ACLS
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- ACLS −3.26% on the last session vs SPY −0.00%: −3.3 pts of stock-specific move.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices ACLS only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
123.06 +3.8% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
128.80 +8.6% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 114.75 · prior close 118.61 | |
| Bargain buy side |
114.32 -3.6% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% reached today |
109.23 -7.9% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 25% vs usual 27% |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 112.96 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 124.54 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 114.32 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 123.06 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 115.60 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 121.70 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 106.34 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 132.29 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 109.23 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 128.80 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 111.99 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 125.62 | 5 in 10 weeks↑ 49% vs 48% |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From ACLS's daily swings (about 3.8% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
- Stretch price, next session: reached 31% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Stretch price, next 5 sessions: reached 31% of weeks instead of the usual 30% (held in 8 of 10 years)
| Date | That day | 1 week on | 1 month on | 3 months on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | -5.3% | — | — | — |
| Sep 14, 2026 | -7.2% | +7.4% | +18.6% | — |
| Aug 26, 2026 | -4.0% | -8.0% | +2.3% | — |
| Aug 18, 2026 | -6.1% | -7.4% | -22.7% | — |
| Aug 10, 2026 | -5.4% | +8.6% | -12.9% | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | -5.2% | -2.8% | -7.9% | — |
| Jul 7, 2026 | -6.0% | +8.1% | +3.9% | +8.2% |
| Jun 26, 2026 | -4.1% | -19.2% | -30.7% | -28.9% |
- Bargain price, next session: reached 24% of days instead of the usual 26% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 25% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 10 of 10 years)
Big drop and big gain: among ACLS's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time closing high Jul 31, 2023 |
200.48 +74.7% |
| 52-week closing high Jun 15, 2026 |
191.60 +67.0% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 128.80 +12.2% |
| 50-day average | 124.35 +8.4% |
| 200-day average | 122.05 +6.4% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
118.61 +3.4% |
| Now | 114.75 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 109.23 -4.8% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 20, 2025 |
74.12 -35.4% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 26 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.