Electric vehicles accounted for a record 66.7 per cent of new car sales in mainland China during the first week of June, the latest sign that the country’s battery-powered carmakers are benefiting from the global energy crisis. Two out of every three new cars sold on the mainland in the seven days ending June 7 were either pure electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, according to data from the China ...
Electric vehicles accounted for a record 66.7 per cent of new car sales in mainland China during the first week of June, the latest sign that the country’s battery-powered carmakers are benefiting from the global energy crisis. Two out of every three new cars sold on the mainland in the seven days ending June 7 were either pure electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). The penetration rate climbed from 62.9 per cent in May as a wave...
onurdongel/iStock via Getty Images Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI ) can't seem to please the stock market despite constantly reporting strong growth. The AI server company announced a massive capital raise, causing the stock to collapse, but the company completely undersold the details on an insane level of orders. My investment thesis remains ultra Bullish on Super Micro after this plunge in t...
onurdongel/iStock via Getty Images Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI ) can't seem to please the stock market despite constantly reporting strong growth. The AI server company announced a massive capital raise, causing the stock to collapse, but the company completely undersold the details on an insane level of orders. My investment thesis remains ultra Bullish on Super Micro after this plunge in the stock following the big equity offerings. Source: Finviz Big Offering Super Micro announced the following stock offerings to raise capital : $5.0 billion underwritten public offerings, consisting of: (1) 45,454,545 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $27.50 per share; (2) 75,000,000 depositary shares, each representing a 1/20th interest in a share of newly issued 7.0% series A mandatory convertible preferred stock at a public offering price of $50 per share. At-the-market offering: up to $1.25 billion at-the-market, or ATM, offering program for common stock, expected to begin no earlier than Q3'26. Also, the company issued underwriting grants of 6,818,181 additional shares of common stock and 11,250,000 additional depositary shares. In total, Super Micro will raise nearly $5.5 billion in these initial offerings. The company only had a fully diluted share count of 692 million shares outstanding for Q1 '26, so these equity raises are very dilutive. Naturally, the hope is the ATM is only executed at much higher prices and the mandatory converts have an offering price of $50. The depository shares are mandatory convertible preferred stock to trade under the symbol "SMCIP." Michael Youngworth, the head of global convertible and preferred strategy at BofA Securities, explained mandatory converts as follows: Mandatories are effectively yield-enhanced common stock. They have a high delta to the shares and no bond floor since holders are required to convert to shares at maturity—no option to get par back, like in a traditional convert. Investors are compensated f...
China’s ports continued to dominate global efficiency rankings in 2025, with seven Chinese trade hubs placing in the top 10, according to a study by the World Bank and S&P Global released on Wednesday. The latest edition of the annual report comes at a time when ports are playing a more vital role in the global economy than ever, as facilities strive to handle intense disruptions to global supply ...
China’s ports continued to dominate global efficiency rankings in 2025, with seven Chinese trade hubs placing in the top 10, according to a study by the World Bank and S&P Global released on Wednesday. The latest edition of the annual report comes at a time when ports are playing a more vital role in the global economy than ever, as facilities strive to handle intense disruptions to global supply chains amid the aftermath of the Red Sea crisis and the ongoing fallout from the US-Israel war on...
A spate of agreements Nvidia has reached with South Korean companies presents a long-term road map for the country to expand its role in the semiconductor and physical AI industries, observers say. The most significant deal Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made during his whirlwind three-day trip to Seoul that ended on Sunday was with SK Telecom to build AI infrastructure, including factories. An AI factor...
A spate of agreements Nvidia has reached with South Korean companies presents a long-term road map for the country to expand its role in the semiconductor and physical AI industries, observers say. The most significant deal Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made during his whirlwind three-day trip to Seoul that ended on Sunday was with SK Telecom to build AI infrastructure, including factories. An AI factory is a data centre running an end-to-end operational system that continuously collects and processes...
Jaap2/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Introduction There are two very hard things to do in investing. The first one is being able to sit idle and do nothing. This is what I am currently doing with semiconductors and memory chip stocks. They were obviously a good trade, and I timed my ratings on Micron ( MU ) and Dell ( DELL ) correctly (to be honest, my estimate that Dell's upside was 50%, whil...
Jaap2/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Introduction There are two very hard things to do in investing. The first one is being able to sit idle and do nothing. This is what I am currently doing with semiconductors and memory chip stocks. They were obviously a good trade, and I timed my ratings on Micron ( MU ) and Dell ( DELL ) correctly (to be honest, my estimate that Dell's upside was 50%, while the stock is already up over 200% since then). However, in the past two weeks, I have heard so many people who usually don't talk about the stock market telling me to invest in semiconductors that I have started to think that we might truly be in bubble territory, at least for this industry. In this environment, I usually let my winners go, but I don't chase those winners that I have not included in my portfolio. The second hardest thing is believing in what we see and find in our research process, even when everyone else seems to disagree or even dislike the outcome. This leads us to Adobe ( ADBE ) and its Q2 FY26 earnings report, which is truly a refutation of the AI-disruption narrative that is surrounding the stock. As hard as it is to believe that the stock will come back, especially while we are seeing it drop 6% in after-hours trading right after a clean beat and raise report, we have to make sure we stick to the numbers that Adobe is reporting, quarter after quarter. On these figures, I will share my valuation. Adobe's Q2 FY2026 Earnings Review As 2025 closed, I wrote a highly read article stating that Adobe was "the opportunity", giving a price target of $500 through my DCF that assumed a $9.5B FCF base and a 6% 5-yr CAGR. In March, when the stock was trading at $280, I reiterated the call, saying that as long as I was seeing ARR growth above 10% and healthy operating margins, the road to a recovery would have stayed quite open. The stock is now at $200; if the post-earnings drop is confirmed, it means that we are down roughly 50% from my original call. In the me...
NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced the results of the June 2026 quarterly rebalance of the Nasdaq-100 Index® (NDX®), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, June 22, 2026. The following five companies will be added to the Index: Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), Nebius Group N.V. (Nasdaq: NBIS), Rock...
NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced the results of the June 2026 quarterly rebalance of the Nasdaq-100 Index® (NDX®), which will become effective prior to market open on Monday, June 22, 2026. The following five companies will be added to the Index: Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), Nebius Group N.V. (Nasdaq: NBIS), Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), Teradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq: TER). The following five companies will b
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
SpaceX is set to make stock market history. The rocket maker turned satellite internet and artificial intelligence (AI) conglomerate is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday, June 12, after selling about 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 apiece. It will trade under the ticker SPCX. The $75 billion raise would be the largest from any initial public offering (IPO) ever -- mor...
SpaceX is set to make stock market history. The rocket maker turned satellite internet and artificial intelligence (AI) conglomerate is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday, June 12, after selling about 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 apiece. It will trade under the ticker SPCX. The $75 billion raise would be the largest from any initial public offering (IPO) ever -- more than double the $29.4 billion record set by Saudi Aramco in 2019. And it gives the company an initial market value of about $1.77 trillion, instantly one of the most valuable companies in the world. Anticipation among everyday investors seems just as outsized. SpaceX 's prospectus names several retail brokerage platforms that will make shares available at the offer price, an unusual arrangement at this scale. Everyone else who wants in on Friday will pay whatever price the market sets at the open. So, what does history say about buying a debut of this magnitude on day one? Here are three lessons from the market's biggest IPOs. Continue reading