Today’s AI Top Pick: ACM

8/27/2026 · Turnaround screen · a free sample of K3vl4r’s AI-curated picks.

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Today's pick · TurnaroundACMBUY NOW8.6 / 108/27/2026

AECOM is the cleanest turnaround setup on the board right now: it screens as fundamentally cheap (fwdPe 10.55, peg 0.92, recom 1.5, epsNextY +55.08%), it has been beaten down (perfYear -48.14%, perfYtd -31.70%), and the forecast tape confirms without asking us to chase. All three timeframes are pointing higher in the mid/long horizons — 4h fc +49.85/+55.80/+53.47, 1d fc +17.44/+50.72/+29.96, 1wk fc -1.77/+19.39/+30.40. The only red mark is a tiny short-term weekly dip (-1.77%), and even that resolves higher on mid/long. bullish_prob is 1.0 and near_term_bullish is 0.8. Crucially, we are not chasing. Position in 21-bar range is 41.51 (4h), 30.54 (1d), and only 10.60 (1wk) with a weekly drawdown of -23.97%. That is exactly the profile the lens wants: middle-to-lower zone with room to run rather than an extended breakout. Expected return of +64.7% is the top of the peer group (higher than BILI 51.8, HSAI 31.2, ORCL 40.6), and unlike ORCL (pos 96.83/100 at the very top of range and now flagged by Michael Burry as a short) or APP (weekly fc_long -48.69, structurally broken), ACM's tape is early in the reversal, not late. News flow is a supportive tiebreaker rather than a landmine. Simply Wall St. and Zacks both flag ACM as undervalued post the 49% slump with unusual options activity — this is exactly the kind of quiet accumulation backdrop you want. No guidance cut, no dilution, no regulatory action. Contrast with CLBT (CEO shift + guidance cuts), SRAD (recent UBS downgrade), ORCL (Burry short), or BILI (earnings hitting THIS Thursday — buying today is a coin flip). ACM has no imminent binary event. Why today, not later: the weekly is only 10.6% up from its 21-bar low with a -23.97% drawdown — the risk/reward from here on the daily forecast (+50.72% mid) is asymmetric. Waiting for a further pullback risks missing the reversal because 4h forecasts already register +55.80% mid. Buy the base, not the breakout.

Entry zone

$64.50 - $66.00 (current 65.56, allow some intraday give-back into 4h support)

Stop loss

$59.80 (below the recent 1wk drawdown low, ~9% risk; invalidates the turnaround thesis)

First target

$76 - $78 (aligns with 1d fc_short +17.44% and 4h forecast cluster)

Longer target

$95 - $100 (1d fc_mid +50.72% and 1wk fc_long +30.4%; also closes the gap toward the pre-slump range)

Risks

Sales YoY is -4.24% and profitMargin only 2.35% — the turnaround is EPS-led (epsNextY +55.08%), so any margin miss unwinds the thesis fast
debtEq 1.52 is elevated for an engineering services firm; rate/credit shocks amplify downside
1wk fc_short is -1.77% — a brief further leg down toward $62 is possible before the mid-term rally kicks in
Sector beta: broader Industrials weakness (peers like PRIM, MIR, QXO also down 30-37% YTD) suggests group-wide overhang, not just company-specific
targetUpsidePct is only 29.3% — modest analyst cushion compared to peers like WING (82.4%) or KTOS (93.4%), so upside beyond first target relies on multiple expansion

Honorable mentions

BILIBest pure forecast setup — 4h fc +58.7/+64.8/+67.3, all timeframes positive, weekly position at 1.38 (extremely coiled), fwdPe 11.92, recom 1.2, targetUpside 78.9%. Would be #1 except earnings are hitting this week per the Aug-20 headline; buying into a binary event on a Chinese ADR is too much timing risk for a full-conviction pick.

HSAIRobotics story is genuinely catalyzing (Aug 27 Insider Monkey headline), epsNextY +85.78%, recom 1.21, near_term_bullish 1.0. Held back by negative 1wk forecasts (fc_short -9.87, fc_mid -17.07) — the multi-TF agreement is weaker than ACM's.

Full ranking (18)

#	Symbol	Verdict	Score	Read
1	ACM	BUY NOW	8.6	Multi-TF forecasts +50% mid, position 30% of range, fwdPe 10.55, no news landmines — cleanest reversal setup.
2	BILI	WAIT	8.2	Best forecasts on the board but earnings this week — wait for the print, then re-engage.
3	HSAI	BUY NOW	7.6	Robotics catalyst + strong short/mid TF, but weekly forecasts turn negative — size smaller.
4	SRAD	BUY PULLBACK	7.2	Huge 4h forecasts (+45-55%) and Euroleague deal, but PE 215 and 1wk fc_short/mid negative — wait for a base.
5	CALX	BUY NOW	6.9	All-TF positive, 4h fc +49%, debtEq 0.02, recom 1.22 — solid secondary.
6	PFSI	BUY NOW	6.6	1d fc +38%, position 2.39 (deeply oversold), fwdPe 6.67 — only single TF data available, hence lower rank.
7	LIF	BUY PULLBACK	6.3	Oversold (pos 0 on 4h/1d), analyst PT cuts already priced, but 1wk forecasts negative.
8	BIRK	BUY NOW	6.1	Broad TF agreement with modest magnitude; cheapest fwdPe (12.81) in consumer cyclical bucket.
9	TMUS	BUY PULLBACK	5.9	Steady but small forecast magnitudes; 1wk forecasts negative — defensive not offensive.
10	MLCO	WAIT	5.7	1wk fc_mid +33% but near_term_bullish 0 and Simply Wall St. cut fair value on margins.
11	NRG	WAIT	5.4	1wk fc_long -38.95% is a serious tape warning despite the 1h bounce.
12	ALNY	WAIT	5.2	Daily position 86.24 (near top), weekly forecasts all negative — no entry edge.
13	KVYO	BUY PULLBACK	4.8	Only 4h data, position 96.32 (at top of range), PE 839 — chasing.
14	FICO	WAIT	4.7	1wk fc_long -15.5% and 'why hasn't it recovered' narrative — thesis unclear.
15	ORCL	AVOID	4.4	Positions 96.83/100 at top of range, 1wk forecasts negative, Michael Burry disclosed short — do not chase.
16	MNDY	WAIT	4.2	Weekly at 100% of range with fc_short -5.66% — sell the rip, don't buy it.
17	CLBT	AVOID	3.8	Guidance cuts + CEO shift is a landmine even with recom 1.0.
18	APP	AVOID	3.4	1wk fc_long -48.69% — structurally broken; screen pass on paper only.

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