Key Points Reduced VFLO stake by 125,824 shares; estimated trade size $4.83 million (based on average quarterly price). Quarter-end position value dropped by $4.61 million, reflecting both trading and price movement. Transaction equates to a 2.67% shift in J Hagan Capital’s 13F reportable assets under management. Post-sale holding: 57,221 shares valued at $2.25 million. VFLO now represents 1.25% o...
Key Points Reduced VFLO stake by 125,824 shares; estimated trade size $4.83 million (based on average quarterly price). Quarter-end position value dropped by $4.61 million, reflecting both trading and price movement. Transaction equates to a 2.67% shift in J Hagan Capital’s 13F reportable assets under management. Post-sale holding: 57,221 shares valued at $2.25 million. VFLO now represents 1.25% of fund AUM, which places it outside the fund's top five holdings. 10 stocks we like better than Victory Portfolios II - VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF › J Hagan Capital disclosed a sale of 125,824 shares of VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF (NASDAQ:VFLO) in its February 13, 2026, SEC filing, with an estimated transaction value of $4.83 million based on quarterly average pricing. What happened According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing dated February 13, 2026, J Hagan Capital sold 125,824 shares of VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF during the fourth quarter of 2025. The estimated transaction value was $4.83 million, calculated using the average unadjusted closing price for the quarter. The quarter-end value of the position declined by $4.61 million, reflecting the combined effect of share sales and changes in market price. What else to know J Hagan Capital reduced its VFLO position to 1.25% of 13F reportable assets under management after this sell transaction Top holdings after the filing: NASDAQ: QQQ: $17.24 million (9.5% of AUM) NYSEMKT: SPY: $16.98 million (9.4% of AUM) NYSEMKT: DIA: $14.04 million (7.8% of AUM) NYSE: THIR: $12.85 million (7.1% of AUM) NASDAQ: NVDA: $10.46 million (5.8% of AUM) As of February 13, 2026, shares of VFLO were priced at $40.26, up 15.23% over the past year, outperforming the S&P 500 by 3.43 percentage points. ETF overview Metric Value AUM $6.32 billion Price (as of market close 3/5/26) $40.37 Dividend yield 1.42% 1-year total return 17.8% ETF snapshot Investment strategy focuses on tracking an index of 50 U.S. large- and mi...
Tesla has had an impressive run over the past six months as its shares have beaten the S&P 500 by 10.8%. The stock now trades at $406.74, marking a 15.9% gain. This run-up might have investors contemplating their next move. Is now the time to buy Tesla, or should you be careful about including it in your portfolio? Dive into our full research report to see our analyst team’s opinion, it’s free. Wh...
Tesla has had an impressive run over the past six months as its shares have beaten the S&P 500 by 10.8%. The stock now trades at $406.74, marking a 15.9% gain. This run-up might have investors contemplating their next move. Is now the time to buy Tesla, or should you be careful about including it in your portfolio? Dive into our full research report to see our analyst team’s opinion, it’s free. Why Do We Think Tesla Will Underperform? We’re happy investors have made money, but we're cautious about Tesla. Here are three reasons there are better opportunities than TSLA and a stock we'd rather own. 1. Demand Slips as Sales Volumes Slide Revenue growth can be broken down into changes in price and volume (the number of units sold). While both are important, volume is the lifeblood of a successful Automobile Manufacturing company because there’s a ceiling to what customers will pay. Tesla’s units sold came in at 418,227 in the latest quarter, and they declined by 4.9% annually over the last two years. This performance was underwhelming and implies there may be increasing competition or market saturation. It also suggests Tesla might have to lower prices or invest in product improvements to grow, factors that can hinder near-term profitability. Tesla Units Sold 2. Free Cash Flow Margin Dropping Free cash flow isn't a prominently featured metric in company financials and earnings releases, but we think it's telling because it accounts for all operating and capital expenses, making it tough to manipulate. Cash is king. As you can see below, Tesla’s margin dropped by 2.8 percentage points over the last five years. It may have ticked higher more recently, but shareholders are likely hoping for its margin to at least revert to its historical level. If the longer-term trend returns, it could signal it is in the middle of an investment cycle as it pursues new AI technologies such as a robotaxi or humanoid robot fleet. Tesla’s free cash flow margin for the trailing 12 months was 6...
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Thursday snapped the three-day losing streak in which it had tumbled almost 2,600 points or 8 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 33,670-point plateau although it's looking at a soft start again on Friday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is negative on growing concerns over surging energy prices. The European and U.S. markets ...
(RTTNews) - The Taiwan stock market on Thursday snapped the three-day losing streak in which it had tumbled almost 2,600 points or 8 percent. The Taiwan Stock Exchange now sits just above the 33,670-point plateau although it's looking at a soft start again on Friday. The global forecast for the Asian markets is negative on growing concerns over surging energy prices. The European and U.S. markets were down and the Asian bourses are expected to open in similar fashion. The TSE finished sharply higher on Thursday following gains from the financial shares, technology stocks and plastics companies. For the day, the index rallied 844.06 points or 2.57 percent to finish at 33,672.94 after trading between 33,472.91 and 34,319.68. Among the actives, Mega Financial climbed 1.03 percent, while First Financial collected 1.57 percent, Fubon Financial improved 0.78 percent, E Sun Financial expanded 1.19 percent, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company jumped 1.88 percent, United Microelectronics Corporation soared 3.50 percent, Hon Hai Precision vaulted 3.23 percent, Largan Precision accelerated 2.39 percent, MediaTek rallied 3.20 percent, Delta Electronics surged 6.37 percent, Novatek Microelectronics advanced 0.94 percent, Formosa Plastics increased 0.96 percent, Nan Ya Plastics strengthened 3.91 percent, Asia Cement lost 0.44 percent and Cathay Financial, CTBC Financial and Catcher Technology were unchanged. The lead from Wall Street is weak as the major averages opened lower on Thursday and spent all day in the red, although ending off session lows. The Dow tumbled 784.67 points or 1.61 percent to finish at 47,954.74, while the NASDAQ sank 58.50 points or 0.26 percent to close at 22,748.99 and the S&P 500 lost 38.79 points or 0.56 percent to end at 6,830.71. Concerns about the impact of sharply higher energy prices weighed on Wall Street, as the price of crude oil resumed the surge seen early in the week. Crude oil prices skyrocketed again on Thursday, resuming the surge ...
There’s “not a ton of confidence” that US security measures to protect oil and gas tankers in the Strait of Hormuz will resolve the current situation, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “There are questions regarding the practicality of naval escorts to ships because of the large number of tankers,” Samantha Dart , Goldman’s co-head of global commodities research, said in an interview on Bloomb...
There’s “not a ton of confidence” that US security measures to protect oil and gas tankers in the Strait of Hormuz will resolve the current situation, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “There are questions regarding the practicality of naval escorts to ships because of the large number of tankers,” Samantha Dart , Goldman’s co-head of global commodities research, said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. There are also concerns around the escorts’ effectiveness against drone attacks, she said. President Donald Trump has suggested various options including the US providing insurance and military escorts to help boost the flow of oil and gas tankers through Hormuz. The vital waterway has been effectively blocked since the war in the Middle East erupted over the weekend, with some Persian Gulf producers already having to halt output. Read More: Trump Says US Will Escort, Insure Oil Tankers Amid the Iran War Goldman earlier this week raised its Brent crude oil forecast to $76 per barrel for the second quarter, up $10 from a previous outlook. That’s still well below $85, where the global benchmark is currently trading. Dart said the estimate assumes very low flows through Hormuz for about five days followed by a gradual monthlong recovery. If disruptions in the strait extend to five weeks, Brent prices could rise above $100 a barrel, she said. This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation.
The 5G war just left Earth. Elon Musk amplified a post touting Starlink Mobile's next-generation satellites, promising 5G speeds from space and "100x the data density" versus its V1 satellites. The claim: seamless streaming, voice calls and high-speed apps — as if connected to a terrestrial network. Around the same time, Amazon.com Inc signaled its own escalation. Don't Miss: Starlink Vs Kuiper: D...
The 5G war just left Earth. Elon Musk amplified a post touting Starlink Mobile's next-generation satellites, promising 5G speeds from space and "100x the data density" versus its V1 satellites. The claim: seamless streaming, voice calls and high-speed apps — as if connected to a terrestrial network. Around the same time, Amazon.com Inc signaled its own escalation. Don't Miss: Starlink Vs Kuiper: Disruption Or Integration? Amazon's satellite unit, Project Kuiper, announced that Vodafone will use its high-speed satellite backhaul to connect remote 4G and 5G sites across Europe and Africa. Rather than bypassing telecom operators, Amazon is embedding itself inside their infrastructure. That's the strategic divide. Musk and SpaceX are pushing direct-to-device connectivity — potentially reducing reliance on towers altogether. Amazon is strengthening those towers, extending carrier networks into hard-to-reach regions. One wants to disrupt the mobile network model. The other wants to power it. See Also: Before the IPO: How One Company Quietly Locked Up 500+ Iconic Character Rights Why This 5G Space Race Matters Satellite internet was once about rural broadband. Now it's about telecom economics. If Starlink truly delivers terrestrial-grade 5G from orbit, the traditional carrier capex model faces pressure. If Kuiper becomes the backbone for remote 5G expansion, Amazon inserts itself into global telecom infrastructure. Africa and underserved regions may become the testing ground. In markets where building towers is costly and terrain is challenging, space-based 5G could leapfrog legacy networks. This is no longer just a satellite story. It's a battle over who controls the next layer of global connectivity — and the 5G war is officially in orbit. Read Next: 1.5 Million Users Are Already Working Inside This AI Platform — Investors Can Still Get In It’s no wonder Jeff Bezos holds over $250 million in art — this alternative asset has outpaced the S&P 500 since 1995, delivering an ...
Rising gold prices amid the Middle East war have boosted trade in the precious metal in Hong Kong, with residents lining up to sell valuables for cash and retailers reporting that twice as many people are buying bars and pellets. Spot gold stood at US$5,165 per ounce on Thursday, below January’s peak of US$5,594.82, but still near historic high levels as US-Israel strikes in Iran stoked safe-haven...
Rising gold prices amid the Middle East war have boosted trade in the precious metal in Hong Kong, with residents lining up to sell valuables for cash and retailers reporting that twice as many people are buying bars and pellets. Spot gold stood at US$5,165 per ounce on Thursday, below January’s peak of US$5,594.82, but still near historic high levels as US-Israel strikes in Iran stoked safe-haven demand. The conflict has spread rapidly across the Middle East, drawing in Iranian-backed militias and raising fears of wider instability and a prolonged regional war. Advertisement Israel on Thursday launched another large wave of strikes on Tehran, targeting what it said was missile infrastructure and launch sites. Outside Choi Kee in Jordan, which buys a variety of precious metals, residents on Thursday were seen lining up to sell gold. Advertisement Vegetable seller Wong Ka-chun said he hoped to get nearly triple the price for his gold items. “I think the price is really good right now,” he said. “I also do not want to keep so many of these items at home, so I think this is the right time to sell them.”
The Duke Lacrosse Case Exposed The Rot In Higher Education, The Media, And The Justice System Authored by William L. Anderson via the Mises Institute , Twenty years ago this month, the infamous Duke Lacrosse Case exploded on the Duke University campus, with three members of the university’s lacrosse team falsely accused of raping and assaulting a black stripper. It took more than a year to exonera...
The Duke Lacrosse Case Exposed The Rot In Higher Education, The Media, And The Justice System Authored by William L. Anderson via the Mises Institute , Twenty years ago this month, the infamous Duke Lacrosse Case exploded on the Duke University campus, with three members of the university’s lacrosse team falsely accused of raping and assaulting a black stripper. It took more than a year to exonerate those young men, but only after the false charges had ruined lives and exposed elite higher education in the US. As one who wrote nearly 100 articles on this case and who was interviewed on talk shows, along with working with some of the attorneys and families involved in the case, I saw it from the inside . I reported on prosecutors who lied and knowingly filed false charges and suborned perjury to cover their lies, police who lied at every turn of what turned out to be a sham investigation, and members of the Duke University faculty and administration who took part in framing innocent people for a crime that did not happen. And hovering over all of the wreckage was a combination of national and local media whose reporters—with some heroic exceptions—followed a false narrative until it drove them right over a cliff. There is a standard narrative that the media and others want us to imagine: three young men were falsely accused of terrible crimes, but after diligent investigations by the authorities and good-faith efforts by others, the lacrosse players were exonerated while the malefactors were punished. In the end, the system worked. That narrative is a lie , and over these next few weeks, I will deal with the different aspects of the case, from the police and prosecution to the Duke faculty and administration and to the media. There are numerous villains in this story and very few “good guys.” Furthermore, other than a mild punishment given to the lead prosecutor who committed numerous felonies during his reign of terror, none of the others who participated in pushing...
The US issued a general license to allow for some Russian oil sales to India, giving the nation more options to purchase fuel as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf cuts off a major producing region. The license covers transactions related to the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products loaded onto vessels before March 5, so long as it’s delivered to India and purchased by an Indian...
The US issued a general license to allow for some Russian oil sales to India, giving the nation more options to purchase fuel as an escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf cuts off a major producing region. The license covers transactions related to the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products loaded onto vessels before March 5, so long as it’s delivered to India and purchased by an Indian firm. The measure expires April 4 at 12:01 a.m. Washington time. The move comes months after President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Indian goods in a bid to pressure Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to abandon energy purchases from Russia. “To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a post on X. “This deliberately short-term measure will not provide significant financial benefit to the Russian government as it only authorizes transactions involving oil already stranded at sea.” As of late last week, there were 9.5 million barrels of Russian oil sitting in Asian waters. Indian state refiners and government officials met earlier this week to consider contingency measures including turning to Russian cargoes loitering near its waters. The oil ministry had pushed for diplomats to seek some room for maneuver from Washington. India became the single most important buyer of Moscow’s seaborne crude after the invasion of Ukraine, but the country has been cutting back in response to US pressure — particularly after a US trade deal struck last month that rolled back punitive tariffs. It has since kept Russian oil purchases to a minimum. Some Indian refiners have already been feeling the impact of curtailed supplies. India’s Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. has told customers it will suspend oil product exports, and has shut one of its three crude processing units due to low stockpiles, people famil...
MarioGuti/iStock via Getty Images An FDA official on Thursday said that uniQure ( QURE ) is to blame for having to conduct a phase 3 trial for its Huntington's disease candidate AMT-130 "u niQure is the latest company to make a failed therapy for Huntington’s patients," the official, who requested anonymity, said in a call with reporters on Thursday, CNBC reported . "They likely acknowledge or und...
MarioGuti/iStock via Getty Images An FDA official on Thursday said that uniQure ( QURE ) is to blame for having to conduct a phase 3 trial for its Huntington's disease candidate AMT-130 "u niQure is the latest company to make a failed therapy for Huntington’s patients," the official, who requested anonymity, said in a call with reporters on Thursday, CNBC reported . "They likely acknowledge or understand at some deep level that their trial failed years ago, and instead of doing the right thing and running the correct clinical study, uniQure is performing a distorted or manipulated comparison in the mind of FDA." On March 2, the Dutch biopharma said that the agency requested it conduct a phase 3 trial to gain approval of AMT-130 as data from a phase 1/2 study was not sufficient to demonstrate effectiveness. That study compared the treatment to an external control. uniQure closed Thursday up ~18%. More on uniQure uniQure: Worst Case Scenario Becomes Reality uniQure: The Worst Case Scenario Just Got Official (Rating Downgrade) uniQure N.V. (QURE) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript uniQure plummets as FDA calls for phase 3 trial for Huntington's asset AMT-130 UniQure outlines next steps for Huntington’s program as FDA recommends Phase III sham-controlled trial
Costco Wholesale reported solid quarterly results on Thursday, slightly beating analyst forecasts on the key lines. While we would have preferred to see stabilized renewal rates in its key region, the retailer's consistently strong sales momentum can't be ignored. Total revenue in its fiscal 2026 second quarter increased 9.2% year over year to $69.6 billion, topping Wall Street expectations of $69...
Costco Wholesale reported solid quarterly results on Thursday, slightly beating analyst forecasts on the key lines. While we would have preferred to see stabilized renewal rates in its key region, the retailer's consistently strong sales momentum can't be ignored. Total revenue in its fiscal 2026 second quarter increased 9.2% year over year to $69.6 billion, topping Wall Street expectations of $69.12 billion, according to estimates compiled by LSEG. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) in the 12 weeks ended Feb. 15 rose 13.9% from the year-ago period to $4.58, beating the consensus of $4.56, LSEG data showed. With the results being mostly in-line, the stock wasn't doing much in after-hours trading. Still, the start of 2026 has much kinder to Costco shareholders compared to the last six months of 2025, when shares registered their first back-to-back quarterly declines since 2022. For the year, the stock is up roughly 14%. COST 1Y mountain Costco's stock performance over the past 12 months. Bottom line So, can the stock keep its run going and reclaim its high from the middle of last year? That's the question we find ourselves asking Thursday night. On one hand, it's hard not to be impressed with the 6% to 7% comparable sales growth the wholesale retailer has consistently put up month after month, and now quarter after quarter. The solid growth in both traffic and ticket sales tells us that the company is gaining market share in the highly competitive retail landscape. However, the thorn in our sides has been membership renewal rates, which for many quarters now have drifted lower. This slow drip hasn't been an indictment on the value of a Costco membership, but rather a dynamic related to an influx of online sign-ups who probably don't see the full appeal of a membership because they don't go to the stores. The proof is in the comp sales growth. Still, Costco makes most of its money on membership fees, so if lower renewal rates create a slowdown in membership growth, it ...