ANF
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- ANF +0.94% on the last session vs SPY +0.12%: +0.8 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 ANF only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
154.88 +3.4% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
161.48 +7.8% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 151.15 · prior close 149.74 | |
| Bargain buy side |
144.77 -3.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
138.85 -7.3% ↑ more often while near its 52-week high
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 29% vs usual 27% |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 143.19 | 2 in 10 days | 156.59 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 144.77 | 3 in 10 days | 154.88 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 146.26 | 4 in 10 days | 153.31 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 135.49 | 2 in 10 weeks↑ 20% vs 18% | 165.49 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 138.85 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 29% vs 27% | 161.48 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 142.06 | 4 in 10 weeks↑ 44% vs 43% | 157.83 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"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 ANF's daily swings (about 3.5% 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
- Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 29% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 8 of 10 years)
Big drop and big gain: among ANF'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 Jun 12, 2024 |
192.34 +27.3% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 161.48 +6.8% |
| 52-week closing high Sep 9, 2026 |
152.08 +0.6% |
| Now | 151.15 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
149.74 -0.9% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 138.85 -8.1% |
| 50-day average | 132.58 -12.3% |
| 200-day average | 102.41 -32.2% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 24, 2025 |
65.61 -56.6% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 30 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.