LDOS
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- LDOS +2.05% on the last session vs SPY −0.04%: +2.1 pts of stock-specific move.
- Aftermath, big gain (+2.0% today so far, past its big-gain line of +2.0%): After its 65 big gains in the past 5 years, LDOS was higher a day later 37 times out of 65; half the outcomes fell between -0.6% and +0.9%. History, not a forecast.
- 4 analyst actions in the past 10 days (0 positive, 4 negative); latest: JP Morgan downgraded to Neutral, lowered target $160 → $142.
- 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 LDOS only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
123.13 +2.1% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
126.35 +4.8% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 123.06 · prior close 120.59 | |
| Bargain buy side |
118.10 -2.1% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% |
115.09 -4.6% ↓ 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 | 117.30 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 123.97 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 118.10 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 123.13 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 118.85 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 122.36 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 113.36 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 128.28 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 115.09 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 126.35 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 116.73 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 124.58 | 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 LDOS's daily swings (about 2.2% 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
- 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 LDOS'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
| Highest analyst target | 225.00 +82.8% |
| All-time and 52-week closing high Nov 4, 2025 |
197.27 +60.3% |
| Mean analyst target | 152.07 +23.6% |
| 200-day average | 143.46 +16.6% |
| 50-day average | 130.47 +6.0% |
| Lowest analyst target | 130.00 +5.6% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 126.35 +2.7% |
| Now | 123.06 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
120.59 -2.0% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 115.09 -6.5% |
| 52-week closing low Jun 25, 2026 |
99.68 -19.0% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 20 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.