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MSCI Inc.
Financial Services · Financial Data & Stock Exchanges
Made on Jul 28, 2026
Price at call $571.03
6-month call Bear -8.1%
Target by Jan 2027 $525.00
Great value below $430.00
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 -8.1% to $525.00
Predicted High $567.50 in 2 weeks
Predicted Low $525.00 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -8.1%

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 28, 2026 12:37 am
Bear MSCI trends lower to $525.00 (-8.1% from $571.03) by Jan 2027. decay
ThesisMSCI trades well above every fair-value anchor, but its franchise quality and lack of near-term catalyst keep the fade gradual. Risk-off regime and value gravity pressure the tape over the six-month window, converging toward but not fully reaching intrinsic value.
Invalidated ifA break above 600 on strong volume or a re-rating to risk-on regime with MSCI outperforming would falsify the drift-lower path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $571.03 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Jul 28, 2026 — $571.03 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 11, 2026 $530.15–$611.91 typical range · internal point $567.50 — ±7.2% 6/10 Risk-off tape and no catalyst; mild drift lower
What actually happened: closed $563.08 on Aug 10, 2026 = -1.4% vs the call (predicted -0.6%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 0.8 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±7.2%: inside the band  ·  S&P +4.4% over the same window — beat it
1 month Aug 28, 2026 $511.78–$630.28 typical range · internal point $560.00 — ±10.4% 6/10 Continued regime pressure, quality bid softens
What actually happened: closed $569.15 on Aug 27, 2026 = -0.3% vs the call (predicted -1.9%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 1.6 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±10.4%: inside the band  ·  S&P +4.1% over the same window — beat it
2 months Sep 28, 2026 $548.00 — -4.0% 5/10 Value gravity begins asserting; premium compresses
What actually happened: closed $551.36 on Sep 25, 2026 = -3.4% vs the call (predicted -4.0%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 0.6 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  S&P +4.2% over the same window — beat it
3 months Oct 28, 2026 $542.00 — -5.1% 5/10 Earnings window; likely beat but rich multiple caps upside
4 months Nov 28, 2026 $536.00 — -6.1% 4/10 Post-print digestion, drift toward baseline continues
5 months Dec 28, 2026 $530.00 — -7.2% 4/10 Year-end positioning, tax considerations on winners
6 months Jan 28, 2027 $525.00 — -8.1% 3/10 Six-month convergence toward deterministic anchor

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 $529.93 (-7.2%) — 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
    Valuation is extremely fragile — almost no scenarios support the current price
    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$571.03
Composite fair value$289.42
Signal-adjusted fair value$330.22
DCF fair value$291.05
Anchored-PE fair value$422.85
Buy-below (value lens)$430.00
Value net score-86
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+100
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 48.4%  3m 35.9%  6m 35.8%  
Daily σ (realism noise)2.3%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m -0.68  3m -0.01  5m 0.21  
Trailing 6-month return-3.2%

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 Jul 28, 2026 freshest MSCI-20260728-000553-c61e
ext-lens-quality Jul 28, 2026 freshest ext-MSCI-20260728-002713-03aa
ext-lens-sentiment Jul 28, 2026 freshest ext-MSCI-20260728-002713-03aa
ext-lens-value Jul 28, 2026 freshest ext-MSCI-20260728-002713-03aa
scenario-valuation Jul 28, 2026 freshest MSCI-20260728-000553-c61e
valuation-synthesis Jul 28, 2026 freshest MSCI-20260728-000553-c61e

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
Sep 18, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $551.73 $520.00 -5.8% Mar 2027 view
Jul 28, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $571.03 $525.00 -8.1% 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.