ALK
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- ALK +0.92% on the last session vs SPY −0.00%: +0.9 pts of stock-specific move.
- Earnings Tue after the close (date not confirmed): EPS $0.46 expected (8 analysts).
- 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 ALK only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
36.61 +2.5% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
37.72 +5.6% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 36.06 · prior close 35.73 | |
| Bargain buy side |
34.87 -2.4% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% |
33.84 -5.3% ↓ 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 | 34.60 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 36.90 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 34.87 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 36.61 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 35.13 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 36.34 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 33.25 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 38.39 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 33.84 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 37.72 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 34.40 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 37.11 | 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 ALK's daily swings (about 2.5% 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 | -3.3% | — | — | — |
| Sep 23, 2026 | -5.3% | -2.5% | — | — |
| Aug 18, 2026 | -3.7% | +2.2% | -5.7% | — |
| Aug 10, 2026 | -5.4% | -6.8% | -14.6% | — |
| Jul 29, 2026 | -5.7% | +13.5% | -7.9% | — |
| Jul 13, 2026 | -5.3% | -1.6% | +3.4% | -15.9% |
| Jun 29, 2026 | -3.6% | -5.5% | -11.7% | -23.6% |
| Jun 10, 2026 | -7.6% | +15.8% | +12.3% | -3.8% |
- 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 ALK'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 Mar 1, 2017 |
94.47 +162.0% |
| 52-week closing high Feb 9, 2026 |
60.21 +67.0% |
| 200-day average | 44.83 +24.3% |
| 50-day average | 41.50 +15.1% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 37.72 +4.6% |
| Now | 36.06 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
35.73 -0.9% |
| 52-week closing low Mar 30, 2026 |
34.19 -5.2% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 33.84 -6.1% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 47 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.