Thursday, October 22, 2026

[ISRG – Intuitive Surgical] the robot is the easy part

Intuitive Surgical built a razor-razorblade model around da Vinci robots, with procedure growth driving recurring instrument revenue and…

4 Boring Non-AI Stocks Trading at Attractive Valuations

Rollins, North America’s largest pest-control provider, gets 75–80% of revenue from recurring contracts but has fallen about 45% year to…

Diageo: Gen Z Is Drinking Again, And They Want Cocktails

DEO $52B

SA PropNotes Oct 22 7 clicks

Sea Limited (SE) Sea Cloud and Monee IPO

Sea Limited plans Sea Cloud and a Monee IPO, using 40-plus data centers and 25,000 GPUs while risking heavier capex and prolonged thin…

Strategy: I Called The STRC Repeg, Now The Bitcoin Machine Can Restart

Strategy spent $1.84 billion repurchasing STRC below $100, bringing it near par and potentially reopening a preferred-share issuance…

MSTR $55B

SA Geneva Investor Oct 21 6 clicks

CoreWeave: It’s Not Dying, Not Anytime Soon

CoreWeave is compared with Amazon's early public years, when investors expected bankruptcy amid losses and dependence on outside capital.

Berkshire Put Bending Spoons On My Radar

Bending Spoons has spent about $10 billion on software acquisitions, including pending Miro, while Q2 organic growth was 3% and all…

BSP $29B

SA Jack Bowman Oct 21 10 clicks

Use of AI is boosting Snowflake’s revenue while mortal companies may take longer

Snowflake says internal AI use is lifting revenue and profit, while customers show early implementation success.

Netflix Earnings, Business or Franchise, Disney’s Deal

Netflix’s earnings raise questions about whether its growth profile still merits a franchise valuation, alongside discussion of Disney’s…

From Fat to Follicles - Is Hair Loss the Next Blockbuster?

Novo Nordisk has only floated hair loss, while Veradermics’ Phase 3 oral minoxidil data lead a field of licensing and takeover candidates.

APG · long

Api Group CORP

APi Group’s mix of specialty contracting segments complicates a conventional contractor valuation.

SAP: Deep Dive Analysis

SAP’s deeply embedded ERP suite creates high switching costs as it moves customers to cloud subscriptions and embeds AI in core workflows.

PDD

PDD uses group buying and daily app rewards to turn shoppers into distributors, then monetizes merchant attention through advertising and…

Stretch Marks

Strategy owns 847,363 Bitcoin and funded $13.7 billion of purchases this year with Stretch preferred stock, a variable-dividend security…

[Market Memo] Hot Summer Topics

Applied Materials’ DRAM and CPO claims face scrutiny, while high-bandwidth flash needs SLC NAND and a solution for base-die heat.

Sleep Well Portfolio (June 2026) - Software continues to stabilise? Latest pick up 75%

Pro Medicus is up 75% since purchase, while Intuitive Surgical joins the portfolio and SaaS holdings recover 10% to 20%.

Regal Rexnord: Data Centers. Robotics. AI. Oh My!

Regal Rexnord transformed from an HVAC-heavy cyclical business through two major acquisitions, building industrial power-transmission and…

Quick Value #320 - Somnigroup (SGI)

Somnigroup’s $2.5 billion all-stock Leggett & Platt acquisition adds vertical integration as the bedding leader targets mid-single-digit…

[ZTS] Zoetis could use a booster shot

Zoetis’ pet-drug blockbusters have shifted its mix from low-growth livestock medicines to durable companion-animal franchises with softer…

Weekend Digest 348: Buy-And-Hold Purchases: MKTX, BSX, BAH, JD, Various LatAm Names

Weekend Digest 348 adds MarketAxess, Boston Scientific, JD and Walmex to a buy-and-hold portfolio, alongside views on Colombian markets,…