Friday, October 30, 2026

Anthropic’s Growth is Slowing: Is AI Capex Next? | The Weekly Wrap

Anthropic’s revenue growth slowed from 147% in Q2 to 45% in Q3, raising questions about AI capital spending as Amazon holds capex flat.

AMZN $2.6T

Steve Eisman Oct 30 5 clicks

Oct 30 CVX $465B

CVX Earnings Review

Cestrian Capital Research 3 clicks

Oct 30 AZN $270B

AstraZeneca (AZN) Q3 FY12/26 Earnings Review

Cestrian Capital Research 2 clicks

From X

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A Capital on X

Look at $FDXF. A month of underperformance based on “channel checks,” followed by a ~15% move and multiple analyst upgrades after a single session (catalyst day). https://t.co/X81f5cl6Eh https://t.co/FfwGWZlciQ

@BarbarianCap Oct 30 1 click

Barbarian Capital on X

Starbucks sales miss expectations, but its U.S. turnaround is gaining steam $SBUX https://t.co/kPufTMV5zS

@BarbarianCap Oct 30

Barbarian Capital on X

Reddit stock plunges 30% after weak outlook, heads for worst day ever $RDDT https://t.co/aemPgp56rc

@BarbarianCap Oct 30

Barbarian Capital on X

BP’s profits surge to new record on high fuel prices $BP https://t.co/bUl30Vb4Ti

@SouthernValue95 Oct 30 1 click

SouthernValue on X

Meanwhile @OpenAI pulled IPO and can barely get its latest funding round off. $META and $GOOG will win consumer AI. https://t.co/eqJPtwTTwh

@SouthernValue95 Oct 30

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What year will $MSFT take @OpenAI into receivership?

@BarbarianCap Oct 30 1 click

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CD&R pursues buyout of $40 bn card processor Global Payments $GPN https://t.co/Wil5Zf6xn7

@BarbarianCap Oct 30

Barbarian Capital on X

"higher sales and recent cost-savings efforts weren’t able to fully offset steeper-than-expected inflation." $NWL Newell Brands Swings to Loss Despite Higher Sales https://t.co/WPRdY3lzz3

SNY Earnings Review

Sanofi raised FY26 guidance after Q3 sales grew 14.3% at constant currency, led by 34.8% Dupixent growth; vaccines declined 6.6%.

SNY $108B

Cestrian Capital Research Oct 30 1 click

SK hynix: Despite Their Premium To The Korean Shares, The U.S. ADRs Are A Bargain

SK hynix's U.S. ADR trades at a valuation discount despite AI-driven memory demand, with 50% of 2027–2028 capacity under long-term…

SKHY $806B

Adam Schadt Oct 30 2 clicks

Bloom: Chinese Scandium Supply Route Restarts

Bloom may have reopened imports of scandium-containing components from China to the United States, according to new trade data.

BE $63B

Hunterbrook Oct 30 4 clicks

Amazon 3Q’26: Trillion Dollar Talks

Amazon projects AWS growth above 40% through 2028 while funding a $220 billion capex plan with rising debt and an $80 billion equipment…

AMZN $2.6T

MBI Deep Dives Oct 30 3 clicks

TSOH Weekly Roundup (10/30/2026)

Markel spent $315 million repurchasing shares in Q3 as Thrive agreed to buy ADT for $7.6 billion and Hasbro cited rising adult toy demand.

MKL $23BADT $7.2B

TSOH Investment Research Oct 30 1 click

Alphabet's Post-Earnings Selloff Is The Best Buying Opportunity In Years

Alphabet's Google Cloud operating income more than tripled to $11.1 billion, while EPS fell 26% on a $2.76 billion SpaceX paper loss.

GOOGL $3.4T

Rick Orford Oct 30 5 clicks

Earnings Review: $AMZN and $LLY

Amazon’s AWS revenue grew 39% to $46B as capex drove negative FCF; Lilly raised 2026 guidance to $91-92B on GLP-1 volume growth.

AMZN $2.6TLLY $1.3T

Rebound Capital Oct 30 2 clicks

Wall Street Erased $16 Billion From a Legal Monopoly Over an AI Myth.

Verisk Analytics’ 40 petabytes of proprietary insurance data and regulatory infrastructure shield its underwriting business from generative…

VRSK $26B

First Strike Research Oct 30 7 clicks

Alphabet: Don’t Search for a Straight Line in Innovation

Alphabet’s Q3 2026 cloud growth stayed strong while Search revenue growth slowed to 12%, with higher AI capital spending driving negative…

GOOGL $3.4T

Librarian Capital's Research Library Oct 30 3 clicks

Tango: Upgrading 'Buy' Based On ESMO 2026 Vopimetostat PDAC Data And Pathway Advancement Clarity

Tango Therapeutics reported an 82% response rate and 88% nine-month PFS for vopimetostat plus RASONQUE in RAS-mutant pancreatic cancer,…

TNGX $3.7B

Terry Chrisomalis Oct 30 2 clicks

MGRC · long

Mcgrath Rentcorp

McGrath RentCorp's conservatively financed hard assets, pricing growth and a struggling competitor, WSC, underpin the long thesis.

MGRC $3.2B

Value Investors Club Jun 10 2 clicks

Research Roundup Vol. L

Wolfspeed, Nordson and Nucor target AI data-center demand through 800-VDC power, chip testing equipment and domestic steel capacity, aided…

WOLF $1.2BNDSN $18B

Monte Independent Investment Research Aug 26

Sartorius, Copper, and the S&P 500 Margin Mirage

S&P 500's 17% net margin reflects AI capex accounting, while contributors favor Sartorius in life-science tools and PVA TePla in wafer…

BRKR $9B

Latticework by MOI Global Aug 26

Quick Value #328 - Cal-Maine Foods (CALM)

Cal-Maine, the largest U.S. egg producer, trades at 1.6x book versus a 2.1x 20-year median, with net cash and investments equal to 23% of…

CALM $3.1B

Value Don't Lie Aug 25

Big Tech Off-Balance Sheet Concerns

Big Tech’s $3 trillion AI commitments are disclosed and largely long-dated, with nearly 60% of Amazon’s $650 billion commitments falling…

AMZN $2.6T

MBI Deep Dives Aug 25 3 clicks

A read into Nebius' Q2 Earning Report

Nebius' Q2 earnings review assesses AI cloud economics, Nvidia dependency and its route to profitability.

NBIS $42B

Kakashii's Materials Aug 25 1 click

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI’s Jalapeño inference ASIC beat Nvidia Blackwell on claimed performance per watt in InferenceX tests, using HBM4 and a…

NVDA $5T

SemiAnalysis Aug 25

One Year of Rebound Capital Portfolio

Rebound Capital’s portfolio beat the S&P 500 by 7.3% in its first year, targeting 17% EBIT growth against a 20.3x forward EV/EBIT multiple.

AMD $798BLLY $1.3T

Rebound Capital Aug 25

Seadrill (SDRL): The $22 Billion Offshore Empire That Went to Zero Twice

Seadrill went bankrupt twice after funding dividends and new rigs with debt; its third iteration carries $390 million of net debt and a…

SDRL $3B

Cannibal Stocks Aug 25

Monte Investments Market Brief Vol. CXXV

Nvidia reports Q2 2027 earnings August 26, with data-center backlogs, enterprise AI inference demand and Vera Rubin volume sales expected…

NVDA $5TONDS $3.7B

Monte Independent Investment Research Aug 25

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