Sunday, October 25, 2026

Signet Jewelers (SIG): The Next Dillard’s?

Signet Jewelers cut its share count from 87 million to 38 million since 2012 as short interest reaches 15%, amid a hated diamond market.

Tower Semiconductor Deep Dive

Tower Semiconductor’s low-loss photonics chips halve lasers in 1.6T optical modules, supporting a $680 million annualized photonics run…

Expert Call | AI Server OEM: 2026 xAI Orders, GB300 Price Hikes & B300 Margin Gains

Super Micro’s 2026 xAI rack orders, GB300 price increases and B300 mix frame its gross-margin outlook.

I went through all 142 companies in Value Line this morning. Here are the 6 that made it

Six Value Line small caps including Blackbaud, Marqeta, Ranger Energy and Definitive Healthcare trade on net cash, buybacks, low multiples…

Ares Capital: This 10%+ Yield Is An Undervalued Buy

Ares Capital’s 10%+ yield is supported by a $30.5 billion portfolio with over 70% floating-rate debt, though dividend coverage remains…

ARCC $13B

SA Jonathan Weber Oct 24 6 clicks

Margin Call

Petrobras’s Morpho-1 well revived hopes that Brazil’s Equatorial Margin can become a major new oil frontier after hydrocarbons were…

Applied Materials: Buy The Engineering Powerhouse Behind AI

Applied Materials targets AI-driven demand for advanced logic, DRAM and packaging, supported by services revenue and operating leverage…

AMAT $314B

SA Dhierin Bechai Oct 24 4 clicks

AI Narrative Switched, Debt Yields Spike | The Weekly Wrap

CoreWeave’s rising debt yields and fading confidence in AI data-center economics frame a weekly review of Meta, Tesla, SpaceX, Netflix,…

Our Views on CoreWeave

CoreWeave's financial statements point to a business model familiar to the authors after a closer review of the AI infrastructure company.

DigitalOcean's AI Flywheel: Unleashing Massive Growth Potential For Bold Investors

DigitalOcean is pivoting toward affordable AI infrastructure and inference workloads, targeting share from AWS and Google Cloud amid…

DOCN $12B

SA Star Investments Oct 23 9 clicks

QXO · long

QXO, Inc.

QXO, led by Brad Jacobs, is consolidating North America’s fragmented building-products distribution industry after rapidly building scale…

Earnings: Hyperscalers, AMD, ALAB, ANET

Global Spirits Part III: Distilling Value - to Age or Not to Age?

Campari and Diageo outperformed spirits peers by turning working capital faster, while Rémy Cointreau's aged-cognac inventory constrained…

Earnings: TSMC, NXPI, AEHR, GOOG, TXN, VAT, VICR

AEHR earnings are the focus, with a late call acknowledged alongside results from TSMC, NXP, Alphabet, Texas Instruments, VAT Group and…

AAON

AAON shares have fallen 45% from November 2024 highs as core HVAC bookings weaken, while BASX supplies hyperscale data-center growth.

Costco: The Perpetual Growth Machine

Costco’s 14% maximum markup and membership model recycle scale savings into consumer surplus, supporting loyalty, low competitive appeal…

Quiet Compounders, a Hidden Moat and an 18% FCF Yield at Pitney Bowes (PBI)

Pitney Bowes trades at an 18% FCF yield, with 25% operating margins, 30%-plus ROIC and plans to return free cash flow mostly through…

BSR REIT (TSX:HOM.U)

BSR REIT’s $618.5 million sale to AvalonBay valued Texas apartments near a 5% cap rate and removed consent rights that had constrained…

4 High-Quality Global Compounders Hiding in Plain Sight

ASML, LVMH, Mercado Libre and CSL are presented as global compounders with durable barriers, strong brands or integrated platforms, and…

Alta Fox NATL Presentation

Alta Fox values NCR Atleos at $100 a share, citing ATM-as-a-Service growth, deleveraging and buybacks.