Monday, November 9, 2026

Anthropic vs Meta: Room to Be Wrong

Anthropic and Meta carry $1.5 trillion valuations on distinct AI bets: Meta directs roughly 60% of capex to MSL, while Anthropic shifts…

Quick Value #337 - Dana Inc (DAN)

Dana is combining with Eaton’s Mobility unit via a 1Q27 Reverse Morris Trust after selling a division, delevering and accelerating buybacks.

SSR Mining: A Very Well Positioned Company For Long Term Growth

SSRM $5.6B

SA Daniel Bell 20h ago 1 click

Seed Corn

Chiron’s failed $49 million Beaumont sale and $178 million Pinnacle acquisition leave XRN with $70 million of liquidity and medical-office…

STRL: 80 new electricians a week

Sterling’s $4.1 billion backlog faces Texas permitting risk after a governor proposed a moratorium, while Connexion, Capital Asset Planning…

One Regulator Could Soon Unlock Altria And Cronos' Cannabis Fortune

Adult-use cannabis rescheduling would open Altria’s 42% Cronos stake to a U.S. market rerating.

MO $130BCRON $1.3B

SA Aseity Research 22h ago 2 clicks

Roblox: Capture This Moment

Roblox’s Q3 FY26 DAUs fell year over year for the first time, while bookings declined 12% to $1.7 billion.

DoorDash and Google

DoorDash and Google.

Improvements Are Still Evident At C&F Financial Corporation

CFFI $342M

SA Crimson And Gold Research 26h ago 2 clicks

41 Stock Pitches (2nd-8th November) 🟢

Blue Dolphin Energy trades near 1.3 times earnings as its Texas refinery benefits from diesel shortages, with projected 2026 EBITDA of $111…

LZ · long

Legalzoom.com INC

LegalZoom trades near all-time lows as AI adoption is positioned to accelerate growth.

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…

You can’t sell the picks and doubt the miners

Amazon’s AWS grew 37% year over year, with $496 billion of backlog and plans to double power capacity by 2027, challenging doubts about…

Meta's "True" ROIC, and Some Notes from Meta and Alphabet's 10-Qs

Meta’s adjusted LTM ROIC is in the mid-50s after excluding $80 billion of construction in progress; that capacity will lower returns as AI…

A Venezuela Lottery Ticket for 41 Cents

Lionheart Holdings’ 41-cent CUBWW warrants hinge on a SPAC merger valuing KEO Energy’s Venezuelan PetroUrdaneta stake at $1 billion, versus…

[scuttleslops] BLDR, RYAN, APG, GFL, FND

Builders FirstSource reported Q2 2026 sales down 9% to $3.9 billion as weak housing demand and aggressive competitor pricing cut EBITDA…

Microsoft: Control Your Destiny

Microsoft’s cloud business grew from a $12 billion FY16 run rate to about $237 billion by FY26, while AI-era CapEx may exceed $200 billion…

BAT: Two Steps Forward, Many Steps Back

British American Tobacco’s H1 growth came largely from U.S. modern oral products and inventory benefits, while weakening regulation, rising…

WD #352: Situational Awareness, Warsh, ICE/MKTX, Overvalued EM Currencies

ICE's purchase of MarketAxess spotlights takeout risk for value stocks, while the Situational Awareness blow-up, Kevin Warsh's FOMC presser…

Earnings Week in the Graveyard

Empire State Realty Trust cut Observatory NOI guidance to $55 million from $87 to $92 million after Q2 NOI fell roughly 50%, reducing Core…