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Stride has stabilized execution after last year’s platform troubles, reinforced guidance and lifted adjusted op income expectations, and today trades at roughly $3.66B market cap and single-digit EV/EBITDA multiples. This trade idea lays out an actionable long with entry, stop and target and explains why a revisit to prior multiples makes a 50%+ up…
Rubico Inc., a Nasdaq-listed global shipping company, announced a letter of intent to acquire a shipowning company building a high specification MR chemical/product oil tanker, scheduled for delivery in Q2 2029. The vessel will operate under a 7-year time charter agreement with Trafigura Maritime Logistics at a fixed rate of $18,750 per day, backed…
Oracle’s credit risk has spiked as its Credit Default Swap spread climbed to a record 198.23 basis points while the shares trade at $116.71, just above the 52-week low of $116.01. Aggressive capital spending to support a large AI infrastructure push tied to a $300 billion OpenAI contract has flipped free cash flow negative and left the company perc…
U.S. equity benchmarks slipped on Friday and were set for weekly declines as investor attention shifted to higher tech capital spending, fresh tariff measures and escalating geopolitical risk. Stronger-than-expected forecasts from Intel failed to buoy sentiment, while oil price moves and rate-hike probabilities ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting …
BlackRock-affiliated Sopaipilla Investor has started marketing $12.3 billion of investment-grade notes to fund a Meta Platforms data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The offering is a single tranche maturing in 2048, with initial price talk about 287.5 basis points over Treasuries. Proceeds will support a project designed to deliver up to 1 gigawat…
ServiceNow's stock has tumbled roughly 53.9% over the past year, slipping from a 52-week high of $210.20 to $96.70. Despite the selloff, revenue growth remains above 20% and analysts point to a large potential recovery, with average price targets implying about 43% upside and consensus ratings clustered at Strong Buy. The market is focused on wheth…
Khalid Malik’s Meridiem Capital Partners has rebuilt its assets to approximately $1.6 billion following the loss of $1.5 billion in funding from Millennium Management more than two years ago. The firm, now supported by Schonfeld Strategic Advisors as its largest backer, is on pace to reach $2 billion by year-end after Schonfeld increased its invest…
Skyworks (SWKS) has retreated from last year's highs and is now trading around $60.40, offering a chance to accumulate ahead of Q3 results, product ramps in EV traction inverters, and continued progress on the Qorvo merger. Strong free cash flow ($703.6M last reported), a healthy balance sheet (cash $1.07B; debt-to-equity 0.17), and a ~4.7% dividen…
All four railroads that reported second-quarter results beat both earnings-per-share and revenue expectations, led by Norfolk Southern's 8.98% EPS surprise. Beyond the quarterly beats, the dominant development is Union Pacific's pursuit of a merger with Norfolk Southern and Canadian National's agreement to ease regulatory hurdles by accepting compe…
Cadillac Mines Corp. and several selling shareholders raised C$385 million in an upsized initial public offering, with the company and selling holders dividing the proceeds after pricing common shares at C$6.90 and flow-through shares at C$9.52. Agnico Eagle Mines agreed to a concurrent private placement for roughly C$60 million, and the common sha…
Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes rose 1.6% in June to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 628,000 units, snapping a two-month decline. Elevated mortgage rates, a cooling median price and broader inflation pressures tied to recent geopolitical developments continue to constrain demand and keep potential buyers sidelined.
Shinhan Financial (SHG) looks like a practical, event-driven long: an earnings beat has reset expectations, management has room to increase shareholder returns, and valuation is inexpensive with a market cap of roughly $34.0B, a PE near 10 and PB below 1. This trade targets a move toward a new premium on the back of capital allocation and continued…
New single-family home sales in the United States increased 1.6% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 628,000 units after two months of declines, according to the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau. Despite the monthly gain, sales were down 5.6% from June a year earlier and the median new home price fell 2.7% year over year to $398,300.…
The European Union added Georgia’s Kulevi oil refinery to its sanctions list, banning transactions with the facility as part of the 21st package of measures tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The measure, aimed at entities outside Russia that support Russian oil revenues, will take effect in six months. Georgian authorities say they are concerned and…
Veeva delivered another quarter of steady growth and raised FY2027 guidance. At roughly $184, the stock offers exposure to a high‑quality life‑sciences SaaS franchise trading at a reasonable multiple relative to its cash flow and profitability. We lay out a mid‑term (45 trading days) long with clear entry, stop, and target, plus the catalysts and r…
Amazon has signaled roughly $200 billion in capital expenditures for 2026, placing it essentially level with Alphabet’s newly raised $195B-$205B guidance. With Amazon set to report on July 30, the market will focus on the cadence of spending, AWS growth, and whether free cash flow can recover from its trough as hyperscalers drive a broad supplier w…
Profound Medical Corp. announced new data from its CAPTAIN randomized controlled trial demonstrating that the TULSA Procedure results in no median change in penile length and superior preservation of erectile function and urinary continence compared to robotic radical prostatectomy in intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients. The results were pre…
Bloom Energy has been the market's go-to name for on-site power for AI data centers. A sharp pullback from June highs has created a window to buy a leader with meaningful contracts (Oracle, Brookfield), positive free cash flow, and a market cap under $60B. This is an actionable, high-risk long trade with clearly defined entry, stop and target tied …
China’s minister of public security, Wang Xiaohong, and U.S. FBI Director Kash Patel met in Beijing and pledged to strengthen law enforcement cooperation. The talks followed two recent repatriations of fugitives between the two countries — which do not have an extradition treaty — and covered a range of operational areas from counter-narcotics to c…
Barclays projects that Alphabet’s planned TPU-as-a-service offering could be a material driver of profit and revenue by 2028. The bank expects the initiative to initially support Anthropic, broaden compute availability across AI developers, and enable Google to sell Tensor Processing Units directly, improving capital efficiency and expanding operat…
Microsoft is trading at $381.86 on the 5-hour timeframe and is caught between a fragile support band at $377-$380 and nearby resistance at $383-$385. Technical indicators show negative momentum, with the MACD and moving averages tilting toward sellers, while short-term supports such as the SuperTrend and the lower Bollinger Band offer limited prote…
Alphabet raised its FY26 capital expenditure guidance to $195B–$205B and said it will expand third-party AI compute capacity beginning in Q3, directly routing demand to neocloud providers. CoreWeave and Nebius emerged as the most prominent potential beneficiaries, while smaller speculative names show new contract wins but face balance sheet uncerta…
Tesla's 5-hour chart plunged to $315.10 in a high-volume gap-down, driving the relative strength index (RSI) to an extreme reading near 18.7 and placing price more than two standard deviations below the lower Bollinger Band. Momentum indicators remain firmly bearish, creating a volatile trading environment where both mean-reversion plays and trend-…
Amazon is trading near $232 as the market frets about an accelerating AI capex cycle. The company's negative free cash flow and rising spending are real, but so is the payoff: stronger AWS customer lock-in, higher long-term margins and faster revenue growth. This trade idea buys the dip with a 180-trading-day horizon, a strict stop and a target nea…
Amazon trades near $232 with a $2.5T market cap after a pullback driven by headline risk around competitor capex and an upcoming Q2 print on 07/30/2026. Fundamentals - led by AWS and advertising - remain intact, valuation is not exuberant (EV/EBITDA ~16.2, P/E ~28-30), and technicals show room to recover (RSI ~38). This trade idea recommends a long…
