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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.

SOLS $9.7B
Yet Another Value Podcast 81 clicks

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@BrokenMoats 3 clicks

Broken Moats on X

Hottest trade in the past month.....retail stocks Seems odd with rates and oil and diesel moves over the same time frame. And these are not bounces from being oversold these are double digit moves in most cases to new highs while dpz struggled on their print this week, stocks like DKS collapsed around the time this trade started. Bifurcation in retail in recent weeks that seems to be favoring low quality. Something to watch for a reversal soon $KSS $FIGS $URBN $SHOP
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Broken Moats on X

Quickly back to very attractive levels to put back on short exposure on the software sector after the manic move in Q3 and digestion in September before the sudden crash up in the past 10 days..... AI wins software is in trouble - faster disruption more competition, pricing pressure AI trade is over, software is going to catch down as the market will tank and this won't sit that out (the are not cheap) Disruption and pricing is the tailwind, now valuation is too. Rates don't hurt either as up until recently these were considered long duration assets Recent results were status quo for most (no real acceleration) and pitch AI cohort growth as growing xx% but its not uplifting the total growth they are just changing what they charge for to show the street what it wants to hear) -- that phase is over, valuations are in many cases at year and multi year highs. SBC still a problem. Now comes renewals in the back of this year and thats where the issues will start to emerge on retention and pricing. An thats day 1 they will snowball overtime for the vast majority of these companies. Plenty of names to choose from: $PAYC $DOCU $TEAM $DDOG $PCTY $GDDY $RNG
@ParadisLabs 3 clicks

Paradis on X

An example that there are always trades in the market. $NAVN +12% in a ~couple weeks while sentiment & flows for semis/bottlenecks has fallen off. If anyone wants a Navan investment thesis: Navan is a corporate travel and expense platform. I believed that the market punished the stock (-22%) after Q2 earnings for no good reason. Plus, I also heard some pretty big investors bought the dip aggressively. It makes sense to follow the flows sometimes when fundamentals align. - Total GBV rose 45% to >$3B driven by new customers, ramping cohorts, and expansion of installed base. - Enterprise customers: Continued momentum in the enterprise market. - AI platform adoption: Over 50% of AI calls now run on Navan's proprietary models, with its AI support agent handling about 60% of customer interactions. Ultimately, investors were disappointed because they reported rising op. costs and expanded op. losses. But the market completely overlooked the fact that corporate traven demand has skyrocketed w/ business travel in the US generating $624B in GDP (Global Business Travel Association). Going forwards, I believe that enterprises will look for AI-native solutions that save them time and money while also resulting in better outcomes for the customer. From what I hear, Navan's AI is pretty sweet. ***I have taken profits to bolster my cash piles. Also, $IOT is flat over the same period.

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LQDA: finer powder, higher doses

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…

LQDA $2.4B
Trade Ideas Flow 4 clicks

Deep Dive: Inter & Co

Inter & Co, Brazil’s second-largest neobank, grew over 20% with controlled delinquencies and 15% book-value compounding while trading at…

INTR $3.3B
Capitalist Letters 7 clicks

You Understand Now, Why You Came This Way

Brazil’s October 25 runoff puts Bolsonaro’s likely victory at the center of a bullish regional-stock case; Golar LNG (GLNG) also reports…

GLNG $4.7B
WHAT ARE WE DOING? “Contrarians At The Gate” 3 clicks
ELALF · long

El Al Israel Airlines Ltd.

El Al Israel Airlines, $ELAL, cut costs 20% in its 2020 COVID restructuring and was taken over by U.S. investors.

ELALF $3.6B
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[CoStar] Homes are different

CoStar spent more than $1 billion building Homes.com to challenge Zillow, betting seller-agent leads, proprietary listing content and…

ZG $6.5B
scuttleblurb 4 clicks

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