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BAB

BAB

Babcock International Group PLC · Industrials

UK StocksEngineering & ConstructionLSEGBp-31.2% from ATH
Current Price

$1,033.50

Drawdown from ATH

-31.2%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

D

Weak

Graded against BAB's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: BAB's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days-6.05%
May 1Jun 15
About BAB

Babcock International Group PLC

Babcock International Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of specialist systems for aerospace, defense, and security in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Africa, North America, Australasia, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Marine, Nuclear, Land, and Aviation. The company offers type 31 frigates, project lurcher, jackal contract, ground deployed advanced mortar system, general logistics vehicle, Babco

The reading

How Dipsern reads BAB right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is BAB doing right now?

In plain terms: BAB is 31.2% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

BAB (Babcock International) is 31.2% below its historical peak. Tape reads in a deep drawdown, with the last trade at $1,033.5. Deep drawdowns shift the conversation from "is this a buy" to "what's broken". Sometimes it's macro. Sometimes it's the asset itself. Dipsern's data tells you which one history rewarded.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

BAB reaches this drawdown band repeatedly in its history (301 observations), which is a large sample for the segmentation engine to compute a stable median forward return. The engine uses a rolling 90-day window and gives more weight to recent years — this lets the signal adapt to regime changes (e.g., post-COVID volatility) without losing the long-run base rate.

Interpretation

What this means for BAB

Drawdown-based signals work across asset classes but the magnitude of meaningful moves varies. Dipsern computes the segmentation per-asset so the bands are calibrated to BAB's own volatility history. Deep drawdowns require a story for why this time isn't different. The Dipsern signal can tell you what historically happened next; it can't tell you whether the current setup matches the historical analog.

Comparable signals

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Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for BAB. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-90% to -85%2
-85% to -80%206
-80% to -75%879
-75% to -70%1228
-70% to -65%737
-65% to -60%593
-60% to -55%467
-55% to -50%490
-50% to -45%446
-45% to -40%284
-40% to -35%252
-35% to -30%Current301
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of BAB's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.