VECO
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- VECO −2.27% on the last session vs SPY +0.04%: −2.3 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 VECO only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
47.69 +4.1% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
50.10 +9.4% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 44.78 · prior close 45.82 | |
| Bargain buy side |
44.02 -3.9% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% reached today |
41.90 -8.6% ↓ 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 | 43.46 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 48.31 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 44.02 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 47.69 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 44.56 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 47.12 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 40.70 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 51.58 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 41.90 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 50.10 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 43.05 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 48.77 | 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 VECO's daily swings (about 4.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | -3.8% | -14.4% | — | — |
| Sep 14, 2026 | -8.8% | +8.1% | +19.4% | — |
| Aug 28, 2026 | -5.6% | +0.8% | +16.0% | — |
| Aug 18, 2026 | -6.4% | -6.5% | -18.7% | — |
| Aug 10, 2026 | -6.5% | +10.3% | -9.3% | — |
| Jul 24, 2026 | -5.3% | -3.2% | -9.5% | — |
| Jul 16, 2026 | -4.6% | +0.4% | -3.6% | -15.7% |
| Jun 26, 2026 | -6.0% | -23.3% | -35.6% | -30.0% |
- 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 VECO'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 Sep 27, 2000 |
115.50 +157.9% |
| 52-week closing high Jun 15, 2026 |
83.04 +85.4% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 50.10 +11.9% |
| 50-day average | 47.92 +7.0% |
| 200-day average | 46.37 +3.6% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
45.82 +2.3% |
| Now | 44.78 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 41.90 -6.4% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 20, 2025 |
26.39 -41.1% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 32 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.