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Financial Services · Banks - Regional
Made on Aug 1, 2026
Price at call $175.21
6-month call Neutral +4.8%
Target by Feb 2027 $183.60
Great value below $155.00
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 +4.8% to $183.60
Predicted High $183.60 at 6 months
Predicted Low $175.80 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 Aug 1, 2026 1:01 am
Neutral BPOP trends range-bound to $183.60 (+4.8% from $175.21) by Feb 2027. flat-then-break
ThesisBPOP is a low-beta compounder trading near composite fair value after a strong 6-month run. Value gravity slowly pulls toward the $180-185 anchor zone, but momentum has largely spent itself and a neutral regime caps upside. Path is a gentle drift higher with modest chop.
Invalidated ifClose below $161.50 (bear scenario) or above $205 breaks the drift thesis; regime shift to risk-off would also invalidate.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $175.21 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 1, 2026 $175.21 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 15, 2026 $168.67–$181.75 typical range · internal point $175.80 ±3.7% 7/10 Low beta, neutral regime, no catalyst; drifts flat
What actually happened: closed $177.87 on Aug 14, 2026 = +1.5% vs the call (predicted +0.3%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 1.2 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±3.7%: inside the band  ·  S&P +4.0% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 1, 2026 $165.73–$184.69 typical range · internal point $176.90 ±5.4% 6/10 Slow grind toward fair value, quiet tape
2 months Oct 1, 2026 $178.50 +1.9% 5/10 Q3 earnings anticipation nudges price higher
3 months Nov 1, 2026 $180.20 +2.8% 5/10 Earnings beat likely given 3 of 4 track record
4 months Dec 1, 2026 $181.50 +3.6% 4/10 Post-earnings drift toward composite fair value
5 months Jan 1, 2027 $182.80 +4.3% 4/10 Year-end positioning, boring compounder favored
6 months Feb 1, 2027 $183.60 +4.8% 3/10 Converges near DCF and composite anchors

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 $182.50 (+4.2%) — 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

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$175.21
Composite fair value$180.70
Signal-adjusted fair value$204.27
DCF fair value$184.58
Anchored-PE fair value$172.93
Buy-below (value lens)$155.00
Value net score+24
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+38
Memo confidence6 / 10
Deserved value (base)
Quality tilt
Deserved value (used)
Coherence (value × quality)

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 16.8%  3m 18.7%  6m 22.6%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.2%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.98  3m 0.39  5m 0.53  
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 30, 2026 freshest BPOP-20260730-180457-6dfa
ext-forensic-memo Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-BPOP-20260730-184535-1d9b
ext-lens-quality Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-BPOP-20260730-184535-1d9b
ext-lens-sentiment Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-BPOP-20260730-184535-1d9b
ext-lens-value Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-BPOP-20260730-184535-1d9b
scenario-valuation Jul 30, 2026 freshest BPOP-20260730-180457-6dfa
valuation-synthesis Jul 31, 2026 freshest BPOP-20260730-180457-6dfa

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

Saved History

3 frozen snapshots — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Aug 18, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $176.91 $188.00 +6.3% Feb 2027 view
Aug 1, 2026 v0.6.0 Neutral $175.21 $183.60 +4.8% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 24, 2026 v0.6.0 Neutral $170.88 $173.50 +1.5% Jan 2027 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.