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Deckers Outdoor Corporation
Consumer Cyclical · Footwear & Accessories
Made on Aug 24, 2026
Price at call $91.00
6-month call Bull +14.3%
Target by Feb 2027 $104.00
Great value below $78.00
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 +14.3% to $104.00
Predicted High $104.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $88.50 at 1 month
Max Drawdown (predicted) -2.7%

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 24, 2026 1:01 pm
Bull DECK trends higher to $104.00 (+14.3% from $91.00) by Feb 2027. dip-then-recover
ThesisDECK trades at a discount to composite fair value with strong quality, but negative sentiment around HOKA deceleration and a sour footwear tape keeps near-term pressure on. Expect early drift lower or sideways, then gradual mean-reversion toward the $100-105 zone as value gravity and earnings resilience reassert over the six-month window.
Invalidated ifA break below $78 on HOKA guide-down or a bearish print, or failure to reclaim $95 by m3, would falsify the recovery thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $91.00 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 24, 2026 — $91.00 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 7, 2026 $83.82–$98.18 typical range · internal point $90.00 — ±7.9% 6/10 Sentiment drag persists in calm tape, mild drift
What actually happened: closed $85.81 on Sep 4, 2026 = -5.7% vs the call (predicted -1.1%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 4.6 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±7.9%: inside the band  ·  S&P +0.9% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 24, 2026 $80.60–$101.40 typical range · internal point $88.50 — ±11.4% 5/10 HOKA peer weakness pressures shares near term
What actually happened: closed $78.59 on Sep 23, 2026 = -13.6% vs the call (predicted -2.8%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 10.9 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±11.4%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +0.7% over the same window — beat it
2 months Oct 24, 2026 $92.00 — +1.1% 5/10 Pre-earnings positioning, value buyers step in
3 months Nov 24, 2026 $97.00 — +6.6% 5/10 Q2 print likely beats, sentiment inflects
4 months Dec 24, 2026 $100.00 — +9.9% 5/10 Convergence toward composite fair value
5 months Jan 24, 2027 $102.50 — +12.6% 4/10 Quality re-rating as HOKA fears fade
6 months Feb 24, 2027 $104.00 — +14.3% 4/10 Value gravity toward DCF and anchored-PE midpoint

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 $99.06 (+8.9%) — 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] Sector in contraction — demand weakening across the industry
    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$91.00
Composite fair value$100.36
Signal-adjusted fair value$116.29
DCF fair value$101.32
Anchored-PE fair value$130.88
Buy-below (value lens)$78.00
Value net score-6
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+68
Memo confidence6 / 10
Deserved value (base)—
Quality tilt—
Deserved value (used)—
Coherence (value × quality)—

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 40.2%  3m 39.6%  6m 39.4%  
Daily σ (realism noise)2.5%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.59  3m 0.87  5m 1.29  
Trailing 6-month return-22.8%

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 Jul 30, 2026 24d behind DECK-20260730-185733-1615
ext-forensic-memo Aug 23, 2026 freshest ext-DECK-20260823-234740-589c
ext-lens-quality Aug 23, 2026 freshest ext-DECK-20260823-234740-589c
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 23, 2026 freshest ext-DECK-20260823-234740-589c
ext-lens-value Aug 23, 2026 freshest ext-DECK-20260823-234740-589c
scenario-valuation Aug 23, 2026 freshest DECK-20260823-233001-64c8
valuation-synthesis Aug 23, 2026 freshest DECK-20260823-233001-64c8

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

Saved History

4 frozen snapshots — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Aug 24, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $91.00 $104.00 +14.3% Feb 2027 viewing
Aug 19, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $91.28 $108.00 +18.3% Feb 2027 view
Aug 14, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $93.30 $108.50 +16.3% Feb 2027 view
Jul 31, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $99.69 $115.80 +16.2% 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.