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· Post-Market Alpha · by Buzzberg Research
Retail threads were most useful on single-name mechanics and on the revenue bar implied by AI capex, rather than on index-level calls.
Themes on this desk
Oil price path
Retail ranges from a return to $80, to $95-100 until pipeline repair reality is repriced, to $105-120 on a WTI close above $105, with an oil-product export ban flagged as the risk to the bullish case.
Bitcoin after the hike
Retail splits three ways: 58k as the bottom with only upside from here, the Clarity Act's failure and rising rates as bullish for Bitcoin, and a call for sub-$60k within weeks as hikes bite.
Fed dot plot read
Read as a hike with at least one more coming this year and possibly a second, and as the bond market forcing the Fed's hand rather than a data-driven decision.
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by score · day changeBogleheads bond summary favors short maturity, no long bonds
A long compilation of bond book summaries concludes investors should keep bond maturities short, with one cited author calling 5-year maturity the best risk/reward and stating no reward exists past that point; long-term bonds are called a bad investment to avoid.
No long term bonds • 5-year maturity is the best bang for your buck on bonds, you don't get rewarded
If retail fixed-income demand concentrates in short/intermediate maturities, long-end Treasury and long-duration bond fund flows could stay structurally weak, steepening the curve.
Watch Track whether long-duration Treasury ETF flows and the 10s-2s spread confirm persistent retail avoidance of the long end.
Source →Damodaran: Nvidia priced as 'greatest company ever'; AI buildout needs $8-10T revenue
Aswath Damodaran said Nvidia is an awesome company but is priced as the greatest company ever, and estimates current AI product and service revenue at roughly $250B a year against more than $2T already invested in AI infrastructure, implying eventual revenues of $8T-$10T annually (roughly 32-40x today's level) to justify the buildout; he argues that scale only happens if AI replaces labor rather than just assisting it, and notes he bought NVDA in 2018 at a split-adjusted $1.80 and has fully exited.
trillion to $10 trillion annually to justify the buildout, roughly 32 to 40 times today’s level.
A widely followed valuation voice quantifying the revenue bar for AI infrastructure provides a falsifiable benchmark for judging whether current capex and semiconductor multiples are justified.
Watch Whether AI revenue run-rates move materially toward the implied trillions, or whether capex plans are revised down as the gap persists.
Source →Micron gross margin of 84.56% far exceeds prior peak, raising durability question
Author reports Micron's quarter to 28 May 2026 had revenue of $41.46B versus $9.30B a year earlier while cost of revenue rose only from $5.79B to $6.40B, producing an 84.56% gross margin versus a prior best of 58.87% in fiscal 2018 and a negative margin in fiscal 2023. The author asks whether any manufacturer at this scale has held such a margin for more than a couple of quarters, or whether supply always turns up and closes it.
The gross margin that falls out of those two lines is 84.56%.
If the margin is a cyclical price spike on a fixed cost base rather than a structural shift, forward earnings estimates built on it are overstated.
Watch Whether Micron's cost of revenue stays flat while pricing holds, or whether new supply compresses the gross margin toward historical levels.
Source →Home contract signings fall 4.7% YoY on higher mortgage rates
Post reports pending home contract signings dropped 4.7% from a year earlier amid higher mortgage rates.
Home contract signings drop 4.7% from last year amid higher mortgage rates
Weak forward-looking housing demand pressures homebuilders, mortgage originators and housing-linked consumer spending.
Watch Subsequent pending-home-sales and existing-home-sales prints; a rebound would signal rate relief is reviving demand.
Source →FLNC cut guidance twice in two months, down ~75% in three months
u/throwaway9gk0k4k569 argues Fluence Energy is fundamentally mismanaged, having cut revenue guidance for the second time in two months (stock -22% overnight) despite huge demand and a product customers want, blaming Siemens-linked ownership; the stock is down ~75% in three months.
Fluence Energy, Inc. (FLNC) down -22% overnight after cutting re guidance for the SECOND time in 2 months, because they
A specific, dated fundamental deterioration in a grid-storage name with strong end-demand, suggesting execution/management risk rather than demand risk across the energy-storage complex.
Watch Whether FLNC issues a third guidance cut or stabilizes; any management/ownership change or factory build progress would test the incompetence thesis.
Source →Most argued
by comments per upvoteGameStop-eBay mapped as textbook hostile takeover
u/TEHGOURDGOAT argues GameStop has executed every step of a standard activist hostile takeover of eBay, including a toehold, 13D, rejected friendly offer, coalition building, and insider buying, and expects an all-cash tender next.
hindsight is always 20/20. Ryan Cohen has executed every step of the standard hostile acquisition playbook over the last six
If the sequence holds, eBay holders face a potential premium tender while GME could reprice from retailer to holding company, a large structural shift.
Watch An amended 13D on eBay or an 8-K from GameStop disclosing committed financing and tender commencement; absence of either weakens the sequence.
Source →B. Riley initiates Nokia at Buy with $15 SOTP target on AI networking mix shift
B. Riley initiated Nokia (NOK) at Buy with a $15 price target, arguing the market still discounts NOK as a volatile wireless vendor while missing a structural mix shift toward core network architecture; it cites Optical Networks +20% Y/Y and IP Routing +16% Y/Y procurement by hyperscalers and a €2.8B AI & Cloud order intake in 2Q26 providing revenue visibility into 2027E.
This data center business is experiencing a strong tailwind, backed by a €2.8B AI & Cloud order intake in 2Q26
A sell-side initiation with a sum-of-the-parts framing can re-rate a legacy telecom name as an AI-infrastructure beneficiary, pulling new investor attention to optical/IP routing exposure rather than radio access.
Watch Whether NOK's data center segment revenue growth and AI & Cloud order intake convert into reported sales in coming quarters, and whether other analysts adopt similar SOTP valuations.
Source →IREN flagged below zero-gamma flip while 92% bullish on StockTwits
A poster says IREN is 92% bullish on StockTwits while trading below its own zero-gamma flip, meaning dealer hedging would amplify rather than cushion a decline; the author explicitly states this is not a prediction that IREN drops, but warns anyone selling cash-secured puts on the strength of sentiment that the structure is short exactly where a move against them gets pushed harder.
Below it, the same hedging flips direction — a decline gets **amplified, not absorbed.** IREN is in the second regime
Crowded one-sided sentiment combined with adverse dealer gamma positioning is a mechanical setup for outsized downside moves, relevant to anyone underwriting put-selling or long exposure in IREN.
Watch Whether IREN reclaims its zero-gamma flip level and whether realized volatility expands on down days versus up days.
Source →EnCore Energy bullish on permitting fix and 2M lb/yr by 2030
Author believes EnCore will resolve its permitting issue, notes two wellfields coming online this year and next, speculates TECQ requested roughly 8 pump test wells per the 10-Q, blames the prior CEO for permit delays, and says reaching 2 million lbs per year by 2030 would reward current investors.
If they can at least get to 2 million lbs per year by 2030, the current investors will do good
Permitting resolution and wellfield ramp are the gating items for EnCore's production growth and re-rating.
Watch Confirm TECQ permit approvals and wellfield commissioning; track progress toward the 2M lb/yr 2030 target.
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