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Agentic AI is changing the question for every SaaS name. The old one was “how big is the market?” The new one: when agents do the work, does the vendor get bypassed, survive as plumbing, or own the stack? We built a scorecard for that split — and ran the first three deep dives: • $PLTR — Route 3 ownership bet (ontology / multi−domain ops). Structure elite; valuation still has to earn it • $DDOG — Route 2 plumbing agents need. Host telemetry is hard to absorb casually; coding agents + first-party collect is the watch item. Multiple roughly fair • $NET — purest agent-volume rails. Unabsorbable network footprint; physics caps the model layer; ~40x prices in a lot Condensed public version below. Full Part 2 + series for Convequity subscribers.
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As I was working through the insider transactions filed last week for our Insider Weekends article that we have published every Sunday for the last 16 years, these four buys from last Friday stood out to me: 💻 1. A rare insider purchase by Intel's CEO Lip Bu Tan, where he bought $10 million worth of stock after the recent pullback at an average price of $95.00. $INTC The last purchase before that was by the CFO David Zinsner who bought shares in January at an attractive price of $42.50 per share. Former CEO @PGelsinger did even better with his purchases in 2023 and 2024, the last of which were at an average price of $22.53. He is up 365% on that purchase. Lip Bu Tan previously purchased $2.5 million worth of Intel stock in November 2023 when he was the CEO of Cadence $CDNS and was an Intel board member. 🚗 2. A purchase by the Chief Accounting Officer of Valvoline $VVV at an average price of $33.20. While the size of the purchase was not large at about $50K, you don't frequently see purchases by Chief Accounting Officers. @ChrisPavese mentioned that Valvoline was a top contributor to the Broyhill Asset Management portfolio in Q1 2026. ☕️ 3. A purchase by a director of the coffee chain Dutch Bros $BROS where he picked up 2,000 shares at an average price of $51.56. He also purchased shares in May of this year at a slightly lower price. 🧑‍🎓 4. A purchase by a director of Universal Technical Institute $UTI at an average price of $25.94 after a massive drop in the stock last week. Competitor Lincoln Education Services $LINC was also down sharply and I remember liking the thesis for the business after attending a presentation at an investor conference a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I didn't act and buy stock right away. Lincoln is up over 50% over the last year and is up 365% over the last five years despite this recent pullback.

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LXS.DE: a 2028 sale it can force

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