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Casey's General Stores, Inc.
Consumer Cyclical · Specialty Retail
Made on Aug 27, 2026
Price at call $776.51
6-month call Bear -8.3%
Target by Feb 2027 $712.00
Great value below $520.00
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 -8.3% to $712.00
Predicted High $780.00 in 2 weeks
Predicted Low $712.00 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -8.3%

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 27, 2026 1:19 pm
Bear CASY trends lower to $712.00 (-8.3% from $776.51) by Feb 2027. flat-then-break
ThesisCASY trades well above every fundamental anchor with only a mild sentiment tailwind and a defensive-quality narrative holding it up. Near-term momentum and risk-on regime keep the price sticky, but value gravity should erode the premium modestly over 6 months, converging toward the deterministic baseline rather than the full DCF.
Invalidated ifA decisive break above $820 on a strong earnings beat, or a break below $700 accelerating toward $600, would falsify this drift path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $776.51 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 27, 2026 — $776.51 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 10, 2026 $700.47–$852.55 typical range · internal point $780.00 — ±9.8% 7/10 Risk-on regime and low-beta bid keep price sticky
What actually happened: closed $629.03 on Sep 9, 2026 = -19.0% vs the call (predicted +0.5%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 19.4 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±9.8%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P -1.2% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Sep 27, 2026 $666.32–$886.70 typical range · internal point $778.00 — ±14.2% 6/10 Quiet quality narrative absorbs mild valuation overhang
What actually happened: closed $598.46 on Sep 25, 2026 = -22.9% vs the call (predicted +0.2%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 23.1 pp  ·  accuracy 3/10  ·  typical range ±14.2%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +0.2% over the same window — lagged it
2 months Oct 27, 2026 $765.00 — -1.5% 5/10 Early value gravity as premium narrative cools
3 months Nov 27, 2026 $752.00 — -3.2% 5/10 Possible earnings print introduces two-sided risk
4 months Dec 27, 2026 $740.00 — -4.7% 4/10 Year-end positioning trims extended defensives
5 months Jan 27, 2027 $725.00 — -6.6% 4/10 Multiple compression toward anchored-PE ceiling
6 months Feb 27, 2027 $712.00 — -8.3% 4/10 Convergence toward deterministic baseline endpoint

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 $711.73 (-8.3%) — 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$776.51
Composite fair value$446.80
Signal-adjusted fair value$425.93
DCF fair value$330.84
Anchored-PE fair value$856.74
Buy-below (value lens)$520.00
Value net score-79
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+63
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 30.3%  3m 49.2%  6m 40.2%  
Daily σ (realism noise)3.1%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m -0.19  3m -1.33  5m -0.43  
Trailing 6-month return13.8%

Knobs (equation params)

ladder["w2","m1","m2","m3","m4","m5","m6"]
llm_modelclaude-opus-4-7
max_tokens3000
control_knobs{"w_dcf":0.5,"k_qual":0.200000000000000011102230246251565404236316680908203125,"reach_6m":0.450000000000000011102230246251565404236316680908203125,"coh_floor":0.5,"conf_gain":0.059999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"noise_phi":0.84999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"conf_floor":0.40000000000000002220446049250313080847263336181640625,"w_composite":0.5,"noise_window":"3m","flat_band_pct":5,"horizon_months":6,"noise_sigma_fallback":0.01499999999999999944488848768742172978818416595458984375}
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 27, 2026 freshest CASY-20260827-013001-e339
ext-forensic-memo Aug 27, 2026 freshest ext-CASY-20260827-015920-7ccc
ext-lens-quality Aug 27, 2026 freshest ext-CASY-20260827-015920-7ccc
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 27, 2026 freshest ext-CASY-20260827-015920-7ccc
ext-lens-value Aug 27, 2026 freshest ext-CASY-20260827-015920-7ccc
scenario-valuation Aug 27, 2026 freshest CASY-20260827-013001-e339
valuation-synthesis Aug 27, 2026 freshest CASY-20260827-013001-e339

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

Saved History

1 frozen snapshot — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Aug 27, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $776.51 $712.00 -8.3% Feb 2027 viewing

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.