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Monday, October 19, 2026· 10843 stock ideas· 219 writers·
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The Agentic AI Roadmap for SaaS

SaaS companies including Salesforce, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Synopsys and Veeva are ranked by agentic AI progress, from pilots to monetization and new usage-based business models.

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Fajasy on X

The $VIX closed at 14.87 on September 25, while the S&P 500's $SPY realized volatility over the past month was 10.8. That 4.1-point gap is the premium option buyers pay over what the index has actually done, and it's the newest row in the volatility section of my macro dashboard. The other volatility rows (VIX, the MOVE index for Treasury volatility, the VIX term structure, and SKEW) all live inside the options market, while this one checks option prices against the index's actual moves. A wide gap means protection is expensive relative to recent moves. A negative gap means the market is moving more than options priced in, which is what a selloff in progress looks like. I added it because a VIX of 15 means something different when the S&P 500 is moving 10% annualized than when it's moving 20%. The gap is near its 5-year average of 3.3 after swinging from -1.2 in early July to 8.4 by late July, 0.6 in mid-August, and 6.7 on September 11. Stocks look calm next to bonds right now. The VIX sits at the 23rd percentile of its 5-year range, while the MOVE index jumped from 80.6 to 96.0 in the week to September 25.
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David Orr on X

Google $GOOG Key bear argument: Search is their largest business and likely faces a long term headwind instead of long term tailwind. At least probably, since they are doing a good job incoperating fast AI responses into search. Android (and iOS and Windows) are threatened. The work culture is weak (but seems to be improving). Key bull argument: Most of their other businesses are good/great and growing. A couple are big AI winners. TPUs in particular are a likely key AI ingredient if either/both inference and electricity efficiency matter a lot (I think yes to both). YouTube is a big AI winner. Cloud/compute biz wins from AI, deals are structured in a way with no downside for $GOOG (but plenty of downside for the companies locking into the contracts). Management are fantastic capital allocators.
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junkbondinvestor on X

Cable One's ($CABO) unsecured debt is trading under 30 cents. Its 1L TL is under 80. This is a company that was ONCE valued at $13bn+ and now has a measly market cap of <$100mm. Part of the reason (besides the whole sector being in shambles)? It owes GTCR an est. $480mm for the rest of MBI, a cableco whose price was locked in at the TOP of the cable cycle. That payment was due yesterday. This morning, they announced a 1-week extension and disclosed that they're in advanced financing talks with GTCR, PC lenders, and "certain" existing lenders. Here's what I think it means for the existing debt as well as equity and what could happen next https://t.co/YPGbd0gSjx

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