Thursday, October 22, 2026

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,…

First Financial: Acquisitions Drive 2027 Growth

First Financial’s merger with First Illinois Financial is expected to lift net interest income and ROE from 2027 after Q2 net income rose…

THFF $887M

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TSOH Weekly Roundup (10/16/2026)

Bumble agreed to a $1.3 billion take-private deal, while Netflix cut about 1,000 jobs and Meta discussed its Muse superintelligence models.

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…

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…

SED Energy: The 40% Dividend. Signal or Noise?

SED Energy's proposed Ventura merger projects a 22% to 40% dividend yield, but idle tender barges, debt and repayments materially reduce…

Monte Investments Market Brief Vol. CXXXI

Park Aerospace reported 27% revenue growth and 72% EPS growth, supported by composite materials for Airbus engines and PAC-3 rocket motors.

H&R REIT, an opportunity in a corrupt process

H&R REIT's proposed GO Residential transaction faces investor opposition over rejected $12.50 cash bids, insider benefits and tax…

Helus Pharma: A Buy Ahead Of The HLP003 Phase 3 Readout

Helus Pharma's HLP003 Phase 3 depression data is due in 4Q26, with $166.4 million in cash and dilution risk from a $100 million ATM…

HELP $812M

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Emergency Press Conference: FRMI & GRPN

Groupon reported accelerating organic revenue and record July traffic, while Fermi signed a $6.5 billion, 222 MW TensorWave data-center…

40 Stock Pitches (3rd-9th August)

Navient trades near 40% of tangible book as Gator Financial Partners argues private student-loan growth and restructuring can reverse its…

2026 Q2 Earnings Updates: WeightWatchers, Shift4, Bumble

Bumble fell, Shift4 dropped 23% and WeightWatchers rose 18% after earnings, prompting added Shift4 exposure and a sharp WeightWatchers…

Noah Holdings ($NOAH): A Chinese Wealth Manager Trading at Its Cash Pile

Noah Holdings trades near the value of its RMB 5.1 billion cash and short-term investments, while earning recurring fees on roughly RMB 140…

BREAKING: Kawhi Leonard's Other Undisclosed "Sponsorship" Deal

Daktronics allegedly paid Kawhi Leonard millions in a hidden sponsorship deal tied to the Clippers’ Intuit Dome, raising fresh questions…

My Pitch Deck Slide Show from the MS Microcaps Summer Virtual Conference

Butler National Corporation is the subject of a stock pitch presented at the MS Microcaps Summer Virtual Conference.

The Mispriced Assets Super Bowl

Groupon, Corsair and StepStone report within 15 minutes, setting up volatility between Groupon’s after-hours release and its Friday morning…

Watches of Switzerland's Investor Day (WOSG), Earnings at Judges Scientific (JDG) and Douglas Dynamics (PLOW)

Watches of Switzerland says Roberto Coin, e-commerce and pre-owned watches generate 24% of revenue, as private equity interest follows its…

Single Stock Spotlight #12: X Marks the Spot

Xerox is pitched as a cash-generating managed-decline value play, with debt, activist interest and short interest setting up a potential…