AI-datacenter optical transceiver stocks have run up anywhere from roughly 150% to over 400% in the past year. Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) is up about 252% over 52 weeks, Lumentum (LITE) about 415%, and Coherent (COHR) about 163% — compared with a 73% gain for the semiconductor index (SOXX) and 13% for the S&P 500 over … Read more
Gold was trading around $4,290 an ounce on September 15 — down about 23% from its intraday high near $5,600 set back in January. Even so, it’s still 16% higher than a year ago. Checking four gold timing indicators — real yields, dollar strength, central bank buying, and ETF flows — shows a mixed picture: … Read more
AeroVironment (AVAV), the largest pure-play among U.S. drone stocks, closed at $156.99 on September 15 — 62% below its January high of $417.86. Kratos Defense (KTOS) closed at $47.62, down 64% from its own January peak of $134. Both companies are growing revenue by double digits and posting record order backlogs, so why have their … Read more
Netflix stock closed at $77.90 on September 15, down 38% from its 52-week high of $124.86. It trades at a trailing P/E of 24.55 and a forward P/E of 22.49. This isn’t really a story about deteriorating earnings — it’s the combined weight of co-founder Reed Hastings’ board departure, worries about slowing per-subscriber viewing time, … Read more
PayPal stock trades at a trailing P/E of 10.19 and a forward P/E of just 9.73, despite a Q2 2026 earnings beat and raised full-year guidance. That low multiple isn’t really about the business — it’s the aftermath of a collapsed buyout. Stripe and private equity firm Advent International offered $60.50 a share, valuing PayPal … Read more
Uber robotaxi stock is easy to misread. Uber doesn’t own a single self-driving car. The vehicles, sensors, and driving software all belong to roughly 30 partner companies, including Waymo, Zoox, Wayve, Nuro, Lucid, Baidu, and Pony.ai. Uber’s job is simply to aggregate rider demand and route it to those partners. Even so, Q2 2026 gross … Read more
President Trump’s June 2026 stock trading disclosure, released on August 22, showed new purchases of Visa and Mastercard, each in the $1 million to $5 million range, bought on June 18. But that headline alone isn’t a reason to buy either stock. The White House says Trump’s assets are managed independently through “computer models,” and … Read more
Vertiv stock dropped 17% in a single day right after its Q2 2026 earnings release on July 29, 2026. Profit beat expectations and the company raised its full-year guidance, yet the stock still fell. The reason: revenue of $3.274 billion missed the roughly $3.38 billion consensus. But there was another notable change buried in the … Read more
Anyone looking at Japan robotics investment runs into the same wall right away: Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric, the two companies that dominate Japan’s industrial robot and CNC market, aren’t listed on the NYSE or Nasdaq. The only way to hold them from a U.S. brokerage is through thinly traded, unsponsored OTC ADRs (FANUY, YASKY), which … Read more
The Bloom Energy backlog gap is the number that matters most right now: the company markets a $20 billion backlog, but its audited remaining performance obligations (RPO) come in at $492.6 million — roughly a 40x difference. Short seller Hunterbrook Media used that gap, along with claims about a Chinese-linked scandium supply chain and heavy … Read more