IE
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- IE +1.65% on the last session vs SPY +0.00%: +1.6 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 IE only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
8.60 +5.0% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
9.13 +11.4% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 8.32 · prior close 8.19 | |
| Bargain buy side |
7.80 -4.7% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% |
7.35 -10.3% ↓ 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 | 7.68 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 8.73 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 7.80 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 8.60 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 7.92 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 8.47 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 7.10 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 9.45 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 7.35 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 9.13 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 7.59 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 8.83 | 5 in 10 weeks↑ 49% vs 48% |
"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 IE's daily swings (about 5.0% 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
- Stretch price, next session: reached 31% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Stretch price, next 5 sessions: reached 31% of weeks instead of the usual 30% (held in 8 of 10 years)
| Date | That day | 1 week on | 1 month on | 3 months on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | -7.9% | — | — | — |
| Sep 30, 2026 | -6.8% | -1.5% | — | — |
| Sep 14, 2026 | -7.1% | +2.0% | -8.4% | — |
| Sep 1, 2026 | -9.3% | +8.7% | -0.3% | — |
| Jul 15, 2026 | -5.7% | +5.7% | +20.3% | +2.3% |
| Jun 23, 2026 | -9.4% | -4.6% | -10.0% | +6.7% |
| Jun 3, 2026 | -6.3% | -24.3% | -28.8% | -24.5% |
| May 14, 2026 | -7.6% | -11.2% | -17.5% | -24.6% |
- 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 IE'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 Jan 29, 2026 |
19.92 +139.3% |
| 200-day average | 12.57 +51.0% |
| 50-day average | 10.30 +23.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 9.13 +9.6% |
| Now | 8.32 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
8.19 -1.6% |
| 52-week closing low Jul 20, 2026 |
8.08 -2.9% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 7.35 -11.7% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 4 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.