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Builders FirstSource Inc.
Industrials · Building Products & Equipment
Made on Aug 4, 2026
Price at call $72.48
6-month call Bull +10.4%
Target by Feb 2027 $80.00
Great value below $65.00
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 +10.4% to $80.00
Predicted High $80.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $69.50 at 1 month
Max Drawdown (predicted) -4.1%

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 Aug 4, 2026 2:47 am
Bull BLDR trends higher to $80.00 (+10.4% from $72.48) by Feb 2027. dip-then-recover
ThesisBLDR trades well below composite fair value but sentiment is decisively negative amid a rolling-over housing narrative and high beta. Expect near-term drift lower or sideways as tape pressure dominates, then a partial mean-reversion toward the low-80s as value gravity reasserts over months, though not a full close of the gap.
Invalidated ifA break below $60 on housing-data deterioration, or conversely a decisive move above $88 negating the bearish sentiment overhang, invalidates this path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $72.48 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 4, 2026 $72.48 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 18, 2026 $64.15–$80.81 typical range · internal point $71.20 ±11.5% 6/10 negative sentiment and housing rollover pressure dominate near-term
What actually happened: closed $70.21 on Aug 17, 2026 = -3.1% vs the call (predicted -1.8%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 1.4 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±11.5%: inside the band  ·  S&P +0.6% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 4, 2026 $60.40–$84.56 typical range · internal point $69.50 ±16.7% 6/10 high-beta cyclical drifts lower absent catalyst
What actually happened: closed $64.18 on Sep 3, 2026 = -11.5% vs the call (predicted -4.1%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 7.3 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±16.7%: inside the band  ·  S&P -0.9% over the same window — beat it
2 months Oct 4, 2026 $71.00 -2.0% 5/10 value buyers begin nibbling below fair-value anchor
3 months Nov 4, 2026 $74.50 +2.8% 5/10 earnings print potential and mean-reversion kick in
4 months Dec 4, 2026 $77.00 +6.2% 4/10 value gravity pulls toward composite fair value
5 months Jan 4, 2027 $78.50 +8.3% 4/10 gradual convergence continues if regime stays risk-on
6 months Feb 4, 2027 $80.00 +10.4% 4/10 partial close of gap toward deterministic baseline

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 $80.35 (+10.9%) — 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$72.48
Composite fair value$86.75
Signal-adjusted fair value$86.00
DCF fair value$99.37
Anchored-PE fair value$57.82
Buy-below (value lens)$65.00
Value net score+22
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+13
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 59.3%  3m 57.7%  6m 53.4%  
Daily σ (realism noise)3.6%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 1.44  3m 1.74  5m 1.74  
Trailing 6-month return-36.7%

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 Aug 3, 2026 freshest BLDR-20260803-170728-7bd8
ext-forensic-memo Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-BLDR-20260803-175932-5e2a
ext-lens-quality Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-BLDR-20260803-175932-5e2a
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-BLDR-20260803-175932-5e2a
ext-lens-value Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-BLDR-20260803-175932-5e2a
scenario-valuation Aug 3, 2026 freshest BLDR-20260803-170728-7bd8
valuation-synthesis Aug 3, 2026 freshest BLDR-20260803-170728-7bd8

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

Saved History

4 frozen snapshots — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Aug 29, 2026 v0.6.0 Neutral $67.72 $64.50 -4.8% Mar 2027 view
Aug 4, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $72.48 $80.00 +10.4% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 14, 2026 v0.3.0 Neutral $75.27 $73.54 -2.3% Jan 2027 view
Jun 12, 2026 v0.3.0 Neutral $78.57 $76.26 -2.9% Dec 2026 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.