KAI
Moving with the market
- KAI +0.21% on the last session vs SPY +0.09%: +0.1 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 KAI only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
263.33 +1.6% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
268.67 +3.7% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 259.62 · prior close 259.08 | |
| Bargain buy side |
254.90 -1.6% reached 3 in 10 days |
249.83 -3.6% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 253.56 | 2 in 10 days | 264.72 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 254.90 | 3 in 10 days | 263.33 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 256.16 | 4 in 10 days | 262.03 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 246.90 | 2 in 10 weeks | 271.87 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 249.83 | 3 in 10 weeks | 268.67 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 252.59 | 4 in 10 weeks | 265.73 | 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 KAI'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 KAI'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 Nov 26, 2024 |
419.69 +61.7% |
| 52-week closing high Mar 4, 2026 |
346.52 +33.5% |
| 200-day average | 307.99 +18.6% |
| 50-day average | 289.25 +11.4% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 268.67 +3.5% |
| Now | 259.62 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
259.08 -0.2% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 249.83 -3.8% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 18, 2025 |
246.63 -5.0% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 34 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.