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Diageo plc
Consumer Defensive · Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries
Made on Aug 24, 2026
Price at call $96.29
6-month call Bull +10.9%
Target by Feb 2027 $106.80
Great value below $85.00
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 +10.9% to $106.80
Predicted High $106.80 at 6 months
Predicted Low $96.80 in 2 weeks

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 1:05 pm
Bull DEO trends higher to $106.80 (+10.9% from $96.29) by Feb 2027. dip-then-recover
ThesisDEO trades well below composite fair value ($122.54) with negative sentiment already priced in after restructuring headlines and a tired-compounder narrative. Risk-on regime and prior oversold behavior support gradual mean reversion toward the deterministic baseline of $107, though value gravity acts slowly on a low-beta staple.
Invalidated ifBreak below $88 on fresh guidance cut or spirits demand deterioration would falsify the recovery path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $96.29 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 24, 2026 — $96.29 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 7, 2026 $90.37–$102.21 typical range · internal point $96.80 — ±6.1% 6/10 Near-term drift, no catalyst, risk-on tape supportive
What actually happened: closed $89.19 on Sep 4, 2026 = -7.4% vs the call (predicted +0.5%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 7.9 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±6.1%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +0.9% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 24, 2026 $87.72–$104.86 typical range · internal point $97.90 — ±8.9% 5/10 Slow grind higher as restructuring headline digested
What actually happened: closed $86.11 on Sep 23, 2026 = -10.6% vs the call (predicted +1.7%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 12.2 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±8.9%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P +0.7% over the same window — lagged it
2 months Oct 24, 2026 $99.50 — +3.3% 5/10 Value buyers step in below fair value anchors
3 months Nov 24, 2026 $101.80 — +5.7% 4/10 Mean reversion toward composite fair value
4 months Dec 24, 2026 $103.50 — +7.5% 4/10 Holiday spirits seasonality, defensive rotation possible
5 months Jan 24, 2027 $105.20 — +9.3% 3/10 Value convergence continues, low beta caps velocity
6 months Feb 24, 2027 $106.80 — +10.9% 3/10 Approaches deterministic baseline as gap narrows

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 $107.19 (+11.3%) — 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] Sector in contraction — demand weakening across the industry
    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$96.29
Composite fair value$122.54
Signal-adjusted fair value$119.58
DCF fair value$127.26
Anchored-PE fair value—
Buy-below (value lens)$85.00
Value net score+31
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+13
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 32.2%  3m 30.8%  6m 38.7%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.9%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.12  3m -0.11  5m 0.35  
Trailing 6-month return-5.7%

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 24, 2026 freshest DEO-20260824-020001-3e8b
ext-forensic-memo Aug 24, 2026 freshest ext-DEO-20260824-045427-05bc
ext-lens-quality Aug 24, 2026 freshest ext-DEO-20260824-045427-05bc
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 24, 2026 freshest ext-DEO-20260824-045427-05bc
ext-lens-value Aug 24, 2026 freshest ext-DEO-20260824-045427-05bc
scenario-valuation Aug 24, 2026 freshest DEO-20260824-020001-3e8b
valuation-synthesis Aug 24, 2026 freshest DEO-20260824-020001-3e8b

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 24, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $96.29 $106.80 +10.9% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 25, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $83.08 $88.50 +6.5% 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.