NSP
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- NSP +2.84% on the last session vs SPY +0.01%: +2.8 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 NSP only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
50.74 +2.3% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
52.22 +5.3% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 50.99 · prior close 49.58 | |
| Bargain buy side |
48.44 -2.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
47.07 -5.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 48.08 | 2 in 10 days | 51.13 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 48.44 | 3 in 10 days | 50.74 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 48.78 | 4 in 10 days | 50.39 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 46.28 | 2 in 10 weeks | 53.11 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 47.07 | 3 in 10 weeks | 52.22 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 47.82 | 4 in 10 weeks | 51.41 | 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 NSP'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 NSP'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 Jul 26, 2019 |
114.61 +124.8% |
| 52-week closing high Jul 30, 2026 |
53.40 +4.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 52.22 +2.4% |
| Now | 50.99 |
| 50-day average | 50.08 -1.8% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
49.58 -2.8% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 47.07 -7.7% |
| 200-day average | 38.16 -25.2% |
| 52-week closing low Mar 11, 2026 |
19.32 -62.1% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 30 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.