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Allegiant's cost-focused model and the accretive Sun Country deal give the stock a clear re-rating path. Catalyst-driven swing trade with defined entry, stop and target: capture merger optimism, early synergy proof points and continued leisure demand while respecting balance-sheet and valuation risks.
The Teamsters Union has taken United Parcel Service to court, saying a recently revised driver buyout initiative violates provisions of the parties' National Master Agreement. The union says the new Driver Choice Program expands beyond prior offers and that UPS has not supplied requested information. UPS says it engaged with the union in January an…
Portfolio Manager Kim Tony bought 23,645 shares of BlackRock Science & Technology Trust (BST) on February 5, 2026, paying between $38.87 and $38.90 per share for a total outlay of $919,754. The trust currently yields 7.41% in dividends, has a 13-year streak of dividend payments and recorded an 18.55% total return over the past 12 months. Separately…
Dominion Energy is uniquely exposed to Virginia's data-center boom and is pressing forward on the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project despite a short-lived federal review. The business mix, dividend yield, and reasonable valuation support a measured long trade over the next 45 trading days while watching regulatory signals and cash-flow m…
Intuit has been punished with the rest of software as investors fear AI will replace SaaS economics. The selloff has left a high-quality franchise trading at roughly half its 52-week high, with healthy free cash flow, low net leverage, and an oversold technical picture. This trade idea grades Intuit attractive now for a position trade with explicit…
Rodney Clemente, Senior Vice President, Water at Energy Recovery, sold 724 shares on February 5, 2026, under a Rule 10b5-1 plan for a total of $10,563. InvestingPro highlights the company’s strong gross margins and a cash-rich balance sheet, while an analyst lowered a price target after the company’s third-quarter 2025 report but maintained a Buy r…
Ensign Group Chief Financial Officer Suzanne D. Snapper sold 10,501 shares of common stock on February 5 and 6, 2026, in transactions totaling roughly $2.5 million. The disposals, executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted in September 2025, coincided with Snapper exercising stock options and followed the company’s fourth-quarter earnings th…
Maximus, Inc. Chief Financial Officer David Mutryn purchased 1,000 shares of company stock on February 9, 2026, at $75.625 per share, bringing his direct holdings to 40,036.754 shares. The transaction was disclosed in an SEC Form 4. Separately, Maximus reported fiscal 2026 first-quarter results that beat on earnings per share but missed revenue exp…
Solid Biosciences looks positioned to re-rate after a positive FDA interaction on SGT-003 and a string of regulatory wins for the gene-therapy space. With a market cap near $533M, manageable enterprise value and clear catalysts ahead, we prefer a tactical long with defined risk control.
Clashes erupted in central Sydney on Monday evening during protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit, resulting in 27 arrests. Federal and state leaders urged restraint and peaceful expression, while police said their actions were necessary to clear passage for pedestrians and to contain people who behaved violently. Protest organiser…
Hims & Hers (HIMS) plunged to 52-week lows after an FDA crackdown and a patent suit from Novo Nordisk over compounded semaglutide pills. The sell-off created a high-conviction trade: buy the oversold dip around $19.33 with a tight stop under the intraday low and a mid-term target near $28. The company still has a $4.4B market cap, positive free cas…
Ensign Group director Ann Scott Blouin sold 375 shares on February 9, 2026, for $198 each, netting $74,250. The transaction was made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted November 7, 2025. The company recently reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that beat adjusted EPS estimates but slightly missed on revenue, and an analyst raised the price target whil…
Mark Hamer, the deputy assistant attorney general and second-in-command at the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, announced his departure after nearly a year on the job. In a LinkedIn post, Hamer said he had committed to serving one year when he accepted the position and highlighted 2025 as a peak year for civil antitrust enforcement. He…
Novo Nordisk (NVO) has been hit hard after weaker 2026 guidance and a U.S. pricing deal, but its GLP-1 demand and new oral pill adoption give a clear rebound scenario. This trade idea lays out a mid-term swing entry, explicit stop and target levels, catalysts to watch, and the risks that could invalidate the trade.
Treasury Wine Estates has reached a settlement with U.S. distributor Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) over the shutdown of RNDC’s California operations last September. The agreement calls for Treasury Wine to repurchase inventory held in California and follows an upward revision to first-half earnings before interest and taxes to appro…
Moody's Ratings has affirmed Fortrea Holdings Inc.'s B3 Corporate Family Rating and associated debt ratings, while revising the outlook from negative to stable. The agency expects adjusted debt-to-EBITDA to fall below 10x within 12 to 18 months, though leverage remains very high and governance risks are material to the rating.
Fitch Ratings has moved GeoPark Limited’s outlook to positive from stable while affirming its long-term foreign- and local-currency issuer default ratings at 'B+'. The upgrade in outlook follows GeoPark’s planned acquisition of Frontera Energy Corporation’s Colombian upstream assets for up to $400 million, a deal Fitch says will increase scale, pro…
Clear Channel Outdoor agreed to be acquired for $6.2 billion in cash by Mubadala Capital and TWG Global. Shareholders will receive $2.43 per share, a 71% premium to the unaffected price of $1.42 on October 16, 2025. The deal, approved unanimously by the company's board, is expected to close by the end of Q3 2026 and will take the company private.
The National Labor Relations Board has moved to dismiss its two-year-old complaint alleging SpaceX fired eight engineers over an open letter criticizing Elon Musk, citing a separate agency's view that the engineers fall under National Mediation Board jurisdiction. The decision signals the NLRB will avoid future enforcement actions against SpaceX wh…
RingCentral Inc. saw its stock climb in after-hours trading after S&P Dow Jones Indices said the company will be added to the S&P SmallCap 600. The addition, effective before market open on Thursday, February 12, will see RingCentral replace Hillenbrand Inc., which is being acquired by Lone Star Funds. Index inclusion typically prompts purchases by…
RTX Corp. won a $230.5 million contract from the U.S. Department of War to procure materials for F135 propulsion systems. The award, structured as a fixed-price-incentive and cost-plus-incentive-fee agreement, is intended to protect the delivery timeline for 138 propulsion systems in Lot 20 and covers work across multiple U.S. locations. Funds from…
The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has dismissed its complaint accusing SpaceX of firing eight engineers for signing an open letter critical of Elon Musk, citing a National Mediation Board opinion that places the engineers under NMB jurisdiction rather than the NLRB's. The decision removes a major federal labor enforcement action against the c…
NBC "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie has made a public appeal for assistance after her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, went missing from her Tucson area home on Jan. 31. Authorities say the elder Guthrie had severe mobility limitations and likely could not have left unassisted; investigators are treating the disappearance as a possible kidnapp…
Mizuho raised its price target on STMicroelectronics to $32 from $29 while keeping a Neutral rating. The change follows a commercial agreement with Amazon Web Services for AI data center deployments that Mizuho says could produce "multi-billion" incremental revenue through 2030. The bank sees upside to previously stated AI and optical revenue goals…
Patterson-UTI (PTEN) trades like a capital-return vehicle more than a growth story. With $289M in free cash flow, an EV/EBITDA of 4.6, a dividend yield near 3.7% and a large remaining repurchase authorization, the company can choose to buy back stock or sustain the dividend instead of chasing higher-risk diversification. The trade: go long for a mi…
