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Kinsale Capital Group, Inc.
Financial Services · Insurance - Property & Casualty
Made on Aug 29, 2026
Price at call $380.61
6-month call Bull +19.5%
Target by Mar 2027 $455.00
Great value below $320.00
Model v0.6.0

Projection vs Actual (6M history + forecast)

The masterbrain's trajectory (blue, curved through its 7 checkpoints), the deterministic v0.3 control (dashed), and the actual price (green) overlaid from the prediction date forward.
Forecast Change +19.5% to $455.00
Predicted High $455.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $378.00 in 2 weeks
Max Drawdown (predicted) -0.7%

Forecast

The masterbrain trajectory — 7 dated checkpoints. Short rungs (2w, 1m) show the typical range as the primary claim; point calls run from 2 months out. Every claim still gets graded. Predicted Aug 29, 2026 1:04 pm
Bull KNSL trends higher to $455.00 (+19.5% from $380.61) by Mar 2027. flat-then-break
ThesisKNSL trades at roughly half of composite fair value with elite quality (83/100) and a perfect 5/5 earnings beat streak, but faces a fallen-angel narrative and P&C sector pressure that caps near-term upside. Expect a choppy base near current levels for the first month, then a gradual grind higher as risk-on regime persists and value gravity asserts itself, with a Q3 earnings print in late October acting as a catalyst.
Invalidated ifA close below $320 (value trigger breached to downside) or a Q3 earnings miss breaking the 5/5 beat streak would falsify the recovery path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $380.61 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 29, 2026 — $380.61 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 12, 2026 $351.14–$410.08 typical range · internal point $378.00 — ±7.7% 6/10 Neutral drift, sector pressure offsets risk-on tape
What actually happened: closed $360.01 on Sep 11, 2026 = -5.4% vs the call (predicted -0.7%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 4.7 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±7.7%: inside the band  ·  S&P -0.7% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Sep 29, 2026 $337.90–$423.32 typical range · internal point $384.00 — ±11.2% 5/10 Mild bid as fallen-angel narrative stabilizes
What actually happened: closed $324.92 on Sep 28, 2026 = -14.6% vs the call (predicted +0.9%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 15.5 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±11.2%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P -0.4% over the same window — lagged it
2 months Oct 29, 2026 $405.00 — +6.4% 5/10 Q3 earnings beat likely, sixth straight quarter
3 months Nov 29, 2026 $418.00 — +9.8% 4/10 Post-earnings drift higher on quality re-rating
4 months Dec 29, 2026 $425.00 — +11.7% 4/10 Year-end positioning favors quality compounders
5 months Jan 29, 2027 $440.00 — +15.6% 3/10 January value rotation, gap toward fair value
6 months Mar 1, 2027 $455.00 — +19.5% 3/10 Continued convergence toward anchored-PE fair value

Why ranges on the short rungs? A 102-prediction trial (2026-07-21) showed 2-week point calls carry no information here — three prompt formulations all lost to simply predicting zero — while the stock's own volatility scale (σ×√t) described those windows well. So the short rungs claim what's actually knowable: the typical travel, with earnings timing flagged where the variance will come from. The internal point calls keep being generated and graded to map where real skill begins. Full evidence: stocks/predictions/V0.5-DESIGN.md §8.

Deterministic control (v0.3 value line) targets $573.45 (+50.7%) — both lines get graded at every checkpoint, so the brain has to beat the formula, not just replace it. Brain: claude-opus-4-7.

Weaknesses

No weaknesses recorded for this run.

All inputs present, no fallbacks used — nothing to flag.

Equation Inputs

Everything feeding the v0.6.0 model — value anchors, the stock's own price behaviour, and the tunable knobs.

Value anchors (from deep analysis)

Price at call$380.61
Composite fair value$722.07
Signal-adjusted fair value$833.72
DCF fair value$897.93
Anchored-PE fair value$370.34
Buy-below (value lens)$320.00
Value net score+10
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+83
Memo confidence6 / 10
Deserved value (base)—
Quality tilt—
Deserved value (used)—
Coherence (value × quality)—

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 23.1%  3m 38.9%  6m 35.6%  
Daily σ (realism noise)2.4%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m -0.89  3m -1.05  5m -0.58  
Trailing 6-month return-2.3%

Knobs (equation params)

ladder["w2","m1","m2","m3","m4","m5","m6"]
llm_modelclaude-opus-4-7
max_tokens3000
control_knobs{"w_dcf":0.5,"k_qual":0.200000000000000011102230246251565404236316680908203125,"reach_6m":0.450000000000000011102230246251565404236316680908203125,"coh_floor":0.5,"conf_gain":0.059999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"noise_phi":0.84999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"conf_floor":0.40000000000000002220446049250313080847263336181640625,"w_composite":0.5,"noise_window":"3m","flat_band_pct":5,"horizon_months":6,"noise_sigma_fallback":0.01499999999999999944488848768742172978818416595458984375}
Neutral band (%)5
earnings_briefv1
prompt_versionp1
control_versionv0.3.0

Version & Tech Chain

What produced this prediction — stamped on the record so versions can be compared by success rate later.
Model v0.6.0 #271041f8fcd5

Tech composition (what this version is built from)

#ProcessKindGroup
1 Synthesis valuation-synthesis deterministic final
2 Scenario Analysis scenario-valuation deterministic valuation
3 Valuation / Mispricing ext-lens-value llm extended
4 Company Quality ext-lens-quality llm extended
5 Forensic Memo (combiner) ext-forensic-memo llm extended
6 Classification company-classification llm foundation
7 Live Quote fmp-quote data market-data

Inputs used (the runs that fed this prediction)

Upstream processRanLagRun id
company-classification Aug 3, 2026 25d behind KNSL-20260803-125507-21d3
ext-forensic-memo Aug 29, 2026 freshest ext-KNSL-20260829-004648-25b7
ext-lens-quality Aug 29, 2026 freshest ext-KNSL-20260829-004648-25b7
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 29, 2026 freshest ext-KNSL-20260829-004648-25b7
ext-lens-value Aug 29, 2026 freshest ext-KNSL-20260829-004648-25b7
scenario-valuation Aug 29, 2026 freshest KNSL-20260829-003001-6d99
valuation-synthesis Aug 29, 2026 freshest KNSL-20260829-003001-6d99

Inputs flagged 7d+ behind the freshest one may be stale relative to the rest of the analysis.

Saved History

2 frozen snapshots — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Aug 29, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $380.61 $455.00 +19.5% Mar 2027 viewing
Aug 4, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $360.44 $435.00 +20.7% Feb 2027 view

Not Yet Modeled

What this v0.6.0 forecast deliberately ignores — the work ahead, in plain sight.
  • Scenario probabilities — one path, no bull/bear split (base_prob = 1.0).
  • Intraday / sub-2-week behaviour — the first claim is at 14 days by design (EOD product).
  • Position sizing / portfolio context — the path is a price claim only.