GAP
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- GAP +4.85% on the last session vs SPY +0.02%: +4.8 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 GAP only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
23.20 +2.4% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
23.88 +5.3% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 23.77 · prior close 22.67 | |
| Bargain buy side |
22.15 -2.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
21.52 -5.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 21.98 | 2 in 10 days | 23.38 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 22.15 | 3 in 10 days | 23.20 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 22.31 | 4 in 10 days | 23.04 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 21.16 | 2 in 10 weeks | 24.29 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 21.52 | 3 in 10 weeks | 23.88 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 21.86 | 4 in 10 weeks | 23.51 | 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 GAP'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
Big drop and big gain: among GAP'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 Sep 4, 2014 |
30.78 +29.5% |
| 52-week closing high Feb 6, 2026 |
28.45 +19.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 23.88 +0.5% |
| Now | 23.77 |
| 200-day average | 22.98 -3.3% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
22.67 -4.6% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 21.52 -9.5% |
| 50-day average | 21.51 -9.5% |
| 52-week closing low Jul 8, 2026 |
18.22 -23.4% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 47 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.