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Northern Trust Corporation
Financial Services · Asset Management
Made on Aug 26, 2026
Price at call $187.18
6-month call Neutral +0.2%
Target by Feb 2027 $187.50
Great value below $158.00
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 +0.2% to $187.50
Predicted High $187.50 at 6 months
Predicted Low $182.00 at 2 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -2.8%

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 26, 2026 1:15 pm
Neutral NTRS trends range-bound to $187.50 (+0.2% from $187.18) by Feb 2027. decay
ThesisNTRS trades slightly above composite fair value ($177.52) in a low-narrative, mildly risk-on tape. Expect a gentle mean-reversion drift toward the $180 anchor over 1-3 months, then stabilization near the deterministic endpoint as anchored-PE ($185.65) provides gravity. No earnings catalyst in-window limits both upside and downside.
Invalidated ifA sustained break above $195 or below $170 on volume, or a surprise pre-announcement, would falsify the mean-reversion drift.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $187.18 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 26, 2026 — $187.18 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 9, 2026 $186.20 — -0.5% 7/10 Mild drift lower as risk-on tape fails to lift custodian
What actually happened: closed $184.88 on Sep 8, 2026 = -1.2% vs the call (predicted -0.5%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 0.7 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  S&P 0.0% over the same window — beat it
1 month Sep 26, 2026 $184.50 — -1.4% 6/10 Gentle mean-reversion toward anchored-PE fair value
What actually happened: closed $175.73 on Sep 25, 2026 = -6.1% vs the call (predicted -1.4%)  ·  direction MISS (called flat, was down)  ·  off by 4.7 pp  ·  accuracy 4/10  ·  S&P +0.9% over the same window — beat it
2 months Oct 26, 2026 $182.00 — -2.8% 5/10 Value gravity pulls toward composite fair value
3 months Nov 26, 2026 $183.50 — -2.0% 5/10 Stabilization near anchored-PE floor around 185
4 months Dec 26, 2026 $185.00 — -1.2% 4/10 Year-end positioning supports quality custodian names
5 months Jan 26, 2027 $186.50 — -0.4% 4/10 January flows and rate stability support drift higher
6 months Feb 26, 2027 $187.50 — +0.2% 4/10 Converges near deterministic baseline endpoint

Deterministic control (v0.3 value line) targets $188.07 (+0.5%) — 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 · 1 degraded · 1 note — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [caution] Revenue is volatile and unreliable — growth projections are speculative
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Note
    Too little price history for NTRS to size the realism noise — using a default volatility.
    price_history

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$187.18
Composite fair value$177.52
Signal-adjusted fair value$164.87
DCF fair value$173.46
Anchored-PE fair value$185.65
Buy-below (value lens)$158.00
Value net score-50
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score+47
Memo confidence7 / 10
Deserved value (base)—
Quality tilt—
Deserved value (used)—
Coherence (value × quality)—

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m —  3m —  6m —  
Daily σ (realism noise)—
Beta vs S&P 500 1m —  3m —  5m —  
Trailing 6-month return—

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 26, 2026 freshest NTRS-20260826-040001-2e79
ext-forensic-memo Aug 26, 2026 freshest ext-NTRS-20260826-043910-afc3
ext-lens-quality Aug 26, 2026 freshest ext-NTRS-20260826-043910-afc3
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 26, 2026 freshest ext-NTRS-20260826-043910-afc3
ext-lens-value Aug 26, 2026 freshest ext-NTRS-20260826-043910-afc3
valuation-synthesis Aug 26, 2026 freshest NTRS-20260826-040001-2e79

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 26, 2026 v0.6.0 Neutral $187.18 $187.50 +0.2% 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.