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Lowe's Companies Inc.
Consumer Cyclical · Home Improvement Retail
Made on Aug 7, 2026
Price at call $218.40
6-month call Bear -6.6%
Target by Feb 2027 $204.00
Great value below $170.00
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 -6.6% to $204.00
Predicted High $220.00 at 1 month
Predicted Low $204.00 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -6.6%

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 7, 2026 1:10 am
Bear LOW trends lower to $204.00 (-6.6% from $218.40) by Feb 2027. decay
ThesisLOW is overvalued vs composite fair value ($181) with weak net value score, but low beta, risk-on tape, and steady earnings beats limit near-term downside. Expect a modest drift lower as value gravity works over months, with the housing narrative capping rallies.
Invalidated ifA break above $235 on housing-cycle upside or below $195 on macro shock would falsify this gradual 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 $218.40 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 7, 2026 $218.40 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 21, 2026 $205.64–$231.16 typical range · internal point $219.50 ±5.8% 6/10 Risk-on tape and low beta support near-term drift
What actually happened: closed $217.34 on Aug 20, 2026 = -0.5% vs the call (predicted +0.5%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 1.0 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±5.8%: inside the band  ·  S&P -1.5% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 7, 2026 $199.91–$236.89 typical range · internal point $220.00 ±8.5% 5/10 Analyst Buy chorus offers mild lift into September
2 months Oct 7, 2026 $216.00 -1.1% 5/10 Value gravity begins as fair value discount widens
3 months Nov 7, 2026 $212.00 -2.9% 5/10 Q3 print risk and housing narrative cap upside
4 months Dec 7, 2026 $209.00 -4.3% 4/10 Continued mean reversion toward composite fair value
5 months Jan 7, 2027 $206.00 -5.7% 4/10 January tape weakness on consumer discretionary rotation
6 months Feb 7, 2027 $204.00 -6.6% 4/10 Path converges toward deserved value near 198

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 $214.51 (-1.8%) — 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] AI analysis identifies strong headwinds — multiple forces working against this stock
    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$218.40
Composite fair value$181.30
Signal-adjusted fair value$141.63
DCF fair value$191.65
Anchored-PE fair value
Buy-below (value lens)$170.00
Value net score-62
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+31
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 30.1%  3m 29.3%  6m 30.5%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.8%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.63  3m 0.35  5m 0.80  
Trailing 6-month return-20.8%

Knobs (equation params)

ladderArray
llm_modelclaude-opus-4-7
max_tokens3000
control_knobsArray
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 7, 2026 freshest LOW-20260807-000819-8e18
ext-forensic-memo Aug 7, 2026 freshest ext-LOW-20260807-005507-71c9
ext-lens-quality Aug 7, 2026 freshest ext-LOW-20260807-005507-71c9
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 7, 2026 freshest ext-LOW-20260807-005507-71c9
ext-lens-value Aug 7, 2026 freshest ext-LOW-20260807-005507-71c9
scenario-valuation Aug 7, 2026 freshest LOW-20260807-000819-8e18
valuation-synthesis Aug 7, 2026 freshest LOW-20260807-000819-8e18

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 7, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $218.40 $204.00 -6.6% Feb 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.