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Global Payments Inc.
Industrials · Specialty Business Services
Made on Sep 3, 2026
Price at call $92.13
6-month call Bull +30.3%
Target by Mar 2027 $120.00
Great value below $82.00
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 +30.3% to $120.00
Predicted High $120.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $89.00 at 1 month
Max Drawdown (predicted) -3.4%

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 3, 2026 1:03 pm
Bull GPN trends higher to $120.00 (+30.3% from $92.13) by Mar 2027. dip-then-recover
ThesisGPN screens deeply undervalued on composite metrics but sentiment is heavily negative after a 24% drawdown, creating a fallen-angel setup. Near-term drift stays weak as no catalyst is scheduled, then value gravity partially reasserts as a Q4 earnings print likely arrives inside the window and beat history reasserts.
Invalidated ifA break below $82 support or a Q4 miss/guide-down would falsify the mean-reversion path.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $92.13 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Sep 3, 2026 — $92.13 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 17, 2026 $84.70–$99.56 typical range · internal point $90.50 — ±8.1% 6/10 Negative sentiment and momentum continue pressing near-term
What actually happened: closed $86.49 on Sep 16, 2026 = -6.1% vs the call (predicted -1.8%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 4.4 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±8.1%: inside the band  ·  S&P -2.5% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Oct 3, 2026 $81.36–$102.90 typical range · internal point $89.00 — ±11.7% 5/10 Drift lower absent catalyst, tax-loss overhang building
What actually happened: closed $78.35 on Oct 2, 2026 = -15.0% vs the call (predicted -3.4%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 11.6 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  typical range ±11.7%: OUTSIDE the band  ·  S&P -0.3% over the same window — beat it
2 months Nov 3, 2026 $93.50 — +1.5% 4/10 Stabilization near value zone, Q3 print approaches
3 months Dec 3, 2026 $102.00 — +10.7% 4/10 Earnings beat likely, rerating begins from oversold base
4 months Jan 3, 2027 $108.00 — +17.2% 4/10 Post-print follow-through as value buyers step in
5 months Feb 3, 2027 $115.00 — +24.8% 3/10 Gap-to-fair-value narrative gains traction, multiple expands
6 months Mar 3, 2027 $120.00 — +30.3% 3/10 Partial convergence toward signal-adjusted fair value anchor

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 $162.33 (+76.2%) — 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

0 blocking · 1 degraded · 1 note — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [critical] High debt risk — interest coverage dangerously low or refinancing needed
    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$92.13
Composite fair value$247.83
Signal-adjusted fair value$180.73
DCF fair value$361.40
Anchored-PE fair value—
Buy-below (value lens)$82.00
Value net score-9
Value confidence5 / 10
Quality net score+2
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 32.8%  3m 40.5%  6m 40.7%  
Daily σ (realism noise)2.6%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 1.71  3m 1.06  5m 1.03  
Trailing 6-month return19.6%

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 GPN-20260903-010001-0f75
ext-forensic-memo Sep 3, 2026 freshest ext-GPN-20260903-012319-e846
ext-lens-quality Sep 3, 2026 freshest ext-GPN-20260903-012319-e846
ext-lens-sentiment Sep 3, 2026 freshest ext-GPN-20260903-012319-e846
ext-lens-value Sep 3, 2026 freshest ext-GPN-20260903-012319-e846
scenario-valuation Sep 3, 2026 freshest GPN-20260903-010001-0f75
valuation-synthesis Sep 3, 2026 freshest GPN-20260903-010001-0f75

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 3, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $92.13 $120.00 +30.3% 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.