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Sun Life Financial Inc.
Financial Services · Insurance - Diversified
Made on Jul 25, 2026
Price at call $82.25
6-month call Bear -6.6%
Target by Jan 2027 $76.80
Great value below $68.00
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 -6.6% to $76.80
Predicted High $82.00 in 2 weeks
Predicted Low $76.80 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -6.6%

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 25, 2026 12:04 pm
Bear SLF trends lower to $76.80 (-6.6% from $82.25) by Jan 2027. decay
ThesisSLF is materially overvalued vs composite fair value near $46 but supported by strong momentum (+31.5% 6mo), 5/5 earnings beats, and a defensive low-beta profile. With no immediate catalyst and neutral regime, expect gradual mean-reversion pressure toward the deterministic $76.70 endpoint, with earnings prints capable of temporarily stabilizing the tape.
Invalidated ifA break above $86 on strong volume or a materially better-than-expected earnings beat 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 $82.25 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Jul 25, 2026 $82.25 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 8, 2026 $79.20–$85.30 typical range · internal point $82.00 ±3.7% 7/10 Low-vol drift, no catalyst, neutral tape holds
What actually happened: closed $81.95 on Aug 7, 2026 = -0.4% vs the call (predicted -0.3%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 0.1 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±3.7%: inside the band  ·  S&P +4.7% over the same window — beat it
1 month Aug 25, 2026 $77.84–$86.66 typical range · internal point $81.30 ±5.4% 6/10 Mild gravity as momentum cools, no news
2 months Sep 25, 2026 $80.20 -2.5% 5/10 Value gap begins asserting, sector rotation risk
3 months Oct 25, 2026 $79.50 -3.3% 5/10 Q3 print likely beats but guidance caps upside
4 months Nov 25, 2026 $78.30 -4.8% 4/10 Post-earnings drift lower toward fair value
5 months Dec 25, 2026 $77.40 -5.9% 4/10 Year-end tax positioning on extended winners
6 months Jan 25, 2027 $76.80 -6.6% 4/10 Convergence to 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 $76.70 (-6.7%) — 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 · 2 degraded · 1 note — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    High debt risk — interest coverage dangerously low or refinancing needed
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Degraded
    Revenue is volatile and unreliable — growth projections are speculative
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: dcf.
    anchor:dcf

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$82.25
Composite fair value$46.44
Signal-adjusted fair value$44.30
DCF fair value
Anchored-PE fair value$46.44
Buy-below (value lens)$68.00
Value net score-57
Value confidence5 / 10
Quality net score+36
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 14.4%  3m 18.6%  6m 20.3%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.2%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.36  3m 0.27  5m 0.52  
Trailing 6-month return31.5%

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 #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 Jul 25, 2026 freshest SLF-20260725-101648-48e9
ext-forensic-memo Jul 25, 2026 freshest ext-SLF-20260725-114448-7c79
ext-lens-quality Jul 25, 2026 freshest ext-SLF-20260725-114448-7c79
ext-lens-sentiment Jul 25, 2026 freshest ext-SLF-20260725-114448-7c79
ext-lens-value Jul 25, 2026 freshest ext-SLF-20260725-114448-7c79
scenario-valuation Jul 25, 2026 freshest SLF-20260725-101648-48e9
valuation-synthesis Jul 25, 2026 freshest SLF-20260725-101648-48e9

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 21, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $78.80 $88.80 +12.7% Feb 2027 view
Jul 25, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $82.25 $76.80 -6.6% 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.