Smith AO Stock Forecast - Polynomial Regression

AOS Stock  USD 72.46  0.63  0.86%   
The Polynomial Regression forecasted value of Smith AO on the next trading day is expected to be 72.64 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.82 and the sum of the absolute errors of 50.61. Smith Stock Forecast is based on your current time horizon.
At this time the relative strength index (rsi) of Smith AO's share price is below 20 . This suggests that the stock is significantly oversold. The fundamental principle of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to quantify the velocity at which market participants are driving the price of a financial instrument upwards or downwards.

Momentum 0

 Sell Peaked

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Smith AO's future price could yield a significant profit. Please, note that this module is not intended to be used solely to calculate an intrinsic value of Smith AO and does not consider all of the tangible or intangible factors available from Smith AO's fundamental data. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Smith AO, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Smith AO's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.146
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
0.9139
EPS Estimate Current Year
3.7955
EPS Estimate Next Year
4.0341
Wall Street Target Price
78.2727
Using Smith AO hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Smith AO from the perspective of Smith AO response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Smith AO using Smith AO's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Smith using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Smith AO's stock price.

Smith AO Short Interest

An investor who is long Smith AO may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about Smith AO and may potentially protect profits, hedge Smith AO with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
68.3884
Short Percent
0.0446
Short Ratio
4.22
Shares Short Prior Month
4.3 M
50 Day MA
67.6982

Smith AO Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Smith AO's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Smith. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Smith can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Smith AO. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.

Smith AO Implied Volatility

    
  0.38  
Smith AO's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Smith AO stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Smith AO's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Smith AO stock will not fluctuate a lot when Smith AO's options are near their expiration.
The Polynomial Regression forecasted value of Smith AO on the next trading day is expected to be 72.64 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.82 and the sum of the absolute errors of 50.61.

Smith AO after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 72.43  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Smith AO to cross-verify your projections.
For more information on how to buy Smith Stock please use our How to Invest in Smith AO guide.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Smith contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Smith AO will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0238% per day over the life of the 2026-04-17 option contract. With Smith AO trading at USD 72.46, that is roughly USD 0.0172 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Smith AO's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Smith AO options at the current volatility level of 0.38%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-04-17 Smith Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast Smith AO's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in Smith AO's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for Smith AO stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current Smith AO's open interest, investors have to compare it to Smith AO's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of Smith AO is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in Smith. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

Smith AO Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Smith price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Smith using various technical indicators. When you analyze Smith charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.
Smith AO polinomial regression implements a single variable polynomial regression model using the daily prices as the independent variable. The coefficients of the regression for Smith AO as well as the accuracy indicators are determined from the period prices.

Smith AO Polynomial Regression Price Forecast For the 25th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Polynomial Regression forecasted value of Smith AO on the next trading day is expected to be 72.64 with a mean absolute deviation of 0.82, mean absolute percentage error of 1.10, and the sum of the absolute errors of 50.61.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Smith Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Smith AO's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

Smith AO Stock Forecast Pattern

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Smith AO Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting Smith AO's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. Smith AO's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 71.25 and 74.03, respectively. We have considered Smith AO's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
72.46
72.64
Expected Value
74.03
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Polynomial Regression forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Smith AO stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Smith AO stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information Criteria120.0453
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation0.8163
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0122
SAESum of the absolute errors50.6112
A single variable polynomial regression model attempts to put a curve through the Smith AO historical price points. Mathematically, assuming the independent variable is X and the dependent variable is Y, this line can be indicated as: Y = a0 + a1*X + a2*X2 + a3*X3 + ... + am*Xm

Predictive Modules for Smith AO

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as Smith AO. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
71.0472.4373.82
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
65.2173.9275.31
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
65.2068.9472.67
Details
15 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
71.2378.2786.88
Details

Smith AO After-Hype Price Prediction Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Smith AO at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Smith AO or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Smith AO, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Smith AO Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Smith AO's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Smith AO's historical news coverage. Smith AO's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 71.04 and 73.82, respectively. We have considered Smith AO's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
72.46
72.43
After-hype Price
73.82
Upside
Smith AO is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Smith AO is based on 3 months time horizon.

Smith AO Stock Price Prediction Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Smith AO is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Smith AO backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Smith AO, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.11 
1.39
  0.03 
  0.23 
6 Events / Month
7 Events / Month
In about 6 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
72.46
72.43
0.04 
579.17  
Notes

Smith AO Hype Timeline

On the 24th of January Smith AO is traded for 72.46. The entity has historical hype elasticity of -0.03, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.23. Smith is estimated to decline in value after the next headline, with the price expected to drop to 72.43. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company price is over 100%. The price depreciation on the next news is expected to be -0.04%, whereas the daily expected return is presently at 0.11%. The volatility of related hype on Smith AO is about 65.63%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 72.69. About 99.0% of the company shares are held by institutions such as insurance companies. The company has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.75. Smith AO last dividend was issued on the 30th of January 2026. The entity had 2:1 split on the 6th of October 2016. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next estimated press release will be in about 6 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Smith AO to cross-verify your projections.
For more information on how to buy Smith Stock please use our How to Invest in Smith AO guide.

Smith AO Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Smith AO's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Smith AO's future price movements. Getting to know how Smith AO's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Smith AO may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
WTSWatts Water Technologies 2.88 9 per month 1.35  0.02  2.75 (1.61) 9.37 
FLSFlowserve(0.24)3 per month 0.92  0.16  2.55 (2.33) 34.18 
DCIDonaldson 1.58 9 per month 0.80  0.15  2.27 (1.74) 9.29 
GNRCGenerac Holdings 4.53 18 per month 0.00 (0.07) 4.15 (5.41) 11.59 
RRXRegal Beloit 8.47 8 per month 2.20  0.03  4.19 (3.90) 11.58 
POOLPool Corporation 1.56 14 per month 0.00 (0.12) 3.03 (2.65) 6.97 
SPXCSPX Corp(0.24)19 per month 1.77  0.06  3.71 (3.22) 17.00 
PSNParsons Corp 3.12 10 per month 0.00 (0.08) 3.68 (3.89) 25.78 
AITApplied Industrial Technologies(0.24)3 per month 1.01  0.08  2.70 (1.73) 7.04 
GTLSChart Industries(0.24)9 per month 0.00 (0.12) 0.23 (0.12) 1.32 

Other Forecasting Options for Smith AO

For every potential investor in Smith, whether a beginner or expert, Smith AO's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. Smith Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in Smith. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying Smith AO's price trends.

Smith AO Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Smith AO stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Smith AO could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Smith AO by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

Smith AO Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how Smith AO stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading Smith AO shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying Smith AO stock market strength indicators, traders can identify Smith AO entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

Smith AO Risk Indicators

The analysis of Smith AO's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Smith AO's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting smith stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for Smith AO

The number of cover stories for Smith AO depends on current market conditions and Smith AO's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that Smith AO is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about Smith AO's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

Smith AO Short Properties

Smith AO's future price predictability will typically decrease when Smith AO's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of Smith AO often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential Smith AO's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. Smith AO's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding147.1 M
Cash And Short Term Investments276.1 M

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