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Arch Capital Group Ltd
Financial Services · Insurance - Diversified
Made on Jul 31, 2026
Price at call $101.14
6-month call Bull +10.7%
Target by Jan 2027 $112.00
Great value below $92.00
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 +10.7% to $112.00
Predicted High $112.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $99.80 at 1 month
Max Drawdown (predicted) -1.3%

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 31, 2026 2:07 am
Bull ACGL trends higher to $112.00 (+10.7% from $101.14) by Jan 2027. flat-then-break
ThesisACGL trades at a deep discount to fair value but sentiment is fading and the tape is neutral with no earnings catalyst in window. Expect a slow drift higher toward the attractive-value zone as quality reasserts, but nowhere near the deterministic baseline's aggressive endpoint - value gravity acts slowly here.
Invalidated ifBreak below $92 on rising volume or a catastrophe-loss disclosure would invalidate the drift-higher thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $101.14 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Jul 31, 2026 $101.14 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 14, 2026 $96.24–$106.04 typical range · internal point $100.60 ±4.8% 7/10 Neutral tape, fading sentiment, low-beta drift sideways
What actually happened: closed $98.03 on Aug 13, 2026 = -3.1% vs the call (predicted -0.5%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 2.5 pp  ·  accuracy 9/10  ·  typical range ±4.8%: inside the band  ·  S&P +4.1% over the same window — beat it
1 month Aug 31, 2026 $94.04–$108.24 typical range · internal point $99.80 ±7.0% 6/10 Sentiment fatigue nudges toward attractive-value zone
2 months Oct 1, 2026 $101.50 +0.4% 5/10 Q3 print approaches, quality bid stabilizes shares
3 months Oct 31, 2026 $105.20 +4.0% 5/10 Sixth consecutive EPS beat likely, modest rerating
4 months Dec 1, 2026 $107.80 +6.6% 4/10 Post-earnings drift, value gravity begins to pull
5 months Dec 31, 2026 $110.50 +9.3% 4/10 Year-end quality rotation favors specialty insurer
6 months Jan 31, 2027 $112.00 +10.7% 3/10 Slow convergence toward fair value continues into 2027

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 $259.24 (+156.3%) — 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$101.14
Composite fair value$409.53
Signal-adjusted fair value$509.13
DCF fair value$538.14
Anchored-PE fair value$152.30
Buy-below (value lens)$92.00
Value net score-5
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+76
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 30.0%  3m 24.3%  6m 23.6%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.5%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m -1.00  3m -0.65  5m -0.27  
Trailing 6-month return7.4%

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 30, 2026 freshest ACGL-20260730-203044-ef69
ext-forensic-memo Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-ACGL-20260730-221703-4ae1
ext-lens-quality Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-ACGL-20260730-221703-4ae1
ext-lens-sentiment Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-ACGL-20260730-221703-4ae1
ext-lens-value Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-ACGL-20260730-221703-4ae1
scenario-valuation Jul 30, 2026 freshest ACGL-20260730-215444-59f1
valuation-synthesis Jul 30, 2026 freshest ACGL-20260730-215444-59f1

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 Bull $97.81 $110.50 +13.0% Feb 2027 view
Jul 31, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $101.14 $112.00 +10.7% 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.