POWL
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- POWL −1.00% on the last session vs SPY +0.09%: −1.1 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.
- Activity: volume on pace for 2.1× its 20-day average.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices POWL only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
175.12 +3.3% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
182.29 +7.5% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 167.83 · prior close 169.53 | |
| Bargain buy side |
164.12 -3.2% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% reached today |
157.67 -7.0% ↓ 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 | 162.40 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 176.98 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 164.12 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 175.12 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 165.74 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 173.41 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 153.99 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 186.63 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 157.67 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 182.29 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 161.17 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 178.33 | 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 POWL's daily swings (about 3.4% 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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2026 | -6.5% | +9.9% | +7.1% | — |
| Aug 28, 2026 | -5.1% | -0.8% | +3.1% | — |
| Aug 18, 2026 | -6.9% | -6.5% | -13.1% | — |
| Jul 27, 2026 | -5.6% | +0.2% | -13.2% | — |
| Jul 16, 2026 | -4.5% | +2.8% | -9.5% | -28.1% |
| Jul 1, 2026 | -7.5% | -10.7% | -21.2% | -30.3% |
| Jun 23, 2026 | -5.3% | -1.8% | -16.8% | -34.1% |
| Jun 5, 2026 | -5.1% | +3.5% | -18.6% | -36.4% |
- 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 POWL'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 May 11, 2026 |
321.80 +91.7% |
| 200-day average | 210.97 +25.7% |
| 50-day average | 189.79 +13.1% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 182.29 +8.6% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
169.53 +1.0% |
| Now | 167.83 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 157.67 -6.1% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 21, 2025 |
93.90 -44.1% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 47 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.