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After a 0.72% rise, the model expects a quiet session in the S&P 500 today: a 0.28% move and a 7,692–7,793 range

This is a forecast and tonight you will know whether it held: today's range is checked against today's close and the result is published either way. The model is right 59.94% of the time when it calls whether a day will be more turbulent than usual, against 51.31% for always calling the more frequent outcome (the majority class), measured over 1066 sessions it never saw. Below: the leader of each ranking, the insider trades filed with the SEC and the portfolios rebuilt without looking ahead.

00Who filed, and what it did to them

The 3 companies that filed with the SEC on August 26, 2026, and how their score moved once the new numbers went in.

This is the only thing that genuinely changes. Price moves every day and adds nothing; a quarterly or annual report rewrites value, quality and growth at once. Here is the before and after, on the 0-10 scale used on company pages, where 5 is the index average.

CompanyRankMulti-factorWhat moved
SJM#417 → #283 (+134)4.4 → 4.8Momentum 4.7 → 4.8, Value 4.7 → 5.0, Quality 3.7 → 4.1, Growth 4.6 → 5.3
SNPS#274 → #223 (+51)4.8 → 4.9Momentum 3.8 → 3.6, Growth 6.3 → 6.8
NVDA#14 → #11 (+3)6.3 → 6.4Momentum 4.8 → 4.7, Value 3.8 → 3.9, Growth 8.0 → 8.6

Filing date on EDGAR, not the quarter end. Scores come from the rankings calendar: the same ones each company page publishes. No opinion on the results, only the measured effect.

02Today's number

One figure, and what you need to read it properly.

+6.2 pp
How far momentum ran ahead of value over the six-month window ending August 17, 2026. That is percentile 84 of the 179 windows measured since April 4, 2011.

The high of the past 23 months was +13.0 points, in the window ending June 16, 2026: nine weeks later the gap is +6.2. At the other end of the same stretch, -8.3 on August 14, 2025.

Over the past month the value portfolio gained +4.27% while momentum gained +5.95%. Across that six-month window the benchmark rose 9.7%, so this is not the whole market moving: it is a rotation inside one.

Computed from carteras.json · 185 monthly rebalances between 4-Apr-2011 and 17-Aug-2026 (fifteen years) · 179 overlapping windows of 6 rebalances · recent stretch: the last 24 rebalances, the shortest run that still holds 4 non-overlapping windows.

03What the executives did

SEC Form 4, session of August 27, 2026. 5 sales, 2.3 million dollars.

The biggest sale of the day tells you nothing. Hurlston Michael E., of Lumentum Holdings, sold 0.5 million dollars of stock and still holds 186,951 shares: that is 0.29% of the position.

Of the 5 sales filed that day, 1 was discretionary and 4 scheduled. The largest as a share of holding was scheduled, so today the list does not start with a discretionary decision.

CompanyRole% of holdingValueLeft
Western Digital Tregillis Cynthia LChief Legal Officer & Corp Sec0.9%0.48 M$112,155 sh.
Lumentum Holdings Wupen YuenPRESIDENT, GLOBAL BUS. UNITS0.4%0.48 M$119,127 sh.
Block Eisen Anthony MathewDirector0.4%0.50 M$1,470,672 sh.
Slb Limited/Nv Le Peuch OlivierChief Executive Officer0.4%0.28 M$1,336,328 sh.
Lumentum Holdings Hurlston Michael E. · largest of the day by dollar valuePresident and CEO0.3%0.53 M$186,951 sh.

Source: Form 4 filings with the SEC · alertas_insiders.json, session of 27-Aug-2026.

The 90-day context: 861 sales worth 3,972 million dollars (2 with no declared price, outside that total), of which 397 were discretionary, and of those 129 exceeded 25% of the seller's position. That is where to look.

Before drawing conclusions

Executives sell for divorces, mortgages, taxes and school fees, not only because they see clouds. The SEC does not require a reason, and we do not know it.

What we do know is that these people chose the timing. It is a map of where to look. It is not a sell signal.

04The three portfolios that can actually be audited

Rebuilt month by month using only what was known on the day.

PortfolioCumulativeCAGRSharpeMax DDThis yearLast month
Value 100Earnings, book and sales yield+602.8%13.45%0.63-50.78%+22.35%+4.27%
Momentum 10012m return ex-latest month / volatility+674.4%14.16%0.75-35.76%+28.40%+5.95%
Quality 100Balance-sheet and earnings quality+664.4%14.07%0.75-33.22%+12.42%+3.47%
RSP (equal-weight S&P 500) real ETF, dividends reinvested +467.6%—— ———

All three beat the benchmark (+467.6%) on cumulative return over fifteen years, but cumulative return is not the proof: the benchmark carries the bias explained below. The weakest is Value 100, with an alpha of -0.63%: negative, meaning what it earns does not pay for the market risk it takes to earn it. Publishing the figure that comes out worst is the only reason the others deserve any credit.

That benchmark is a fund you can buy

The +467.6% in the row above is RSP, the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF, with dividends reinvested and its management fee already deducted. It is the fair comparable because the portfolios also weight every holding the same, and it already carries what happened to the companies that left the index, because the fund actually sold them. The portfolios, by contrast, are measured with no trading costs, and that asymmetry flatters them.

Over this same window and measured the same way, SPY, the plain cap-weighted S&P 500, returned +676.5% (14.10% a year). Beating RSP but not SPY means the edge is in picking well inside the index, not in avoiding the concentration in the seven giants.

Source: carteras.json · index based at 100 on 4-Mar-2011. Walk-forward with point-in-time data: on each date scoring uses only prices up to that day and fundamentals already filed with the SEC. 185 rebalances through 17-Aug-2026.

The site's other zero portfolios are not here. They are not picked by factor ranking, so their history cannot be rebuilt without looking ahead: their figures are today's holdings applied to the past, which inflates them. Until they have a walk-forward test, they stay out of this report.

05Today's question

Is momentum's lead running out, or just catching its breath?

200400600 2011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Momentum 100 Value 100 Multi-factor 100 Quality 100 Growth 100 RSP (equal-weight S&P 500)

Source: carteras.json · index based at 100 on 4-Mar-2011. Walk-forward with point-in-time data: on each date scoring uses only prices up to that day and fundamentals already filed with the SEC. 185 rebalances through 17-Aug-2026.

The three windows where momentum pulled furthest ahead of value are +27.9 (9-Jul-2020), +23.5 (8-May-2020), +18.9 (7-Aug-2020). The widest is July 9, 2020, six years ago: the extreme of the series is not a recent event, and the window closing August 17, 2026 is worth +6.2 points.

At the other end, the three where value led: -43.7 (10-May-2021), -36.2 (9-Apr-2021), -33.6 (10-Mar-2021); the widest, May 10, 2021, five years ago.

And after an extreme? Counted, not assumed: of the 4 extremes in momentum's favour with enough data after them, in 4 the lead had flipped sign six months later; of the 5 extremes in value's favour, in 3. That is a count over 9 episodes, not a rule.

Why this is not a forecast

179 overlapping windows are not 179 independent observations: each shares five of its six rebalances with the next. With that overlap, any series looks mean-reverting whether it is or not.

What this chart supports is descriptive: the gap between the two factors is +6.2 points today, and last month belonged to Momentum 100. What happens next month is not in this data.

06The close, in three figures

Context, not headline.

S&P 500
7,730.99
+0.72%
VIX
14.51
volatility
10-year yield
4.67%
US

Closing levels of ^GSPC, ^VIX and ^TNX (Yahoo Finance) · session of 27-Aug-2026.

The S&P 500 rose 0.72% in the session of August 27, 2026 and the VIX closed at 14.51. None of that explains the factor rotation in section 02, which is why it sits in section six rather than section one.

07The limits, and what they teach

A fixed section. Knowing where a model stops is worth as much as knowing what it gets right.

  • Why each executive sold. The SEC requires the filing, not the motive. Anyone who tells you the motive is making it up.
  • What insiders did yesterday. Form 4 can be filed up to two business days after the trade, so the freshest data is always the day before last.
  • Whether momentum keeps winning. Fifteen years and 185 rebalances are not enough to claim a factor mean-reverts. We can describe what happened, not what comes.
  • What any company is worth. This report computes no price targets. No Monte Carlo, no DCF, no fair value. When you see one elsewhere, ask which cost of capital discounted it and who chose that number.
  • Whether the S&P rises tomorrow. We measured it with the same model (139 variables) and the same walk-forward protocol, over 1,066 out-of-sample sessions: the model calls direction right 54.13% of the time and saying "up" every single day is right 54.03%. The gap is noise: there is no signal, so we don't sell one. Both figures are recomputed every edition.

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