Friday, October 16, 2026

Brookfield Asset Management: What If The AI Boom Backfires?

Brookfield Asset Management's fee revenue rose 16.2% and distributable earnings 15.8%, but its 18% five-year target relies on AI-led growth…

BAM $72B

SA Daniel Schönberger Oct 15 3 clicks

Constellation: Stars Aligning?

Constellation Brands trades near $127 at roughly 11x next-twelve-month EV/EBIT, with recent business results offsetting concerns over…

October 2026 Random Ramblings

October 2026 market commentary covers SOLS’s cancelled merger, a hypothetical Starbucks-Chipotle deal, Russell 2000 weakness and AI…

Everyone wants to defend CoreWeave but who really knows

CoreWeave faces fresh skepticism as another AI trade selloff collides with bullish defenses of the company.

A Conversation With Ari Emanuel About Entertainment and AI

Ari Emanuel discusses AI’s impact on Hollywood, live events, social networks and the future of advertising.

Coherent | Management Call

First Tracks Biotherapeutics: Teva Validated The Pathway, ANB033 May Own The Receptor

First Tracks Biotherapeutics’ ANB033 posted stronger Phase 1b celiac efficacy than Teva’s IL-15 inhibitor, with $168 million funding…

TEVA $48B

SA Equity Eagle Oct 14 8 clicks

Research Roundup Vol. LVI

Howmet Aerospace is framed as a beneficiary of turbine and aircraft-engine demand, while J.B.

Lennar: The Misstep Is Temporary, the Operating Machine Is Not

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, Part One: The Story

Lennar grew from a Miami builder into one of America’s two largest homebuilders, controlling land largely through options and land banks…

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Cadence Design Systems INC

Cadence Design Systems sells chip-design software as AI computing drives a structural increase in semiconductor design complexity.

Lasers for CPO/NPO: Part 2 – Lumentum’s Technology and Moat

Lumentum’s UHP laser platform for CPO/NPO uses cavity-length and grating design to suppress linewidth broadening, with reliability and…

Apocalypse Now or Generational Buying Opportunity?

ServiceNow, SAP and Veeva are framed as AI-resistant SaaS bargains after a sector selloff, with ServiceNow positioned to gain from AI-agent…

Boston Scientific Has to Keep Buying the Future

Boston Scientific built its interventional-medicine portfolio through acquisitions, but early-2000s growth became heavily dependent on the…

On Holdings: Maintaining Pace

On Holdings expects roughly CHF 3.5 billion in FY26 revenue as running shoes drive growth, while APAC exceeds 20% of sales and apparel…

Practical Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA)

Semiconductor optical amplifiers offer compact, low-cost gain for LiDAR, long-haul links and ultra-high-power co-packaged optics, trading…

Nothing Beats a Jet2....investment?

Jet2’s £4.5bn A321neo fleet renewal will constrain free cash flow through 2032, despite strong package-holiday growth, cash reserves and…

[scuttleslops] CDNS, SNPS, TREX, WISE, Class I Rails, China

Synopsys and Cadence retain EDA pricing power through entrenched design flows, foundry relationships and high switching costs; AI-driven…

The Next Trillion-Dollar Chip Company

PostGPT inference-chip contenders need to run trillion-parameter models, ship rack-scale systems, beat GPUs on one KPI and win a frontier…

Thoughts on PayPal Buyout Offer

PayPal faces a $60.50-per-share buyout offer from Stripe and Advent, with a rejection or counteroffer above $80 viewed as more likely.