An EV gap is the distance between where sentiment points and where price has actually gone. When the two disagree, one of them is early — and that gap is where informed traders look for an edge. Here are the widest sentiment-vs-price divergences Sintinel measured across tracked tickers in August 2026.
The widest EV gaps of August 2026
MRNA showed the single largest divergence, peaking at an EV gap of -0.54 (price ahead of sentiment) across 221 signals. A positive gap means sentiment ran ahead of price; a negative gap means price moved before the mood caught up. The full list, ranked by the size of the gap:
- MRNA — avg EV gap -0.09 (price ahead of sentiment) · 221 signals
- INV — avg EV gap +0.04 (sentiment ahead of price) · 26 signals
- ABCL — avg EV gap -0.14 (price ahead of sentiment) · 143 signals
- NBIS — avg EV gap -0.06 (price ahead of sentiment) · 270 signals
- RXT — avg EV gap -0.06 (price ahead of sentiment) · 22 signals
- AAOI — avg EV gap -0.09 (price ahead of sentiment) · 155 signals
- CRWV — avg EV gap -0.05 (price ahead of sentiment) · 324 signals
- AEHR — avg EV gap -0.07 (price ahead of sentiment) · 49 signals
- SOXL — avg EV gap -0.07 (price ahead of sentiment) · 99 signals
- ELMT — avg EV gap -0.04 (price ahead of sentiment) · 112 signals · 5-day direction right 0% of 1
Did the divergence pay off?
Where the five-day outcome has been scored, we can check whether the gap actually closed in sentiment's favour. ELMT was directionally right 0% of its 1 scored signals. A wide gap is an opportunity, not a guarantee — the payoff is what separates a real edge from a coincidence.
Act on the divergence, not on either signal alone — and size the position for the chance the gap closes against you.
How to use this
A large EV gap can mean sentiment is early — or simply wrong, driven by a pump or an off-topic spike. Before trading any of these, confirm the divergence against source quality and technicals, and size with a fraction of Kelly so a single bad read is never fatal. The names here are a starting watchlist, not a buy list.
These figures aggregate Sintinel’s per-ticker signals across users and refresh monthly. Sintinel surfaces the EV-gap read on every ticker page in real time and pairs it with Kelly-criterion sizing, so a high-conviction gap earns a proportionate — not reckless — allocation.