KE ZHUANG/E+ via Getty Images Investment Thesis Duke Energy Corporation's ( DUK ) Q4 2025 and full-year report shows continued strong growth in revenues and earnings. From a more immediate market perspective, it beat expectations , which should result in a more immediate bump in its share price. Looking beyond the immediate market implications, I am looking at this company as a long-term buy-and-h...
KE ZHUANG/E+ via Getty Images Investment Thesis Duke Energy Corporation's ( DUK ) Q4 2025 and full-year report shows continued strong growth in revenues and earnings. From a more immediate market perspective, it beat expectations , which should result in a more immediate bump in its share price. Looking beyond the immediate market implications, I am looking at this company as a long-term buy-and-hold investment opportunity. The latest results reinforce my prior reasoning to start buying Duke Energy shares cautiously, with an eye on continued growth but also mindful of some of the company-specific as well as external risks. Maintaining a Buy Rating The last time I covered Duke Energy, it had experienced a significant dip in its share price from $129/share to $114/share, which is when I announced my initial investment in this stock in December. At that point, I intended to continue buying if it had declined further, which it did not. In light of the decent quarterly and full-year financial results, I am raising my buy target to $118/share for reasons that I shall explain in this article. Duke Energy Sees Decent Financial Results, With Some Worrying Trends Not to Be Ignored For the full year of 2025 , Duke Energy saw revenues increase to $32.24 billion, up almost 7% compared with the prior year. Net income attributable to Duke Energy came in just shy of $5 billion, for a profit margin of 15.5%. Earnings came in at a respectable 10% higher compared with the prior year. It beat expectations on both revenues and earnings. The part that has me worried is the steady increase in debt-servicing costs. They rose from just over $3 billion in 2023 to over $3.6 billion in 2025. It is a dramatic increase over the past two years, especially given that debt-servicing costs are taking up over 11% of revenues. This is by far the most concerning aspect of Duke Energy as an investment. I generally tend to worry when debt-servicing costs take up more than 5% of revenues. Higher debt-serv...
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msft MSFT Stock Risks Breakdown If Support Goes, as Microsoft’s AI Costs Surge While Microsoft’s AI strategy continues to drive growth, escalating investment costs and valuation pressures are prompting investors to... Written by: Skerdian Meta • • 3 min read • Quick overview Microsoft's stock has declined below $400 amid rising concerns over AI investment costs and profitability. Despite strong Az...
msft MSFT Stock Risks Breakdown If Support Goes, as Microsoft’s AI Costs Surge While Microsoft’s AI strategy continues to drive growth, escalating investment costs and valuation pressures are prompting investors to... Written by: Skerdian Meta • • 3 min read • Quick overview Microsoft's stock has declined below $400 amid rising concerns over AI investment costs and profitability. Despite strong Azure growth and an earnings beat, investor focus has shifted to the sustainability of Microsoft's capital expenditures. A recent downgrade by an analyst has prompted a reevaluation of Microsoft's future growth potential and valuation. The company's significant capital spending on AI infrastructure raises questions about margin compression and the timing of monetization. Live MSFT Chart 0.0000 MARKETS TREND [[MSFT-graph]] While Microsoft’s AI strategy continues to drive growth, escalating investment costs and valuation pressures are prompting investors to reassess the balance between ambition and near-term profitability. Escalating AI Costs Renew Selling Pressure Microsoft shares have resumed their decline, slipping back under the $400 level after a steep sell-off rattled investors. The weakness comes despite another earnings beat, underscoring how market focus has shifted from headline results to forward-looking concerns about capital intensity and margin durability. The central issue is not demand—Azure growth remains strong and enterprise adoption of AI tools continues to expand. Instead, the debate revolves around how much Microsoft must spend to secure its position in the AI arms race, and how long it will take for those investments to translate into sustainable profit expansion. As AI infrastructure spending accelerates, investors are increasingly questioning whether near-term returns justify the scale of outlays. A Valuation Reset Sparks a Technical Bounce Following the sharp drop below $400, several analysts characterized Microsoft’s pricing as deeply oversold. The br...
Companies like SoundHound have been on the decline as the artificial intelligence hype has begun to cool, but Palantir has real staying power. Artificial intelligence (AI) is perhaps the biggest story to hit the stock market since the internet 20 years ago. AI stocks have had an incredible bull run collectively over the past few years. But now the hype is beginning to cool, and simply being an AI ...
Companies like SoundHound have been on the decline as the artificial intelligence hype has begun to cool, but Palantir has real staying power. Artificial intelligence (AI) is perhaps the biggest story to hit the stock market since the internet 20 years ago. AI stocks have had an incredible bull run collectively over the past few years. But now the hype is beginning to cool, and simply being an AI company isn't enough to draw in investor dollars anymore. For proof, look no further than SoundHound AI. Since its stock's most recent peak at about $20 in October 2025, it has lost over half its value and is trading at $8.50 at the time of this writing. But not every AI name is struggling. Palantir Technologies (PLTR 2.66%) released some fantastic fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results recently, and over the past 12 months, its shares are up 29%. So we're beginning to see which AI companies are starting to flounder and which have real staying power. Palantir is the second kind, so let's look at its special sauce. The military's crystal ball Palantir gets its name from the seeing stones of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. In his books, they allowed their user to see far-away events or communicate instantaneously across vast distances. That's essentially what the company does for its clients, chief among them the U.S. government. Its Gotham software essentially puts all the information available about a battlefield into a single interface . Its Maven Smart System (MSS) is a platform specifically designed for the U.S. military for intelligence analysis. In August 2025, the Army signed a contract with Palantir that could be worth up to $10 billion over the next decade. Then, in September, the Marine Corps acquired a new enterprise license from the company to deploy the MSS across the branch. There is no disclosed dollar agreement for the Marine Corps contract. But based on a previous $480 million five-year agreement with the Department of Defense for MSS from 2024 (for which t...
The portable generator leader is now an AI play. Shares of Generac (GNRC +17.79%) popped on Wednesday after the energy solutions provider issued an encouraging, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered growth forecast. By the close of trading, Generac's stock price was up more than 17%. A booming new market Generac's fourth-quarter net sales fell 12% year over year to $1.1 billion. Fewer power outages...
The portable generator leader is now an AI play. Shares of Generac (GNRC +17.79%) popped on Wednesday after the energy solutions provider issued an encouraging, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered growth forecast. By the close of trading, Generac's stock price was up more than 17%. A booming new market Generac's fourth-quarter net sales fell 12% year over year to $1.1 billion. Fewer power outages led to lower shipments of portable generators. The energy technology specialist's residential product sales, in turn, declined by 23% to $572 million. However, Generac's commercial and industrial product revenue jumped 10% to $400 million, driven by higher sales to data center customers. "Our momentum in the data center end market has further accelerated as we continue to develop our position as a key supplier to multiple hyperscale customers, which are expected to add significant volumes to our backlog over the next several quarters," CEO Aaron Jagdfeld said in a press release. Expand NYSE : GNRC Generac Today's Change ( 17.79 %) $ 32.43 Current Price $ 214.73 Key Data Points Market Cap $11B Day's Range $ 190.00 - $ 220.66 52wk Range $ 99.50 - $ 220.85 Volume 272K Avg Vol 1.1M Gross Margin 37.15 % All told, Generac generated adjusted net income of $95 million, or $1.61 per share. That's down from $168 million, or $2.80 per share, in the prior-year quarter. Profits are set to rebound Generac sees full-year sales growth in the mid-teens percent range in 2026. Normalized power outage activity is projected to drive a 10% increase in residential product sales. Management also expects commercial and industrial sales to grow by a solid 30%, as Generac ramps up its data center business. "We are focused on dramatically increasing our capacity and capabilities for large megawatt generators, including the purchase of an additional manufacturing facility in Wisconsin in the fourth quarter and ongoing investments in our existing facilities around the world," Jagdfeld said. "These oppo...
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The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, whose novels, travel writing and translations made him a prominent literary figure in postwar Europe, has died aged 92. Publishing house De Bezige Bij said in a statement on Wednesday evening that Nooteboom had “passed away very peacefully on his beloved island Menorca”. The statement was made on behalf of the author’s wife, the photographer Simone Sassen. “We will...
The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, whose novels, travel writing and translations made him a prominent literary figure in postwar Europe, has died aged 92. Publishing house De Bezige Bij said in a statement on Wednesday evening that Nooteboom had “passed away very peacefully on his beloved island Menorca”. The statement was made on behalf of the author’s wife, the photographer Simone Sassen. “We will miss the friendship, erudition, enthusiasm and individuality of this internationally acclaimed writer,” it said. Nooteboom first made a name for himself in the Netherlands with his 1955 debut novel Philip and the Others. Based on long hitchhiking trips to the Mediterranean and through Scandinavia, it won the Anne Frank prize and became a Dutch literary classic. He achieved his international breakthrough with his 1980 novel Rituals, about two friends – one of whom breaks rules frequently while the other follows them strictly. The book was turned into a film in 1988 and became his first work to be published in English translation. Born in The Hague on 31 July 1933, Nooteboom told the Guardian in a 2006 interview that he had no childhood memories until the outbreak of the second world war. When Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1940, “we watched on the horizon the glow of Rotterdam burning and I remember being very afraid and having to have cold water thrown in my face to calm me down”. His father was later killed when a British air raid levelled a residential quarter of The Hague “by mistake”. Germany was later one of the European countries were Nooteboom’s fiction and travel writing found even greater critical acclaim and commercial success than at home. As well as writing his own work, Nooteboom translated works from English into Dutch, such as poetry by Ted Hughes and Czesław Miłosz, and the plays of Brendan Behan and Seán O’Casey. He was awarded honorary doctorates from universities in Brussels, Nijmegen, Berlin and, in 2019, the University College London.
Will the 40-point mark - or thereabouts - be needed to guarantee survival this term, with an in-form West Ham attempting to chase down the sides above them?
Will the 40-point mark - or thereabouts - be needed to guarantee survival this term, with an in-form West Ham attempting to chase down the sides above them?
AppLovin NASDAQ: APP executives used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call to push back on investor concerns about competition and artificial intelligence, while highlighting a sharp year-over-year acceleration in revenue, profitability, and free cash flow. Co-founder and CEO Adam Foroughi said recent stock volatility has been driven by worries that AI and new entrants could pressure the busi...
AppLovin NASDAQ: APP executives used the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call to push back on investor concerns about competition and artificial intelligence, while highlighting a sharp year-over-year acceleration in revenue, profitability, and free cash flow. Co-founder and CEO Adam Foroughi said recent stock volatility has been driven by worries that AI and new entrants could pressure the business, but he argued internal performance data shows the “strongest operating performance” in the company’s history. Get AppLovin alerts: Sign Up Management addresses competition and AI narratives Foroughi said AppLovin has “never feared competition,” framing the company’s MAX auction as a foundational component of the mobile gaming ecosystem. He argued that rising bid density can expand the overall “pie,” even if AppLovin wins a smaller share of impressions, because the company can collect a fee when other bidders win inventory that AppLovin’s model values less. In his view, improving auction competition helps publishers earn more, which supports more user acquisition and overall ecosystem growth. On AI’s impact on game creation, Foroughi rejected the notion that easier game development would reduce the value of AppLovin’s platform. Instead, he said lower creation costs should increase content supply, making discovery scarcer and more valuable. He positioned AppLovin’s models as designed to match users to content “at the right moment,” and said the company sees ongoing opportunity because it still converts only a small portion of the impressions it serves. Q4 and full-year results: growth, margins, and cash flow CFO Matt Stumpf reported fourth-quarter revenue of $1.66 billion, up 66% year-over-year, driven by technology improvements in mobile gaming, seasonal strength, and the growing impact of the company’s e-commerce initiative. Adjusted EBITDA was $1.4 billion, up 82% year-over-year, representing an 84% margin. Stumpf said margins expanded more than 700 basis points from...
Image source: The Motley Fool. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET Call participants Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Gregory Q. Brown Chief Financial Officer — Jason J. Winkler Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer — Mahesh Saptharishi Corporate Vice President, Investor Relations — Tim Yocum Corporate Vice President, Products and SI — Jack Molloy Corporate Vice President, ...
Image source: The Motley Fool. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET Call participants Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Gregory Q. Brown Chief Financial Officer — Jason J. Winkler Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer — Mahesh Saptharishi Corporate Vice President, Investor Relations — Tim Yocum Corporate Vice President, Products and SI — Jack Molloy Corporate Vice President, Software and Services — Tomer Zilberman Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Takeaways Revenue -- up 12% for the quarter with double-digit growth in both Products and SI and Software and Services segments, supported by $188 million from acquisitions and a $30 million FX tailwind. -- up 12% for the quarter with double-digit growth in both Products and SI and Software and Services segments, supported by $188 million from acquisitions and a $30 million FX tailwind. Full-year Revenue -- $11.7 billion, up 8%, with $382 million contributed by acquisitions and a $35 million FX benefit. -- $11.7 billion, up 8%, with $382 million contributed by acquisitions and a $35 million FX benefit. GAAP Operating Earnings -- $944 million for the quarter (27.9% of sales), and $3 billion for the year (25.6% of sales). -- $944 million for the quarter (27.9% of sales), and $3 billion for the year (25.6% of sales). Non-GAAP Operating Earnings -- $1.1 billion for the quarter (record 32.1% margin), and $3.5 billion for the year (record 30.3% margin). -- $1.1 billion for the quarter (record 32.1% margin), and $3.5 billion for the year (record 30.3% margin). Non-GAAP EPS -- $4.59 for the quarter, up 14%; $15.38 for the year, up 11%. -- $4.59 for the quarter, up 14%; $15.38 for the year, up 11%. Operating Cash Flow -- $1.3 billion for the quarter, $2.8 billion for the year, representing a 19% annual increase. -- $1.3 billion for the quarter, $2.8 billion for the year, representing a 19% annual increase. Free Cash Flow -- $2.6 billion for the year, up 21%. -- $2.6 billion for t...
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