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Ametek Inc.
Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery
Made on Aug 15, 2026
Price at call $254.79
6-month call Bear -6.6%
Target by Feb 2027 $238.00
Great value below $205.00
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 -6.6% to $238.00
Predicted High $259.50 at 1 month
Predicted Low $238.00 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -6.6%

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 15, 2026 12:44 am
Bear AME trends lower to $238.00 (-6.6% from $254.79) by Feb 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisAME is a quality compounder trading well above fair value, but risk-on tape, earnings momentum, and no near-term catalyst to force revaluation mean the stock likely drifts higher near-term before value gravity slowly reasserts over months.
Invalidated ifA break above $270 on strong volume or below $235 would invalidate the slow-fade thesis
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $254.79 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 15, 2026 $254.79 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 29, 2026 $243.09–$266.49 typical range · internal point $257.20 ±4.6% 6/10 Risk-on tape and post-beat momentum continue short-term
1 month Sep 15, 2026 $237.83–$271.75 typical range · internal point $259.50 ±6.7% 5/10 Steady-compounder bid persists absent catalyst
2 months Oct 15, 2026 $256.00 +0.5% 4/10 Pre-Q3 positioning, valuation friction emerges
3 months Nov 15, 2026 $251.00 -1.5% 4/10 Q3 print likely beats but multiple pressured
4 months Dec 15, 2026 $245.00 -3.8% 4/10 Year-end profit-taking on rich multiple
5 months Jan 15, 2027 $242.00 -5.0% 3/10 January rotation away from expensive quality
6 months Feb 15, 2027 $238.00 -6.6% 3/10 Value gravity slowly pulls toward anchored-PE fair value

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 $235.96 (-7.4%) — 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

0 blocking · 1 degraded · 0 notes — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [caution] Valuation is extremely fragile — almost no scenarios support the current price
    upstream:valuation-synthesis

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$254.79
Composite fair value$141.09
Signal-adjusted fair value$165.72
DCF fair value$125.95
Anchored-PE fair value$248.12
Buy-below (value lens)$205.00
Value net score-70
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+72
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 21.5%  3m 23.1%  6m 24.9%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.5%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.97  3m 1.01  5m 1.03  
Trailing 6-month return11.4%

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 Aug 15, 2026 freshest AME-20260815-001544-5088
ext-forensic-memo Aug 15, 2026 freshest ext-AME-20260815-003355-c3c7
ext-lens-quality Aug 15, 2026 freshest ext-AME-20260815-003355-c3c7
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 15, 2026 freshest ext-AME-20260815-003355-c3c7
ext-lens-value Aug 15, 2026 freshest ext-AME-20260815-003355-c3c7
scenario-valuation Aug 15, 2026 freshest AME-20260815-001544-5088
valuation-synthesis Aug 15, 2026 freshest AME-20260815-001544-5088

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 15, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $254.79 $238.00 -6.6% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 20, 2026 v0.4.0 Bear $237.00 $222.00 -6.3% 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.