VSEC
Moving with the market
- VSEC +0.71% on the last session vs SPY +0.10%: +0.6 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 1.8× its 20-day average.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices VSEC only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
163.13 +2.8% reached 3 in 10 days |
168.85 +6.4% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 159.77 · prior close 158.65 | |
| Bargain buy side |
154.29 -2.7% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
149.07 -6.0% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 152.90 | 2 in 10 days | 164.62 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 154.29 | 3 in 10 days | 163.13 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 155.60 | 4 in 10 days | 161.76 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 146.08 | 2 in 10 weeks | 172.30 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 149.07 | 3 in 10 weeks | 168.85 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 151.91 | 4 in 10 weeks | 165.69 | 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 VSEC's daily swings (about 2.9% 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 VSEC'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 Aug 17, 2026 |
243.48 +52.4% |
| 200-day average | 198.11 +24.0% |
| 50-day average | 196.03 +22.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 168.85 +5.7% |
| Now | 159.77 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
158.65 -0.7% |
| 52-week closing low Oct 16, 2025 |
156.08 -2.3% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 149.07 -6.7% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 44 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.