SM
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- SM −1.33% on the last session vs SPY +0.01%: −1.3 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 SM only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
39.25 +2.7% reached 3 in 10 days |
40.57 +6.2% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 37.71 · prior close 38.22 | |
| Bargain buy side |
37.21 -2.6% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
36.00 -5.8% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 36.89 | 2 in 10 days | 39.60 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 37.21 | 3 in 10 days | 39.25 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 37.51 | 4 in 10 days | 38.94 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 35.31 | 2 in 10 weeks | 41.37 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 36.00 | 3 in 10 weeks | 40.57 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 36.66 | 4 in 10 weeks | 39.85 | 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 SM's daily swings (about 2.8% 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 SM'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 26, 2013 |
79.99 +112.1% |
| 52-week closing high Sep 15, 2026 |
41.29 +9.5% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 40.57 +7.6% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
38.22 +1.4% |
| Now | 37.71 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 36.00 -4.5% |
| 50-day average | 35.71 -5.3% |
| 200-day average | 28.90 -23.4% |
| 52-week closing low Jan 7, 2026 |
17.20 -54.4% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 34 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.