Earnings Report
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Nov 2026 7 stories
Thomson Reuters Grew 10% on AI, but the Stock Fell. Here Is the Trap
Thomson Reuters posted higher revenue and raised its full-year outlook, but shares declined. The result shows that AI software depends less on the technology than on what customers will pay and what profit remains.
AMD's Data Center Revenue Jumped 97%. Why Did Free Cash Flow Fall 64%?
AMD is rapidly turning into an AI server company. Whether the added revenue is coming back as cash is not yet confirmed.
Apple and Palantir Beat Estimates, but Two Questions Remain
Apple has to show how much of its revenue turns into profit. Palantir has to show how long its explosive growth can last.
Apple Beat on iPhones. The Stock Fell Nearly 4% Anyway.
Revenue rose 12%, EPS topped estimates and China sales climbed 21%. Wall Street cared more about how much profit Apple keeps next quarter than about the growth it just posted.
Palantir Grew 96%, but New Contract Value Rose Just 6%
Palantir's third-quarter results beat on revenue, profit and guidance. The question now is whether shorter contracts grow into larger, longer ones.
AI Was Supposed to Do Our Shopping. DoorDash Got Only Several Hundred Orders From It
DoorDash logged 993 million orders in the third quarter, yet outside AI agents placed only several hundred in total. Orders built through its own in-app AI ran about 50% larger.
When Wall Street Says S&P 500 8,000, Ask What Gets It There
The better question is not whether Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are right. It is how much earnings must grow, and what multiple investors will pay for them.
Oct 2026 28 stories
Google's AI Search Is Cutting Reddit's Traffic. Are the Web's Economics Changing?
Reddit's revenue grew fast, but search visits fell. The shock points to a shifting relationship between companies that produce content and platforms that answer with AI.
Sandisk's Blowout Quarter Asks Where AI Money Lands After Compute
Sandisk's results are more than "AI data centers need more SSDs." The harder question for investors is how much profit remains once supply catches up with demand.
Amazon's AI Business Is Booming. Why Did the Stock Slide?
AWS revenue rose 39% and operating margin hit a record 13.9%. But capital spending now exceeds the cash Amazon generates, and that gap is what investors are pricing.
Alphabet Falls 12.6% as Search Slows and Cloud Doubles
Alphabet's third-quarter results showed two opposite realities. Search growth cooled, Google Cloud grew 103% and operating income rose 30%, yet the stock dropped sharply in the regular session on Oct. 29.
AI Chips' Next Opening May Lie Beyond the GPU: What a 46% Jump in Optical Sales Says
A GPU is only as fast as the data reaching it. STMicroelectronics' results show why the links between chips matter as much as the chips.
Vertiv Orders Double. Is Power and Cooling AI's Next Bottleneck?
Vertiv's third-quarter results point to strong demand for data center power and cooling gear. They do not show that the bottleneck has fully moved from chips to electricity.
Microsoft's Azure Grows 48%, but AI Spending Is Set to Climb Further
Revenue and earnings beat expectations. Investors now need to see when AI revenue growth turns into better cash flow.
Google Cloud Grew 103%. Alphabet Fell 10% Anyway. Here Is What Wall Street Fears
AI demand is showing up in the numbers, but search ads missed and AI spending is not yet returning enough cash. Alphabet's results ask not how fast it is growing, but how profitably.
SK hynix Posts Record Profit, but Its Shares Are Half Their Peak
How long will AI memory's excess profit last, and how much of it will reach shareholders? The market doubts the duration, not the earnings.
SK hynix's 80% Margin Matters Less Than Its Pre-Sold 2028 Output
SK hynix earned 83.3 trillion won in operating profit in one quarter. The number long-term investors may care about more is that over half of 2027 and 2028 capacity is already under long-term contracts.
AI Now Designs Chips: Nvidia and Cadence Open a New Race in EDA
The next contest in chip design may turn less on building smarter AI models than on how accurately AI can run real design tools. Cadence's Maestro, built with Nvidia, is an early test.
Two Companies Drive 34% of S&P 500 Earnings Growth as AI Pays Sellers First
Nvidia and Micron generate a third of expected earnings growth in US large caps. Apollo says the financial effect of AI is not yet visible in the S&P 493.
Tesla Cut Its Capex Guide by $5 Billion. Good News or Bad?
Tesla protected cash, but its growth timetable now carries a question mark. The key issue is not how much it saved but what it pushed back.
AI Companies Are Earning More. Why Are Their Stocks Falling?
Earnings are growing, but the price the market will pay has fallen. Why investors should separate AI industry growth from AI shareholder returns.
Lam Research Falls 12%: The Problem Is the Timing of AI Growth, Not Its End
Revenue up 54%, an operating margin above 40% and $3.2 billion in free cash flow were not enough. The selloff likely reflects worry that revenue arrives later than hoped.
Meta's Ad Engine Is Strong. Now It Has to Prove the Return on AI
Revenue grew 26% and adjusted operating income rose, but free cash flow was negative $2.12 billion. The third-quarter story is less about AI bulls versus bears than about judging the ad business and the giant capital spending program separately.
Tesla's Q3: Operating Profit Down 56%, but the Future Businesses Moved Forward
Operating income fell 56%, auto gross margin hit 18.1% and FSD reached 1.74 million users. Tesla's third quarter split sharply between today's profit and tomorrow's businesses.
Meta's Ad Engine Grew 26%, but Free Cash Flow Turned Negative on AI Spending
Meta beat revenue estimates in the third quarter, but operating margin halved and free cash flow fell below zero. The company now has to show its AI spending earns a return.
SpaceX AI Revenue Jumps 830%, but Starlink Still Earns the Real Money
In its first quarter as a public company, SpaceX turned profitable and guided to as much as $40 billion in fourth-quarter capex. A possible Tesla merger adds another question for investors.
TSMC Proved the AI Chip Boom Again. So Why Did the Stock Fall?
Third-quarter results beat expectations and fourth-quarter growth is guided higher. Investors should separate the substance of the AI investment cycle from market anxiety.
Tesla Q3 Preview: Deliveries Recovered, Now Profit Gets Tested
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles, ahead of expectations. The October 21 report will show whether auto margin, energy profit and cash flow can keep pace with rising AI spending.
ASML Is Discussing 2030 Orders. How Long Can the AI Chip Supercycle Last?
Despite bubble worries, ASML sees equipment shortages through 2028. Investors should watch future production capacity, not just today's orders.
Will the Bull Market Last Into 2027? Earnings Now Matter More Than AI
The S&P 500 has topped 7,800 even with the 10-year Treasury yield at 5.24%. Corporate profits are carrying the market, but the test is likely to shift from AI spending to AI returns.
Samsung Posts 107 Trillion Won Profit, TSMC Sales Jump 50%. Why Did the Shares Fall?
The AI chip supercycle has not ended. But the market's question has changed: not how fast earnings grow, but how long today's enormous margins can last.
S&P 500 Hits a Record With the 10-Year Above 5%: Earnings, Not Liquidity, Is Doing the Lifting
The rule that high rates weigh on stocks has not broken. AI capex and profit growth are simply moving faster than the discount-rate burden. The margin for error is nearly gone.
Tesla Energy's 13.7GWh Paradox: Expectations Ran Faster Than Deployments
Q2 deployments recovered but margins collapsed. Q3 set a record for deployments and still missed estimates. The issue is not the size of AI power demand but how fast it converts into Tesla revenue and profit.
US Stocks Aren't Getting Pricier. Earnings Are Catching Up
The S&P 500's forward P/E has slipped to 19x while third-quarter earnings are expected to grow about 30%. The market's driver is upward EPS revisions, not multiple expansion, but slower 2027 growth makes the formula harder.
Tesla's Two-Year Sales Slide May Be Ending. Margins Will Say If It Counts
Third-quarter deliveries beat Wall Street estimates by about 30,000 vehicles. The number that matters more is 311,449, the fourth-quarter total that would snap two straight years of annual declines.
Sep 2026 5 stories
Investing Mindset Part 6: The Goal of Homework Isn't Conviction, It's Knowing When to Change Your Mind
To hold a position for years, you need to know in advance what you will not tolerate holding through.
AMD Crossed $1 Trillion, and the Market Started Looking at CPUs Again
AMD's stock topped a $1 trillion market cap for the first time. The rally isn't just about being an Nvidia alternative. It reflects a reassessment of AMD as a full-stack AI infrastructure vendor, one that bundles CPUs, GPUs and networking, as AI shifts from chatbots to agents and reignites data center demand for CPUs.</deck> <parameter name="oneline">As AI moves from chatbots to agents, the market has started counting the CPU sitting next to the GPU again.
The Real AI Question Isn't Bubble Risk. It's Whether Profits Keep Up With Capex
Rather than take Tom Lee and Dan Ives' latest bullish calls at face value, we separated what the data actually confirms from what is still a forecast. The size of the AI buildout matters less now than how fast it turns into profit.
Why Meta jumped 6.5%: Muse is the first price tag on AI compute
Muse is not a big revenue line yet. But in a capex race running toward $145 billion a year, it is the first product-shaped answer to the question every AI investor is asking: how does this money come back?
If GPUs Are the Muscle, the Network Is the Nervous System
AI data centers do not get faster just by buying more GPUs. When thousands of accelerators cannot exchange data on time, the most expensive asset in the building sits idle. That is the whole investment case for Arista.
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