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Dover Corporation
Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery
Made on Aug 30, 2026
Price at call $198.68
6-month call Bear -7.6%
Target by Mar 2027 $183.50
Great value below $135.00
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 -7.6% to $183.50
Predicted High $201.50 at 1 month
Predicted Low $183.50 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -7.6%

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 30, 2026 1:02 pm
Bear DOV trends lower to $183.50 (-7.6% from $198.68) by Mar 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisDOV trades well above every fundamental anchor with a mildly supportive risk-on tape offsetting a stretched compounder narrative. Near-term drift is roughly flat with a mild positive tilt from regime, then value gravity reasserts as the multiple digests toward the anchored-PE fair value near 219 fails to hold and DCF pulls lower. Path drifts modestly down over six months, converging near the deterministic baseline.
Invalidated ifA decisive break above 210 on strong volume or a print-free rally past 215 would invalidate the fade thesis; conversely a break below 180 accelerates it.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $198.68 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 30, 2026 — $198.68 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 13, 2026 $187.32–$210.04 typical range · internal point $200.10 — ±5.7% 7/10 Risk-on tape and low vol support mild drift up
What actually happened: closed $189.05 on Sep 11, 2026 = -4.9% vs the call (predicted +0.7%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 5.6 pp  ·  accuracy 8/10  ·  typical range ±5.7%: inside the band  ·  S&P -0.7% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Sep 30, 2026 $182.22–$215.14 typical range · internal point $201.50 — ±8.3% 6/10 Momentum holds without catalyst, sentiment neutral
What actually happened: closed $189.70 on Sep 29, 2026 = -4.5% vs the call (predicted +1.4%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 5.9 pp  ·  accuracy 8/10  ·  typical range ±8.3%: inside the band  ·  S&P -0.5% over the same window — lagged it
2 months Oct 30, 2026 $197.00 — -0.8% 5/10 Q3 print window pressure, valuation gravity begins
3 months Nov 30, 2026 $192.50 — -3.1% 5/10 Post-earnings digestion, multiple compression starts
4 months Dec 30, 2026 $189.00 — -4.9% 4/10 Year-end positioning trims stretched compounders
5 months Jan 30, 2027 $186.00 — -6.4% 4/10 January reset, fair-value anchors pull lower
6 months Mar 2, 2027 $183.50 — -7.6% 4/10 Convergence toward anchored-PE and DCF 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 $183.80 (-7.5%) — 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 · 2 degraded · 0 notes — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [critical] Revenue is volatile and unreliable — growth projections are speculative
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Degraded
    [critical] 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$198.68
Composite fair value$115.55
Signal-adjusted fair value$103.76
DCF fair value$94.42
Anchored-PE fair value$219.37
Buy-below (value lens)$135.00
Value net score-70
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+62
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 14.9%  3m 28.7%  6m 28.1%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.8%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.74  3m 0.91  5m 0.95  
Trailing 6-month return-11.9%

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 30, 2026 freshest DOV-20260830-030002-c9d7
ext-forensic-memo Aug 30, 2026 freshest ext-DOV-20260830-032306-3cfd
ext-lens-quality Aug 30, 2026 freshest ext-DOV-20260830-032306-3cfd
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 30, 2026 freshest ext-DOV-20260830-032306-3cfd
ext-lens-value Aug 30, 2026 freshest ext-DOV-20260830-032306-3cfd
scenario-valuation Aug 30, 2026 freshest DOV-20260830-030002-c9d7
valuation-synthesis Aug 30, 2026 freshest DOV-20260830-030002-c9d7

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 30, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $198.68 $183.50 -7.6% 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.