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Hormuz Watch: Week 13: The Deal That Might Be Real
For the third time in four weeks, oil dropped on deal hopes. This time there are actual terms: a 60-day MOU, unrestricted shipping, mines cleared in 30 days. But Trump hasn’t signed, Iran is still fighting, and PPI just hit 6%.
Read articleThe Five: Balance Sheets That Can Survive Anything
Five companies with the highest Financial Health scores on the platform: RMD, INTU, MNST, GRMN, ANET. Zero debt, billions in cash, and Elite ratings. The fortresses the data found.
The Fifth Deal: Compensation, Control, and the Real Logic of a Tesla-SpaceX Merger
Four all-stock deals between Musk-controlled entities. No independent negotiation. No new value created. 85% voting control. $7.5 trillion comp target. The fifth would be the biggest related-party transaction in history.
CAVA: A Good Restaurant at an Impossible Price
142x trailing earnings. $9.4 billion market cap on $64 million in net income. The business is real. The price is not. An avoid thesis for CAVA.
The Bond Market Is Shouting
The 30-year yield hit 5.2%, the highest since 2007. The Fed cut 175 bps. Yields kept rising. An oil shock, a fiscal spiral, a paralyzed Fed, and a historic disconnect are converging. Equities have not caught up.
Read articleThe Case for Qualys: Cybersecurity’s Profit Machine Hiding in Plain Sight
83% gross margins. 47% EBITDA margins. Fortune 100 customer base. 13x forward P/E. Down 35% from highs. In a cybersecurity market growing 12% annually. The data makes the case.
Battle Stocks: Rivian vs. Lucid: Which EV Pure-Play Survives?
Rivian: $18B market cap, $1.4B revenue, R2 launching at $45K, burning $1B per quarter. Lucid: $5B market cap, $283M revenue, Uber robotaxi deal, burning $1B per quarter. Both Weak. Both Bearish. The data picks a survivor.
Wingstop: Down 70% and Still Overpriced
Same-store sales down 8.7%. Negative shareholders equity of $799 million. $1.3 billion in debt. Down 70% from its all-time high and still trading at 41x earnings. An avoid thesis for WING.
The Five: Stocks Wall Street Loves That the Data Doesn't Support
Five stocks where analyst consensus says Buy but systematic scoring says Weak. SNOW, BA, DASH, HD, and RBLX: the gap between narrative and data has never been wider.
The Options Desk: Why I Passed on ABVX
A $7.40 weekly premium on a $122 strike. 316% annualized return. And I walked away. Abivax has a Phase 3 readout due any day, takeover rumors, and bearish put flow already priced in. Here is how the Put Option Scanner surfaced the trade and why the data said no.
Hormuz Watch: Week 12: The Inflation Pipeline Is Full
April CPI hit 3.8%, the highest since May 2023. Gas is $4.56 a gallon. Real wages just went negative. The fertilizer damage has not hit grocery shelves yet. Inflation is no longer transitory. It is structural, and the data shows it across six indicators.
Read articleThe S-1: Who Is This IPO Actually For?
SpaceX filed its S-1. The numbers: $41.3 billion accumulated deficit. $4.3 billion net loss in Q1. xAI losing $6.4 billion per year. 85% voting control for one person. 90x revenue. The prospectus answers a question the market should be asking.
The Case for Deckers: HOKA Is Just Getting Started
Elite fundamentals. $4.99B revenue. A five-year EPS CAGR of 32%. HOKA at only 20% brand awareness. A forward P/E of 14x, down 50% from highs. The data makes the case.
The Abel Portfolio: A Macro Thesis Disguised as Stock Picks
Greg Abel's first Berkshire 13F cut 40 positions to 26, tripled Alphabet, bought Delta, dumped Visa and Amazon, and sat on $397 billion in cash. These are not random stock picks. They are a macro thesis.
One Million vs. One Billion: The Boring Company and the Myth of Reinventing Transit
The Boring Company promised Hyperloop at 760 mph, tunnels at 150 mph, and $10 million per mile. Nine years later: one tunnel in Las Vegas, 35 mph, and 1 million annual riders. The NYC Subway does that in seven hours.
Battle Stocks: Alphabet vs. Microsoft vs. Amazon: The Cloud War Has a Winner
Google Cloud grew 63% to $20B. Azure grew 40%. AWS grew 28%. $112B in quarterly capex. Same race, wildly different economics. The data picks a winner.
The Five: Dividend Machines Built to Last
Five Dividend Kings with 50+ years of consecutive increases, filtered by moat score, financial health, and company strength. PG, ADP, KO, JNJ, and ITW: the data behind the durability.
Hormuz Watch: Week 11: Iran Built a Tollbooth on the World’s Most Important Waterway
Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority is operational, charging up to $2 million per ship in Chinese yuan. Chinese vessels transiting. Qatar LNG resumed. Western ships locked out. Brent back to $107. Warsh confirmed as Fed chair 54-45. The middle path is here.
Read articleCredit Cracks: What the Auto Loan Data Is Actually Telling You
Auto loan delinquencies are at Great Recession levels. Unemployment is 4.3%. The last time people missed car payments at this rate, unemployment was above 9%. That disconnect is the story nobody is telling.
Read articleCoinbase: The $52 Billion Bet on a Crypto Golden Age
Revenue down 31%. A $394 million loss. Missed estimates three of the last four quarters. The stock trades at 41x trailing earnings and 121% above fair value. An avoid thesis for COIN.
The Case for Enphase: When the Grid Fails, the Roof Wins
A Nevada utility just told 49,000 residents their power is being redirected to data centers. Residential rates are up 9.5%. The same AI buildout repricing utilities is creating a structural tailwind for the company that puts solar and batteries on your roof. An investment thesis for ENPH.
Battle Stocks: NextEra vs. Constellation vs. Vistra: Who Powers the AI Revolution?
NextEra: $196B, 33 GW renewables backlog. Constellation: 55 GW, largest private power producer on Earth. Vistra: record EBITDA, 20-year Meta nuclear deal not yet in guidance. The data picks a winner.
GameStop and the $16 Billion Question Nobody Can Answer
GME is trying to buy a company 5x its size with a $16B financing hole. Revenue declining. Burry sold everything. The math does not work.
The Perpetual Promise Machine: xAI, Tesla FSD, and a Decade of Deadlines That Never Arrive
A $250 billion valuation. 11% GPU utilization. All 11 cofounders gone. A decade of full self-driving promises that never arrive. The data tells a story the headlines miss.