Friday, October 16, 2026

Fannie Mae Preferreds For Post-Midterm IPO Announcement

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could leave conservatorship through a 2026 restructuring and IPO, monetizing the government’s equity stake while…

FNMA $4.2B

SA Glen Bradford Oct 16 5 clicks

PesoRama: Research Flash

PesoRama will reach 54 JOi Dollar Plus stores by November after raising C$28.4 million, funding more than 50 additional Mexican store…

Modine Deep Dive

Modine, soon Modexus Solutions, has a $4 billion hyperscaler cooling contract but must ramp factory output and restore margins as data…

Problems at Dream Finders Homes (DFH)

Dream Finders Homes’ controlling owner borrowed against DFH stock before the homebuilder agreed to finance an acquisition with costly…

Park Aerospace: The Q2'27 Sell-Off Misreads a Sole-Source Defense Supplier

Park Aerospace’s 11% Q2’27 sell-off overlooks sole-source PAC-3 rocket-motor materials and A320neo engine composites, with missile capacity…

uniQure: The Market Graded The Wrong Exam

UniQure's Huntington's gene therapy faces an FDA accelerated-approval decision around November 1 after three-year data met both agency…

QURE $1.5B

SA Bhavneesh Sharma Oct 15 16 clicks

Breaking: The Offshore Monopoly Is Legal Now!

Transocean’s Valaris merger clears regulators, creating a 68-rig offshore driller controlling four in 10 global drillships.

October 2026 Random Ramblings

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

Private Equity Prints Multibaggers With This Pattern. No One is Talking About It.

Shenandoah Telecommunications’ Glo Fiber buildout ends this year, and private infrastructure investors’ repeated fiber deals frame a…

El Pollo Loco: New York State Of Mind

El Pollo Loco plans 18 to 20 FY26 openings, including 15 franchised New York stores over five years, as asset-light expansion and…

LOCO $499M

SA Pedro Goulart Oct 14 1 click

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Grupo Aeroportuario Del Centro Norte: World Cup Inflection? (Ticker: OMAB)

Grupo OMAB trades at 9 times EV/EBITDA after an 11% YTD decline, as Monterrey international traffic fell 2.9%; expansion, price hikes and…

The Bottleneck Was Never the Finding

Tenable’s $27 valuation reflects fears that AI commoditizes vulnerability scanning, while the thesis says AI increases demand for…

ADF Group Inc. ($DRX.TO) FINS Review

ADF Group’s Q1 FY2026 revenue rose 78% to $99.3 million and net income 37%, aided by the LAR acquisition despite steel and aluminum tariff…

Peru & Colombia Election Results & Investment Outlook

Keiko Fujimori’s expected Peru victory and Abelardo’s win in Colombia reduce regulatory risk for AUNA, whose operations generate roughly…

MSGS at a Glaring Discount so GO KNICKS GO!

MSGS, owner of the Knicks and Rangers, filed a Form 10 to explore a spinoff as comparable franchise sales support an $11 billion valuation.

Watches of Switzerland (WOSG), TerraVest (TVK) & ContextLogic (LOGC): Earnings Updates

Watches of Switzerland reported 15% constant-currency organic revenue growth and guided FY27 revenue growth of 5-10%, with adjusted EBIT…

A 2.2x Spread in a Telecom Train-wreck: Optimum’s Odd-Lot Tender

Optimum’s 99-share odd-lot tender offers $2.50 per share against a $1.16 market price, but a creditor restructuring could terminate the…

Quick Value #316 - MasterBrand Inc (MBC)

MasterBrand's all-stock merger with American Woodmark creates the largest cabinet maker, trading at 7.7 times trough EBITDA including…

What I Read This Week

Weekly reading list covers Agnico Eagle, Cameco, Dollar Tree, Meta, Braze and Apollo across mining, retail, AI and insurance.