IDEX Stock Forecast - Simple Regression

IEX Stock  USD 197.84  1.22  0.61%   
The Simple Regression forecasted value of IDEX Corporation on the next trading day is expected to be 191.14 with a mean absolute deviation of 3.29 and the sum of the absolute errors of 204.08. IDEX Stock Forecast is based on your current time horizon.
The relative strength index (RSI) of IDEX's stock price is slightly above 68. This usually indicates that the stock is rather overbought by investors at this time. The main point of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to track how fast people are buying or selling IDEX, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 68

 Buy Stretched

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of IDEX's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with IDEX Corporation, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting IDEX's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.083
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
2.1301
EPS Estimate Current Year
7.8934
EPS Estimate Next Year
8.3201
Wall Street Target Price
197.0769
Using IDEX hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of IDEX Corporation from the perspective of IDEX response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards IDEX using IDEX's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards IDEX using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of IDEX's stock price.

IDEX Short Interest

An investor who is long IDEX may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about IDEX and may potentially protect profits, hedge IDEX with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
173.0764
Short Percent
0.0399
Short Ratio
4.3
Shares Short Prior Month
2.6 M
50 Day MA
176.8876

IDEX Hype to Price Pattern

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

IDEX Implied Volatility

    
  0.39  
IDEX's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of IDEX Corporation stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if IDEX'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 IDEX stock will not fluctuate a lot when IDEX's options are near their expiration.
The Simple Regression forecasted value of IDEX Corporation on the next trading day is expected to be 191.14 with a mean absolute deviation of 3.29 and the sum of the absolute errors of 204.08.

IDEX after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 197.84  
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 IDEX to cross-verify your projections.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current IDEX contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that IDEX Corporation will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0244% per day over the life of the 2026-04-17 option contract. With IDEX trading at USD 197.84, that is roughly USD 0.0482 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating IDEX's daily price movement you should consider acquiring IDEX Corporation options at the current volatility level of 0.39%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-04-17 IDEX Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast IDEX'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 IDEX's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for IDEX 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 IDEX's open interest, investors have to compare it to IDEX'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 IDEX 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 IDEX. 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.

IDEX Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine IDEX price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for IDEX using various technical indicators. When you analyze IDEX 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.
Simple Regression model is a single variable regression model that attempts to put a straight line through IDEX price points. This line is defined by its gradient or slope, and the point at which it intercepts the x-axis. Mathematically, assuming the independent variable is X and the dependent variable is Y, then this line can be represented as: Y = intercept + slope * X.

IDEX Simple Regression Price Forecast For the 24th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Simple Regression forecasted value of IDEX Corporation on the next trading day is expected to be 191.14 with a mean absolute deviation of 3.29, mean absolute percentage error of 18.26, and the sum of the absolute errors of 204.08.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict IDEX 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 IDEX's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

IDEX Stock Forecast Pattern

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IDEX Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting IDEX'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. IDEX's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 189.76 and 192.52, respectively. We have considered IDEX'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
197.84
189.76
Downside
191.14
Expected Value
192.52
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Simple Regression forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of IDEX stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent IDEX 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 Criteria122.853
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors None
MADMean absolute deviation3.2916
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0187
SAESum of the absolute errors204.0784
In general, regression methods applied to historical equity returns or prices series is an area of active research. In recent decades, new methods have been developed for robust regression of price series such as IDEX Corporation historical returns. These new methods are regression involving correlated responses such as growth curves and different regression methods accommodating various types of missing data.

Predictive Modules for IDEX

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as IDEX. 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.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of IDEX's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
196.47197.84199.21
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
178.06222.97224.34
Details
15 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
179.34197.08218.76
Details
Earnings
Estimates (0)
LowProjected EPSHigh
1.821.851.93
Details

IDEX After-Hype Price Prediction Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of IDEX 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 IDEX 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 IDEX, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

IDEX Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting IDEX's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on IDEX's historical news coverage. IDEX's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 196.47 and 199.21, respectively. We have considered IDEX'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
197.84
196.47
Downside
197.84
After-hype Price
199.21
Upside
IDEX is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of IDEX is based on 3 months time horizon.

IDEX Stock Price Prediction Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as IDEX is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading IDEX 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 IDEX, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.29 
1.38
  0.26 
  0.41 
12 Events / Month
8 Events / Month
In about 12 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
197.84
197.84
0.00 
153.33  
Notes

IDEX Hype Timeline

On the 23rd of January IDEX is traded for 197.84. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.26, and average elasticity to hype of competition of -0.41. IDEX is forecasted not to react to the next headline, with the price staying at about the same level, and average media hype impact volatility is about 153.33%. The immediate return on the next news is forecasted to be very small, whereas the daily expected return is currently at 0.29%. %. The volatility of related hype on IDEX is about 97.66%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 197.43. About 100.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The book value of IDEX was currently reported as 53.49. The company has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.91. IDEX recorded earning per share (EPS) of 6.31. The entity last dividend was issued on the 16th of January 2026. The firm had 3:2 split on the 22nd of May 2007. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next forecasted press release will be in about 12 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of IDEX to cross-verify your projections.

IDEX Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to IDEX's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict IDEX's future price movements. Getting to know how IDEX'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 IDEX 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
NDSNNordson(8.75)7 per month 0.73  0.14  2.33 (1.45) 4.63 
GGGGraco Inc 3.47 4 per month 1.18  0.01  2.46 (1.90) 6.74 
ITTITT Inc 0.14 9 per month 1.78  0.01  1.90 (2.11) 17.49 
CRCrane Company 3.62 10 per month 1.17  0.07  2.28 (2.32) 6.88 
WCCWESCO International(0.02)24 per month 1.90  0.16  3.54 (3.42) 16.49 
DCIDonaldson 0.41 8 per month 0.74  0.16  2.27 (1.74) 9.29 
LECOLincoln Electric Holdings(3.06)3 per month 1.57  0.05  2.47 (2.84) 7.77 
CNHCNH Industrial NV(8.75)20 per month 1.86  0  4.04 (2.89) 8.25 
FLSFlowserve(1.08)11 per month 0.92  0.16  2.55 (2.33) 34.18 
WTSWatts Water Technologies(0.11)12 per month 1.32  0.04  2.75 (1.61) 9.37 

Other Forecasting Options for IDEX

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

IDEX 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 IDEX stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of IDEX could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing IDEX by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

IDEX Market Strength Events

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

IDEX Risk Indicators

The analysis of IDEX'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 IDEX's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting idex 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 IDEX

The number of cover stories for IDEX depends on current market conditions and IDEX's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that IDEX 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 IDEX's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

IDEX Short Properties

IDEX's future price predictability will typically decrease when IDEX's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of IDEX Corporation often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential IDEX'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. IDEX's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding75.9 M
Cash And Short Term Investments620.8 M

Additional Tools for IDEX Stock Analysis

When running IDEX's price analysis, check to measure IDEX's market volatility, profitability, liquidity, solvency, efficiency, growth potential, financial leverage, and other vital indicators. We have many different tools that can be utilized to determine how healthy IDEX is operating at the current time. Most of IDEX's value examination focuses on studying past and present price action to predict the probability of IDEX's future price movements. You can analyze the entity against its peers and the financial market as a whole to determine factors that move IDEX's price. Additionally, you may evaluate how the addition of IDEX to your portfolios can decrease your overall portfolio volatility.