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Market Calls.
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Market calls · S&P 500
Where the S&P 500 finishes 2026
Not a price target — a probability range, built from the 17 years since 1928 in which the index reached this point in the calendar in the same condition it is in today. All 17 are listed below, including the five the range would have missed.
S&P 500 now
7,667
+12.1% YTD from 6,837 (2025 close)
Year-end forecast range
7,892 – 8,542
−2.9% to +11.4% from here
Median outcome
8,365
+9.1% from now · not the range midpoint
Probability
70.6%
12 of 17 comparable years finished inside
State check — the three conditions that selected the comparison group, measured TODAY, not at year-end
Year-to-date return
+12.60%
entry condition, measured today
+3% to +26%
within the band
12-month momentum
+20.22%
entry condition, measured today
above +15%
above the floor
Distance from 1-year high
−1.17%
entry condition, measured today
within 3%
inside 3% of the high
All three conditions currently hold. The range is fixed either way — a condition that breaks is declared here, it does not withdraw the call.
Regime read
BULL · OFFENSE
Composite 71.7 · 28 of 28 inputs
The range is a base-rate read over seventeen years and cannot see a 1987 or a 2018 correcting — both were strong-momentum, at-the-high years until October. The classifiers are the layer that can.
What the prediction is built from
Three conditions define the comparison group. Nothing else enters the range — no earnings, no valuation, no macro. The bar shows how much each condition contributes on its own; the last column is what the range loses if that condition is removed.
| Factor | Today | Years | Dispersion | Contribution | Alone | If removed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-to-date gain3% to 26% | +12.1% | 42 | 6.64% | +14.5 | +8.1 | |
| Distance from 52-week highwithin 3% | −1.6% | 40 | 9.20% | +12.6 | +3.9 | |
| 12-month momentumabove +15% | +20.0% | 35 | 18.00% | +9.7 | +6.3 | |
| All three togetherthe published range | match | 17 | 5.99% | +23.2 | — |
Year-to-date gain does the most work — on its own it cuts dispersion from 11.85% across all 99 years since 1928 down to 6.64%, and lifts in-range accuracy 14.5 points. Momentum contributes least alone but is the condition the range can least afford to lose, because it removes the years that arrived strong and faded.
Every comparable year, plotted
inside · outside the bandEach dot is one comparable year's outcome from 4 August to 31 December. Teal landed inside the published range; orange did not. Hover reads the full-year figure.
Fundamentals, against their own history
None of these feed the range — the range is price history alone. They are the independent checks on it. Each shows where the reading sits against its own average and its recent extreme.
Forward P/E
Neutral20.0
now
19.0
average
19.9
5-yr avg
Forward multiple sits near its own norm. The stretch in this market is in trailing and cyclically adjusted measures, not forward ones.
Earnings growth
Supports50.4
now
11.2
average
91.6
high
Current-quarter blended growth against the 10-year average and the post-2021 record. Rising estimates are what a model has to hold while price advances.
Net margin
Supports16.9
now
12.4
average
12.9
yr ago
Margin against its 5-year average. Margin expansion is the quieter half of the earnings story, and the harder one to reverse quickly.
Beat rate
Supports86
now
76
average
78
5-yr avg
Share of reporters beating consensus, against the 10-year and 5-year averages. A high beat rate sits in a season tuned to pull forward estimates up.
Trailing P/E
Argues against29.7
now
26.2
average
24.4
5-yr avg
Against the 10-year median. Rich trailing valuation sits on nine turns, but they shorten the runway.
Shiller CAPE
Argues against42.1
now
Cyclically adjusted earnings multiple against its long-run mean. The most stretched reading on the page.
Three straight double-digit years
Argues against50%
4th yr higher
68%
all years
10
precedents
2023, 2024 and 2025 each gained more than 10%. After three or more consecutive double-digit years the next year finished higher only half the time, against a 68% baseline. The strongest single argument against this call.
Wall Street bottom-up target
For contrast9,106
analyst target
8,542
our ceiling
18.1
% implied
The aggregated analyst target sits well above the top of the range. Bottom-up targets are a sum of individual company views rather than a market forecast, and have historically run high.
What the range beats
The bar is not zero — it is the band you get with no model at all. Both set to the same 70% coverage, so only width differs.
The zero-factor band runs −1.2% to +13.1%. Its floor is below zero, so it cannot say the year finishes higher than it started. This one can.
The 17 comparable years
Every year since 1928 that matched the current condition, sorted by outcome. Nothing excluded.
| Year | YTD at 4 Aug | 4 Aug → 31 Dec | Full year | Vs range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | +9.1% | −8.0% | −2.6% | below |
| 1959 | +9.8% | 1.3% | −8.5% | below |
| 2012 | +10.6% | +2.1% | +13.4% | inside |
| 1976 | +15.8% | +2.9% | +19.1% | inside |
| 1964 | +9.3% | +3.4% | +13.0% | inside |
| 1951 | +11.8% | +4.0% | +16.3% | inside |
| 1961 | +16.5% | +5.7% | +23.1% | inside |
| 1972 | +8.2% | +6.9% | +15.6% | inside |
| 2013 | +19.9% | +6.1% | +29.6% | inside |
Twelve of seventeen finished inside the published band — the 70.6% figure. The five that missed are listed first, not last.
What this call is not
This page is not part of the validated model layer. The four RegimeSignal classifiers — BRS, MBS T1, MBS T2 and RRS — are walk-forward validated and independently reviewed under the PhD Statistical Validation and PhD Audit engagements. None of that applies to this page. The comparison group holds 17 years, so a single year moving in or out of the band moves the coverage figure by roughly six points. Stated frequency 70.6%; confidence interval 46.9% to 86.7%. Informational only — not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
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