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Is every retailer in trouble now?

Costco just posted a 13% jump in September sales, but once you strip out gas price inflation, the real growth is closer to 7.6%. The gas is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and gas margins are thinner than the rest of the business anyway. So the... — read more 

Why is HAL down again?

Halliburton dropped from $33 to $32.55 this week. They just announced they won't work on the Sea Lion project in Argentina, which is probably a good thing since it avoids legal trouble, but the stock slid anyway. Earnings are coming October 20. The... — read more 

The Huawei deal makes no sense

For twenty years, Huawei paid Qualcomm. Now it's reversed. Qualcomm agreed to license Huawei's LogicFolding chip tech and buy some of their patents, all while Huawei brags that its total licensing haul will top $6.9 billion after this deal... — read more 

Gamida Cell

Is Gamida still a relevant option, during this quarter at least? It was really popular last year if I remember correctly.

What now?

NARI seems promising but you can't build a portfolio on a promise alone. What now, though? Sell or...?

MOH

Should MOH be bought now? The stock has been growing steadily but I'm still not sure if it should be bought right now.

Latest acquisition

I think C.H. Robinson buying RXO for roughly $5.8 billion is a great move, as it will make the combined company a much bigger player in freight and logistics. As an added bonus to getting bigger, the AI and cost-saving side of the deal can also make... — read more 

Geely deal

NIO recently signed a strategic deal with Geely involving its battery-swapping and charging businesses. What's interesting is that battery infrastructure could become a business in its own right, especially if more automakers start sharing these... — read more 

What happened here?

3M surged in August and has been (mostly) on the downward trajectory since. What am I missing?

I have faith

PepsiCo is too big and has too many extremely popular products for it to fail. I'm just waiting for the leadership to figure out which direction to take the company in. But once it does, sales will go up once again and stock is certain to follow. It... — read more 

Growth is gone

The growth story is dead. Organic sales grew just over 1% last year, entirely from price hikes, while volume was flat. They cut 5,000 jobs and the median worker's pay dropped 13.7%. The CEO's pay went up. That tells you everything about where the... — read more 

Great quarter, terrible reaction

Earnings beat, guidance raised, and the stock still dropped 9%. Same-store sales grew just 2.6%, the slowest in six years. Tariff refunds flattered the numbers. Strip those out and this is a retailer running on fumes.

Should I sell now?

Why has PepsiCo been going down while the market is allegedly up? When will it reach the point where we can't count on dividend payouts? Dividends were the primary reason I bought this stock, with hopes it would also be a decent long term investment... — read more 

The AI upgrade makes me nervous

KeyBanc just upgraded Airbnb and said it's safe from AI disruption because of exclusive listings and direct traffic. But I'm not sure that holds up. If AI agents get good enough, why would anyone open the app? The whole moat argument assumes people... — read more 

Kadant

This is the stock you should still look out for, in 2026. KAI's doing amazing this quarter.

CETX

Why did this stock tank so hard? I don't understand, I truly don't. What's the real situation here?

CI

Buy it, at this price, right now. It's absolutely the best course with CI. It has the best benefits in the industry.

Best to just drop it

MU isn't the best right now. In my opinion it's just better to drop it and forget it ever existed. In my opinion only of course.

AI will be good for Seagate

The huge storage needs coming from AI and data centers represent a great opportunity for the company, only if the leadership recognizes it and makes the right moves. So far, what I've been seeing is predominantly positive, so let's hope they remain... — read more 

WTI

Not the best performance lately but at least this year was overall better for the company than the last. That should count for something, I think.

Tokenized-market infrastructure

What are everybody's thoughts on this? With a $100 million investment in Kraken parent Payward, it's clear that tokenized equities and market surveillance are among the current priorities. I'm honestly unsure where I stand on the issue, outside of... — read more 

Good to keep an eye on

African online shopping infrastructure is nowhere near as mature as it is in the U.S., but it is also significantly untapped, and Jumia is trying to build out e-commerce in the region and win that market. If it succeeds, there is tremendous growth... — read more 

Very bad sign

Oracle just declared force majeure on its New Mexico data center. They're trying to delay rent payments because the project might not be ready by 2028. But here's the best part. Oracle is still on the hook for the debt costs. The loans tied to this... — read more 

The math stopped mathing a while ago

The biggest customers are basically borrowing money from Nvidia itself to buy Nvidia chips. Nvidia just guaranteed a massive chunk of OpenAI's data center leases and helped arrange hundreds of billions in customer financing. So they sell chips to... — read more 

Am I missing something here?

Target is down quite a bit from its high in August. The last earnings report looked great and they even raised guidance, so why is the stock sliding? The Halloween costume thing apparently cost them a chunk in one day. That was weeks ago and people... — read more 

I'm not sure the wait is worth it

Pfizer is down about 5% in the past week and still well below where it was a year ago. The patent cliff is the real problem. Dr-gs that brought in billions are losing exclusivity, and that is a huge hole to fill. They keep cutting jobs to save money... — read more 

It all vibes as unreal

Intel jumped 25% in five days because Meta's new AI agent supposedly needs more CPUs. The foundry business is still losing $2.1 billion a quarter though. External customers are almost nonexistent. 18A yields are allegedly great, but the stock trades... — read more 

ROX

ROX has ceased all operations. This stock doesn't exist anymore and it hasn't existed for a few years now. You can ignore it now, easily.

IPHS

IPHS should be sold at this price, no? I don't think we should miss this opportunity to sell it now.

Is HLNE still open

Is HLNE still open to be traded? It's been quiet and nobody I know talks about it anymore. Wondering right now what's going on with this stock.

This is what you get for trusting VZ

The stock is currently in a freefall. Outside of an announcement of a major restructuring that'll include significant cost cuts, I don't see how it'll stop or recover any time soon. Anybody who trusted VZ to keep things on the right path just learned... — read more 

Mark Cuban

What are everybody's thoughts on the latest teaming up with Cuban's Cost Plus Dr-gs? This could be a good thing for bringing down costs, in my opinion, and it could make both patients and investors happy. Still, there's got to be a reason why it... — read more 

It's over

Even Wells Fargo agrees. Not only do they see the stock going further down, but they don't think it can recover. If there ever was a time to sell, it's now.

Why does the stock keep going down?

Cigna is down about 5% in the past week. Why? Nothing points to a business in a bad shape. Evercore did put out a warning about the PBM transition, and that seems to be spooking people. The pharmacy benefits business is being restructured and god... — read more 

What's the plan, really?

They cut 8,000 people, said that was it. Then cut more. Now they're burning through $145 billion on AI data centers while free cash flow disappears. Revenue keeps growing, but everything is going into the AI machine. Zuckerberg says AI agents will... — read more 

$50 billion quarter and the stock drops

All the numbers indicate the company can barely keep up with demand. Growth has been crazy. Why then does the stock sit about 24% below its high from June? The memory cycle is peaking, at least that's the excuse. But a company guiding to $50 billion... — read more 

It's been a good run recently

Verizon has been on an upward trajectory since July, and it looks like it'll continue. It's already above $50 and I feel like it's trending toward pandemic highs. Of course, we'll have to keep an eye on numbers each quarter, but I think that for now... — read more 

More clients, more assets

I like the latest numbers Schwab put out. Not to mention, the company is becoming more than just a traditional brokerage. Between investing, wealth management, banking and all the technology they're adding, there's a lot more going on under the... — read more