WST
Moving with its group (XLV +2.5%)
- WST +2.14% on the last session vs SPY +0.01%: +2.1 pts of stock-specific move.
- The health care ETF (XLV) +2.5% (+2.5 pts vs SPY): the stock moved with its group.
- Aftermath, 52-week high ($382.68 today so far, above its 52-week closing high of $376.76): After its 7 new 52-week highs in the past 5 years, WST was higher a day later 2 times out of 7; half the outcomes fell between -1.2% and -0.2%. History, not a forecast.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (1 positive, 0 negative); latest: Barclays maintained Overweight, raised target $400 → $440.
- 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 WST only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
379.67 +1.3% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
385.97 +3.0% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 382.68 · prior close 374.65 | |
| Bargain buy side |
369.69 -1.3% reached 3 in 10 days |
363.66 -2.9% ↑ more often while near its 52-week high
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 29% vs usual 27% |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 368.10 | 2 in 10 days | 381.32 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 369.69 | 3 in 10 days | 379.67 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 371.19 | 4 in 10 days | 378.14 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 360.16 | 2 in 10 weeks↑ 20% vs 18% | 389.72 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 363.66 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 29% vs 27% | 385.97 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 366.95 | 4 in 10 weeks↑ 44% vs 43% | 382.51 | 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 WST's daily swings (about 1.4% 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
- Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 29% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 8 of 10 years)
Big drop and big gain: among WST'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 Dec 30, 2021 |
465.39 +21.6% |
| Highest analyst target | 459.00 +19.9% |
| Mean analyst target | 412.25 +7.7% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 385.97 +0.9% |
| Now | 382.68 |
| 52-week closing high Oct 15, 2026 |
382.68 0.0% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
374.65 -2.1% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 363.66 -5.0% |
| 50-day average | 357.43 -6.6% |
| Lowest analyst target | 340.00 -11.2% |
| 200-day average | 306.51 -19.9% |
| 52-week closing low Feb 3, 2026 |
230.63 -39.7% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 47 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.