Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) stock suffered a double-digit sell-off in Friday's trading. The company's share price fell 14.3% in the daily session. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 ended the day down 2.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 4.2% in the session. While there wasn't any negative, business-specific news for Joby today, the electric vertical take-off and landing ( eVTOL ) aircraft specialist's valuatio...
Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) stock suffered a double-digit sell-off in Friday's trading. The company's share price fell 14.3% in the daily session. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 ended the day down 2.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 4.2% in the session. While there wasn't any negative, business-specific news for Joby today, the electric vertical take-off and landing ( eVTOL ) aircraft specialist's valuation still took a big hit in response to macroeconomic risks. The stock is now down roughly 27.5% across 2026's trading . Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Sundry Photography/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Amid the skyrocketing S&P 500, one of the elements of the market rally that I’m most skeptical of is the fact that commoditized hardware companies have risen to market leadership. Fierce data center demand has lifted sales profiles of old, legacy tech like Western Digital ( WDC ). But when the capex boom fades, I fear that these companies’ era o...
Sundry Photography/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Amid the skyrocketing S&P 500, one of the elements of the market rally that I’m most skeptical of is the fact that commoditized hardware companies have risen to market leadership. Fierce data center demand has lifted sales profiles of old, legacy tech like Western Digital ( WDC ). But when the capex boom fades, I fear that these companies’ era of strong sales and pricing power will fade. That’s not to say that I think all AI hardware plays are at risk. In my view, companies like Arista Networks ( ANET ) stand out from the pack. Even before the AI investment craze, AI has stolen the networking hardware crown from Cisco ( CSCO ) and cemented its reputation as the market leader with high gross margins to prove the value of its systems. Arista is up nearly 30% this year, but this stock remains one of my top names for exposure to the hardware/capex theme. Data by YCharts I last wrote a buy article on Arista in April, when the company was trading in the low $170s. Since then, shares of Arista have softened somewhat as a slight rotation has occurred out of the hardware trade. That said, this weakening in share prices comes alongside a healthy recent beat-and-raise despite constrained supply conditions. I reiterate my buy rating here. For investors who are newer to Arista, here is what I view to be the core bull case drivers in this name: AI has significantly bolstered Arista’s TAM. The company now notes that it expects the overall market to be $105 billion by 2029, up sharply from a 2023 estimate of $60 billion by 2027. AI has sharply increased the use cases for Arista’s networking hardware. Gold standard in innovation. The company is also cementing its reputation as the leader in AI innovation. Its data center “spine” products that connect critical GPUs are newly released and updated, and the company expects sales from this product to reach $3.5 billion this year. Growth at scale despite supply constraints. Arista is ac...
A man was charged with murder in the stabbing of Jumanji and Top Gun: Maverick actor James Handy, who was in a relationship with the suspect’s mother. Michael Gledhill, 44, was charged on Friday after police say officers found the 81-year-old Handy stabbed in the chest and lying unconscious outside a home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Handy was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead. Gledh...
A man was charged with murder in the stabbing of Jumanji and Top Gun: Maverick actor James Handy, who was in a relationship with the suspect’s mother. Michael Gledhill, 44, was charged on Friday after police say officers found the 81-year-old Handy stabbed in the chest and lying unconscious outside a home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Handy was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead. Gledhill did not appear at an arraignment on Friday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court and no plea...