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Upwork Inc.
Communication Services · Internet Content & Information
Made on Aug 1, 2026
Price at call $9.16
6-month call Bull +25.5%
Target by Feb 2027 $11.50
Great value below $8.00
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 +25.5% to $11.50
Predicted High $11.50 at 6 months
Predicted Low $9.25 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 1:02 am
Bull UPWK trends higher to $11.50 (+25.5% from $9.16) by Feb 2027. flat-then-break
ThesisUPWK trades at a steep discount to composite fair value ($12.21) and DCF ($15.76) after a brutal -56% six-month drawdown, with quality and forensic profile decent and earnings beats in every recent quarter. Neutral regime and zero sentiment suggest no near-term catalyst, so the path drifts sideways-to-slightly-up initially, then grinds toward value as an earnings print inside the window reprices the name.
Invalidated ifA close below $7.30 (bear scenario) or a Q3/Q4 revenue miss would invalidate the value-convergence thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $9.16 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 1, 2026 $9.16 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 15, 2026 $8.02–$10.30 typical range · internal point $9.25 ±12.4% 7/10 Neutral regime, oversold bounce stalling near current levels
What actually happened: closed $8.49 on Aug 14, 2026 = -7.3% vs the call (predicted +1.0%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 8.3 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±12.4%: inside the band  ·  S&P +4.0% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 1, 2026 $7.51–$10.81 typical range · internal point $9.40 ±18.0% 6/10 Drift as no catalyst, mean reversion from deep drawdown
2 months Oct 1, 2026 $9.80 +7.0% 5/10 Pre-earnings positioning, value buyers step in below $10
3 months Nov 1, 2026 $10.60 +15.7% 5/10 Q3 print likely beats, fifth straight beat reprices
4 months Dec 1, 2026 $10.90 +19.0% 4/10 Post-earnings digestion, sentiment slowly turning
5 months Jan 1, 2027 $11.20 +22.3% 4/10 Value gravity toward anchored-PE and signal-adjusted fair value
6 months Feb 1, 2027 $11.50 +25.5% 3/10 Continued grind toward composite fair value $12.21

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 $11.15 (+21.8%) — 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$9.16
Composite fair value$12.21
Signal-adjusted fair value$11.91
DCF fair value$15.76
Anchored-PE fair value$10.98
Buy-below (value lens)$8.00
Value net score+23
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+36
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 48.3%  3m 62.3%  6m 66.9%  
Daily σ (realism noise)3.9%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.34  3m -0.23  5m 0.50  
Trailing 6-month return-56.4%

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 UPWK-20260730-170257-0649
ext-forensic-memo Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-UPWK-20260730-171811-43d9
ext-lens-quality Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-UPWK-20260730-171811-43d9
ext-lens-sentiment Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-UPWK-20260730-171811-43d9
ext-lens-value Jul 30, 2026 freshest ext-UPWK-20260730-171811-43d9
scenario-valuation Jul 30, 2026 freshest UPWK-20260730-170257-0649
valuation-synthesis Jul 31, 2026 freshest UPWK-20260730-170257-0649

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 $8.19 $10.40 +27.0% Feb 2027 view
Aug 1, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $9.16 $11.50 +25.5% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 11, 2026 v0.3.0 Bull $8.82 $10.35 +17.4% 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.