FCFS
Moving with the market
- FCFS +0.12% on the last session vs SPY +0.09%: +0.0 pts of stock-specific move.
- Earnings Oct 22 before the open (date not confirmed): EPS $2.64 expected (1 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 FCFS only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
220.06 +1.6% reached 3 in 10 days |
224.50 +3.7% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 216.79 · prior close 216.53 | |
| Bargain buy side |
213.06 -1.6% reached 3 in 10 days |
208.84 -3.6% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 211.94 | 2 in 10 days | 221.22 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 213.06 | 3 in 10 days | 220.06 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 214.10 | 4 in 10 days | 218.99 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 206.40 | 2 in 10 weeks | 227.16 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 208.84 | 3 in 10 weeks | 224.50 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 211.14 | 4 in 10 weeks | 222.06 | 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 FCFS's daily swings (about 1.7% 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 FCFS'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 24, 2026 |
236.43 +9.1% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 224.50 +3.6% |
| 50-day average | 216.82 0.0% |
| Now | 216.79 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
216.53 -0.1% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 208.84 -3.7% |
| 200-day average | 204.17 -5.8% |
| 52-week closing low Oct 29, 2025 |
146.77 -32.3% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 35 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.