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The Charles Schwab Corporation
Financial Services · Capital Markets
Made on Sep 5, 2026
Price at call $109.28
6-month call Bull +21.7%
Target by Mar 2027 $133.00
Great value below $95.00
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 +21.7% to $133.00
Predicted High $133.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $111.20 in 2 weeks

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 Sep 5, 2026 1:00 pm
Bull SCHW trends higher to $133.00 (+21.7% from $109.28) by Mar 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisSCHW trades well below composite fair value with quality tailwinds, a risk-on tape, and a rate-cut narrative supporting a gradual grind higher. Momentum and sentiment lift the first weeks, then value gravity toward the $135 DCF/baseline dominates the back half, with no earnings catalyst to disrupt.
Invalidated ifA break below $95 buy-zone or regime flip to risk-off with SCHW losing the 50-day would falsify the up-drift thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $109.28 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Sep 5, 2026 — $109.28 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 19, 2026 $104.30–$114.26 typical range · internal point $111.20 — ±4.6% 7/10 Risk-on tape and buy-zone setup extend near-term drift
What actually happened: closed $105.25 on Sep 18, 2026 = -3.7% vs the call (predicted +1.8%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 5.4 pp  ·  accuracy 8/10  ·  typical range ±4.6%: inside the band  ·  S&P -0.9% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Oct 5, 2026 $102.07–$116.49 typical range · internal point $113.50 — ±6.6% 6/10 Rate-cut narrative supports brokers, momentum continues
What actually happened: closed $96.70 on Oct 2, 2026 = -11.5% vs the call (predicted +3.9%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 15.4 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±6.6%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +0.1% over the same window — lagged it
2 months Nov 5, 2026 $117.00 — +7.1% 5/10 Sentiment tailwind persists absent catalyst
3 months Dec 5, 2026 $121.00 — +10.7% 5/10 Year-end positioning toward quality financials
4 months Jan 5, 2027 $125.00 — +14.4% 4/10 January earnings anticipation, beat streak priced in
5 months Feb 5, 2027 $130.00 — +19.0% 4/10 Value gravity toward DCF fair value engages
6 months Mar 5, 2027 $133.00 — +21.7% 4/10 Converges toward deterministic baseline endpoint

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 $134.07 (+22.7%) — 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

0 blocking · 1 degraded · 0 notes — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [caution] Sector in contraction — demand weakening across the industry
    upstream:valuation-synthesis

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$109.28
Composite fair value$185.03
Signal-adjusted fair value$214.33
DCF fair value$137.54
Anchored-PE fair value$280.00
Buy-below (value lens)$95.00
Value net score-2
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+55
Memo confidence7 / 10
Deserved value (base)—
Quality tilt—
Deserved value (used)—
Coherence (value × quality)—

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 20.0%  3m 22.9%  6m 26.1%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.4%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.61  3m -0.03  5m 0.10  
Trailing 6-month return14.8%

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 4, 2026 31d behind SCHW-20260804-002630-6c95
ext-forensic-memo Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-SCHW-20260904-231750-701f
ext-lens-quality Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-SCHW-20260904-231750-701f
ext-lens-sentiment Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-SCHW-20260904-231750-701f
ext-lens-value Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-SCHW-20260904-231750-701f
scenario-valuation Sep 4, 2026 freshest SCHW-20260904-230001-3de1
valuation-synthesis Sep 4, 2026 freshest SCHW-20260904-230001-3de1

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

Saved History

9 frozen snapshots — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Sep 18, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $104.88 $134.00 +27.8% Mar 2027 view
Sep 5, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $109.28 $133.00 +21.7% Mar 2027 viewing
Aug 31, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $109.92 $126.50 +15.1% Mar 2027 view
Aug 27, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $108.04 $126.00 +16.6% Feb 2027 view
Aug 24, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $113.10 $132.00 +16.7% Feb 2027 view
Aug 19, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $110.86 $133.50 +20.4% Feb 2027 view
Aug 14, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $110.06 $134.50 +22.2% Feb 2027 view
Aug 4, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $105.87 $123.50 +16.7% Feb 2027 view
Jun 29, 2026 v0.3.0 Neutral $90.67 $93.34 +2.9% Dec 2026 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.