Meta Shares Slump 9% as Options Market Braces for Near-Term Turbulence $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$   shares tumbled almost 9% on Thursday after the company's latest financial results sparked a wave of selling and a surge in demand for options protection, while some institutional players positioned for a potential rebound.  The stock dropped $57.89 to close at $611.23 as investors reassessed the social media giant's spending plans for artificial intelligence. The surge in capital expenditures overshadowed the bigger-than-expected revenue growth of 33% to $56.31 billion that highlights the gains from the company's AI investments.  "We had a milestone quarter with strong momentum across our apps and

Apple FY26Q2 Earnings Review: Margin Expansion and Buybacks in Focus — What's Driving Apple Now? $Apple(AAPL)$   delivered a broadly stronger-than-expected earnings report, with revenue reaching $111.18B (vs. $109.66B est.), up approximately 17% YoY, exceeding its prior guidance range of 13%–16%; EPS came in at $2.01 (vs. $1.96 est.), rising about 22% YoY. Growth this quarter was driven by solid demand for both iPhone and Mac, supported by March product launches including the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo, with the Neo model selling out at several retailers—highlighting continued resilience in high-end hardware demand.  At current valuation levels, the key takeaway is no longer whether Apple beat expectat

Sandisk Earnings Review: A Stunning $42B RPO, But Margins May Be Peaking The quarter was a blowout. Revenue was $5.95 billion, up 97% QoQ and 251% YoY. Non-GAAP gross margin reached 78.4%, far above the prior guide of 65% to 67%. Non-GAAP EPS was $23.41, compared with prior guidance of $12 to $14.  Free cash flow quality was also strong. Adjusted free cash flow was $2.955 billion, equal to a 49.7% margin. Operating cash flow was $3.038 billion, while net cash capital spending was only $83 million. Fiscal Q4 guidance implies the cycle is still accelerating Fiscal Q4 guidance was very strong: revenue of $7.75 billion to $8.25 billion, non-GAAP gross margin of 79% to 81%, and non-GAAP EPS of $30 to $33. That implies another large sequential revenue step-up and sustained gross margin near

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1) I think DBS will close at SGD 59.25 on Friday. 2) Will DBS beat the Q1 net profit estimate? Yes

Amazon Earnings Preview: Investors Bet on Anthropic Collaboration for Upside $Amazon.com(AMZN)$   is scheduled to release its financial results post-market on April 29 ET. Market expectations suggest the cloud giant will benefit substantially from its partnership with Anthropic, although the recent stock price has partially factored in this expectation. On April 20, Amazon invested an additional $5 billion in Anthropic, with a potential total commitment of up to $20 billion. This comes on top of its prior $8 billion investment. Investors should also be wary of the risks associated with the acceleration in CapEx, and management will need to justify it. Core Financial Indicators – Amazon's revenue is expected

Apple Earnings Preview: iPhone Boom Meets Margin Test $Apple(AAPL)$   will report fiscal second quarter 2026 results after the market closes on Thursday, April 30. For investors, this quarter is less about whether Apple can grow and more about whether the iPhone 17 cycle, China rebound, Services mix, and cost control can support a stock already valued like a premium compounder.  Core Financial Indicators Revenue is expected to reach about $109.5 billion, up 14.9% year over year from $95.4 billion in fiscal Q2 2025, based on LSEG estimates. That sits near the upper half of Apple's March quarter guidance range, which called for revenue growth of 13% to 16%. S&P Global's Visible Alpha consensus is ver

Microsoft Options Premiums Soar After OpenAI Split News $Microsoft(MSFT)$  's options market is bracing for wild share price swings after the software giant announced Monday the end of its exclusive pact with OpenAI and said it will no longer pay a revenue share to the parent of ChatGPT.  "Microsoft's license will now be non-exclusive," the tech giant said in a corporate blog post Monday morning, announcing the amendment to its pact with the company behind ChatGPT. "OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider."  Options traders pushed Microsoft's expected price swings to the 100th percentile Monday, meaning it's higher now than any other day in the past year. That trans

Robinhood Q1 2026 Preview: Is the Crypto Crash a Cyclical Dip or Structural Break? Consensus Expectations for Q1 2026: – Revenue: ~$1.136B (+23% YoY, -11% QoQ) – EPS: $0.43 (+16% YoY, -35% QoQ) – Adjusted EBITDA: $588M (+25% YoY, -23% QoQ from Q4's record 59%) – Transactios-based revenue: ~$661.3M — Options $282.8M (+18% YoY), Crypto ~$147.6M (-41% YoY), Equities ~$83M (+50%) – Net Interest Income: ~$390.2M (+37% YoY), NIM at ~2.74% – Monthly Active Users (MAU): 13.7M (-5% YoY, +5% QoQ from Q4's 13.0M) – Total Assets under Custody (AUC): $321.9B (+46% YoY) – Average Revenues per User (ARPU): $170.19 (+17% YoY, -11% QoQ) How to Read These Numbers:The alarming QoQ declines (EPS -35%, EBITDA -23%, ARPU -11%) require context: Q4 2025 was an exceptional base driven by post-election crypto surge

Eli Lilly Q1 Preview: GLP-1 Momentum Meets the Novo Test $Eli Lilly(LLY)$   reports first-quarter 2026 earnings on April 30, and this print will be less about whether demand for GLP-1 drugs is strong. That part is already understood. The real question is whether Lilly can keep converting that demand into market-share gains, margin expansion, and confidence in its full-year guidance while Novo Nordisk pushes back with oral Wegovy and a broader obesity franchise.  For Q1, consensus estimates vary by provider, but the Street is broadly looking for revenue around $17.6 billion to $17.8 billion and EPS around $7.3 to $7.5.  The Obesity Market Is Still Growing, but the Debate Has Changed The GLP-1 obesit

Intel Set to Extend Record-Breaking Rally, Undeterred by Short Sellers $Intel(INTC)$   looks set to extend its record-breaking rally Monday with bulls were undeterred by short sellers who piled in to challenge the semiconductor company's blowout post-earnings surge. Trading in borrowed shares shares that were sold short jumped to 33.51 million shares Friday, the biggest among stocks with a market capital of more than $5 billion. The jump in bearish bets came after Intel reported first-quarter results that crushed expectations, sending shares up 23.60% to a closing record high of $82.54 Friday.  Trading in borrowed Intel shares that were sold short accounted for 11.91% of the 281.41 million shares that

Intel Options Gripped by FOMO as 24% Surge Triggers Volatility Collapse $Intel(INTC)$   shares handed options traders a textbook lesson in FOMO Friday, as a 24% rally to an intra-day all-time high forced a panicked unwind of downside hedges and set the stage for a post-earnings volatility crush. Intel shares climbed to a fresh intra-day high after the semiconductor company delivered the biggest revenue surprise in more than five years and provided Wall Street a better-than-expected outlook for the second quarter. Implied volatility, which measures the market's expectations of the share prices using variables including options premiums, stood at 76.40%, ranking in the 90th percentile of the past year. Option

AMD's Rally to All-Time High Sends Short Sellers Retreating $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$  's ascent to an all-time high sent short sellers retreating as growing demand for AI chips and rising spending on data centers propel semiconductor stocks higher. Trading in borrowed AMD shares that were sold short on Nasdaq and NYSE declined to 4.72 million shares Thursday, from 5.42 million shares a day earlier. That accounted for 10.3% of the shares that changed hands that day, when the stock closed at a record high. The rally continued Friday, with the stock climbing another 14%, taking AMD's market capital above $550 billion. That underscored how AI demand is rewriting the narrative for semiconductor stocks. The fresh

Intel Earnings Preview: Can AI CPU Momentum Offset Margin Pressure? $Intel(INTC)$   will report first quarter 2026 results after the market closes on Thursday, April 23. For investors, this quarter matters less because of absolute revenue scale and more because it should show whether Intel’s turnaround is finally translating into cleaner execution across CPUs, manufacturing, and margins.  Core Financial Indicators Revenue is expected to come in slightly above the midpoint of Intel's own guidance. In January, the company guided for first quarter revenue of $11.7 billion to $12.7 billion. The current analyst consensus of about $12.4 billion therefore assumes Intel can land modestly above the midpoint, he

UnitedHealth Earnings Preview: Can Cost Discipline Restore Confidence? $UnitedHealth(UNH)$   is scheduled to report first-quarter 2026 results before the market opens on April 21 and will host its earnings call at 8:00 a.m. ET. On the surface, this is a routine quarterly report. In reality, it looks much more like the market’s first full test of whether UnitedHealth’s 2026 recovery framework is actually holding. Investors are no longer asking whether the company can still grow. The real question now is whether medical costs are finally moving back under control, whether Optum can stop weighing on earnings quality, and whether full-year guidance still looks credible. Public earnings previews currently point t

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From One Leader to Many: AI Chips Enter a Multi-Core Era The AI chip sector showed clear divergence on Monday: $Marvell Technology(MRVL)$   rose against the trend, closing up about 6% and gaining nearly another 3% after hours; $NVIDIA(NVDA)$   recovered its intraday losses to finish slightly higher; while $Broadcom(AVGO)$   fell around 1.7%. This kind of split performance feels like a signal—the AI value chain is shifting from a"single dominant narrative" to a new phase of "multiple core drivers." Over the past two years, the investment thesi

Netflix Shares Sink 9.8%, Rewarding Shorts Sellers Who Piled In $Netflix(NFLX)$  shares sank 9.8% Friday, rewarding short sellers who have been building their bearish wagers on the streaming giant, after the company's outlook disappointed Wall Street.  The company kept its 2026 revenue guidance unchanged at a range of $50.7 billion to $51.7 billion, while its outlook for the current quarter ending in June of $12.57 billion missed the Bloomberg consensus of $12.64 billion.  Before earnings were released late Thursday, trading in borrowed Netflix shares that were sold short rose to 9.06 million shares, from 7.65 million shares a day earlier. The latest tally accounted for almost 14% of the total number o

Microsoft Investors Position for More Upside as Stock Nears Bull Market $Microsoft(MSFT)$   investors, traders and speculators are positioning for more upside potential in the software giant, signaling expectations that the company's next quarterly financial results will impress Wall Street. Call options that give their holder the right to buy Microsoft shares at $445 by May 15 attracted the biggest volume among options tied to the software giant Friday except for the zero-days-to-expiration (0DTE) contracts. That expiration date is about two weeks after the company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings. The strike price is more than $22 above the current stock price of $422.65. The stock has

$252M AMD Bullish Bet, $57M Micron Hedge as Nasdaq Hits Highs The $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$   and $S&P 500(.SPX)$   have recently continued to post fresh record highs, and overall market sentiment remains upbeat. But large options trades on April 17 suggest institutional investors are no longer indiscriminately chasing big tech. Instead, they are making more selective bets within the AI semiconductor theme. As the indexes keep pushing higher, is smart money still buying momentum—or quietly rotating positions beneath the surface? Options flow suggests the answer is clear: traders continued adding exposure to $Advanced Micro Device