Sunday, October 11, 2026

Figma (NYSE: FIG) Stock Rating: Accumulate After Q2 FY12/26 Earnings

Figma’s Q2 revenue rose 48% to $370.1 million as AI credit adoption lifted retention to 136%; FY2026 revenue guidance increased to $1.463 billion to $1.467 billion.

FIG $12B

Cestrian Capital Research Oct 11 2 clicks

Oct 11 INTC $504B

The Tragedy of 3D XPoint (AKA Intel Optane AKA Micron QuantX)

Irrational Analysis 1 click

Oct 11 CPNG $27B

A temporary glitch?

Asian Century Stocks 9 clicks

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@catechwilliams May 23 2 clicks

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Meanwhile disintermediation by OEMs going direct is accelerating. See recent commentary from partners $CSCO, $PANW $DELL, etc. $PLUS has zero discernable benefit from $NVDA and AI.

@catechwilliams May 23 2 clicks

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Answer: aggressive revenue booking, financing sales, selling products at/ below cost to boost revenue and hoping to “then try to build it back up over time” per CEO. Contrast $PLUS performance w competitor and industry leader $CDW.

@catechwilliams May 23 1 click

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$PLUS Numbers don’t add up. 50% sales $CSCO product (sales -13% MRQ, guided -11%). MRQ $PLUS sales +13% (reported yesterday). Earnings call question: “OEM Cisco have talked about bottlenecks, weak orders. You’ve been unscathed…how are you outperforming the market significantly?”

@catechwilliams May 22 1 click

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$EXLS Highly innovative founder-CEO rapidly taking share w AI-based services. High-teens topline growth w expanding margins, higher value-add mix to attractive end-markets. 17x P/E yet to reflect business transformation. 100% FCF to buybacks. Winning customers from $ACN $DXC $WIT

@catechwilliams Apr 30

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$GMS Underfollowed building products distributor, HSD growth, favorable mix shift/ margin, tracking to beat estimates, trading at 10x EPS, 7x EBITDA. Peers at >50% higher multiples. $HD just acquired lower quality peer SRS for 17x EBITDA. GMS = $240 or +150% at that multiple.

@IdeaBrunchEmail Feb 18

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New Idea Brunch interview with @WhiteFalconCap is out Balkar goes over his past picks, including $NU which is up ~150%, and shares some of his new top ideas! https://t.co/iLoVkWVHIc

@catechwilliams Feb 13 1 click

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$CART Moved forward its lock-up expiration date to 2/16 (Thursday) from the original 3/19. >65% of the shares will be eligible for sale. COO leaving, just announced a restructuring w ambitious guidance. Almost certainly did so to support the stock in advance of a secondary.

@IdeaBrunchEmail Dec 4

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New Idea Brunch interview with Wyatt Sparks of Sea Meadow Capital We discuss a ton of his ideas including $AROC, $AESI, $EQC, $ELME, $WY, and more Read on: https://t.co/2EqRqiZWve

Bloom Energy: Oracle's Project Jupiter Is Not What Keeps Me Up At Night (Rating Downgrade)

Bloom Energy faces delay risk after AEP extended conditions on its $2.65 billion Wyoming hyperscaler fuel-cell project from June to…

BE $70B

Deep Value Investing Oct 10 3 clicks

Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) Stock Rating: Hold Into Q3 FY12/26 Earnings

AMD is rated Hold ahead of Q3 FY2026 earnings after Q2 revenue rose 50% to $11.5 billion, led by 107% Data Center growth.

AMD $887B

Cestrian Capital Research Oct 9 5 clicks

BREAKING: Muse Growth Slows as Downloads Fall

Meta’s Muse saw downloads fall 8.1% week over week, while daily user additions slowed 62.4% to about 74,000 in early October.

META $1.8T

Hunterbrook Oct 9 3 clicks

Deckers: A 9% Earnings Yield With Q2 Approaching

Deckers trades at 11x forward earnings with $1.6 billion cash, no debt and aggressive buybacks, as HOKA growth and UGG profitability…

DECK $12B

TQP Research Oct 9 5 clicks

Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS) Stock Rating: DISTRIBUTE Ahead Of Q4 FY10/26 Earnings

Synopsys moved to Distribute after Q3 revenue rose 42% on Ansys, while organic growth was 7% and the stock traded at 11.1 times trailing…

SNPS $90B

Cestrian Capital Research Oct 9 3 clicks

TSOH Weekly Roundup (10/09/2026)

Paramount Skydance’s debt-heavy Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, streaming bundle pricing and alcohol-industry diversification anchor…

SKYD $10BWBD $78B

TSOH Investment Research Oct 9

Consumer agents: an ethics race, a prisoner’s dilemma, and the obvious OTA short

Consumer agents create an ethics race among AI labs and a prisoner’s dilemma for retailers, with online travel agencies framed as an…

EXPE $36BBKNG $126B

Yet Another Value Blog Oct 9 4 clicks

Alphabet: The Search Engine Everyone Wrote Off Is Now Building the AI Economy and takes the lead in LLM´s again?

Alphabet pairs 17% Search growth, 82% Cloud growth and 500,000 weekly Waymo rides with a $195–205 billion AI capex plan.

GOOGL $4.2T

Substack von Philipp Oct 9 2 clicks

AppLovin: Why I'm Upgrading To Buy Following The Recent Pullback

AppLovin's Ads Manager targets middle-market e-commerce advertisers as Q3 guidance calls for 47% sales growth, while legal and compute-cost…

APP $88B

Jack Elias Oct 9 3 clicks

What If Pabrai Had Just Sat on His Ass? Every Idea He Ever Bought, Held Forever.

Mohnish Pabrai’s 69 quarterly filings are rebuilt into a never-sell portfolio, including Horsehead, Berkshire, Alphabet, Ferrari and…

MA $541B

Cannibal Stocks Oct 9 6 clicks

Boyz in the Hood

Robinhood’s AI agents, 24/7 equity trading and 10:1 crypto perpetual futures encourage higher retail trading velocity, leverage and…

HOOD $91B

WHAT ARE WE DOING? “Contrarians At The Gate” Oct 8 2 clicks

Lowe's: Patience Can Be Rewarded With Environment Unlikely To Worsen (Upgrade)

Lowe’s trades at 15x earnings after a 23% decline, with weak housing and high rates pressuring growth while inventory discipline supports…

LOW $111B

Seeking Profits Oct 8

The Uranium Cycle Is Turning Up: In Conversation with YCA & Cameco

Yellow Cake and Cameco say U.S. utilities have contracted only 40% of 2030 uranium needs, setting up a new contracting cycle as…

CCJ $36B

Aurelion Research Oct 8 3 clicks

This Week in Special Situations: Constellation Brands, GEO Group, Under Armour, CITIC Resources

Special-situations survey profiles 26 activist, capital-return, M&A and strategic-alternative catalysts, led by buybacks at Under Armour,…

STZ $22B

Latticework by MOI Global Oct 8 2 clicks

The Story Millrose Told Wall Street About Lennar Purchases Doesn’t Match The Evidence

Millrose told Goldman its Lennar purchases had rent-to-own tenants lined up, but most analyzed homes were advertised for rent and showed…

LEN $18BGS $257B

Hunterbrook Oct 8 4 clicks

"I've Never Seen a Demand Cycle Like This" | Top Semis Analyst Stacy Rasgon on AI Chips

Stacy Rasgon says AI chip demand is constrained by land, power and clean rooms, lifting memory, optics and wafer-fab equipment spending…

NVDA $5.2TAVGO $1.6T

The Monetary Matters Network Oct 8 5 clicks

Nike Taught Me A Dividend Lesson And A China Lesson (Rating Downgrade)

Nike's 4.8% dividend yield masks payout ratios above 100% of forward EPS and inadequate free cash flow coverage, while China sales declines…

NKE $55B

Sensor Unlimited Oct 8

Ex-Goldman MD: "Credit Markets Move in Step Functions"

Geoffrey Williams explains CMBS underwriting, post-GFC securitized-credit risk transfer and why credit markets reprice in step functions.

GS $257B

Odds on Open Oct 8 3 clicks

ISRG 2026-10-08

Top Rebound Stocks for Oct’26

Intuitive Surgical, down 32% from its January 2025 peak, faces slower US procedure growth and new robotic-surgery rivals despite $10.1…

ISRG $151B

Rebound Capital Oct 8 2 clicks

Credo: The Market Is Wrong About Optics, And That's Creating A Buying Opportunity

Credo expects optical revenue to reach $600 million in FY27 after Q1 revenue grew 114.7% year over year, expanding from AEC cables into AI…

CRDO $33B

Analysis Fundamental Oct 8 4 clicks

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