PZZA
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- PZZA +2.00% on the last session vs SPY +0.12%: +1.9 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 PZZA only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
19.63 +2.2% ↑ more often after a new 52-week low
reached 4 in 10 days · 36% vs usual 28% reached today |
20.17 +5.0% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 19.59 · prior close 19.21 | |
| Bargain buy side |
18.79 -2.2% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% |
18.29 -4.8% ↓ 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 | 18.66 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 19.77 | 3 in 10 days↑ 25% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 18.79 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 19.63 | 4 in 10 days↑ 36% vs 28% |
| Eager | 18.92 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 19.50 | 5 in 10 days↑ 52% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 18.01 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 20.49 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 18.29 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 20.17 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 18.57 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 19.88 | 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 PZZA's daily swings (about 2.3% 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 36% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
| Date | That day | 1 week on | 1 month on | 3 months on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | -0.9% | +1.6% | — | — |
| Sep 1, 2026 | -3.3% | -4.8% | -13.7% | — |
| Jul 27, 2026 | -0.3% | +2.6% | -20.4% | — |
| Apr 7, 2025 | -3.2% | -11.8% | -5.3% | +37.9% |
| Dec 20, 2024 | -2.5% | +3.0% | +0.2% | +6.1% |
| Jul 1, 2024 | -2.1% | -7.6% | -3.8% | +18.4% |
| May 16, 2024 | -0.6% | -8.5% | -5.6% | -10.5% |
| Apr 12, 2024 | -1.7% | +1.2% | -15.4% | -31.4% |
- 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 PZZA'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 4, 2021 |
120.67 +515.8% |
| 52-week closing high Oct 24, 2025 |
53.25 +171.8% |
| 200-day average | 30.86 +57.5% |
| 50-day average | 21.68 +10.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 20.17 +2.9% |
| Now | 19.59 |
| 52-week closing low Oct 14, 2026 |
19.21 -2.0% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
19.21 -2.0% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 18.29 -6.6% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 33 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.