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09/02/2026

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐀𝐏'𝐬 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧. 🤔

A criticism of SAP that seems reasonable at first: its AI tools are taking too long to reach customers.

Here's what I think most investors are missing. Enterprise AI adoption and consumer AI adoption are entirely different games.

Consumer AI moves fast. A chatbot launches, and millions use it within days. That works when the product answers questions or helps write an email.

SAP operates in a totally different world. A massive global company can't hand payroll, procurement, or financial reporting over to an AI agent because a demo looked impressive. Permissions need to be locked down. Data has to be accurate.

Security teams have to sign off, and all of this has to connect with software that's been running for DECADES.

That makes things slower. Slower doesn't automatically mean SAP is falling behind.

SAP's real advantage is being embedded inside the daily operations of thousands of companies, with access to workflows and structured data a standalone AI model doesn't have. As AI starts actually changing purchase orders and approving payments, the quality of that underlying data matters more than a flashy demo.

The risk I'd actually watch for isn't how many AI agents SAP releases. It's whether SAP loses the customer relationship entirely. If enterprises start spending their workday inside someone else's AI interface while SAP just quietly stores the data behind the scenes, real economic value could slip away, even if SAP technically stays important.

The question that matters isn't how fast the next demo drops. It's whether SAP stays close to where the real decisions get made. 👀

09/02/2026

𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐀𝐏. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲. 👀

Here's an interesting disagreement playing out in real time.

UBS just downgraded SAP stock, arguing that its AI tools were reaching customers slower than expected. That's a fair concern. SAP has talked a lot about AI being central to its future.

Here's what happened right around that same time: THREE senior SAP executives bought shares with their own money.

CEO Christian Klein bought about €325,000 worth on July 24. The Chief People Officer bought roughly €305,000 in August. And the executive who runs customer operations, the person closest to seeing whether customers are actually adopting SAP's AI tools, bought about €267,000 just days ago.

Here's why that timing matters: they weren't buying after some huge stock crash to "signal confidence". They bought AFTER the AI scepticism had already built up.

The underlying numbers don't look like a company falling apart, either. Cloud backlog grew 26%. Cloud revenue was up 24%.

Here's a perspective worth considering: everyone's used to consumer AI moving at lightning speed; a new chatbot launches, and millions of people try it within days.

Enterprise software is an entirely different world. You can't just hand a company's payroll or financial reporting over to an AI agent because a demo looked cool.

Security teams have to approve it. Data has to be airtight. That naturally makes adoption slower, but slower doesn't necessarily mean SAP is losing.

Here's the risk I'd actually watch for: not HOW FAST SAP rolls out AI features, but WHO ends up owning the customer relationship. If companies start doing all their daily work inside some OTHER company's AI interface while SAP just quietly stores the data, that's where real value could slip away, even if SAP stays technically "important".

Insider buying doesn't automatically mean sceptics are wrong. But it shows that those with the clearest view of the business are willing to put real money behind their confidence. 👀

09/01/2026

𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲. 📊

Here's a number that might surprise you: spinoff stocks as a category are up 42.6% this year, more than triple the S&P 500's 11.7%. That's a genuinely strong result for the whole category.

But here's what people miss when they just look at that headline number.

Inside our own model portfolio, the results are wildly different from stock to stock.

One pick, Inhibrx Biosciences, is up roughly 145%. Another is up 64%. A third is up around 30%. But three OTHER spinoffs in that same portfolio are actually below where we bought them.

Same general strategy. Entirely different outcomes.

Here's why that's actually a good thing, not a problem: if every spinoff performed identically, there'd be no real skill involved in picking the right ones. The dispersion is precisely WHY doing the homework matters.

Two companies can spin off from their parent companies within weeks of each other and end up in totally different situations. One might come out with too much debt. Another might have a management team with a strong financial stake through equity incentives. Just calling both of them "spinoffs" tells you almost nothing useful about which one is actually worth owning. 👀

09/01/2026

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤'𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 $𝟑.𝟕 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬. 👀

Right after Dick's Sporting Goods reported a rough quarter and the stock dropped sharply, something interesting happened. Four company directors bought roughly $3.7 million worth of stock between August 26 and 27, all around the same $129 to $131 price range.

One director spent $2.22 million. Another spent $785,000. Two more added smaller purchases on top.

Here's why the situation matters more than a single insider buying: one purchase rarely tells you much. But when FOUR people with deep visibility into the boardroom all buy within the same week, right after the market delivers a brutal verdict on the company's biggest strategic decision, it sends a very different signal.

To be clear, this move doesn't fix the underlying problems. It doesn't repair the inventory issues or guarantee the business turns around. But it does give investors the first meaningful piece of information since the selloff that points in the opposite direction from the market's reaction.

These directors have access to something outside investors don't. They know the board discussions, the integration plans, the supplier relationships, and what management genuinely believes it can fix. They watched the exact same bad numbers everyone else saw, and they still bought.

A big stock drop tells you the market is upset. It doesn't automatically tell you the market is right. 👀

08/31/2026

𝐍𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟎𝟔% 𝐭𝐨 𝟕𝟎% 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐈'𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. 📊

Here's a number that sounds scary out of context: Nvidia's revenue growth is expected to slow from 106% this quarter to roughly 70% next year.

Here's why that actually doesn't worry me much: Growth naturally slows down once you're working off a much bigger base. That's just basic math; a company can't double revenue forever at the same pace. That's not a concern on its own.

Here's what WOULD actually worry me: customers delaying data centre projects, pushing back their purchases, or deciding they need way less computing power than expected.

That's an entirely different signal, and here's why the distinction matters so much right now specifically.

Nvidia has already committed $279 billion to future supply and manufacturing capacity—much of it based on a pretty aggressive assumption about how much demand will be there years from now. If growth just naturally slows from 100% to 70%, that's a business maturing normally. Totally fine.

But what if customers actually start pulling back on orders? That's a forecast quietly starting to break, and Nvidia has already locked in years of supply chain commitments, assuming that doesn't happen.

For context on where things stand RIGHT NOW: Data Center revenue still grew 117% this quarter. Nvidia's newest chip platform is already running in full production across Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and more. Demand keeps spreading beyond the big tech companies into smaller AI labs, enterprises, and even government/sovereign customers.

Nothing in this quarter suggests the worrying scenario is happening. Revenue is still doubling. Customers keep asking for more, not less.

I'm just watching for which signal shows up first going forward: normal growth slowing or real demand actually pulling back. Those are two very different stories wearing the same headline number. 👀

08/31/2026

𝐍𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 🏗️

Here's something interesting buried in Nvidia's latest earnings that's bigger than the headline revenue number:

Nvidia is now involved on BOTH sides of the AI buildout.

On one side, it's locking up hundreds of billions in future chip and memory supply (we're talking $279 billion in commitments). On the other side, it's actively helping FINANCE the data centres that will eventually buy all that equipment.

Earlier this month, Nvidia partnered with major financial players Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and more to help mobilise over $500 BILLION in outside capital for AI infrastructure projects.

Why would a chip company care about financing data centres? Here's the simple answer: every new data centre that gets built is another potential customer for Nvidia's products.

It gets more direct too. Nvidia recently agreed to provide financial guarantees tied to a massive OpenAI data centre project in Ohio, with obligations capped at $105 billion. To be fair, OpenAI has agreed to cover those costs if Nvidia ever has to actually pay so the investment isn't a straightforward loss risk. But the fact that Nvidia is willing to get so deeply involved shows just how important building out physical AI infrastructure has become to their whole strategy.

Put it together: Nvidia reserves the components needed to build AI systems, helps finance the buildings that house them, AND profits when all of it gets built.

If AI spending keeps growing anywhere near what Nvidia expects, this positioning could turn out to be brilliant.

The thing I'd actually watch for as a warning sign? If companies start reserving capacity and financing infrastructure FASTER than real demand is actually growing underneath it, that's when confidence starts looking more like overreach. That's when confidence starts looking more like overreach. 👀

08/30/2026

𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈. 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲. 👀

Alibaba stock fell after announcing a $10.2 billion equity raise for AI investment.

New shares were issued at an 8.4% discount, diluting shareholders by about 3.6%. The negative reaction made sense.

Here's what happened next. Chairman Joseph Tsai bought about $10.3 million of stock. CEO Eddie Wu bought roughly $5 million. Both bought near where the new shares were issued, and these appear to be their FIRST meaningfully reported open-market purchases ever.

The distinction that matters: spending CORPORATE money is one signal.

Leadership spending their money is a completely different thing.

There's real reason for caution here. Alibaba is deep into a three-year, $50+ billion AI plan. Capital spending jumped sharply, and quarterly profit fell 75% as investment ramped up.

Here's the part that's harder to see: cloud and AI revenue grew 45% last quarter, and management believes this investment could pay back in roughly 2.5 years. If that holds up, the dilution story looks very different.

The market is saying, "You're spending too much and diluting me." Management seems to be saying, "You're underestimating the return." That's a genuinely interesting disagreement.

A price level worth watching: around HK$112, both where Alibaba raised the capital and roughly where Tsai and Wu bought in personally. If the stock can't hold that level while the business stays healthy, pay attention.

One thing that would worry me: if Alibaba goes back for MORE money soon. One raise to fund a real opportunity makes sense. Repeatedly needing cash because the investment can't fund itself is a different story.

08/29/2026

𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝟗% 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭. 🛒

Walmart lost more than $80 billion in market value in ONE day after reporting its slowest sales growth in six years. Comparable sales rose 2.6%, below the 3.8% Wall Street expected.

Sounds like a Walmart problem, right?

Here's the twist: Walmart actually RAISED its full-year forecasts in the same report. This probably isn't about the business breaking.

Store traffic held up fine. What weakened was how much people spent per visit. Walmart even cut prices on roughly 11,000 items, and customers STILL got more selective about the cart.

That tells me more about the CONSUMER than about Walmart.

People haven't stopped spending. They're still buying groceries and everyday basics. What they're pulling back on is anything that can WAIT. Target is stronger in food than apparel. Home Depot sees more demand for small repairs than big renovations.

A consumer who stops spending entirely is one problem. A consumer who keeps spending but gets pickier is different, and it can actually be GOOD for value-focused businesses like Walmart.

If people are getting more price-conscious, Walmart is exactly where that should benefit. E-commerce jumped 24% this quarter, and higher-margin businesses like advertising and membership keep growing on top of the core stores.

Here's the real lesson: a great COMPANY and a great STOCK are not the same thing. Walmart's stock had more than DOUBLED since 2024. When a stock is priced for near-perfect ex*****on, it doesn't take much to hit the multiple, sometimes just a slowdown in the rate of improvement.

A 9% drop tells you where the stock moved. It doesn't tell you where value starts. 👀

08/29/2026

𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟏% 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 📈

Reddit shares jumped more than 11% after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the company will join the S&P 500 on August 18. J.P. Morgan estimates index funds could need to buy approximately 16.7 million shares.

Nothing actually changed about Reddit's business that day. Advertising numbers didn't change. Management didn't raise guidance.

What changed was WHO owned the stock.

An index fund tracking the S&P 500 doesn't decide whether Reddit is fairly priced it just has to buy once Reddit joins. That makes the buyer predictable. Predictable doesn't mean easy money, though.

The market knew Thursday night. By Friday, the stock had already jumped traders positioning ahead of the passive funds.

So the real question: who's willing to SELL into all that demand? Existing shareholders now know a wave of price-insensitive buying is coming on a known date. Some may see that as the perfect exit.

If Reddit keeps climbing on heavy volume into the inclusion date, forced demand is winning. If it struggles despite the expected buying, that's a warning sign holders may want out more than the headlines suggest.

The trade and the investment are different things. The trade: funds need shares, traders position around it. The investment: once index funds finish buying, that extra demand disappears completely.

For context, Reddit's numbers are genuinely strong revenue up 61% YoY to $805 million, 130 million daily active users. But the stock was still down for the year when this announcement hit.

Getting added to an index doesn't prove a company is undervalued. It just introduces a new buyer. 👀

08/27/2026

𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝.

Here's something that took me years to fully appreciate about spinoffs:

Everyone gets excited at the ANNOUNCEMENT. Management talks about "focus" and "unlocking value". Investors build spreadsheets. By the time the actual separation happens, the market has already priced in most of that story.

The REAL opportunity often shows up months later after the honeymoon phase ends and reality sets in.

Standalone costs start appearing. Management has to make real capital decisions without a parent company backing them up. The first earnings report exposes assumptions nobody could actually test beforehand.

A stock that falls 30-40% doesn't automatically become interesting. Plenty of struggling spinoffs deserve to stay down. What gets my attention is when the market starts treating a problem like it's PERMANENT when the evidence suggests the underlying business hasn't actually changed that much.

Here are three current examples, and what makes each one completely different:

Honeywell Aerospace (HONA): Sales grew 5%, but profits fell 32% because supply-chain issues limited production. The demand is real; customers aren't leaving.

Management just can't turn that demand into the right kind of earnings yet.

Aptiv: It did almost everything investors normally ask for: simplified the portfolio, paid down debt, and bought back shares. Guidance STILL moved lower, and the stock fell about 40% anyway. Turns out cleaning up a balance sheet doesn't automatically create earnings growth.

Amrize: Revenue jumped 8.6%, and profits grew 14.4%. Sounds great, right? But margins actually shrank. Growth is happening. It's just not fully reaching the bottom line yet.

Three stocks. Three totally different reasons for the decline.

That's exactly why I'd never just screen for "spinoffs that fell the most" and call it research. The falling price gets my attention. Figuring out WHY it fell is the actual job.

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