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· Post-Market Alpha · by Buzzberg Research
Retail attention centered on Micron and the long bond; the more distinctive threads covered data-center power queues, cannabis flows and a set of event-driven small-cap catalysts.
Themes on this desk
Micron earnings and event positioning
The print dominated: a beat with FQ1 guidance above consensus, an employee describing booked large-enterprise demand as appalling, a $50K earnings bet doubled after a prior loss, and options implying roughly 7.3% versus a historically large
Rates and Fed pricing
The 30-year near 5.6% exceeds the forward earnings yield of nine of the ten largest US companies; August core PCE printed 3.0% versus 3.3% expected; after Williams framed one further hike as his base case with no urgency, hike odds repriced
Data-center power queues
PJM carries 12-17GW of data center load, ERCOT 13.5GW and MISO 4-6GW, as FERC's chair criticizes PJM's delayed power auction.
Highest engagement
by score · day changeBurry flags ~$3T off-balance-sheet AI obligations at big four, 2028-29 reckoning
Burry's essay claims hidden AI debt at Alphabet (~$900B), Meta (~$700B), Microsoft ($300B+) and Amazon ($267B), mostly long-term leases and purchase commitments in the footnotes rather than balance-sheet debt, plus ~$176B of GPU depreciation assumptions that flatter current profits. He compares AI capex at ~2% of GDP to the 1999 telecom buildout and dates the issue to 2028-2029, while the author notes Burry has a history of being early and that index-fund holders are exposed regardless.
* Alphabet \~$900B, Meta \~$700B, Microsoft $300B+, Amazon $267B * Most of it is long-term leases and purchase commitments that
If these commitments are real obligations, reported earnings and free cash flow at the largest S&P 500 constituents are overstated, creating index-level risk for passive investors who cannot avoid the exposure.
Watch Whether the big four disclose or quantify these lease and purchase commitments in filings, and whether GPU depreciation schedules are shortened in coming quarters.
Source →NetEase trades at a 46% forward P/E discount to Meta on matched growth and margins
Author's comp of 14 internet companies (8 HK-listed, 6 US) matched on consensus EPS growth and GAAP EBIT margins finds NetEase growing EPS 18.9%/yr at 40% EBIT margins versus Meta at 18.0% and 41%; NetEase trades at 11.7x forward earnings versus Meta at 21.6x, a 46% discount. Author concedes the businesses are not identical since NetEase earns from gaming, not advertising.
Meta grows at 18.0% with 41%. Growth and margins nearly identical. NetEase trades at 11.7x forward earnings. Meta at 21.6x.
If the gap is jurisdiction-driven rather than fundamental, HK-listed Chinese internet names carry a persistent valuation discount that could compress if geopolitical risk perceptions ease.
Watch Track whether NetEase's forward multiple converges toward Meta's as growth/margin parity persists, or whether the discount widens on new China policy or delisting headlines.
Source →China's 2027 solid-state battery targets are demonstrations, not scale, per company executives
Author lines up the fine print: China's seven-department battery plan (published Sept 28) targets 2030 for 'initial scale application' with no quantified threshold; CATL guides small-batch production in 2027; BYD's demonstration target is ~1,000 vehicles that year; Robin Zeng says millions of vehicles before 2030 is very unlikely; BYD's FinDreams CTO points to batch demonstration ~2027 and large-scale installation after 2030; Li Auto's 2027-2028 small-batch claim comes from an unnamed insider, not a company statement. No 2027 target addresses scale.
vehicle installation in 2027 or 2028. No 2027 target, Li Auto's 2027 or 2028 included, addresses scale.
Investors extrapolating 2027 solid-state headlines into volume revenue for battery and automaker names are likely front-running a demonstration phase; the real scale inflection is post-2030, which matters for capex timing and for valuing solid-state optionality.
Watch Watch for quantified 2027 production volumes or nameplate GWh figures from CATL/BYD; absence of numbers confirms the pilot-batch interpretation.
Source →Nike long into earnings on record-low estimates and high short interest
Author is long 6,000 NKE shares, arguing the stock is down 44% YTD, analyst estimates were cut to very low levels, and short interest as a percent of float is historically high, so a flat reaction could force short covering and a bullish move could be ~20% versus 5-7% downside.
The short % interest of float is historically high for Nike stock right now.
An asymmetric setup into a widely followed earnings print can produce outsized moves if the low bar is merely met.
Watch Nike's post-earnings price reaction and whether short interest declines, confirming or refuting the squeeze thesis.
Source →Bull case for NUAI on 43% short float and cheap options into catalysts
Poster argues NUAI's short interest hit 30.07M shares (42.95% of float, up from ~33% two weeks earlier) with IV rank 7.97% and IV percentile 1.30%, so options are pricing less movement than the stock delivers, ahead of a heavy news window.
30-day historical vol of \~135% • IV rank 7.97%, IV percentile 1.30%.
A crowded short base combined with cheap implied vol into binary catalysts is the classic asymmetric squeeze setup; the options market is not charging for the event risk.
Watch Whether short interest keeps rising into the catalyst dates and whether realized vol continues to exceed the ~116% IV.
Source →Most argued
by comments per upvoteHeidmar trades near 6x ex-cash earnings versus 15-25x asset-light logistics peers
Bull case argues Heidmar (HMR) has ~$100M market cap with ~$30M cash and no borrowings, leaving the operating business at roughly 6x earnings, while the CEO's own comparison set is ship brokers above 10x and asset-light logistics businesses at 15-25x.
somewhere around 6x earnings. The CEO's own comparison set is ship brokers above 10x and true asset-light logistics businesses at
If the peer multiple comparison holds, HMR could re-rate toward logistics-like multiples as contracted fleet growth converts to earnings.
Watch Whether HMR's next reported earnings and fleet additions move the multiple toward the 10x+ peer range, or whether the discount persists.
Source →Military Metals' Trojarova antimony permit could be revived after Slovak environment minister's dismissal
Author argues the Slovak parliament's dismissal of environment minister Taraba removes the official who cancelled Military Metals' Trojarova exploration permit days after a May NI 43-101 inferred 6.5 Mt at 1.02% Sb and 1.06 g/t Au (67 kt antimony, 222 koz gold). The cancellation was called unexpected and inconsistent with Slovak law and EU strategic interest, with antimony on the EU critical raw materials list and Trojarova named one of two major European antimony sources; the company is in appeals and engaging the government. Shares sit at 52-week lows, down over 60% from pre-cancellation levels.
head when a wrench was thrown in this project, is out. Fico’s coalition is in jeopardy.
A permit reversal would re-rate a small-cap with a strategic EU critical-minerals asset; failure to reverse leaves the asset stranded and the equity at depressed levels.
Watch Watch for a new Slovak Ministry of Environment decision or permit reinstatement, and for Fico coalition stability; a formal denial would invalidate the catalyst.
Source →Telesat Lightspeed pitched as orbital WAN layer for space-based AI compute
u/only_convex argues that Google's Project Suncatcher — putting AI compute in orbit with Tbps optical interconnects inside a tight cluster — creates a need for an external network layer, and that Telesat's routed LEO optical mesh with onboard processing and terrestrial points of interconnection could serve as that 'orbital WAN'. The author notes the two are not direct competitors (Google's interconnect is Tbps vs Telesat's four 10 Gbps optical ISLs per satellite), flags the Aalyria/Spacetime and Project Loon lineage shared with Telesat, and admits the open question is whether Google would buy orbital capacity from Telesat or build it itself.
But I hadn't really considered the possibility of an "orbital WAN" becoming its own layer of infrastructure.
If orbital compute becomes real, a new addressable market for satellite networking infrastructure opens beyond broadband, potentially re-rating Telesat's Lightspeed constellation on a use case the market is not pricing.
Watch Any Google/Telesat or Aalyria commercial agreement, Lightspeed constellation deployment milestones, or Google statements on sourcing external orbital network capacity; Google building its own mesh would invalidate the thesis.
Source →AMD acquires World Labs for $8.2B in AI talent/tech land grab
Report claims AMD is acquiring Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion, a large AI-focused acquisition by the chipmaker.
AMD acquires AI legend Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
A multi-billion AI acquisition signals AMD is spending aggressively to close the software/model gap with Nvidia, affecting AMD's capital allocation and competitive positioning.
Watch Official AMD confirmation of the deal, its structure (cash/stock), and any disclosed revenue or roadmap contribution.
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