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Wednesday, July 29
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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Preview of a new war between Apple and Qualcomm
Apple is accelerating its Qualcomm modem design-out before the April 2027 licensing expiry, threatening Qualcomm's high-margin handset…
Hermès, EXLService, Sika - Q2'26 Earnings
Hermès faces leather-volume and margin risk, EXLService beats and raises despite AI concerns, and Sika gains share while trading at 22…
Convequity on X
I’ve been calling $AVGO a spectacular optical winner — and I still am. The mild caveat is that they’re also leaning into CPO rather than NPO or OCS. That said, their in-house optical technology is genuinely strong, which leaves them in a far better position than $NVDA on this front. Half-half, but still clearly ahead.
Convequity on X
AXTI — 6-inch demand visibility $AXTI remains the critical constraint in InP wafers. The recent three-year supply agreement with Coherent for 6-inch substrates (backed by a $22.3 million prepayment) underscores how tight the market still is — customers are willing to prepay and lock capacity years ahead. It improves visibility for AXT’s expansion plans, but the overall supply gap remains wide.
Convequity on X
Ciena — the underappreciated coherent layer As AI clusters move beyond a single building into campus and multi-site “scale-across” architectures, short-reach optics hit their physical limits. Signal distortion and dispersion make conventional detection unusable over distance. $CIEN’s coherent technology recovers both amplitude and phase, reconstructing a clean signal where others cannot. The market remains focused on the high-volume short-reach stack — pluggables, CPO, and related optics inside the data center. Coherent is the quieter, longer-reach piece that becomes essential once clusters themselves become distributed.
DOMO Capital Management, LLC on X
$ALTO $GPRE Growth Energy Applauds Progress on E15 Approval in California https://t.co/pEPyImYD8m
DOMO Capital Management, LLC on X
$PBI is just absolutely killing it: https://t.co/9brXFJjCuh Congrats Kurt!!!
Charles Frischer on X
$NN I agree with those who say I have been overly optimistic on timing. That said, I have underestimated the value of the NN low band spectrum. This article gives a good idea about potential demand for low band from Elon and SpaceX.
Charles Frischer on X
$NN Given demand from direct to device carriers, we might receive bids from 4 or 5 parties willing to pay a fair price for the NN low band spectrum. These bidders could include big three, Amazon and SpaceX.
Charles Frischer on X
$NN SpaceX looks to compete with the carriers | Semafor https://t.co/yS103EaSSK
PAA Research on X
In case you're wondering how "actively" executives "manage" their 10b5-1 plans, I present to you the $4.0MM stock sale (27K shares) from $HURN's CEO filed TODAY. Unprecedented squeeze/rally in the stock and he sold ALL of the stock in his 10b5-1 in a SINGLE DAY (It was filed 10/30/25 and expires 10/30/26). Remarkable https://t.co/EqEp25lTxm
PAA Research on X
Thanks again to @realsteveeisman for having me on his podcast again. It's always fun chopping it up with Steve. We talked about a lot of things: the ever shifting dynamics of the residential real estate market ($Z/$ZG, $COMP $RKT, $CSGP etc.), structural problems in for-profit education (it's not just AI), and why I'm short $GOOG among other things. You can listen to the episode here! https://t.co/PdhE7ro93h
Broken Moats on X
Oil up 7.5% and $EXPE continues its squeeze because it's simply the opposite end of the ai trade? How long can these on/off trades define every stock in the market? Crazy
Ian Bezek on X
Well would you look at that. $COLO $EWY https://t.co/fIuPhTl9TI
Timyan Bank Alert on X
Activist investor prods Washington bank to sell $CSHX https://t.co/XjIjYSAw1Y via @bankingdive
Timyan Bank Alert on X
Fresh 13d $CZWI https://t.co/MTL5UT6J07
BDC on X
$MSFT print and call is the best thing that could have happened to the AI infra trade at this panic stage. Solid growth across the board with key KPI acceleration (Azure). At the same time, opex to grow slower than revenues, capex $ down due to accounting change (higher useful life estimate) but actual demand for "compute" up a bunch. Still generating FCF on back of accelerating OCF to over 30%+. AI bulls should be thanking $MSFT rn.
BDC on X
$MSFT is showing us how to have your AI cake and eat it too. Zuck should take notes
BDC on X
...."but we might not take the offer bc we have all these reasons to use the compute internally even though we missed ad revs" (basically) $meta https://t.co/ozJ63qcFIL
BDC on X
Majority of EPS growth is in tech. Rest of the market EPS growth is tepid. $QQQ imploding, $RSP ripped. Sustainable?
mavix on X
Shelly $SLYG has now confirmed that they are in preliminary discussions with Schneider Electric regarding a potential tender offer for the shares of the Company There is no certainty that these discussions will result in an offer being made, nor as to the terms or timing of such. https://t.co/Nsgvo1MHDh https://t.co/W2TejaVCCk
Laughing Water Capital on X
Friendly reminder that $MRK is well positioned and well incentivized to purchase $LQDA. Yutrepia fits very well with Merck's respiratory portfolio. https://t.co/JAdLguTw7D
Laughing Water Capital on X
@GullCoveCapital Like all other opposition pieces, this article assumes "facts" not in evidence. The reality is joint testing is needed. $NN has been pushing for this for 2 years, but the opposition has resisted. Why is that? IMHO the key part of the article is below: https://t.co/LFpFs7ebCu
Raging Capital Ventures on X
$META’s platform engagement is incredibly robust and healthy with a deep product pipeline. The business is fine. I understand the capex debate, and clearly the biz is today more capital intensive, but I’m sure Zuck will make the right decisions in the end. Weakness is likely a buying opportunity.
Raging Capital Ventures on X
OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar also on a media tour spreading the good cheer… bullish $ORCL https://t.co/oymK8c7nVc
Raging Capital Ventures on X
Sam Altman sounded a lot more at ease about his revenue ramp and was even bullish about his compute commitments (even saying they may have been too conservative) in this podcast. Given that he has been relatively quiet on the podcast circuit over the past year, I view this as a positive tell on OpenAI/$ORCL. https://t.co/yezInyb9XB
