Monday, October 19, 2026

Meta’s GEM, Part 2: Finding the Scaling Law

Meta’s GEM trains smaller ad-ranking models across its platforms, with Kunlun showing performance scaling predictably as compute rises.

LXS.DE: a 2028 sale it can force

Lanxess can force Advent to buy at least half its Envalior stake in April 2028, potentially raising about €745 million to reduce net debt.

Sell Eagle Point Credit Now - Match The Loss With Portfolio Gains To Lower Income Taxes

Eagle Point Credit's NAV is down 25% YTD and shares nearly 50%, while its expense ratio climbed to 9.21% despite a 25% yield.

ECC $379M

SA Anthony Cataldo Oct 19 5 clicks

The Agentic AI Roadmap for SaaS

SaaS companies including Salesforce, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Synopsys and Veeva are ranked by agentic AI progress, from pilots to…

Build-A-Bear: A Narrower Path

Build-A-Bear's push into prestuffed toys and broader retail distribution tests brand stretchability, but recent results warrant caution.

The Monday Morning Briefing: Meta, Tesla, Netflix, P&G on Deck

Lennar’s land-bank costs pressure homebuilding margins, while Flowers Foods weighs a Tastykake sale after falling branded-bread share,…

LendingTree (NASDAQ: $TREE) – A Cyclical Comeback Story Priced as if the Cycle Never Turns

LendingTree derives roughly two-thirds of revenue from insurance and trades near 4 times expected adjusted earnings despite record revenue,…

Exelon: Shelter From The Storm And Nice Yield As Utilities Catch A Bid

EXC $45B

SA Michael Fitzsimmons Oct 19 4 clicks

Our Q3 2026 Update: Our Companies (OXY, RIG, VAL)

Occidental Petroleum’s debt should fall further after Q3 oil prices averaged $85 per barrel WTI and $91 Brent.

Undercovered Dozen: Hess Midstream, Iovance Biotherapeutics, Netlist, And More

Hess Midstream, Iovance Biotherapeutics, Netlist and nine other lesser-covered stocks make this week’s Undercovered Dozen.

HESM $6.3BIOVA $6.7B

SA The Undercovered Dozen Oct 18 15 clicks

EEFT · long

Euronet Worldwide INC

Euronet Worldwide (EEFT) is presented as an asymmetric opportunity, citing its strong balance sheet and shareholder-friendly capital…

Research Roundup Vol. L

Wolfspeed, Nordson and Nucor target AI data-center demand through 800-VDC power, chip testing equipment and domestic steel capacity, aided…

Sartorius, Copper, and the S&P 500 Margin Mirage

S&P 500's 17% net margin reflects AI capex accounting, while contributors favor Sartorius in life-science tools and PVA TePla in wafer…

Quick Value #328 - Cal-Maine Foods (CALM)

Cal-Maine, the largest U.S. egg producer, trades at 1.6x book versus a 2.1x 20-year median, with net cash and investments equal to 23% of…

Big Tech Off-Balance Sheet Concerns

Big Tech’s $3 trillion AI commitments are disclosed and largely long-dated, with nearly 60% of Amazon’s $650 billion commitments falling…

A read into Nebius' Q2 Earning Report

Nebius' Q2 earnings review assesses AI cloud economics, Nvidia dependency and its route to profitability.

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI’s Jalapeño inference ASIC beat Nvidia Blackwell on claimed performance per watt in InferenceX tests, using HBM4 and a…

One Year of Rebound Capital Portfolio

Rebound Capital’s portfolio beat the S&P 500 by 7.3% in its first year, targeting 17% EBIT growth against a 20.3x forward EV/EBIT multiple.

Seadrill (SDRL): The $22 Billion Offshore Empire That Went to Zero Twice

Seadrill went bankrupt twice after funding dividends and new rigs with debt; its third iteration carries $390 million of net debt and a…

Monte Investments Market Brief Vol. CXXV

Nvidia reports Q2 2027 earnings August 26, with data-center backlogs, enterprise AI inference demand and Vera Rubin volume sales expected…