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Signal, Then Confirmation

Four verified cases from BCI's independent backtest registry. In each, the structural signal was defined and dated in a published diagnostic; the interval below is the time to the financial or governance data that later corroborated it.

~8
Months
Burberry
PL crossed the institutional red line on aggressive distribution expansion while MT was in irreversible depletion — a Legibility Trap pattern.
First profit warning Nov 2023  →  third warning + CEO change Jul 2024
Full attribution →
~12
Months
Kering × Gucci
Over-expanded PL through commercial collections while narrative opacity eroded; flagged as a group-level ES extraction risk.
Antitrust raid + FY23 margin compression Apr 2023–Feb 2024  →  profit warning + 46% EBIT decline Apr 2024
Full attribution →
12–18
Months
The Estée Lauder Companies
Portfolio incoherence: niche sovereign brands acquired at high multiples, subjected to conglomerate ES extraction logic.
Asia travel-retail weakness disclosed FY23  →  single-day confirmation (earnings miss, dividend cut, withdrawn guidance) Oct 2024
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11–17
Months
Capri Holding
Portfolio governance logic structurally incompatible with the sovereignty requirements of acquired subsidiary brands.
Management-disclosed full-price sell-through decline Sept 2023  →  $602M goodwill impairment Feb 2025
Full attribution →

Intervals are drawn from BCI's independent M&A / impairment backtest registry and reflect corroborated, dated public events. Not every published diagnostic has been through this backtest process; where it hasn't, no interval is claimed for it.

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