VFH
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- VFH +0.89% on the last session vs SPY +0.04%: +0.9 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 VFH only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
133.27 +0.7% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
134.47 +1.6% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 133.49 · prior close 132.31 | |
| Bargain buy side |
131.36 -0.7% reached 3 in 10 days |
130.19 -1.6% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 131.05 | 2 in 10 days | 133.58 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 131.36 | 3 in 10 days | 133.27 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 131.64 | 4 in 10 days | 132.98 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 129.50 | 2 in 10 weeks | 135.18 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 130.19 | 3 in 10 weeks | 134.47 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 130.83 | 4 in 10 weeks | 133.81 | 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 VFH's daily swings (about 0.7% 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 VFH'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 Sep 3, 2026 |
142.61 +6.8% |
| 50-day average | 137.18 +2.8% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 134.47 +0.7% |
| Now | 133.49 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
132.31 -0.9% |
| 200-day average | 130.41 -2.3% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 130.19 -2.5% |
| 52-week closing low Mar 27, 2026 |
115.86 -13.2% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 23 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.