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Cadre Holdings Inc.
Industrials · Aerospace & Defense
Made on Aug 5, 2026
Price at call $30.92
6-month call Bear -17.5%
Target by Feb 2027 $25.50
Great value below $20.00
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 -17.5% to $25.50
Predicted High $31.20 in 2 weeks
Predicted Low $25.50 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -17.5%

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 5, 2026 2:41 am
Bear CDRE trends lower to $25.50 (-17.5% from $30.92) by Feb 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisCDRE trades roughly double composite fair value on a defense/platform narrative, but recent 6-month price action is already down 24% and quality/value lenses are deeply negative. Expect near-term sentiment support in a risk-on regime, then gradual value gravity pulling the stock toward the mid-20s over the 6-month window, undershooting on any narrative crack.
Invalidated ifA break above $34 on defense-contract news, or conversely a break below $24 confirming accelerated de-rating, would invalidate the gradual-fade path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $30.92 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 5, 2026 $30.92 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 19, 2026 $27.78–$34.06 typical range · internal point $31.20 ±10.2% 6/10 Risk-on regime and defense bid support near-term
What actually happened: closed $34.09 on Aug 19, 2026 = +10.3% vs the call (predicted +0.9%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was up)  ·  off by 9.4 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±10.2%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +0.2% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 5, 2026 $26.36–$35.48 typical range · internal point $30.40 ±14.7% 5/10 Narrative intact but momentum flat, no catalyst
2 months Oct 5, 2026 $29.20 -5.6% 5/10 Value gravity begins as sentiment cools
3 months Nov 5, 2026 $28.00 -9.4% 5/10 Earnings window pressures rich multiple
4 months Dec 5, 2026 $27.00 -12.7% 4/10 Continued drift toward deterministic anchor
5 months Jan 5, 2027 $26.20 -15.3% 4/10 Composite fair value pulls price lower
6 months Feb 5, 2027 $25.50 -17.5% 4/10 Converges near 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 $25.56 (-17.3%) — 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 · 1 note — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [warning] Valuation is extremely fragile — almost no scenarios support the current price
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: anchored_pe.
    anchor:anchored_pe

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$30.92
Composite fair value$15.09
Signal-adjusted fair value$11.51
DCF fair value$16.70
Anchored-PE fair value
Buy-below (value lens)$20.00
Value net score-69
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score-2
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 48.9%  3m 51.0%  6m 55.1%  
Daily σ (realism noise)3.2%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 1.20  3m 1.08  5m 1.67  
Trailing 6-month return-24.1%

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 CDRE-20260803-120606-956c
ext-forensic-memo Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-CDRE-20260803-131414-d69c
ext-lens-quality Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-CDRE-20260803-131414-d69c
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-CDRE-20260803-131414-d69c
ext-lens-value Aug 3, 2026 freshest ext-CDRE-20260803-131414-d69c
scenario-valuation Aug 3, 2026 freshest CDRE-20260803-120606-956c
valuation-synthesis Aug 3, 2026 freshest CDRE-20260803-120606-956c

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 5, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $30.92 $25.50 -17.5% 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.