ASML Earnings Review: Profits Doubled, but Will Wall Street Wait Until 2027? $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ delivered strong Q3 2026 results, with revenue jumping 55% YoY and net profit more than doubling. The company also raised its full-year guidance for the third time this year, reinforcing confidence in the AI-driven semiconductor equipment cycle. However, investment gains boosted reported profits, while the equipment revenue mix deserves closer scrutiny. More importantly, investors may have to wait until June 2027 for an updated long-term financial outlook, even as demand threatens to exceed ASML's planned capacity through 2028. Core Financial Indicators – Q3 revenue reached €11.66 billion, up 55% YoY and 2
ASML Earnings Preview: Can 55% Sales Growth Still Surprise Wall Street? $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ will report Q3 2026 earnings on Wednesday, October 14, helping kick off another closely watched semiconductor earnings season. After sharply raising its full-year outlook in July, the world's leading lithography equipment supplier faces a much higher bar. The central question is whether ASML can expand production fast enough to meet surging AI-driven demand and sustain its growth momentum into 2027 and 2028. Core Financial Indicators – Consensus expects Q3 revenue of €11.62 billion, up 55% YoY and 25% QoQ, compared with the previous guidance ceiling of €12.0 billion. – Consensus expects a Q3 gross margin of 55.
MU Technical Analysis: Stock Dips Below Short-Term Moving Averages on Shrinking Volume, Retracing to the Middle Band The mid-term uptrend structure remains intact, but short-term price has fallen back below EMA20, interrupting the upward rhythm. Price at 1029.00 is about 1.0% below EMA20 at 1039.47, yet still 3.5% above EMA50 at 994.34. The two lines are in a bullish alignment but price is stuck below the short-term moving average, which qualifies as a pullback within an uptrend rather than a breakdown. The key question is whether EMA50 can hold, as that line is the last line of defense for this upward trend. Bollinger Band width is 21.1%, an extremely wide volatility range. Price currently sits between the middle band at 1038.26 and the lower band at 928.70, having slipped from above the
Micron Shares Fall Below $1,000 but Options Still Near Cheapest in a Year $Micron Technology(MU)$ fell below $1,000 Monday morning but options are still priced near the cheapest level of the past year. Still, contracts expiring today, known as zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE), carry a much higher implied volatility — the options market's way of saying a sharp move could arrive within hours. Fear has a name. China's ChangXin Memory Technologies, which trades as $CXMT Corporation (688825.SH)$, has advanced a new chip design that stores more memory on a single chip, a new server-memory product that competitors $Samsung Electronics (005930.KR)$ and $SK hynix (SKHY.US)$ are also pursuing, South China Morning Post
Nvidia Trader Uses Cheap Options to Bet the Record Run Fades $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ options are near their cheapest levels of the past year, and on Friday morning a trader spent $7.88 million opening in-the-money January put options — using bargain pricing to bet that the stock's record run could fade rather than hold. The timing followed a rough Thursday for artificial-intelligence stocks. Nvidia shares fell 2.94% on Thursday after the Financial Times reported that OpenAI had told investors its annualized revenue was nearing $50 billion, about $20 billion below a figure previously reported. If a central chip buyer is generating less revenue than assumed, the spending behind its orders gets harder to trust. Excha
SPCX Jumps 5% Ahead of Flight 14: Is Morgan Stanley's $300 Bull Case Waking Up? $Space Exploration Technologies Corp(SPCX)$ jumped 5.15% and is testing its 200-day EMA ahead of Flight 14. Morgan Stanley sees $300 as AI compute becomes a second growth engine, though another lock-up release arrives right after the launch. The Rally Has More Than One Catalyst The immediate catalyst is Starship Flight 14, but the bigger fundamental story is increasingly AI compute. Morgan Stanley currently rates SPCX Overweight with a $300 price target, versus Wednesday's $150.88 close. Its sum-of-the-parts framework assigns roughly $8/share to Space, $118 to Connectivity, $8 to X & Consumer AI, and $165 to Enterprise AI. In other words, more than half
AI Chip Stocks Are Selling Off Hard: Should Investors Buy, Hedge, or Wait? AI hardware stocks came under heavy selling pressure on Monday. The $PHLX Semiconductor Index (.SOX.US)$ fell more than 5% intraday, with $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ , $Broadcom(AVGO)$ and $Micron Technology(MU)$ among the biggest decliners. Meanwhile, $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ , $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ and $Meta Platforms (META.US)$ moved higher, while cybersecurity stocks
Oracle Turns the Tables on Its Short Sellers With Earnings Blowout $Oracle(ORCL)$ just turned the tables on the traders betting against it. Short volume almost doubled to 5.09 million shares on Thursday, before the tech giant's financial results beat on the most important metrics, with its cloud business surging 121%. Short volume counts the shares sold short in a single session. A short sale is a wager that a stock will fall, so when that count climbs and the share price rises, the sellers face potential losses and may be forced to buy back — the classic squeeze. Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of $19.35 billion after the market closed on Thursday, beating the $19.13 billion analysts e
Stocks Rally Despite Rising Rate-Hike Odds. Should Investors Buy or Cut Risk? U.S. stocks staged a seemingly counterintuitive move on Friday: CPI came in hotter than expected and the odds of a Fed rate hike next week climbed further, yet all three major indexes moved higher, led by the Nasdaq. With a 25-basis-point hike now largely priced in, investors are shifting their focus to the path ahead: Will the Fed keep hiking after this move? Why Are Stocks Rising Despite Hotter CPI? First, the 10-year Treasury yield briefly approached 5% but failed to break decisively higher. For tech stocks, a sustained rise in long-term yields would add further valuation pressure. The stabilization in yields has therefore given growth stocks some room to rebound. Meanwhile, oil prices pulled back after their
SpaceX Volatility Sinks to Post-IPO Low as CFO Touts Orbital Compute $Space Exploration Technologies Corp(SPCX)$ options have rarely been cheaper. Implied volatility, the market's price tag for expected future swings, sits in the eighth percentile of its brief public history — traders are pricing calm even after its CFO touted the company's AI compute capacity both on earth and in orbit. The stock itself has been quiet. Shares closed up 0.4% on Thursday after SpaceX launched a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force, its 104th Falcon 9 flight of the year. It continued to trade in a relatively narrow range, swinging between a gain of 1.6% and a loss of 1.5% Friday. The gentle drift masks a busier news tape. On Thursday, Chief Financ
OpenAI and Anthropic Just Reignited the AI Hardware Trade The AI trade is rotating back toward hardware. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra launch and Anthropic's latest research breakthroughs have helped revive a simple investment thesis: frontier AI progress still requires enormous physical infrastructure. Better AI still needs more compute GPT-6 Astra delivered another major jump in reasoning and scientific capabilities. More important for hardware investors, $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ CEO Jensen Huang said Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72 GPUs and that another 400,000 GPUs are "coming online next." Anthropic is sending a similar capability signal, with Claude recently advan
Memory Stocks: The Case for a Second Leg Up Is Getting Stronger Memory stocks stood out on Friday, September 4: $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ surged 11.9%, while $Micron Technology(MU)$ gained about 6%, even as the S&P 500 finished lower. Then came Goldman Sachs' September 7 readout from Samsung's non-deal roadshow, or NDR. Samsung put memory demand fulfillment at only around 60%, reiterated that supply conditions could be tighter in 2027 than in 2026, and said shortages could persist into 2028. That update came after Friday's rally, but it strengthens the fundamental case behind it. The Shortage Could Last Longer Than Investors Expect Samsung's NDR adds detail o
Michael Burry Calls Lululemon His "Trickster"—Is LULU a Fat Pitch or a Value Trap? $Lululemon Athletica(LULU)$ fell 17.4% to $100.61 last Friday, its lowest level in roughly eight years, bringing its year-to-date decline to about 52%. A stronger U.S. jobs report pushed rate-hike expectations higher and weighed on consumer discretionary stocks, but Lululemon's much steeper drop was mostly company-specific: North American sales weakened further, full-year guidance was cut again, and international growth also started to slow. Even contrarian investor Michael Burry has become more cautious on the stock. So the real question is no longer how far LULU has fallen. It is this: At around $100, is Lululemon finally
Software Stocks Make a Strong Comeback — Keep an Eye on These Names This earnings season has brought a notable recovery for US SaaS & software names. Multiple companies delivered robust results across revenue, cloud revenue, ARR/RPO order backlog and cash flow. Several stocks surged more than 30% on the first trading day post‑earnings, as the market repriced growth upside enabled by enterprise AI. In terms of market performance, $Atlassian Corporation PLC(TEAM)$ led the sector with a 35.31% post‑earnings jump. $Doximity, Inc.(DOCS)$ and $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$
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