DGX
Moving with its group (XLV +2.4%)
- DGX +1.62% on the last session vs SPY +0.06%: +1.6 pts of stock-specific move.
- Earnings Oct 22 before the open: EPS $2.87 expected (14 analysts); it moved ±6.2% on average after its last 8 reports.
- The health care ETF (XLV) +2.4% (+2.3 pts vs SPY): the stock moved with its group.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (1 positive, 0 negative); latest: Barclays maintained Overweight, raised target $250 → $260.
- 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 DGX only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
236.49 +1.3% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
240.32 +3.0% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 237.20 · prior close 233.43 | |
| Bargain buy side |
230.41 -1.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
226.74 -2.9% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 229.44 | 2 in 10 days | 237.49 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 230.41 | 3 in 10 days | 236.49 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 231.32 | 4 in 10 days | 235.56 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 224.61 | 2 in 10 weeks | 242.60 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 226.74 | 3 in 10 weeks | 240.32 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 228.75 | 4 in 10 weeks | 238.21 | 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 DGX's daily swings (about 1.3% 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
Big drop and big gain: among DGX'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
| Highest analyst target | 265.00 +11.7% |
| Mean analyst target | 248.80 +4.9% |
| All-time and 52-week closing high Sep 17, 2026 |
246.53 +3.9% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 240.32 +1.3% |
| Now | 237.20 |
| 50-day average | 236.72 -0.2% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
233.43 -1.6% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 226.74 -4.4% |
| 200-day average | 207.00 -12.7% |
| Lowest analyst target | 204.00 -14.0% |
| 52-week closing low Jan 5, 2026 |
170.62 -28.1% |
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.