ACT
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices ACT only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
47.93 +1.6% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
48.88 +3.6% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 47.44 · prior close 47.18 | |
| Bargain buy side |
46.44 -1.6% reached 3 in 10 days |
45.54 -3.5% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 46.20 | 2 in 10 days | 48.18 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 46.44 | 3 in 10 days | 47.93 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 46.66 | 4 in 10 days | 47.70 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 45.01 | 2 in 10 weeks | 49.45 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 45.54 | 3 in 10 weeks | 48.88 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 46.03 | 4 in 10 weeks | 48.36 | 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 ACT's daily swings (about 1.6% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 30 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 30 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 21, 2026 | -2.6% | +4.6% | — | — |
| Oct 12, 2026 | -2.3% | +2.9% | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | -6.8% | +5.9% | +11.1% | — |
| Aug 31, 2026 | -1.8% | +2.3% | -10.2% | — |
| Jul 30, 2026 | -1.8% | +2.5% | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| Jul 21, 2026 | -1.9% | +5.4% | +9.2% | +2.0% |
| May 19, 2026 | -2.7% | -0.5% | -0.5% | +16.7% |
| May 11, 2026 | -2.7% | +2.8% | -0.1% | +15.3% |
Big drop and big gain: among ACT'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 and 52-week closing high Sep 14, 2026 |
50.07 +5.6% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 48.88 +3.1% |
| 50-day average | 47.51 +0.2% |
| Now | 47.44 |
| Previous close Oct 30, 2026 |
47.18 -0.5% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 45.54 -4.0% |
| 200-day average | 44.09 -7.1% |
| 52-week closing low Oct 30, 2025 |
34.76 -26.7% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 5 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.