Research Roundup Vol. LIII
Micron’s customer agreements, Analog Devices’ acquisitions, Ondas’ GATE deal and Baker Hughes’ power systems position them for AI infrastructure demand.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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Wall Street is sleeping on $GME https://t.co/x35RBIivhJ
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I'm not very interested in buying $MCD because I think they've lost their core competency, which is being efficient. Their product now costs a lot and isn't delivered nearly as quickly as Chick-fil-A.
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McDonald's CEO expects high inflation, flat traffic are not going away for restaurant industry $MCD https://t.co/ZIgM3fUPpK
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"displaying advertising for other companies on its digital drive-thru order boards as part of a pilot" Why McDonald's is following Walmart and Amazon into the advertising business $MCD https://t.co/eW0y5UCUnw
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General Mills Profit, Sales Slip as Turnaround Continues $GIS https://t.co/hCadtnVNZ8
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McDonald’s Pledges $8.5 Billion in Investments to Help Franchisees $MCD https://t.co/PoTrgnrK0A
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Disney Boosts Prices on Several Streaming Subscriptions $DIS https://t.co/X7Mv5pl7kh
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$PM $BTI $MO U.S. Regulators Plan Major Move to Speed Authorizations of Vapes, Tobacco Pouches https://t.co/aaQ7DSzIvP
Investor Letters
All letters- Janus Henderson Investors July 2026 KLAC $270BMCK $100B
- Pendelhaven Asset Management B.V. July 2026 SKHY $995B
- Asset Value Investors Ltd July 2026 UNVGY $26B
- PenderFund Capital Management Ltd. July 2026 GNRC $12B
- Lindsell Train Limited July LDNXF $52BSGGEF $12B
- Protean Funds July 2026 EVGGF $15BNVO $169B
- Broyhill Asset Management second quarter ACN $130BFCNCA $23B
- Artisan Partners Q2 2026 ALAB $62BAS $16B
Abbott: Quality Remains, But Exact Sciences Has Raised The Bar For Buy
Abbott’s Exact Sciences acquisition raises leverage, leaving Medical Devices’ 8% growth and 33.9% margin to carry cash flow until…
PV Research 1 click
Meta's Muse Could be Big Win for Innodata
Innodata's new Meta contract for long-horizon agent personalization ties the data company to Meta's Muse AI assistant, despite Meta's Scale…
Credo Technology: New Position in My Private Portfolio
Credo Technology was added at $170.54 after a 40% selloff, backed by its high-speed AECs and optical connectivity for AI data centers.
Copart's Return To Growth Starts Now: Adair's $1.9B Bet On ACV Auctions
Copart’s $1.9 billion ACV Auctions acquisition targets renewed growth, with EPS accretion expected by fiscal 2028 as insurance…
Robert J. Lake 2 clicks
GameStop Is Extreme Deep Value
GameStop's collectibles mix rose to 45% of sales as gross margin reached 44%, supporting a deep-value case built on cash and store…
Tempus AI: Data And Applications Will Unlock More Upside
Tempus AI’s Q2 oncology testing volumes rose 31%, while data and applications revenue grew 28% as its clinical data flywheel expands.
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Meta’s Muse Is No Sure Thing
Meta’s Muse AI agent drove an 11% share surge, but OpenAI, Google and Apple could erode its early consumer lead.
A2Gold: Research Note
A2Gold’s first Taylor drill holes returned 20.96 g/t AuEq over 1.5m and 209.4 g/t silver over 10.7m, alongside 141.10 g/t gold at…
[Emergency Lunch-Hour Market Memo] Coherent admits their CPO/NPO Laser is garbage + Cerebras delusional bonus roast
Coherent’s CPO/NPO laser misses 1 MHz effective-linewidth requirements, Irrational Analysis argues.
[CoStar] Homes are different
CoStar spent more than $1 billion building Homes.com to challenge Zillow, betting seller-agent leads, proprietary listing content and…
DASH · long Doordash INC
DoorDash holds roughly 60% U.S. market share in on-demand restaurant logistics, underpinning a long thesis on its defensible delivery…
Intel CPO Group is Alive? + Very Interesting NVDA/LITE/AEVA Bonus Papers
Intel's silicon photonics CPO work shows precise 16-wavelength lasers but suffers SOA four-wave-mixing noise and weaker link performance…
$NU: is Nubank Capital One in 1994 or Capital One in 2006? | Vanshap Capital
Nubank's 140 million customers, 20% efficiency ratio and 30% ROE frame whether its high-teens P/E reflects a scalable fintech or a maturing…
Why DoorDash’s Autonomous Strategy Beats Uber’s Hodgepodge
DoorDash’s integrated autonomous-delivery strategy contrasts with Uber’s 2026 divestment of Serve Robotics, its former delivery-robot…
Revisiting my Rubrik pitch and what I am doing now after a 100% run
Rubrik, RBRK, has risen more than 100% since a February pitch at $48; the investor updates plans for shares bought at a $53 average.
The Airbnb Blueprint
Airbnb’s Q3 guidance implies 17% TTM GBV growth, while World Cup-driven North American strength may create a difficult Q2 FY27 comparison.
Cerebras Systems, Inc.
Cerebras Systems’ WSE-3 wafer-scale chip targets low-latency AI inference with faster decode than GPU racks, while higher per-token costs…
WD #354: Colombia Earthquake, Software, CIB/AVAL/NU Earnings
Colombia’s earthquake frames risks for Tecnoglass as Grupo Aval, Bancolombia and Nu report strong earnings, including Nu’s 67% EPS growth.
The $1.5 Trillion of Hidden Debt Fueling the AI Boom | Robin Wigglesworth of FT Alphaville
Hyperscalers’ off-balance-sheet lease and purchase obligations rose from roughly $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, turning the AI buildout into…
Deep Dive: Uber ($UBER)
Uber generated $52 billion of FY25 revenue and $10 billion of free cash flow as investors weigh whether autonomous vehicles can erode its…
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