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Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
Consumer Defensive · Household & Personal Products
Made on Sep 4, 2026
Price at call $98.55
6-month call Bear -8.2%
Target by Mar 2027 $90.50
Great value below $70.00
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 -8.2% to $90.50
Predicted High $98.10 in 2 weeks
Predicted Low $90.50 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -8.2%

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 Sep 4, 2026 1:02 pm
Bear CHD trends lower to $90.50 (-8.2% from $98.55) by Mar 2027. decay
ThesisCHD trades well above every valuation anchor with mild negative sentiment and a defensive, low-beta profile, so drift toward fair value is likely gradual rather than violent. Absent an earnings catalyst in the window, expect a slow decay with brief stabilizations, undershooting the deterministic baseline modestly as value gravity compounds.
Invalidated ifA close above $104 on improving breadth, or a defensive rotation lifting staples materially, would falsify the slow drift-lower path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $98.55 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Sep 4, 2026 — $98.55 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 18, 2026 $93.93–$103.17 typical range · internal point $98.10 — ±4.7% 7/10 Low-beta drift, risk-on regime caps upside near current
What actually happened: closed $95.05 on Sep 17, 2026 = -3.6% vs the call (predicted -0.5%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 3.1 pp  ·  accuracy 9/10  ·  typical range ±4.7%: inside the band  ·  S&P -1.1% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Oct 4, 2026 $91.86–$105.24 typical range · internal point $97.20 — ±6.8% 6/10 Mild sentiment drag, no catalyst, sideways bias
What actually happened: closed $94.31 on Oct 2, 2026 = -4.3% vs the call (predicted -1.4%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 2.9 pp  ·  accuracy 9/10  ·  typical range ±6.8%: inside the band  ·  S&P +0.1% over the same window — beat it
2 months Nov 4, 2026 $95.80 — -2.8% 5/10 Valuation gravity begins as staples underperform risk-on tape
3 months Dec 4, 2026 $94.50 — -4.1% 5/10 Year-end positioning trims expensive defensives
4 months Jan 4, 2027 $93.20 — -5.4% 4/10 January rebalancing pressures stretched-multiple names
5 months Feb 4, 2027 $92.00 — -6.6% 4/10 Continued convergence toward anchored-PE fair value
6 months Mar 4, 2027 $90.50 — -8.2% 4/10 Slow grind lower, undershoots baseline as value bites

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 $93.47 (-5.2%) — 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$98.55
Composite fair value$59.99
Signal-adjusted fair value$59.62
DCF fair value$70.63
Anchored-PE fair value$67.17
Buy-below (value lens)$70.00
Value net score-77
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+51
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 21.0%  3m 23.5%  6m 23.0%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.5%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.30  3m -0.31  5m 0.04  
Trailing 6-month return-1.3%

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 Sep 3, 2026 freshest CHD-20260903-233001-2395
ext-forensic-memo Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-CHD-20260904-001556-7a01
ext-lens-quality Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-CHD-20260904-001556-7a01
ext-lens-sentiment Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-CHD-20260904-001556-7a01
ext-lens-value Sep 4, 2026 freshest ext-CHD-20260904-001556-7a01
scenario-valuation Sep 4, 2026 freshest CHD-20260903-233001-2395
valuation-synthesis Sep 4, 2026 freshest CHD-20260903-233001-2395

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
Sep 4, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $98.55 $90.50 -8.2% Mar 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.