Polymarket traders are watching one biotech more closely than any other for an acquisition. Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) carries a 38.5% implied probability of being acquired before 2027, with all-time volume above $1.68 million on that single contract. The hook is obesity. Viking’s VK2735 dual GLP-1/GIP agonist is arguably the most advanced obesity asset not ... If Viking Therapeutics Is Ac...
Polymarket traders are watching one biotech more closely than any other for an acquisition. Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX) carries a 38.5% implied probability of being acquired before 2027, with all-time volume above $1.68 million on that single contract. The hook is obesity. Viking’s VK2735 dual GLP-1/GIP agonist is arguably the most advanced obesity asset not ... If Viking Therapeutics Is Acquired, Here’s Who Wins
Key Points There’s no such thing as a guaranteed inflation-proof investment. But this Vanguard ETF could be good for a high-inflation environment. It offers a 3.47% dividend yield and has delivered strong returns. 10 stocks we like better than Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF › Inflation is creeping up again. In April, the Consumer Price Index rose 3.8%, up from 3.3% in March and 2.4...
Key Points There’s no such thing as a guaranteed inflation-proof investment. But this Vanguard ETF could be good for a high-inflation environment. It offers a 3.47% dividend yield and has delivered strong returns. 10 stocks we like better than Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF › Inflation is creeping up again. In April, the Consumer Price Index rose 3.8%, up from 3.3% in March and 2.4% in February and January. Bond yields are going higher. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has climbed by about 40 basis points year to date. Bond investors seem to be getting nervous about the chances of higher inflation and more government borrowing. If the economy goes through a period of "higher for longer" inflation, that will be painful for consumers, and it could bring losses to investors. Should you change your investment strategy to cope with higher inflation? Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » How to invest for higher inflation There are no guarantees that any type of investment will perform well during inflation. But one general way to invest for a higher-inflation environment is to buy dividend stocks. These companies tend to have strong balance sheets, steady profitability, and pricing power that enables them to keep paying high dividends even if inflation stays high. Another strategy for high inflation in America could be to buy international stocks. In case the U.S. dollar weakens or the U.S. economy underperforms the rest of the world, international stocks will become more valuable in U.S. dollar terms. That's good news for American investors who want to earn returns in dollars. The Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (NASDAQ: VYMI) can be a good fit for both strategies. During the past six months, it has outperformed the S&P 500 index and the Vanguard Total Internati...
MF3d Varonis Systems ( VRNS ) was initiated with a Sector Weight rating and a $31 price target at KeyBanc Capital Markets on Tuesday. “We see strong secular drivers to the data security market as AI and Copilot adoption amplifies the data governance challenge,” analysts at the firm wrote in a note to clients. “We see Varonis as differentiated through its deep Microsoft integrations, leadership in ...
MF3d Varonis Systems ( VRNS ) was initiated with a Sector Weight rating and a $31 price target at KeyBanc Capital Markets on Tuesday. “We see strong secular drivers to the data security market as AI and Copilot adoption amplifies the data governance challenge,” analysts at the firm wrote in a note to clients. “We see Varonis as differentiated through its deep Microsoft integrations, leadership in on-prem and unstructured data, and automation capabilities, though remain cautious on increasing competition and the defensibility of data security posture management from LLMs and platform consolidation. We would look to get more constructive if data security demand strengthens further, competition steadies, execution on recent acquisitions is solid, or there is further traction “up the stack” into DLP, MDDR, and automation. Given these cautions, we see shares as fairly valued at 20x CY27 FCF vs. security peers at 21x.” More on Varonis Varonis Systems, Inc. (VRNS) Presents at J.P. Morgan 54th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference Transcript Varonis Systems: Potential For Topline Growth To Accelerate Varonis Systems, Inc. 2026 Q1 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Varonis signals $814M-$845M 2026 total SaaS ARR, raising outlook after Q1 start Varonis Non-GAAP EPS of $0.06 beats by $0.11, revenue of $173.1M beats by $7.6M
White House Investment Delivers Massive Gain The U.S. government's 9.9% stake in Intel, purchased at $20.47 per share last August, has generated an estimated $43 billion in gains as Intel's stock has rallied sharply. According to The Wall Street Journal, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick actively supported potential commercial partnerships between Intel and large technology customers as part of br...
White House Investment Delivers Massive Gain The U.S. government's 9.9% stake in Intel, purchased at $20.47 per share last August, has generated an estimated $43 billion in gains as Intel's stock has rallied sharply. According to The Wall Street Journal, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick actively supported potential commercial partnerships between Intel and large technology customers as part of broader efforts to strengthen U.S. semiconductor manufacturing, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Trump Says U.S. Should Have Asked for Bigger Intel Stake In an interview with Fortune, President Donald Trump said he regretted requesting only a 10% ownership stake in Intel as part of broader U.S. efforts to strengthen domestic chip manufacturing. Trump recalled proposing that the government receive the stake for free and joked that he "should have asked for more" after Intel agreed. He framed the idea as part of a larger economic strategy that combines tariffs, trade deals, and strategic investments to attract capital and manufacturing back to the U.S. Intel Remains Central To US Chip Strategy Trump also pointed to the nation's $38 trillion debt as justification for unconventional government involvement in corporate and industrial policy. The comments added to ongoing investor focus on Intel's role in U.S. semiconductor production and Washington's broader push to reduce reliance on foreign chip manufacturing. Apple Reportedly Explores Intel Foundry Partnership Reports indicated Apple could shift some chip manufacturing work to Intel's foundry business under a preliminary agreement, though the exact products remain unclear. Recently, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Apple had already started moving some low-end or legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac chip production to Intel. Analysts See Potential Upside Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon said Intel could attract substantial customer demand if the company successfully manufactures advanced chips at scale. Rasgon added th...
peterschreiber.media/iStock via Getty Images Strategy ( MSTR ) said it did not acquire any bitcoin between May 18 and May 25, and the balance of its USD reserve as of May 25 was $871M. Shares were 1.80% higher at $162.77 during pre-market trading on Tuesday. The company said it did not sell any shares under its at-the-market offering program during the week. As of May 25, MSTR held ~843,738 bitcoi...
peterschreiber.media/iStock via Getty Images Strategy ( MSTR ) said it did not acquire any bitcoin between May 18 and May 25, and the balance of its USD reserve as of May 25 was $871M. Shares were 1.80% higher at $162.77 during pre-market trading on Tuesday. The company said it did not sell any shares under its at-the-market offering program during the week. As of May 25, MSTR held ~843,738 bitcoins that were acquired at an aggregate purchase price of $63.87B and an average purchase price of ~$75,700 per bitcoin. In December last year, Strategy had announced the establishment of a $1.44B U.S. dollar reserve to navigate short-term market volatility. The USD reserve aimed to support the company's payment of dividends on its preferred stock and interest on its outstanding indebtedness. Additionally, MSTR provided an update on its capital structure. The bitcoin treasury company completed its previously-announced repurchase of ~$1.50B of its outstanding 0% convertible senior notes due 2029 for an estimated cash price of ~$1.38B. The debt repurchase lowers MSTR's aggregate principal amount of convertible notes outstanding from $8.2B to $6.7B. Year-to-date, the bitcoin yield stands at 13.3%, bitcoin gain at 89,378 bitcoin, and gain in USD at $6.8B. More on Strategy Strategy's Operating Business Is A Liability, Not An Asset Strategy Inc (MSTR) Discusses Potential Bitcoin Sales and Dividend Policy Changes Transcript Strategy: Risky Circular Reference, Just Buy Bitcoin Chip stocks lead Nasdaq's gainers this week; Intuit plunges most after Q3 print Strategy acquires bitcoins worth ~$2B in past week
NVIDIA’s AI Outlook Boosts AMD Sentiment He also said the company is ramping production of its Vera Rubin platform (Vera CPUs paired with Rubin GPUs), calling it a “very busy second half” for Taiwan’s semiconductor supply chain. China And AI Infrastructure Remain Key Drivers U.S.-China policy remains part of the backdrop: Huang said the U.S. granted licenses allowing NVIDIA to sell H200 chips to C...
NVIDIA’s AI Outlook Boosts AMD Sentiment He also said the company is ramping production of its Vera Rubin platform (Vera CPUs paired with Rubin GPUs), calling it a “very busy second half” for Taiwan’s semiconductor supply chain. China And AI Infrastructure Remain Key Drivers U.S.-China policy remains part of the backdrop: Huang said the U.S. granted licenses allowing NVIDIA to sell H200 chips to Chinese customers. However, he noted that no deliveries have occurred yet, and Reuters previously reported that the U.S. approved roughly 10 Chinese firms to purchase H200 chips. China accounted for over 22% of AMD’s net sales in fiscal 2025, down from over 24% in fiscal 2024 and over 15% in fiscal 2023, according to its latest annual report. Broader tape support is also helping in premarket trade, with Nasdaq (QQQ) up 1.07%, S&P 500 (SPY) up 0.69%, and Russell 2000 (IWM) up 1.10%. AMD designs a variety of digital semiconductors for markets such as PCs, gaming consoles, data centers (including artificial intelligence), industrial, and automotive applications. Its traditional strength was in CPUs and GPUs used in PCs and data centers, but it’s increasingly positioned as an AI hardware contender as spending shifts toward accelerated computing. That’s why NVIDIA’s comments about AI infrastructure, next-generation computing, and a “very busy second half” for Taiwan’s supply chain can spill over into AMD’s tape—investors tend to treat these as demand breadcrumbs for the broader compute stack. Earnings & Analyst Outlook Looking further out, the next major catalyst for the stock arrives with the August 4, 2026 (estimated) earnings report. EPS Estimate : $1.55 (Up from 48 cents YoY) : $1.55 (Up from 48 cents YoY) Revenue Estimate : $11.28 Billion (Up from $7.68 Billion YoY) : $11.28 Billion (Up from $7.68 Billion YoY) Valuation: P/E of 155.8x (Indicates premium valuation relative to peers) Analyst Consensus & Recent Actions: The stock carries a Buy rating with an average price targe...
Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang sees a different reality emerging. Speaking on Nvidia’s latest earnings call, Huang argued that artificial intelligence has reached a turning point where generating AI output is no longer just a cost center—it is becoming a profitable business. “The reason is simple. Agentic AI has arrived. AI can now do productive and valuable work. Tokens are now profit...
Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang sees a different reality emerging. Speaking on Nvidia’s latest earnings call, Huang argued that artificial intelligence has reached a turning point where generating AI output is no longer just a cost center—it is becoming a profitable business. “The reason is simple. Agentic AI has arrived. AI can now do productive and valuable work. Tokens are now profitable,” Huang said. He added that model developers are now racing to expand capacity as AI-generated output increasingly translates into revenue. Why Profitable Tokens Matter In simple terms, a token is a unit of AI-generated text, code or content. For years, the concern was that serving AI models would remain too expensive, limiting adoption and weighing on profitability. Nvidia argues the opposite is happening. Earlier in the call, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress highlighted how the company’s latest systems continue to reduce the cost of AI inference. Kress said Nvidia’s GB300 platform delivers a 60% reduction in cost per token compared with systems available just six months ago. Lower costs, combined with rising demand for AI services, could significantly improve the economics for model developers and cloud providers. Nvidia Bull Case Huang’s remarks may also explain why Nvidia remains confident that AI infrastructure spending is still in its early innings. If AI-generated output is becoming profitable, demand for computing power may continue to rise rather than slow. More profitable AI applications would likely require more inference capacity, more data centers and ultimately more chips. That logic underpins Nvidia’s broader view that the build-out of AI factories is accelerating, and that AI infrastructure spending could eventually reach trillions of dollars annually. For investors, Huang’s “tokens are now profitable” remark may have been one of the most revealing comments of the earnings call—not because it described Nvidia’s latest quarter, but because it offered a glimpse i...
Alones Creative/iStock via Getty Images I’ve written about Rocket Lab ( RKLB ) in the past and indicated that the stock was approaching the lift-off stage. Despite the gains in the stock, I think there is still room for the company to grow. Management has been transforming the company into a platform with its most recent acquisitions and strategy of vertical integration. There’s a lot going in the...
Alones Creative/iStock via Getty Images I’ve written about Rocket Lab ( RKLB ) in the past and indicated that the stock was approaching the lift-off stage. Despite the gains in the stock, I think there is still room for the company to grow. Management has been transforming the company into a platform with its most recent acquisitions and strategy of vertical integration. There’s a lot going in the company right now but in this article I’d like to focus on a few key things First Quarter Analysis RKLB Looking at the Q1 2026 financials of Rocket Lab, we can see the benefits of vertical integration and economic scale unfolding. Revenues in Q1 2026 grew from $122.6 million last year to $200.3 million a growth rate of 63.5%. What is even more impressive is that gross profit grew even faster at 117% from $35.2 million last year to $76.5 million in Q1 2026. This implies Gross margin improvement. Operating loss also decreased by 5.4% from $59.2 million in Q1 2025 to $56 in Q1 2026. However that was driven by the increased R&D spend which went up by $25.4 million YoY for a total of $80.5 in Q1 2026. I think this increased R&D spend could be attributed to the upcoming Neutron 1st launch as well as the increased in technological capabilities and verticals of which I will describe more below. Rocket Lab’s balance sheet is also improving as Convertible debt was cut by 2/3 to $36.9 million. Total Liabilities for the company was at $555.6 for a Debt to Equity ratio of 0.25x. Total cash now sits at $1.205 billion with total liquidity of greater than $2 billion. The company also disclosed plans to possibly conduct a large-scale equity offering program that could raise an additional US$3 billion via selling stock in the future. While this will depress RKLB stock price in the near-term (shares dropped by close to 7% on the announcement), management’s track record of aggressive value-adding acquisitions should make this worth it in my view RKLB Strategy of Vertical Integration is Accele...
HDFC Bank TheKaran/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Overview In my previous analysis on HDFC Bank ( HDB ) I had assigned an HOLD rating driven by mixed signals from the KPIs, uncertainty surrounding the repo rate cut and the mixed opinion on the merger. It is now time to relook at the prospects of HDFC Bank at this stage when similar uncertain conditions continue. A Seeking Alpha analysis mention...
HDFC Bank TheKaran/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Overview In my previous analysis on HDFC Bank ( HDB ) I had assigned an HOLD rating driven by mixed signals from the KPIs, uncertainty surrounding the repo rate cut and the mixed opinion on the merger. It is now time to relook at the prospects of HDFC Bank at this stage when similar uncertain conditions continue. A Seeking Alpha analysis mentioned current RBI policies as potential headwinds for the business prospects of HDFC Bank. The figure below shows the price chart for the past 1 year and it is a clear signal about how HDFC Bank has been in a bear run, being down by 31.96%. HDFC Bank Price Chart (Seeking Alpha) Recent events like the merger between HDFC Bank and HDFC and the stepping down of the chairman and independent director Atanu Chakraborty were a major cause of the bear run. This, coupled with the current uncertain macroeconomic scenario added to the pressure on the investor expectations surrounding HDFC Bank. The recent earnings call, however, suggested that operational trends may be stabilizing faster than investors expected. However, immediately jumping in to invest expecting a bull run would be overly optimistic and therefore a deeper understanding is required to understand what could be the forward-looking aspects. Merger Impact The merger led to a significant pessimism regarding the prospects of HDFC Bank because while there was significant cause of optimism regarding the synergy expected from the merger, there were significant downsides as well. One of the primary downsides was the pressure on liquidity. While HDFC Bank is a bank that comes under several government regulations, HDFC was an NBFC which did not come under any of the regulations. Therefore, post the merger, HDFC Bank inherited HDFC Limited’s large home loan portfolio of INR 6.25 lakh crore whereas that of HDFC Bank stood at INR 1.02 lakh crore. However, it did not receive sufficient CASA accounts to fund them and therefore, the merge...
Eoneren/E+ via Getty Images Proving Why A Strong Buy Last Year Was Entirely Justified I remember being met with a fair bit of skepticism when I first issued a Strong Buy for Nebius ( NBIS ) last year. Now about 6 months later the stock is up over 170%. There were real concerns about execution and ensuring that all the GPUs and compute power was actually contracted and locked up. That concern has b...
Eoneren/E+ via Getty Images Proving Why A Strong Buy Last Year Was Entirely Justified I remember being met with a fair bit of skepticism when I first issued a Strong Buy for Nebius ( NBIS ) last year. Now about 6 months later the stock is up over 170%. There were real concerns about execution and ensuring that all the GPUs and compute power was actually contracted and locked up. That concern has been put to rest now with renting prices continuing to rise. This has fueled part of the share price over the past few weeks. I’m still very bullish on the stock and it’s like I said last year: “Nebius: The Only Hyperscaler Worth Buying Right Now” Coverage History (Seeking Alpha) In April this year it was reported rental prices for H100 rose by 40% since the lows back in October 2025. Then in May NVIDIA ( NVDA ) announced it was raising the rental prices by 20% on H100. This goes straight to the top line for NBIS. CFO Colette Kress revealed that rental prices for the company’s H100 GPUs rose 20% in 2026 while older A100 GPUs climbed 15%, signaling severe chip shortages across the entire AI compute stack The most compelling part here though being that even the older GPUs f rom NVDA are seeing a rise in rental prices. The thing is that one of the risks that existed before with companies like NBIS was that the useful life of these GPUs was lower than what was being accounted for. 4 years seems to be the actual lifespan. But NVDA released the A100 back in 2020, and we are 6 years on from that and the rental prices are still quite high. One site puts the rental price of A100 at $1.49/h and H100 at $2.49/h. I’ll be frank and say I don’t particularly care about the exact number here. I care more that the something that should have fully depreciated is still able to pull in over half of the revenues of what the news GPUs are able to. It’s essentially creating a prolonged revenue generation period, with much, much higher margins as well. Previous Unit Economics (Author) In my first a...
Taiwan has overtaken India to become the fifth-largest stock market in the world, driven by the significant surge in the revenue of the semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. According to Bloomberg, Taiwan's stock market capitalisation reached $4.95 trillion in market capitalisation, overtaking India at $4.92 trillion, behind only the US, China, Japan and Hong Kong. What i...
Taiwan has overtaken India to become the fifth-largest stock market in the world, driven by the significant surge in the revenue of the semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. According to Bloomberg, Taiwan's stock market capitalisation reached $4.95 trillion in market capitalisation, overtaking India at $4.92 trillion, behind only the US, China, Japan and Hong Kong. What is driving Taiwan's rise? Taiwan's meteoric rise is driven by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which now accounts for 42 per cent of the benchmark index TAIEX or Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalisation. The chipmaker's shares have rallied 46 per cent this year, driven by the massive demand in the AI ecosystem, which many analysts are terming as the “NVIDIA proxy effect”. NVIDIA does not manufacture its own hardware; it designs chips. It is reliant heavily on TSMC for its hardware manufacturing. Every time NVIDIA secures a multibillion-dollar contract, its revenue flows into TSMC, triggering immediate and massive rallies. While Foxconn assemble the complex physical AI servers and AI factories that house NVIDIA's components. Taiwan's financial regulator recently changed the regulation about domestic funds that invest in a single stock can hold up to 25 per cent of their net asset in any listed company, up from the previous 10 per cent. This will further attract investors to TSMC. Add WION as a Preferred Source Is India really falling behind? India is falling behind in total market capitalisation of its stock market, mostly driven by the record outflow in the Foreign Institutional Investors, driven by the rising crude oil prices and a depreciating Indian domestic rupee. It has lost $380 billion in market cap from its peak valuation of $5.3 trillion in January 2026. The Benchmark NIFTY 50 has fallen by 8.08 per cent, while the BSE Sensex has fallen by 10.8 per cent. However, Wall Street is divided on the valuation of Taiwan and AI buildout. Analysts view the I...