DPC
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- DPC −5.09% on the last session vs SPY −0.04%: −5.0 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 DPC only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
33.82 +3.7% reached 3 in 10 days |
35.37 +8.4% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 30.96 · prior close 32.62 | |
| Bargain buy side |
31.46 -3.6% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
30.09 -7.8% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 31.09 | 2 in 10 days | 34.22 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 31.46 | 3 in 10 days | 33.82 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 31.81 | 4 in 10 days | 33.45 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 29.30 | 2 in 10 weeks | 36.31 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 30.09 | 3 in 10 weeks | 35.37 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 30.83 | 4 in 10 weeks | 34.51 | 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 DPC's daily swings (about 3.7% 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 DPC'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 Aug 6, 2026 |
56.84 +83.6% |
| 50-day average | 43.09 +39.2% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 35.37 +14.2% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
32.62 +5.4% |
| Now | 30.96 |
| 52-week closing low Oct 15, 2026 |
30.96 0.0% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 30.09 -2.8% |
Closing prices. Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.