Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Chevron (NYSE: CVX) Stock Rating: Move To Distribute After Q2 FY12/26 Earnings - Near-Peak Margins And The Iran War

Chevron moved to Distribute at $204 after Q2 free cash flow reached $18.1 billion on $104 Brent, with near-peak margins driving supernormal cash flow.

CVX $409B

Cestrian Capital Research Sep 30

Sep 30 YB $590M

NASDAQ:YB 10% dividend, 2x P/E, 30% growth, AI beneficiary, secular tailwinds, founder CEO I think is as good as Bezos/Walton

Calvin Blissett 4 clicks

Sep 30 EQT $31B

EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) Stock Rating: Hold After Q2 FY12/26 - Why Europe's Gas Shortage Has Not Lifted The Stock

Cestrian Capital Research 2 clicks

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@John_Hempton Sep 30

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@SilverBacked737 @ishedtruth444 I know you were not talking to me. But I hope you buy more $AMC anyway.

@John_Hempton Sep 30

John_Hempton on X

@SilverBacked737 @ishedtruth444 I am not mad about you buying $AMC. I have tried to encourage it. Please buy more.

@DeepSailCapital Sep 30 1 click

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@P_Remarks $THEON $DLO $TOI.NE

@stockgutter Sep 30

SG on X

Happy $MKTW dividend day for those who celebrate ( $PAGS $EVC too)

@convequity Sep 30

Convequity on X

$PANW and $DDOG both put something real inside the customer's systems that an AI lab cannot recreate by calling SaaS APIs. Palo Alto's install is still harder to replace with AI. 1. Datadog's agents mostly sit outside the traffic and watch production. A bad agent version rarely takes the business down the way a bad firewall rule can. 2. Palo Alto's firewalls and SASE cloud gateways sit inside the traffic and decide what to allow, deny, decrypt or inspect. A wrong allow or deny hits live traffic and live machines. 3. Many Datadog users start the day in a coding agent and open Datadog when something looks wrong. Many Palo Alto users start in its console and stay there through alerts, triage and response. For them, an outside AI agent is an add-on. Cybersecurity work splits two ways on AI risk. Work done before code ships ("shift-left") or from outside the traffic, such as scanning code, checking cloud settings and sorting collected alerts, gives answers that are easy to check. AI agents are already taking over more of it. Work in live traffic and on live machines ("shift-right") means judging whether an attacker is still inside and whether blocking them is safe. That is more ambiguous and mistakes cost more, so enterprises move slower and demand earned trust. Palo Alto is not risk-free. In our view its exposure is the easily checked detection and vulnerability work inside its platform, which AI agents can take over sooner. The threat is not an AI-native firewall startup.

@KEDM_COM Sep 30

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American Assets Trust’s $AAT Chairman Rady continues to buy shares, now already owning 38% of s/o. The 13D also mentions that he may ‘discuss or encourage extraordinary transactions - including mergers, take‑private deals, asset sales, recapitalizations or board/management changes.’

@stockgutter Sep 30

SG on X

@grok compare the revenue $RGTI has earned ytd with the proceeds of $RGTI insider stock sales ytd

@leevalueroach Sep 30

Lee Roach on X

Pretty good thesis on $MNRO here. I think it gets sold soon. https://t.co/nx6knvA1Ng

3 Mergers and 1 Liquidation in the Danger Zone

Stratus Properties liquidates Austin real estate below projected distributions, while Atlantic Lithium and Intermex await approvals for…

IMXI $356M

Triple S Special Situations Investing Sep 30

POSCO Holdings: A Resource Conglomerate Still Priced Like A Distressed Steel Mill

POSCO Holdings trades at a 78.6% P/B discount as lithium, gas and trading profits reshape the steelmaker, while capex and lithium prices…

PKX $17B

Capital Connoisseur Sep 30

Research Roundup Vol. LIV

Research Roundup covers AAON's data-center cooling ramp, Knife River's margin recovery, ChronoScale's Microsoft-backed neocloud buildout…

AAON $6.8BKNF $2.9B

Monte Independent Investment Research Sep 30

Annaly Capital Management: Rate Swaps Doing The Heavy Lifting For This REIT

Annaly Capital Management’s rate swaps and MBS expansion lifted earnings available for distribution 28% year over year, supporting its…

NLY $14B

Andres Veurink Sep 30

Toll roads in the sky

Asia's elevator boom favors maintenance and modernization providers, with Otis deriving nearly 90% of operating profit from after-sales…

OTIS $24B

Asian Century Stocks Sep 29 1 click

Portfolio and performance update, September 2026

Portfolio returned 65.7% through September 28 versus the S&P 500’s 13.2%, while backing Tourmaline, EQT, Athabasca and SLB on gas demand…

EQT $31B

Guardian Research Sep 29 5 clicks

FTAI Aviation (FTAI US) – The Engine Shop That Owns the Engines

FTAI Aviation’s engine-exchange model swaps CFM56 engines in days rather than 200-day overhauls, driving Aerospace Products adjusted EBITDA…

FTAI $17B

Bristlemoon Capital Sep 29 2 clicks

Dark arts or infinite reload? $TTD’s CEO options and the repricing proxy

The Trade Desk’s CEO received a new 10-year option package targeting $105 per share as the company seeks shareholder approval to reprice…

TTD $5.7B

Yet Another Value Blog Sep 29 5 clicks

Cullinan Therapeutics: Compelling Pullback For CLN-978's Potential In Autoimmune Diseases

Cullinan Therapeutics plans December 2026 autoimmune updates for CLN-978, while zipalertinib awaits an FDA decision in previously treated…

CGEM $1B

Myriam Alvarez Sep 29 2 clicks

Group 1 Automotive (GPI) vs Alpha Metallurgical Resources (AMR)

Alpha Metallurgical Resources director Ken Courtis bought $10.5 million above $190 after a blackout lifted, while Conifer’s 12.7% Group 1…

GPI $3BAMR $2.2B

Cannibal Stocks Sep 29 3 clicks

ADBE · long

Adobe INC

Adobe's dual network effects and platform entrenchment make AI fears a buying opportunity for the software compounder.

ADBE $92B

Value Investors Club May 21 1 click

Two Types of Bank Investments; Thoughts on Asset Sensitivity; FCNCA's Value

Community banks trading at 50-70% of book value can benefit from buybacks and consolidation, with recent targets MSVB and PMHG receiving…

FCNCA $23B

Base Hit Investing Oct 28

Tis The (Earnings) Season

Argentine banks, tariff-exposed stocks and Customer’s Bancorp anchor an earnings-season watchlist after Milei’s election victory,…

CUBI $2.6B

Cluseau Research Oct 27 4 clicks

Will Eatherton: How Cisco Plans to Compete in the AI Datacenter

Cisco targets AI data-center networking with GPU interconnects, modular high-radix systems and its NVIDIA partnership after exceeding its…

CSCO $441B

Fabricated Knowledge Oct 27

[PQ] GRND: Margin Calls & Acquisitions

Grindr received a non-binding $18-per-share acquisition offer.

GRND $2.5B

Nongaap Investing Oct 27

[PQ] VZ: New CEO Announced

Verizon appointed its independent lead director as CEO.

VZ $191B

Nongaap Investing Oct 26 1 click

Buzzi (BZU.IM): Make Italy Great Again

Buzzi SpA, an €8.9 billion Italian cement producer, is presented as the world’s best-managed cement company.

BZZUF $7.4B

Kerrisdale Capital Oct 24

[P] ESTC: Elastic Vesting Goals

Elastic’s vesting goals reveal what management is incentivizing.

ESTC $10B

Nongaap Investing Oct 24 1 click

Biographies: Standing on the shoulders of Giants - Week 2 picks

Phil Knight, John D. Rockefeller and North Korean defectors anchor three recommended biographies of ambition, capitalism and survival.

NKE $53B

The Curious Compounder Oct 22

Shaping Dollar Tree into its new era.

Dollar Tree targets 12%-15% annual EPS growth through 2028 as it shifts to multi-price merchandise, refreshes stores and uses data-driven…

DLTR $21B

D Invests Oct 22

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