Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Next Consumer is a Computer

Meta’s Muse illustrates how persistent AI agents shift compute from per-query to per-user, driving heavier GPU, CPU and memory demand.

META $1.9TNVDA $5.8T

SixSigmaCapital: Navigating the Financial Markets Sep 30 7 clicks

Sep 30 CVX $409B

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

Cestrian Capital Research 2 clicks

Sep 30 MU $1.2T

Micron (NASDAQ: MU) Stock Rating: Hold After Q4 FY8/26 Earnings - No Change To Rating

Cestrian Capital Research 5 clicks

From X

@John_Hempton Sep 30 1 click

John_Hempton on X

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

@John_Hempton Sep 30 1 click

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 2 clicks

Deep Sail Capital on X

@P_Remarks $THEON $DLO $TOI.NE

@stockgutter Sep 30 1 click

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 1 click

KEDM.com on X

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 1 click

SG on X

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

@leevalueroach Sep 30 1 click

Lee Roach on X

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

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

Yuanbao pairs a 10.2% dividend and cash exceeding its market value with 33.5% first-half profit growth from AI-enabled Chinese insurance…

YB $590M

Calvin Blissett Sep 30 4 clicks

Undercovered Dozen: Vicor, Rayonier, Accenture And More

Vicor, Rayonier, Accenture and nine other lesser-covered stocks make up Seeking Alpha’s Undercovered Dozen.

VICR $14BRYN $5.4B

The Undercovered Dozen Sep 30 4 clicks

Why AMD Is the Most Overhyped Chip Stock | Ben Pouladian on Meta’s Muse, Anthropic IPO, & Semis

Ben Pouladian argues AMD’s Helios racks cannot match NVIDIA GPUs’ fungibility and financing appeal as agentic AI shifts the bottleneck to…

AMD $1TNVDA $5.8T

The Monetary Matters Network Sep 30 5 clicks

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

EQT remains tied to roughly $3 Henry Hub gas despite European prices near $23 per MMBtu, with US LNG export capacity limiting overseas…

EQT $31B

Cestrian Capital Research Sep 30 4 clicks

Microsoft: The Xbox Segment Revamp

Microsoft plans to rebuild Xbox after FY2026 through studio cuts, higher hardware prices, Game Pass growth, exclusive releases and the 2028…

MSFT $3.8T

Khaveen Investments Sep 30 3 clicks

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…

STRS $148MIMXI $356M

Triple S Special Situations Investing Sep 30 1 click

💥Yield!💥

Beyond Meat’s Q2 2026 revenue fell 8.2% as U.S. retail and foodservice volumes declined, while a flatter, not inverted, Treasury curve…

BYND $137M

PETITION 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 $25B

Asian Century Stocks Sep 29 1 click

NPWR · long

NET Power Inc

NET Power (NPWR) is a microcap pursuing behind-the-meter power projects for data centers.

NPWR $114M

Value Investors Club May 22

TIC Solutions: Thesis Check

TIC Solutions' NV5 merger lifted consulting and geospatial growth and margins, while its 52%-of-revenue inspection unit stayed flat after…

TIC $1.9B

Kairos Research Mar 19 1 click

Shift4 Payments: A Fintech Compounder Trading Like a Melting Ice Cube

Shift4 Payments earns 50 to 60 basis points on SkyTab volume while acquiring merchant networks, driving 39% annual GRLNF growth since 2021…

FOUR $2.9B

Modern Value Investing Mar 15 1 click

Pershing Square U.S. and Pershing Square Inc. Dual Listings

Pershing Square plans dual IPOs of PSUS and management company PSI, granting 20 PSI shares for every 100 PSUS shares to counter closed-end…

PS $24B

Eagle Point Capital Mar 14

Lands’ End Into Next Week: A Re-Rate Catalyst Hiding Behind Tender Noise

Lands’ End’s March 19 results could clarify the WHP IP joint venture, debt paydown and retained stake, supporting a rerating beyond the…

LE $309M

Rod’s Ruminations Mar 13 1 click

Single Stock Spotlight #4: Global Payments (GPN)

Global Payments trades below 6 times adjusted earnings and about 7 times free cash flow amid Worldpay, competition and debt concerns.

GPN $22B

Hidden Rock Capital's Newsletter Mar 13 1 click

MAPS: Fortifying the Record Before the Bid

MAPS reported $39.8 million of FY25 adjusted EBITDA and $62.4 million of cash as a holder builds a record around a possible affiliated bid.

MAPS $57M

Rod’s Ruminations Mar 13 1 click

✅ Buying AI Beneficiaries and Selling One AI-disrupted Business

Sleep Well Portfolio is selling SPS Commerce as AI-vulnerable and adding Veeva, Mercado Libre, Cellebrite and Sea, citing proprietary data,…

VEEV $45BCLBT $2.8B

Sleep Well Investments Mar 12

FactSet’s Take-Private Rumours

FactSet has drawn take-private interest from Thoma Bravo and Hellman & Friedman, with its recurring subscription revenue, 90% client…

FDS $9.6B

Global Outperformers Mar 11

Visa Inc update

Visa and Mastercard meet a 15% five-year IRR target at 25x and 26x 2026 earnings, while American Express needs more margin for…

V $676BMA $495B

Global Outperformers Mar 11 1 click

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