Sanction for financial breach has led to a relegation fight Leicester now ‘fully focused’ on final five games of season Leicester have announced defeat in their appeal against a six-point deduction for breaching English Football League financial rules. An independent commission imposed the sanction on Leicester in February, which dropped the from 17th to 20th in the Championship. They appealed aga...
Sanction for financial breach has led to a relegation fight Leicester now ‘fully focused’ on final five games of season Leicester have announced defeat in their appeal against a six-point deduction for breaching English Football League financial rules. An independent commission imposed the sanction on Leicester in February, which dropped the from 17th to 20th in the Championship. They appealed against the decision and, on the pitch, have subsequently fallen to 22nd, a point adrift of safety with five fixtures remaining. It is very possible the club, currently managed by Gary Rowett, could be relegated to League One a decade on from winning the Premier League title. Continue reading...
Nordroden/iStock via Getty Images I have covered GE Vernova Inc. ( GEV ) before , where I outlined the company’s background in detail and explained why I considered its growth was already priced in. However, since then the stock has appreciated by almost 20%, and I am upgrading to hold since I expect the company will receive even more business from the Middle East due to all the destruction from t...
Nordroden/iStock via Getty Images I have covered GE Vernova Inc. ( GEV ) before , where I outlined the company’s background in detail and explained why I considered its growth was already priced in. However, since then the stock has appreciated by almost 20%, and I am upgrading to hold since I expect the company will receive even more business from the Middle East due to all the destruction from the current war. Yet, I don’t own the stock, as the current price still leaves little room for major execution slips. Background GE Vernova is a global energy infrastructure and technology company focused on enabling the energy transition through three segments: Power (mainly Gas, Nuclear, and Hydro), Wind, and Electrification. According to the company, its equipment generates about 25% of the world’s electricity , which naturally creates a large installed base and a recurring, high‑margin services business that already represents around 45% of revenue. Company's webpage GE Vernova is in the middle of several structural trends that are propelling the company’s growth. The company benefits from the need for more reliable baseload generation (especially gas), the modernization and expansion of transmission grids, and growing power demand from data centers and electrification. Investor Presentation In fact, the main segment is Power, where the company has very limited competition, as the three main players control about 66% of the market , but the segment experiencing the biggest growth is electrification. In 2025 the segment grew revenue by 26% and expanded EBITDA margin to 14.9%. Demand is broad-based, from data centers to grid reinforcement projects all over the world, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq . These two countries are important because, with the current war in the Middle East, the company could benefit from already having a presence in the area to secure new contracts when the war ends. This applies not only to the electrification sector but also to the Power segment...
quantic69 The semiconductor sector and AI-related stocks joined the broader market in a Wednesday rally after U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to pause planned strikes on Iran for two weeks, contingent on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Navitas ( NVTS ) was leading the rally with a nearly 12% surge by noon trading. Intel ( INTC ) had leaped 8%. It was revealed on Tuesday that Intel has jo...
quantic69 The semiconductor sector and AI-related stocks joined the broader market in a Wednesday rally after U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to pause planned strikes on Iran for two weeks, contingent on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Navitas ( NVTS ) was leading the rally with a nearly 12% surge by noon trading. Intel ( INTC ) had leaped 8%. It was revealed on Tuesday that Intel has joined the Terafab project alongside billionaire Elon Musk's companies SpaceX ( SPACE ), xAI ( X.AI ), and Tesla (TSLA ) to "help refactor silicon fab technology." Intel is also engaged in discussions with Amazon ( AMZN ) and Google ( GOOG )( GOOGL ) for its advanced packaging services. Broadcom ( AVGO ), Marvell ( MRVL ), and AMD ( AMD ) had all climbed 4%. Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM ) had jumped 5%. Analog Devices ( ADI ) was also up 5%. Meanwhile, Monolithic Power Systems ( MPWR ) and Lattice ( LSCC ) were both up about 7%. AXT ( AXTI ), a California-based company that designs, develops, and manufactures compound and single-element semiconductor substrates, had rocketed 17% by noon trading. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index ( SOX ) had surged more than 5%, while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite ( COMP:IND ) was up 2.5%. Semiconductor equipment makers joined the rally as well, as Applied Materials ( AMAT ) made an 8% leap. The company had also revealed a pair of new chipmaking systems for AI GPUs on Wednesday. Lam Research ( LRCX ) had jumped 9%, ASML ( ASML ) had gained 8%, and KLA ( KLAC ) had climbed 7%. Networking and optical stocks also made significant gains. Coherent ( COHR ) had climbed 6%, Corning ( GLW ) was up 7%, Lumentum ( LITE ) had increased 7.6%, and Ciena ( CIEN ) had soared 9%. AI hyperscalers were also in the green as CoreWeave ( CRWV ) and Nebius ( NBIS ) had both climbed nearly 5%. The world's most prolific cloud providers also moved higher. Google ( GOOG )( GOOGL ) was up 3.7%, Amazon ( AMZN ) had edged up 3.5%, and Microsoft had inched up 1.6%. Mo...