is not demanding. But this is emphatically NOT a 150% upside stock; the synthesis is broken.
GPT Reading
The first thing that jumps out is that the headline annual revenue series is not clean enough to support any heroic valuation claim, and that alone is enough to reject the absurd $131 “fair value” output. A bank showing revenue of $23.39B in 2023, collapsing to $13.28B in 2024, then rebounding to $20.32B in 2025 is telling you either the accounting line is moving around with balance sheet marks, security gains/losses, or data classification issues—not that the franchise value doubled and halved in two years. What is more usable is the earnings path: after the 2023 loss of $1.09B, Truist has re-established profitability, earning $4.82B in 2024 and $5.31B in 2025, with quarterly net income running from $1.24B to $1.55B over the last six reported quarters. That looks like a repaired earnings base, not a broken bank. At a $63.35B market cap, the stock trades around 11.9x 2025 earnings and 1.11x book, with a 4.0% dividend yield and roughly 50% payout. For a large regional bank earning only 8.1% ROE, that multiple is not cheap in absolute terms, but it is not distressed either.
The core issue is that the market is paying slightly above book for a franchise that is still producing subpar returns on that book. With equity of $65.19B and net income of $5.31B, Truist is earning materially less than what a high-quality regional should if it deserves a premium multiple; 8%-ish ROE supports something around book, not a major re-rating. The recovery in quarterly profit is encouraging—Q2 2026 net income of $1.55B annualizes above 2025 levels—but even that only gets you to roughly $6.0B-$6.2B of earnings power, which would still be a high-single-digit to low-double-digit ROTCE/ROE story unless capital shrinks or efficiency improves meaningfully. Debt of $69.8B versus $36.4B cash is not alarming for a bank in isolation, but it does underscore that this is a spread business in a macro environment that still carries deposit-cost pressure and credit uncertainty. If I strip away the noisy revenue line and just look at normalized earnings, capital, and dividend capacity, I see a competent but not yet exceptional bank priced about where it should be.
What stands out most is the disconnect between “fallen angel” rhetoric and the actual numbers. If this were truly a broken post-merger franchise, you would expect stagnant or deteriorating quarterly earnings; instead, net income has climbed from $1.24B in Q2 2025 to $1.55B in Q2 2026, a roughly 25% improvement. But the opposite extreme—that the stock is wildly undervalued—also falls apart because the balance sheet and return metrics do not support a premium. A 1.11x P/B on 8.14% ROE means investors are already giving management some credit for further normalization. Put differently: if Truist were sustainably earning 11%-12% on equity, $52 would look cheap. Based on the data here, it is not there yet. The stock seems to be trading on a “good enough recovery” framework: income stabilized, dividend looks serviceable, and downside catastrophe fears have eased. That is a fair setup for a low-50s stock, not a double-from-here story.
The best argument against my read is simple: earnings momentum is better than the valuation implies, and the market may still be anchoring too much on the 2023-2024 mess. If the recent quarterly run-rate is the right base, Truist could earn above $6B, pushing the forward P/E closer to 10x while paying a 4% yield. For a large Southeast/Mid-Atlantic regional with diversified fee businesses, that could justify 1.2x-1.3x book, which would mean meaningful upside from here. The 2026 quarterly sequence of $1.45B, $1.35B, $1.48B, and $1.55B does suggest a fairly stable to improving earnings cadence, and if the ugly annual revenue figures are just accounting noise, then the market may be underestimating underlying pre-provision earnings power. I weigh that less heavily because even on the better earnings base, the stock is only modestly cheap, not dramatically mispriced, and the data set lacks the operating-detail proof—net interest margin, expenses, credit costs, deposit trends—that would let me underwrite a full peer-like re-rating.
What would change my mind is tangible evidence that returns are crossing the threshold from “recovered” to “good.” If upcoming annualized earnings move convincingly above $6.0B while equity stays around the current $65B, lifting ROE toward 9.5%-10% or better, then a valuation above 1.2x book becomes easier to defend and I would turn constructive above the low-$50s. Conversely, if quarterly net income slips back toward the $1.2B area, implying sub-$5B annual earnings, then even 1.11x book is too generous and the stock should be in the mid-to-high $40s. The key is not the noisy revenue line; it is whether Truist can prove sustained double-digit-ish earnings growth without taking outsized credit or funding risk.
Grok Reading
Truist’s numbers describe a post-crisis regional bank that has already done most of the mechanical recovery work and is now stuck in the harder middle innings of proving it can earn an acceptable return on equity. Annual net income climbed from a 2023 loss of $1.09B to $4.82B in 2024 and $5.31B in 2025; the last four reported quarters annualize closer to $5.8B, so the earnings trajectory is still gently upward. Revenue, however, is a mess of accounting noise—$23.4B in 2023, a collapsed $13.3B in 2024, then $20.3B in 2025—consistent with the insurance-business disposal and NII volatility rather than a clean growth story. At $52 the stock trades 13.7× trailing earnings, 1.11× book, and a 4.0% dividend yield on a 50% payout. With ROE still only 8.1% and ROA under 1%, a 1.1× price-to-book multiple is roughly what a bank that earns near its cost of capital deserves; the market is not handing out a free lunch.
What stands out against the prior model stack is how badly the composite fair-value figure of ~$131 collides with the underlying franchise economics. That number implies more than 150% upside and cannot be reconciled with an 8% ROE, negative multi-year revenue CAGR of roughly 7%, and lagging peer profitability. The same synthesis correctly flags “methods disagree—treat with caution” and then still prints an extreme target; the raw balance-sheet and return data are the better anchor. Insider activity is a mild negative (recent open-market sales of roughly 30k shares against small awards), and the secondary signals correctly label the name as lagging sector peers under macro headwinds. The “fallen-angel / 0.4× book” bull narrative in the briefing is simply stale—the stock is already at 1.1× book—so anyone still pitching fortress-balance-sheet deep value is arguing from old prices.
The strongest case against a fair-value read is the peer gap and the improving run-rate. PNC and U.S. Bancorp still clear higher multiples on tangible book precisely because they clear higher ROEs; if Truist’s quarterly NI progression from $1.24B–$1.26B in early 2025 to $1.48B–$1.55B in the first half of 2026 continues and efficiency gains finally push ROE toward 11–12%, the multiple can re-rate toward 1.3–1.4× book and the stock has 20–30% upside plus the dividend. Operating cash flow of $5.74B against a $63B equity value also supports the capital-return story, and a sub-14× earnings multiple leaves limited room for multiple compression if rates stabilize. That is a coherent bull path, but it requires execution that the merger integration history and current 8% ROE have not yet demonstrated.
I would flip to a clear undervalued stance if the next two quarters show ROE sustainably above 10% with net interest margin stability and no material CRE reserve build, or if management commits to a larger capital-return program that drops the payout below 45% while still growing the dividend. I would flip outright bearish if quarterly NI falls back below $1.2B, if the tangible common equity ratio deteriorates, or if CRE charge-offs force a cut to the $0.52-run-rate dividend. Until one of those paths resolves, $52 looks like a fair price for an average regional bank that has finished repairing itself but has not yet earned a premium.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Truist generates real cash — roughly 5.7B of FCF in 2025 on 20.3B of revenue, with 36.4B of liquid assets on the balance sheet. Share count has drifted down at a -0.9% CAGR with buybacks running 342% of SBC and SBC only 1.6% of revenue, so per-share value is being modestly concentrated rather than diluted. Classification as a mature_earner fits: this is a scaled regional bank, not a growth story. The earnings record is bumpy in a way that warrants scrutiny. Net income swung from 6.4B (2021) to -1.1B (2023, likely goodwill impairment / Insurance Holdings divestiture) to 4.8B (2024) to 5.3B (2025), and revenue optically dropped from 23.4B to 13.3B before rebounding to 20.3B — consistent with the Truist Insurance Holdings sale and portfolio repositioning rather than core deterioration, but it does mean the reported series is noisy. OCF/NI at -0.68x for the period flagged and accruals at -0.5% of assets are not alarming for a bank where OCF is dominated by trading/loan flows. Altman Z of 0.18 is not meaningful for a deposit-funded bank; the model is calibrated for industrials. Insider tape is mildly negative-tinted (three sales including the CEO, zero open-market buys) but the dollar amounts are small and consistent with routine executive liquidity. Overall this reads as a sound, unremarkable large regional bank — solid rather than fortress.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Whether the 2023 net loss was driven by goodwill impairment tied to Truist Insurance Holdings, and the size of any other one-timers
- Core NIM, efficiency ratio, and CET1 trajectory 2023-2025 to confirm underlying franchise trend
- Credit quality: NPL ratio, net charge-offs, allowance coverage on commercial real estate exposure
- Capital return plan and remaining buyback authorization after the insurance sale proceeds
- Deposit composition and uninsured deposit share post-2023 regional-bank stress
The e2e composite fair value of $139.15 (signal-adjusted $131.22) implies 150%+ upside, which is not believable for a mature super-regional bank; anchored-PE on a year that included a large one-time insurance divestiture gain and choppy GAAP earnings almost certainly overshoots. A sober deserved value for TFC sits closer to tangible book to ~1.1x TBV plus a normalized ~10% ROTCE - roughly $58-$65 per share - against today's $52.31. That framing puts the stock modestly below deserved value, not deeply discounted.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Normalized ROTCE ex-insurance-gain and ex-restructuring charges
- Office CRE exposure, reserve coverage, and criticized loan trends
- Deposit beta and NIM trajectory in latest guidance
- Tangible book value per share and buyback pace
- Any capital return updates (dividend, repurchase authorization)
The macro backdrop is mildly supportive: VIX at 15, S&P near highs, and a risk-on tilt that historically lifts beaten-down regional banks. TFC's beta of 0.87 means the tape neither punishes nor rescues it dramatically; the real pressure is narrative-driven. The story on this name is a 'fallen angel' - trading at a steep discount to book with a 5%+ yield, but the market has clearly re-rated terminal ROE lower rather than treating the discount as temporary. Intensity is moderate and durability is fragile, meaning sentiment can flip either way on a single data point (CRE mark, deposit trend, capital return update). Recent momentum is a genuine positive counter-current: +53% recent vs a -6.8% long-term CAGR and +30pp over three years suggests the worst of the SVB-era despair is being unwound, and analyst tone from TFC itself (upgrading BBY, active research desk) reflects a bank operating normally, not one in crisis. But the 10y at 4.72% keeps the deposit-cost and CRE-office overhang alive as the dominant bear anchor. Net: the narrative is still bearish-structural, the macro is a mild offset, and news flow on the name itself is quiet. That leaves a moderate headwind - the story hasn't broken bullish yet, and until it does, rallies get sold into.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- CRE office reserve/charge-off trends in next quarterly report - the single biggest narrative breaker or confirmer
- Deposit cost trajectory and NIM guidance - would flip the structural-ROE bear case
- Any KRE/regional-bank ETF rotation signal; sector-level flows drive TFC more than idiosyncratic news
- 10y yield direction - a break below 4.5% would materially ease the sector overhang
- Capital return update (buyback resumption) as a potential narrative catalyst
Truist is not an information product; it is a balance sheet wrapped in a regulated distribution network. AI reaches it in three places: (1) opex — the largest lever, since a bank of this scale carries enormous labor in servicing, compliance, fraud and back-office reconciliation, and these are exactly the tasks LLMs and agents do cheaply; (2) credit and fraud modeling — modest incremental loss-rate benefit, but competitors get the same tools so it is table stakes rather than advantage; (3) the deposit franchise — the real structural risk, because AI-mediated money movement and third-party financial agents reduce the friction that makes cheap deposits sticky, and Truist's funding cost is the single biggest determinant of its earnings power. Because the monetized unit is net interest and fee income on balances, not seats or software, AI cannot commoditize the product itself; it can only change the cost of producing it and the price of funding it. Base case: a multi-year efficiency-ratio grind lower that lands mostly in shareholder returns because regional banking is oligopolistic in deposit gathering and does not competitively dissipate cost savings as fast as pure software does.
None surfaced.
Verify before trusting this (8)
- Absolute noninterest expense trend
- Headcount and branch reductions
- Positive operating leverage quarters
- Primary checking account growth
- Commercial loan demand trend
- Treasury services fee revenue
- Non-interest-bearing deposit share
- Interest-bearing deposit beta
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When we made this prediction on Aug 12, 2026, TFC was $52.31. We expect it to be $62.00 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $46.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 12, 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.