WH
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- WH +4.15% on the last session vs SPY +0.10%: +4.0 pts of stock-specific move.
- Earnings Wed after the close: EPS $1.31 expected (6 analysts).
- 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 WH only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
73.54 +1.3% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
74.74 +3.0% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 75.60 · prior close 72.59 | |
| Bargain buy side |
71.65 -1.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
70.50 -2.9% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 71.35 | 2 in 10 days | 73.86 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 71.65 | 3 in 10 days | 73.54 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 71.93 | 4 in 10 days | 73.25 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 69.84 | 2 in 10 weeks | 75.45 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 70.50 | 3 in 10 weeks | 74.74 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 71.13 | 4 in 10 weeks | 74.08 | 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 WH's daily swings (about 1.3% 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
Big drop and big gain: among WH'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 Feb 20, 2025 |
107.86 +42.7% |
| 52-week closing high Apr 20, 2026 |
88.87 +17.5% |
| 200-day average | 77.26 +2.2% |
| Now | 75.60 |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 74.74 -1.1% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
72.59 -4.0% |
| 50-day average | 71.87 -4.9% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 70.50 -6.7% |
| 52-week closing low Sep 21, 2026 |
67.15 -11.2% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 8 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.