Robert Way/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) surged 16.6% in Wednesday premarket trading after the semiconductor company reported first-quarter results and guidance that topped Wall Street expectations. The rally pushed the stock to fresh highs over $400 per share at press time. Because the stock is now in record-high territory, there is no obvious overhead resistanc...
Robert Way/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) surged 16.6% in Wednesday premarket trading after the semiconductor company reported first-quarter results and guidance that topped Wall Street expectations. The rally pushed the stock to fresh highs over $400 per share at press time. Because the stock is now in record-high territory, there is no obvious overhead resistance from the chart itself, making round numbers and intraday momentum more important than prior price levels. On the downside, the first major support zone sits around $267.35, the prior breakout area from late 2025 and early 2026. Deeper support appears near $187.87 and $150.77, where AMD previously consolidated before its latest advance. Here is the chart: Seeking Alpha More on AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript AMD Q1: I Love The Progress, But Nvidia Is The Better Buy Right Now (Downgrade) Know When To Hold 'Em And When To Fold 'Em AMD's results and guidance prove that the CPU's time to shine is now AMD declines to clarify China GPU trajectory beyond 'not material'
halbergman/E+ via Getty Images SMCI Surges On Fiscal Q3 2026 Earnings My most recent article on Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI ) stock came out with a title, "Super Micro Stock Looks Like A Real Gift On Upcoming Business Stabilization", and then in a few days, the news broke out that the company's co-founder was charged in the Nvidia ( NVDA ) chip smuggling case. Seeking Alpha News The stock dr...
halbergman/E+ via Getty Images SMCI Surges On Fiscal Q3 2026 Earnings My most recent article on Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI ) stock came out with a title, "Super Micro Stock Looks Like A Real Gift On Upcoming Business Stabilization", and then in a few days, the news broke out that the company's co-founder was charged in the Nvidia ( NVDA ) chip smuggling case. Seeking Alpha News The stock dropped like a rock in a matter of minutes, so the timing of my bullish update turned out to be quite unfortunate, to put it mildly. But then SMCI started to reverse, and over the course of the past few weeks, it went up by almost 50% off its March low (not including the post-earnings reaction on the Q3 fiscal earnings update I'll cover later). The market stress that was built up throughout the past few months for SMCI has created a massive mispricing of the underlying business. I assume that early investors who were initially buying to gain exposure to the cooling market through an Nvidia partner started to sell SMCI due to a potent cocktail of forward margin compression, corporate governance fears, and all those legal headlines. Despite all this, I think that we should be looking at the underlying business first. The products SMCI is shipping are legit, and they're selling in a very promising niche. The margin contraction is a clear risk, as well as the governance practices, but the firm keeps shipping, and it keeps growing rapidly. I've been pondering the table that once the targeted revenues kick in and gross margins stabilize, the stock would experience a powerful catalyst, and now we see it with the Q3 update. The stock is surging in the post-market trading session as one of the stresses has finally been released. SMCI reported $10.24 billion in revenues (+123% YoY), and while it was down QoQ by 18%, per Seeking Alpha, the growth rate looks fantastic to me amid the stock price collapse of the recent months. The adjusted EPS came in at $0.84 (+170% YoY), beating the cons...
manassanant pamai/iStock via Getty Images War? What war? The effects of the Middle East conflict continue to reverberate through the global economy, but for the strongest performers among US equity factors, the war has been little more than an afterthought. Momentum and high‑beta have rallied sharply since the war started and are outperforming the broad market by a wide margin, based on a set of E...
manassanant pamai/iStock via Getty Images War? What war? The effects of the Middle East conflict continue to reverberate through the global economy, but for the strongest performers among US equity factors, the war has been little more than an afterthought. Momentum and high‑beta have rallied sharply since the war started and are outperforming the broad market by a wide margin, based on a set of ETFs through yesterday’s close (May 5). The iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF ( MTUM ) is the top performer, rallying more than 14% since the war began on Feb. 28 - far above the broad equity market’s 5.3% increase over that span, based on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ). If anything, the war seems to have accelerated the risk‑on effect for MTUM, which closed at a record high yesterday. The momentum factor, in short, is running hot with bullish momentum. In second place: high‑beta shares ( SPHB ), followed by micro‑cap stocks ( IWC ). Several factor ETFs are trailing the broad market since the war’s start but continue to post gains. The lone downside outlier is low volatility ( USMV ), which has shed 3.0% since the start of hostilities more than two months ago. Analysts cite several reasons for the tailwind in US equities generally. One is America’s near self‑sufficiency in energy. Although the US isn’t immune to the energy shock from the war (as a trip to the gas station these days will remind), the blowback has been muted relative to much of Europe and Asia, where dependence on imported oil and gas is high. Strong earnings reports are another bullish driver. FactSet reports that for the first quarter so far, with 63% of S&P 500 companies reporting, 84% “have reported a positive [earnings per share] surprise and 81% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive revenue surprise.” The year‑over‑year results are strong, too: “For Q1 2026, the blended (year‑over‑year) earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 is 27.1%. If 27.1% is the actual growth rate for the quarter, it will mar...
U.S. Gasoline Tops $4.50 As "Shock & Awe" Level Approaches WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and the potential reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint. At the pum...
U.S. Gasoline Tops $4.50 As "Shock & Awe" Level Approaches WTI futures plunged more than 11% to the $90-a-barrel level after Axios reported earlier this morning that the U.S. is nearing a preliminary agreement with Iran to end the war. The sharp decline suggests traders are beginning to price in a potential geopolitical de-escalation and the potential reopening of the Hormuz chokepoint. At the pump, however, the latest AAA data as of Wednesday morning show that the national average for regular 87-octane gasoline has climbed to $4.50 a gallon, the highest level since July 2022. There will be a lag. Even if the Trump administration and Tehran formalize a deal in the near term, the immediate result will not be a collapse in gas and diesel pump prices, but rather an approaching peak. Lower crude prices typically take a few weeks to work through wholesale markets, inventories, distribution networks, and retail outlets before meaningful declines in gas and diesel are visible at pump stations to consumers. During a Monday press conference, Trump said he expects the price of gasoline to drop "substantially" following the end of the US-Iran war. "I see it going down very substantially when this is over, I think very rapidly too, at levels that you've never seen because there's a lot of energy out there, ships all over the world that are loaded up with it," Trump said. "They can't do much with it because they got kidnapped by a pretty evil place. But we're taking care of it." Last week, Trump said pump prices would "come crashing down as soon as this war is over." GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan warned that the $5-a-gallon threshold is typically the "shock and awe" level that triggers demand destruction. With the national average for gas already near $4.50 a gallon, and California prices above $6, the political and consumer pressure backdrop for the Trump administration has intensified in recent weeks. The administration now appears to be pushing hard for a near-term Iran re...
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) just delivered its fifth consecutive quarter beating Wall Street’s EPS bar, and the trailing P/E of 33x is doing something that should not be possible for a business growing the way this one is. The thesis is simple. Amazon owns the rails of two enormous businesses, cloud computing and online retail, and is ... 60 Out of 65 Wall Street Analysts Say Buy Amazon. Not One Says Sel...
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) just delivered its fifth consecutive quarter beating Wall Street’s EPS bar, and the trailing P/E of 33x is doing something that should not be possible for a business growing the way this one is. The thesis is simple. Amazon owns the rails of two enormous businesses, cloud computing and online retail, and is ... 60 Out of 65 Wall Street Analysts Say Buy Amazon. Not One Says Sell.
A maritime coalition led by France and the UK is ready to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if Iran agrees to a US proposal to end the war, according to a French official. France has moved its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the Red Sea where it will soon be met by vessels from other partner countries, the official told reporters on Wednesday. French President Emmanuel Macron has s...
A maritime coalition led by France and the UK is ready to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if Iran agrees to a US proposal to end the war, according to a French official. France has moved its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to the Red Sea where it will soon be met by vessels from other partner countries, the official told reporters on Wednesday. French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken to US counterpart Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian , and France maintains its position that it is not a party to the war, the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity to comply with government rules. Read More: Iran Evaluating US Proposal to End War as China Calls for Peace
Getty Images Digital Realty Trust ( DLR ) offers a solid platform for investing in the data center REIT sector, but the more compelling opportunity today is not in the common stock. While the common stock offers about 3.65% expected AFFO yield at a strong market valuation (Price/Book ~ 3.06 and forward AFFO ~27.36), DLR's preferred stock provides a current yield of about 6.4-6.5% and an investment...
Getty Images Digital Realty Trust ( DLR ) offers a solid platform for investing in the data center REIT sector, but the more compelling opportunity today is not in the common stock. While the common stock offers about 3.65% expected AFFO yield at a strong market valuation (Price/Book ~ 3.06 and forward AFFO ~27.36), DLR's preferred stock provides a current yield of about 6.4-6.5% and an investment-grade credit rating. DLR's overview (Digital Realty) DLR has close to $48.8 billion in total assets at the end of the first quarter of 2026. Its total debt is close to $19.45 billion, and its total revenue is around $6.31 billion. The EBITDA is approximately $2.88 billion. The company has over 300 data centers and over 55 metros. The current market capitalization of DLR is around $71 billion. It has credit ratings from the major credit agencies: a "BBB+" by S&P, a "BBB" by Fitch, and a "Baa2" by Moody's. Below you can see its top 20 customers and its diversified customer base: customer base (Digital Realty) 8% of its investment portfolio is in "Floating Rate Debt" and 92% in "Fixed Rate Debt": DLR's capital structure (Digital Realty) From Q1, we calculated the asset yield of the company to be close to 5.77% and the asset coverage ratio around 251%. The operating expenses, excluding depreciation and amortization, are around 55.4% of the revenue. The interest expenses are close to 2.34% of the total debt. We use the price/book ratio, which at the timе of writing is 3.06, to cаlculаte the market-adjustеd ratios. The market-adjusted asset yield is around 2.8%, and the market-adjusted asset coverage ratio is close to 520%. The expected AFFO yield of DLR is around 3.65%—the forward price to AFFO is close to 27.36. Below are shown the basic valuation metrics of the company: DLR's basic valuation metrics (Seeking Alpha) Preferred Stocks DLR's preferred stocks (author's database) DLR has three preferred stocks: ( DLR.PR.J ), ( DLR.PR.K ) and ( DLR.PR.L ). All three are currently tr...
The post 1.5M+ People Spend Their Work Week In Headsets. The Under-$1 Pre-IPO Company Behind It Is Soon Closing Its Round for Retail Investors by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. Most private tech startups sell you promises and hype. Immersed is delivering real-world results. It built the #1 work app on Meta Quest, where 1.5M+ p...
The post 1.5M+ People Spend Their Work Week In Headsets. The Under-$1 Pre-IPO Company Behind It Is Soon Closing Its Round for Retail Investors by Benzinga Contributors appeared first on Benzinga . Visit Benzinga to get more great content like this. Most private tech startups sell you promises and hype. Immersed is delivering real-world results. It built the #1 work app on Meta Quest, where 1.5M+ professionals are logging up to 60 hours a week inside virtual offices. “I can’t emphasize enough how big a deal it was to find a place to focus in virtual reality,” a longtime tech reporter wrote in their review of Immersed. “The fact that VR cuts you off from the world always seemed to be a bug, not a feature. Now, I realize it can be both.” That kind of sustained use is rare. Here’s what that looks like in numbers: Over 2,000 cumulative years worked inside the platform $7M+ in revenue generated $29M raised from 7,000+ investors 75,000+ professionals on the hardware waitlist This isn’t based on assumptions. The usage is already there. “I have a choice between being in a public space, grabbing a collab room with some friends or just going solo in my own space,” one Redditor wrote of Immersed. “The community has been very supportive and I’ve made a lot of friends along the way.” Now, the company is building on that foundation. $71M in projected hardware demand Reserved NASDAQ ticker: IMRS Partnerships with Meta, Samsung, and Qualcomm You can still invest Pre-IPO at $0.72/share, before a potential IPO. Early investors include Tim Tebow and executives from Facebook, Reddit, Intel, and SailPoint. An investment opportunity you don’t want to miss Immersed changed the game in Spatial Computing (AR/VR), developing the Meta Quest store’s most-used AR/VR productivity app. They develop enterprise-grade software that enables professionals and teams to work full-time in shared virtual environments using AR/VR, supporting multiple virtual hi-res displays, real-time collaboration, and sea...