Quest Diagnostics Incorporated · Healthcare
$238.35
-0.1%
Aug 10, 2026
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WeakGraded against DGX's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.
What it means: DGX'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.
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated provides diagnostic testing and services in the United States. The company develops and delivers diagnostic information services, such as routine, non-routine and advanced clinical testing, anatomic pathology testing, and other diagnostic information services. It also provides services under the Quest Diagnostics brand, as well as under the AmeriPath, Dermpath Diagnostics, ExamOne, and Quanum brands to physicians, hospitals, patients and consumers, health plans, go
Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.
In plain terms: DGX is 0.1% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.
Quest Diagnostics (DGX) sits 0.1% off its peak and is currently at or near all-time highs, last printing at $238.35. That puts DGX in a momentum regime: buyers are in control and there's no meaningful technical damage on the chart yet.
DGX reaches this drawdown band repeatedly in its history (2163 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.
S&P 500 names behave differently from small-caps at the same drawdown level — the Dipsern segmentation is per-ticker, so historical base rates for DGX reflect its own volatility regime, not the market's. At this level the Dipsern signal is mostly tracking momentum, not mean reversion. Most buying-the-dip frameworks aren't relevant when there is no dip.
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Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for DGX. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.
We segment 40+ years of DGX'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 Aug 10, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.