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.

MercadoLibre: The Amazon of the Amazon

MercadoLibre combines Latin American e-commerce, proprietary logistics and Mercado Pago’s payments data to build a consumer lending…

Grab Q1'26: Profitable Growth, Reasonable Valuation

Grab reported Q1 2026 operating leverage, targeted financial-services breakeven by H2 and held $5 billion cash while advertising average…

Ferrari: The Business That Grows by Selling Less Than It Could

Ferrari sustains pricing power by limiting production, controlling distribution and protecting resale values, turning buyers into repeat…

Updates on Natural Resource Partners, Cencora, and McKesson

Natural Resource Partners invested $39.2 million in Sisecam Wyoming as soda ash prices fell below production costs, helping cut the JV’s…

OXY's Q1: The Good, The Bad, and The Pretty

Occidental Petroleum’s Q1 2026 execution and operating outperformance were offset by a costly management derivative misstep.

Bye the Index

Nasdaq’s QQQ amassed $456 billion through aggressive marketing, turning index licensing into a larger earnings source than trading, data…

Under The Hood: Domino's Pizza - $DPZ

Domino’s 99%-franchised model converts global retail sales into royalties and supply-chain revenue, but $4.8 billion of debt and mature…

Novo Nordisk Q1 2026 Review: The Reset Year Looks Less Ugly Than Feared

Novo Nordisk’s adjusted Q1 sales fell 4% despite 22% obesity-care growth, as lower US prices outweighed volume gains.

Coupang 1Q26 Business Recap: Data Leak Shows Member Strength

Coupang’s data scandal cut active customers to 23.9 million, but 80% of departed WOW members had returned by April as vouchers and…

Adobe Expert Insight Interview (No Paywall)

Adobe trades at 11x earnings despite $24.5 billion of revenue, 37% operating margins and 12% profit growth; a former data-science head…