Monday, August 3, 2026

Meta's "True" ROIC, and Some Notes from Meta and Alphabet's 10-Qs

Meta’s adjusted LTM ROIC is in the mid-50s after excluding $80 billion of construction in progress; that capacity will lower returns as AI capex enters service.

META $1.8T

MBI Deep Dives Aug 3 9 clicks

Aug 3 BLDR $6B

[scuttleslops] BLDR, RYAN, APG, GFL, FND

scuttleblurb 9 clicks

Aug 2 FND $4.9B

Floor & Decor 2Q'26: Tentative Green Shoots

MBI Deep Dives 5 clicks

Meta: 2Q26 Business Update

Meta's 2Q26 revenue rose 27%, but capex, depreciation and nascent cloud and AI ambitions raise margin and return risks as it maximizes…

META $1.8T

Speedwell Memos Jul 31 3 clicks

Amazon 2Q'26: AWS Gets the Love

Amazon’s AWS grew 37% to a $169 billion run rate in 2Q’26, while North America retail margins fell excluding a $600 million tariff refund.

AMZN $2.7T

MBI Deep Dives Jul 31 2 clicks

[scuttleslops] ODFL, AMD, INTC, CDNS, URI, VRSK, KNSL, WSO

Old Dominion Freight Line grew Q2 revenue 10.4% and EPS 32.3% as pricing offset lower tonnage, while excess network capacity sets up…

ODFL $38B

scuttleblurb Jul 30 2 clicks

Google’s AI Return on Investment

Alphabet’s $132 billion AI capex produced an estimated 49% post-tax incremental ROIC once only in-service assets are counted, versus a…

GOOGL $4.2T

Bristlemoon Capital Jul 28 4 clicks

Under the Hood - Adobe Inc. ($ADBE)

Adobe generates 96% of revenue from subscriptions and converts over 40% into free cash flow, but generative AI tests whether Creative…

ADBE $90B

Bearhold Research Jul 27 3 clicks

Under the Hood - Tractor Supply ($TSCO)

Tractor Supply’s 2,602-store rural retail network supported 30+ years of growth.

TSCO $17B

Bearhold Research Jul 23 2 clicks

Boston Scientific Has to Keep Buying the Future

Boston Scientific built its interventional-medicine portfolio through acquisitions, but early-2000s growth became heavily dependent on the…

BSX $61B

scuttleblurb Jul 20 3 clicks

$CBZ: stop the buybacks and restart the M&A flywheel? | Reference Equity

CBIZ activist Ryan Bunn urges ending buybacks, issuing equity and resuming bolt-on acquisitions to delever after the $2.3 billion Marcum…

CBZ $3B

Yet Another Value Podcast Jul 14 3 clicks

Under The Hood - Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.

Sprouts Farmers Market’s 483-store fresh-food format combines dedicated distribution, curated assortments and long-built site selection,…

SFM $6.1B

Bearhold Research Jul 11 4 clicks

$VEON: a busted EM telecom hiding a 4x? | Samit Umatiya, UIG Funds

VEON’s 84% Kyivstar stake and JazzCash underpin a sum-of-the-parts case for 4x upside, despite its sanctioned shareholder, capital…

VEON $5.3B

Yet Another Value Blog Jul 1 2 clicks

PPTA · long

Perpetua Resources CORP

Perpetua Resources (PPTA) is a development-stage gold mining project.

PPTA $2.6B

Value Investors Club May 3 2 clicks

Defending the Enterprise Castle from the Model Layer

Microsoft urges enterprises to keep AI memory, evaluations and orchestration inside their tenant boundary, making frontier models…

MSFT $3.9T

MBI Deep Dives Jul 13 2 clicks

Meta On the Offense!

Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 targets agentic enterprise work, backed by employee workflow data and 3,000 engineers building reinforcement-learning…

META $1.8T

MBI Deep Dives Jul 10 1 click

Under The Hood: Ulta Beauty, Inc. ($ULTA)

Ulta Beauty’s 46 million-member loyalty model drove strong historical cash flow, but earnings have stalled since fiscal 2022 as SG&A rose;…

ULTA $23B

Bearhold Research Apr 28 1 click

Under The Hood, HCA Healthcare - $HCA

HCA Healthcare generated $75.6 billion of 2025 revenue and an 18.9% ROIC, pairing hospital-market scale with expanding margins and lower…

HCA $96B

Bearhold Research Apr 25 4 clicks

An Open Letter to the TPL Board

Texas Pacific Land shareholders urge two board additions, data-center expertise, and capital spending beyond mineral royalties toward…

TPL $24B

310 Value’s Newsletter Apr 22 5 clicks

Under The Hood, Pool Corporation - $POOL

Pool Corporation controls roughly 40% of US pool-product distribution, with maintenance representing 64% of sales as new-pool construction…

POOL $5.8B

Bearhold Research Apr 17 3 clicks

First Takes on GFL's Acquisition of Secure

GFL Environmental is buying Secure Waste at 11x 2026E EBITDA before synergies, adding high-margin produced-water and waste assets with $25…

GFL $15B

310 Value’s Newsletter Apr 13 2 clicks

AXT’s Tongmei Problem: Great Asset, Fragile Economics

AXT’s 85.5%-owned Tongmei depends on offshore pricing, export approvals and transfer-pricing economics despite AI-optics demand.

AXTI $5.2B

Maius Partners Apr 2 8 clicks

Water and Power: The Dual Engines Driving LandBridge’s Explosive Growth

LandBridge outlined $300 million in pore-space free cash flow within five years; its Permian data-center project remains proof of concept.

LB $6.6B

310 Value’s Newsletter Mar 26 5 clicks

Meta's "True" ROIC, and Some Notes from Meta and Alphabet's 10-Qs

[scuttleslops] BLDR, RYAN, APG, GFL, FND

Floor & Decor 2Q'26: Tentative Green Shoots

Meta: 2Q26 Business Update

Amazon 2Q'26: AWS Gets the Love

[scuttleslops] ODFL, AMD, INTC, CDNS, URI, VRSK, KNSL, WSO

Google’s AI Return on Investment

Under the Hood - Adobe Inc. ($ADBE)

Under the Hood - Tractor Supply ($TSCO)

Boston Scientific Has to Keep Buying the Future

$CBZ: stop the buybacks and restart the M&A flywheel? | Reference Equity

Under The Hood - Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.

$VEON: a busted EM telecom hiding a 4x? | Samit Umatiya, UIG Funds

Perpetua Resources CORP

Defending the Enterprise Castle from the Model Layer

Meta On the Offense!

Under The Hood: Ulta Beauty, Inc. ($ULTA)

Under The Hood, HCA Healthcare - $HCA

An Open Letter to the TPL Board

Under The Hood, Pool Corporation - $POOL

First Takes on GFL's Acquisition of Secure

AXT’s Tongmei Problem: Great Asset, Fragile Economics

Water and Power: The Dual Engines Driving LandBridge’s Explosive Growth

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Monday, August 3, 2026

Publications we follow

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Blogs 12

Seeking Alpha 44 of 215

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Investor letters we follow

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