MAN
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- MAN −17.12% on the last session vs SPY +0.10%: −17.2 pts of stock-specific move.
- Earnings today before the open: EPS $1.01 expected (4 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.
- Activity: volume on pace for 3.4× its 20-day average.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices MAN only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
53.21 +2.4% reached 3 in 10 days |
54.80 +5.5% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 43.06 · prior close 51.96 | |
| Bargain buy side |
50.74 -2.4% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
49.26 -5.2% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 50.35 | 2 in 10 days | 53.63 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 50.74 | 3 in 10 days | 53.21 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 51.10 | 4 in 10 days | 52.83 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 48.42 | 2 in 10 weeks | 55.76 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 49.26 | 3 in 10 weeks | 54.80 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 50.06 | 4 in 10 weeks | 53.93 | 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 MAN's daily swings (about 2.5% 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 MAN'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 Jan 26, 2018 |
102.66 +138.4% |
| 52-week closing high Aug 31, 2026 |
62.95 +46.2% |
| 50-day average | 57.22 +32.9% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 54.80 +27.3% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
51.96 +20.7% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 49.26 +14.4% |
| Now | 43.06 |
| 200-day average | 38.71 -10.1% |
| 52-week closing low Feb 24, 2026 |
25.16 -41.6% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 38 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.