XYL
Outperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- XYL +0.83% on the last session vs SPY −0.00%: +0.8 pts of stock-specific move.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (0 positive, 1 negative); latest: UBS maintained Neutral, lowered target $138 → $112.
- 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 XYL only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
104.21 +1.4% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
106.05 +3.2% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 103.59 · prior close 102.74 | |
| Bargain buy side |
101.29 -1.4% reached 3 in 10 days |
99.53 -3.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 100.83 | 2 in 10 days | 104.69 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 101.29 | 3 in 10 days | 104.21 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 101.73 | 4 in 10 days | 103.76 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 98.51 | 2 in 10 weeks | 107.15 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 99.53 | 3 in 10 weeks | 106.05 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 100.49 | 4 in 10 weeks | 105.04 | 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 XYL's daily swings (about 1.5% 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 XYL'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
| Highest analyst target | 180.00 +73.8% |
| Mean analyst target | 151.31 +46.1% |
| All-time and 52-week closing high Oct 29, 2025 |
150.84 +45.6% |
| 200-day average | 118.69 +14.6% |
| Lowest analyst target | 112.00 +8.1% |
| 50-day average | 108.88 +5.1% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 106.05 +2.4% |
| Now | 103.59 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
102.74 -0.8% |
| 52-week closing low Oct 1, 2026 |
100.88 -2.6% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 99.53 -3.9% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 15 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.