BMA
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- BMA +1.22% on the last session vs SPY +0.10%: +1.1 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 BMA only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
65.29 +2.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
67.19 +5.3% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 64.57 · prior close 63.79 | |
| Bargain buy side |
62.33 -2.3% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% reached today |
60.56 -5.1% ↓ 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 | 61.86 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 65.78 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 62.33 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 65.29 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 62.77 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 64.83 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 59.55 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 68.33 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 60.56 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 67.19 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 61.52 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 66.14 | 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 BMA's daily swings (about 2.4% 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 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 BMA'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 Jan 7, 2025 |
110.81 +71.6% |
| 52-week closing high Jan 27, 2026 |
101.13 +56.6% |
| 200-day average | 81.04 +25.5% |
| 50-day average | 74.13 +14.8% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 67.19 +4.1% |
| Now | 64.57 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
63.79 -1.2% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 60.56 -6.2% |
| 52-week closing low Oct 14, 2025 |
48.95 -24.2% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 21 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.