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The Williams Companies, Inc.
Energy · Oil & Gas Midstream
Made on Aug 11, 2026
Price at call $71.85
6-month call Bear -10.9%
Target by Feb 2027 $64.00
Great value below $52.00
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 $64.00
Predicted High $72.40 in 2 weeks
Predicted Low $64.00 at 6 months
Max Drawdown (predicted) -10.9%

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 11, 2026 1:19 am
Bear WMB trends lower to $64.00 (-10.9% from $71.85) by Feb 2027. ride-then-fade
ThesisWMB trades well above every fair-value anchor, but a calm risk-on tape plus the LNG/AI-data-center narrative and low-beta defensive bid keep the fade shallow and slow. Expect drift lower over months as valuation gravity outweighs sentiment, but no near-term catalyst forces a fast repricing.
Invalidated ifA decisive break above $75 on strong volume, or a hard risk-off regime shift dragging WMB below $60 quickly, would invalidate the slow-fade thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $71.85 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Aug 11, 2026 — $71.85 at call — —The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Aug 25, 2026 $68.14–$75.56 typical range · internal point $72.40 — ±5.2% 7/10 Risk-on regime and low beta keep drift positive
What actually happened: closed $70.97 on Aug 24, 2026 = -1.2% vs the call (predicted +0.8%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 2.0 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±5.2%: inside the band  ·  S&P -1.0% over the same window — lagged it
1 month Sep 11, 2026 $66.47–$77.23 typical range · internal point $72.10 — ±7.5% 6/10 Sentiment tailwind persists, no catalyst either way
What actually happened: closed $72.82 on Sep 10, 2026 = +1.4% vs the call (predicted +0.4%)  ·  direction HIT (called flat, was flat)  ·  off by 1.0 pp  ·  accuracy 10/10  ·  typical range ±7.5%: inside the band  ·  S&P -1.8% over the same window — beat it
2 months Oct 11, 2026 $70.80 — -1.5% 5/10 Valuation gravity begins to weigh on price
3 months Nov 11, 2026 $69.00 — -4.0% 5/10 Q3 print risk and rotation out of utilities-like names
4 months Dec 11, 2026 $67.20 — -6.5% 4/10 Year-end tax selling on extended winners
5 months Jan 11, 2027 $65.50 — -8.8% 4/10 Fair-value anchors continue pulling price lower
6 months Feb 11, 2027 $64.00 — -10.9% 4/10 Convergence toward deterministic baseline endpoint

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 $62.18 (-13.5%) — 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 · 0 notes — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [warning] Revenue is volatile and unreliable — growth projections are speculative
    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$71.85
Composite fair value$44.41
Signal-adjusted fair value$48.12
DCF fair value$47.44
Anchored-PE fair value$51.41
Buy-below (value lens)$52.00
Value net score-71
Value confidence7 / 10
Quality net score-3
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 25.8%  3m 25.9%  6m 23.2%  
Daily σ (realism noise)1.6%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.08  3m -0.24  5m -0.07  
Trailing 6-month return7.4%

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 11, 2026 freshest WMB-20260811-000713-e90c
ext-forensic-memo Aug 11, 2026 freshest ext-WMB-20260811-010850-8aa1
ext-lens-quality Aug 11, 2026 freshest ext-WMB-20260811-010850-8aa1
ext-lens-sentiment Aug 11, 2026 freshest ext-WMB-20260811-010850-8aa1
ext-lens-value Aug 11, 2026 freshest ext-WMB-20260811-010850-8aa1
scenario-valuation Aug 11, 2026 freshest WMB-20260811-000713-e90c
valuation-synthesis Aug 11, 2026 freshest WMB-20260811-000713-e90c

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 11, 2026 v0.6.0 Bear $71.85 $64.00 -10.9% Feb 2027 viewing
Jul 11, 2026 v0.3.0 — — — — — 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.