October 2026 Random Ramblings
October 2026 market commentary covers SOLS’s cancelled merger, a hypothetical Starbucks-Chipotle deal, Russell 2000 weakness and AI premiums for Oura and home builders.
October 2026 market commentary covers SOLS’s cancelled merger, a hypothetical Starbucks-Chipotle deal, Russell 2000 weakness and AI premiums for Oura and home builders.
Here’s some color, via an options desk: Late Friday & Tuesday there was substantial FLEX call buying across mult AI cos ($CRWV, $AMD, $BE, $INTC, $SNDK, $SKHY, $DRAM. Trades represented $1.1B of delta/$5.8M vega. Total option premium was ~$315M. Buyer didn’t seem price sensitive. https://t.co/qCL8RnxHbY
If $APP e-commerce push is working then watch out. This could be a monster https://t.co/JUTqrG1WZH
@justinian1800 Thanks for this. This is the kind of stuff I like to see on this platform and largely what I have seen from my research on $APP.
@ValueInvestShow There's always the $LULU $NKE risk on these things! I mean Biden was caught wearing a pair of Hokas..
$RGTI Rigetti CEO Subodh Kulkarni dumps $1.897m worth of shares per Form 144. Expect Form 4 by Monday. https://t.co/ZW8zjL4mZe
@JeffMacke When does this get acquired by $BSP?
$RUM was a great entry last week, $NUAI now is probably the only one I see
@GatorBizAlum yes, for anyone holding $BE here you have to believe in the longer term bull case. i do but no guarantees
Lennar cut build times to 116 days and adopted an asset-light land model, while gross margin fell to 15.8% from 27.5% as land costs rose.
Lennar grew from a Miami builder into one of America’s two largest homebuilders, controlling land largely through options and land banks…
Lennar’s second audio program examines the homebuilder’s business for professional investors and housing analysts.
Asian insider buying rose 19% to US$2.4 billion across 930 September transactions, led by Grab CEO Anthony Tan’s US$30 million purchase…
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BridgeBio Pharma reported Q2 revenue of $243.7 million and has three Priority Review NDAs, while $1 billion in convertible preferred…
CarGurus, the largest U.S. auto-shopping marketplace, trades near $29 despite roughly $1 billion in expected revenue, $300 million in free…
Everpure and DigitalOcean face rising expectations as their stock prices shape Monday’s views.
Vicor uses ITC exclusion-order cases to license power-module patents, with published royalty multipliers rising from 1.0x before filing to…
Rubrik posted 38% Q2 revenue growth to $427.3 million, but Cloud ARR growth slowed to 39% and its enterprise value reached 15.7 times…
PTRN · short Pattern Group is a fragile consumer business targeted on the short side.
Nebius’s 1 GW annual active-capacity target from 2027 is realistic, according to a former product manager, with greenfield data centers…
Charles Lemonides argues the 18-year bull market has not reached its late-stage liftoff, pairing value-oriented semiconductor longs with…
Bristlemoon Global Fund lost 8.4% in the September quarter and added shorts in Campbell’s, REA Group, MasterBrand and Polaris amid narrow…
Jenga Global Master Fund returned 8.10% in Q3 2026, added Adobe and Mexican airports, and later initiated S&P Global.
Howmet Aerospace posted 24% Q2 revenue growth and 46% adjusted EPS growth, but HWM trades about 87% above a $120.69 DCF fair-value estimate.
Liquidia’s Yutrepia sales reached $170.4 million in Q2 2026, while a patent ruling threatens its PH-ILD label but leaves PAH sales and a…
Global-e provides cross-border merchant-of-record, payments, tax and fulfillment services to more than 1,500 brands, including Shopify…
FICO’s mortgage credit-score monopoly sits at the center of a GSE-dominated U.S.
Penguin Solutions grew FY2026 revenue 26% as AI data-center and memory demand expanded, while negative free cash flow and cyclical memory…
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