“As soon as we went in, Apple went in, Nvidia went in, a lot of smart people went in … Intel starting to join and starting to perform like that.”
Intel re-emerging as US foundry champion: Apple deal joins NVIDIA, govt, Elon backers, stock ripping
“there's been an incredible economic and financial performance concentrated in just a handful of trillion-dollar tech companies … there's just a few companies that are driving the vast majority returns”
Record S&P 500 concentration in a few AI mega-caps unwinds; breadth broadens and equal-weight outpaces cap-weight.
“the AI economy grew 31% while the non-AI economy just 0.1% … investment soared 43% in tech equipment. Obviously, that's chips and GPUs”
AI capex is the only growth engine left; the chips-and-GPUs complex captures that spend while the rest of the economy stalls.
“They've never suspended their dividend even through all the Great Recession, the dot-com crash. … They just cut their dividend, which is a really, really big deal for this company since it's a dividen”
Whirlpool cut its dividend for the first time since the 1950s, signaling deep real-economy stress and structural decline
“they are increasing revenues, increasing attendance, increasing customer spend … at this time of like economic uncertainty”
Six Flags is growing revenue, attendance and spend during economic uncertainty, an unexpected real-economy winner
“be careful buying semis here. Obviously … It's very, very overheated.”
Semis are parabolic and stretched; a sector pullback hands gains to inverse exposure.
“A profitable, fast-growing Gusto heading public reframes SMB payroll comps against slowing Paycom.”
A profitable, fast-growing Gusto heading public reframes SMB payroll comps against slowing Paycom.
“no wrap is above $15”
Sweetgreen leans into value wraps at $10-15 and scales G&A-light toward many multiples of its current store count
“it's amazing to think is how much your radius can increase … what that means for your footprint over time, if that's true.”
Drone delivery lets one restaurant serve a whole neighborhood; the chain built most around it grows footprint without new units.
“We've accelerated growth for the first time since the pandemic. We grew 10% last year in revenue, and this quarter we announced that revenue was 18% … marketplaces are really, really hard”
Airbnb growth re-accelerated from 10% to 18%, a marketplace inflection that's hard to reverse at scale.