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Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Healthcare · Medical Devices
Made on Jul 22, 2026
Price at call $84.55
6-month call Neutral -3.6%
Target by Jan 2027 $81.50
Great value below $72.00
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 -3.6% to $81.50
Predicted High $88.10 at 1 month
Predicted Low $81.50 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -3.6%

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 Jul 22, 2026 6:15 am
Neutral EW trends range-bound to $81.50 (-3.6% from $84.55) by Jan 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisEW prints Q2 earnings on 2026-07-23 with a strong beat history (7 of 8) and rising analyst targets, likely fueling a near-term pop. Quality is solid but value lens is negative above $72, so gains fade as valuation gravity reasserts over the medium term in a neutral tape.
Invalidated ifAn earnings miss or guide-down that snaps price below $80, or a break above $92 on sustained volume, would invalidate the fade thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $84.55 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Jul 22, 2026 $84.55 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 5, 2026 $79.71–$89.39 typical range · internal point $87.25 ±5.7% 6/10 Earnings beat likely lifts price post-print
What actually happened: closed $89.60 on Aug 4, 2026 = +6.0% vs the call (predicted +3.2%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was up)  ·  off by 2.8 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±5.7%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +3.2% over the same window — beat it
1 month Aug 22, 2026 $77.54–$91.56 typical range · internal point $88.10 ±8.3% 5/10 Post-earnings drift with analyst upgrades
What actually happened: closed $89.78 on Aug 21, 2026 = +6.2% vs the call (predicted +4.2%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was up)  ·  off by 2.0 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±8.3%: inside the band  ·  S&P +2.3% over the same window — beat it
2 months Sep 22, 2026 $86.80 +2.7% 5/10 Momentum cools, neutral tape caps upside
3 months Oct 22, 2026 $85.00 +0.5% 4/10 Valuation gravity pulls back toward fair range
4 months Nov 22, 2026 $83.50 -1.2% 4/10 Pre-Q3 positioning, value lens weighs
5 months Dec 22, 2026 $82.00 -3.0% 3/10 Year-end tax positioning, mild drift lower
6 months Jan 22, 2027 $81.50 -3.6% 3/10 Mean reversion toward attractive-below level

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 $0.00 (+0.0%) — 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 · 4 notes — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    No usable fair-value anchor — brain-only (anchorless) mode: no v0.3 control line, prediction reasons from lenses/sentiment/regime/price behaviour.
    value_anchor
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: composite_fair_value.
    anchor:composite_fair_value
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: dcf.
    anchor:dcf
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: anchored_pe.
    anchor:anchored_pe
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: signal_adjusted.
    anchor:signal_adjusted

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$84.55
Composite fair value
Signal-adjusted fair value
DCF fair value
Anchored-PE fair value
Buy-below (value lens)
Value net score-25
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+70
Memo confidence— / 10
Deserved value (base)
Quality tilt
Deserved value (used)
Coherence (value × quality)

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 25.8%  3m 28.7%  6m 27.8%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.8%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m -0.24  3m 0.59  5m 0.61  
Trailing 6-month return0.2%

Knobs (equation params)

ladderArray
llm_modelclaude-opus-4-7
max_tokens3000
control_knobsArray
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 #8eb3df85c300

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 Jul 22, 2026 freshest EW-20260722-030001-1fc4
ext-forensic-memo Jul 22, 2026 freshest ext-EW-20260722-055558-e1b4
ext-lens-quality Jul 22, 2026 freshest ext-EW-20260722-055558-e1b4
ext-lens-sentiment Jul 22, 2026 freshest ext-EW-20260722-055558-e1b4
ext-lens-value Jul 22, 2026 freshest ext-EW-20260722-055558-e1b4
scenario-valuation Jul 22, 2026 freshest EW-20260722-030001-1fc4
valuation-synthesis Jul 22, 2026 freshest EW-20260722-030001-1fc4

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 18, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $90.81 $83.50 -8.0% Feb 2027 view
Jul 22, 2026 v0.6.0 Neutral $84.55 $81.50 -3.6% Jan 2027 viewing

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.