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Howmet Aerospace Inc.
Industrials · Aerospace & Defense
Made on Aug 8, 2026
Price at call $281.88
6-month call Bear -8.5%
Target by Feb 2027 $258.00
Great value below $195.00
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 -8.5% to $258.00
Predicted High $288.00 at 1 month
Predicted Low $258.00 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -8.5%

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 8, 2026 12:55 am
Bear HWM trends lower to $258.00 (-8.5% from $281.88) by Feb 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisHWM rides aerospace supercycle momentum and risk-on tape near-term with beat-and-raise tailwinds, but extreme overvaluation (5x fair value) creates gravity that caps upside and induces mild mean-reversion over 6 months. No earnings catalyst in window means momentum decay dominates the back half.
Invalidated ifBreak below $250 on volume, or aerospace demand guide-down from Boeing/Airbus, or regime flip to risk-off would invalidate the near-term strength thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $281.88 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 8, 2026 $281.88 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 22, 2026 $264.87–$298.89 typical range · internal point $285.50 ±6.0% 7/10 Momentum and risk-on regime carry price higher short-term
What actually happened: closed $271.71 on Aug 21, 2026 = -3.6% vs the call (predicted +1.3%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 4.9 pp  ·  accuracy 8/10  ·  typical range ±6.0%: inside the band  ·  S&P -1.1% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Sep 8, 2026 $257.24–$306.52 typical range · internal point $288.00 ±8.7% 6/10 Supercycle narrative intact, no catalyst to break trend
2 months Oct 8, 2026 $283.00 +0.4% 5/10 Consolidation as overvaluation weighs, no earnings catalyst
3 months Nov 8, 2026 $275.00 -2.4% 5/10 Q3 print risk emerges, valuation gravity begins pulling
4 months Dec 8, 2026 $268.00 -4.9% 4/10 Year-end profit-taking on extended aerospace winners
5 months Jan 8, 2027 $262.00 -7.1% 4/10 January rotation away from expensive industrials
6 months Feb 8, 2027 $258.00 -8.5% 4/10 Fair-value gravity slowly compresses premium multiple

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 $238.99 (-15.2%) — 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$281.88
Composite fair value$57.06
Signal-adjusted fair value$66.77
DCF fair value$42.29
Anchored-PE fair value$112.94
Buy-below (value lens)$195.00
Value net score-78
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+80
Memo confidence8 / 10
Deserved value (base)
Quality tilt
Deserved value (used)
Coherence (value × quality)

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 28.4%  3m 30.3%  6m 35.0%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.9%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.84  3m 0.83  5m 1.12  
Trailing 6-month return34.5%

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 Aug 8, 2026 freshest HWM-20260808-000712-b107
ext-forensic-memo Aug 8, 2026 freshest ext-HWM-20260808-004135-5814
ext-lens-quality Aug 8, 2026 freshest ext-HWM-20260808-004135-5814
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 8, 2026 freshest ext-HWM-20260808-004135-5814
ext-lens-value Aug 8, 2026 freshest ext-HWM-20260808-004135-5814
scenario-valuation Aug 8, 2026 freshest HWM-20260808-000712-b107
valuation-synthesis Aug 8, 2026 freshest HWM-20260808-000712-b107

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 8, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $281.88 $258.00 -8.5% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 7, 2026 v0.3.0 Bear $277.91 $236.24 -15.0% 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.