Storage's Earnings Week: A Valuation X-Ray of Top Names This week (the Jan 27–29 earnings window), the storage complex delivered a highly consistent message to the market: across HDD (nearline), NAND/eSSD, and DRAM/HBM, the industry's "supply discipline + extended visibility from large customers: is pushing the cycle from a "rebound" toward a "repricing" phase. The most important point of resonance across several research notes this week is that multiple companies are stressing that 2026 capacity is largely locked in/sold out—and some are already talking about 2027—which is not typical in a standard memory/storage cycle. A Valuation Look-Through Memory names (DRAM/NAND) are still mostly single-digit to low-teens forward P/E (≈8–13x) despite sharply higher run-rate earnings. Especiall
SanDisk Q2 Review: Blowout Results, Forward P/E 10x, Multi-Year Agreements—How Far Can SNDK Rerate? $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ 's FY2Q26 results and FY3Q26 guidance significantly exceeded both the company's own guidance and Wall Street expectations. But the bigger story is strategic: the company is signaling a shift from unit-led cyclicality toward price power, datacenter mix, and tighter contracting (multi-year agreements with prepayments). Financial Snapshot SanDisk delivered a sharp upside surprise in FY2Q26, driven primarily by pricing and mix rather than unit growth. – Revenue: $3.025B (+31% QoQ, +61% YoY). – Non-GAAP gross margin: 51.1%, far above the company’s prior 41%–43% outlook. Management attributed the beat mainly to higher pri
Meta 4Q25 Review: Why The Stock Can Go Up With Higher Opex And Capex $Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ 's Q4 report delivered a clean message: the top line re-accelerated on both ad volume and pricing, while management simultaneously raised the 2026 investment envelope—yet paired it with a stronger growth outlook and an explicit statement that 2026 operating income should exceed 2025, easing fears of an ROI collapse. Financial Snapshot Revenue: $59.893B (+24% YoY). Total costs & expenses: $35.148B (+40% YoY) , the cost curve is steep, reflecting AI talent + R&D + infrastructure load. Operating income: $24.745B, 41% operating margin. Net income: $22.768B, (+38% YoY) Three Things to Watch 1. The "w
ASML's Bookings Explosion: A Wake-Up Call for the Entire Semi Equipment Sector Global lithography leader $ASML Holding NV(ASML)$ has released its latest Q4 earnings, sending the stock soaring in pre-market trading. Let's look under the hood to see the true quality of this report. Three Things to Watch Net Bookings Explode: The Memory Sector Begins an Epic Expansion Wave ASML delivered a blowout number for Q4 net bookings at €13.16 billion. This represents an 86% year-over-year increase and a staggering 144% quarter-over-quarter jump, obliterating the market consensus of just €6.795 billion. Specifically, EUV bookings came in at €7.4 billion, up 147% year-over-year. The total backlog at the end of the quar
FOMC Preview: Powell Holds the Line, Trump Sets the Future The January FOMC conference is due to be held on the Wednesday, 28th of January 2:30pm Eastern Time, but the "no cut" decision is already priced in. While $S&P 500(.SPX)$ holds firm and $XAG/USD(XAGUSD.FOREX)$ breaks out, high-beta names like $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ and $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ are trading on earnings, not macro. The real story is President Trump's Davos hint of an imminent, "ve
After AI Storage's Rerating, TXN Puts Analog and Power Next in Line $Texas Instruments(TXN)$ is not a GPU story. It sells the "keep-the-lights-on" silicon: power management and signal conversion that sits everywhere from factory gear to car platforms and, increasingly, AI data centers. This quarter, that boring profile suddenly looked like a rerating setup, in the same way AI storage turned "commodity bits" into an infrastructure trade. Why TXN jumped after earnings The backward-looking quarter was close to in line, but the forward setup improved in ways that matter for multiples. 1) Guidance beat with real dollars attached. For Q1, $Texas Instruments (TXN.US)$ guided revenue of $4.32B to $4.68B versus the
Nancy Pelosi's 2026 Trades: Selling Stock to Buy Leverage, Doubling Down on AI Again Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has disclosed her latest stock trades, which include technical repositioning for tech giants, high-dividend financial stocks and AI infrastructure companies. Notice Pelosi is not running for re-election in 2026 — so this could be her last stock filing as member of Congress. Big Four tech stocks: selling stock to buy leverage The report shows the sale of common shares for the Big Four tech stocks: $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ , $Apple(AAPL)$ , $Alphabet(GOOG)$
UNH Q4 Earnings: Profit Under Pressure, 2026 Theme Shifts to "Repricing, Scale Optimization, and Repair" Before the market opened on January 27, $UnitedHealth(UNH)$ released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 financial results. The stock plunged over 18% at the open due to guidance missing market expectations and the impact of Medicare Advantage (MA) rate adjustments. Key Financial Metrics ~Revenue: Reported at $113.20 billion, missing market expectations of $113.70 billion. ~Earnings Per Share (EPS): GAAP diluted EPS was $0.01, far below the consensus estimate of $1.73. Adjusted EPS came in at $2.11, slightly beating the expectation of $2.10. ~Operating Profit: Q4 operating profit was $0.40 billion, a
Silver's 6.5% Slump Boosts Put Options' Appeal as Insurance $Silver - main 2603(SImain)$ 's 6.5% slide is bolstering the appeal of put options as an insurance against a potential continued slump, days after money managers cut their bullish wagers on the precious metal. Put options open interest, or the tally of outstanding put options, more than doubled to 121,350 contracts in just over a month. The surge came as silver futures climbed 53% over that period, strengthening the case for owning put options that allow their holders to sell the metal at a preset strike price. That could help put option holders lock in gains from the recent silver rally in case of a sustained downturn. The precious metal th
To choose between chasing memory stock or gold, I will choose the memory stock as it has better improvement for me, but these two kinds of stock prices are going to the peak and risky. I prefer to wait for a pullback or eyes on material companies.