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      ·08:57

      Blackwell or Blacklisted?

      The AI Boom’s Most Uncomfortable Question Super Micro Computer has become the stock market equivalent of a Formula One car being rebuilt while still racing at 300 kilometres per hour. One side of the market sees an AI infrastructure champion powering the next phase of Nvidia’s Blackwell rollout. The other sees a company drowning in legal risk, collapsing margins, and geopolitical scrutiny. Personally, I think both camps are right — and that is precisely what makes $SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INC(SMCI)$ one of the most fascinating stocks in the market today. Most AI commentary still treats Nvidia as the sole protagonist of the artificial intelligence boom. Yet the uncomfortable truth is that GPUs are useless without the server infrastructure surrounding
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·05-04 08:57

      Arm Wrestling with Reality

      Energy First, Compute Second I see Arm Holdings as the market’s clearest bet that AI’s next constraint will not be compute, but energy. At roughly $211, with a trailing P/E approaching 280x and a forward multiple still above 100x, the stock is not reflecting what the business is—it is reflecting what the infrastructure will demand. If energy becomes the bottleneck, Arm is essential. If it does not, the valuation begins to look like a very expensive assumption. AI’s real ceiling isn’t compute—it’s electricity From Architect to Toll Collector I find the most misunderstood part of Arm’s story lies in its transition from licensing intellectual property to selling higher-value compute subsystems. Historically, $ARM Holdings(ARM)$ was the architect—desig
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·05-03 08:57

      Microsoft’s AI Test: Pricing Genius or Profit Mirage?

      The Market’s First Real AI Reckoning I see Microsoft not as a participant in the AI trade, but as its first genuine stress test—where ambition, capital, and monetisation collide in plain sight. After a sharp stumble in early 2026, $Microsoft(MSFT)$ has become the market’s most consequential question mark. It is no longer enough that the company leads in AI. What matters now is whether that leadership produces incremental profit, or simply gets absorbed into an already dominant ecosystem. That distinction is where the entire debate sits. The Hidden Risk: Giving AI Away Too Cheaply AI dominance means little if pricing power quietly evaporates I believe the real battleground is not technological leadership, but pricing architecture. Microsoft is embe
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·05-02
      Replying to @Ah_Meng:You’ve captured it well—Tesla’s vision is undeniable 🚀, but scaling robots and autonomy demands real-world supply chains, utilisation, and cost discipline that valuation currently overlooks 📊🤖 //@Ah_Meng:Excellent piece indeed! Tesla valuation has gone hardwired for the longest time now… retailers nowadays just blindly follow the cult leader Elon and when Elon says jump, they simply asked, “how high?” It’s a time of excess where real valuations are thrown out of the window. I readily admit Elon’s visions but he has an execution problem. Tesla, robots… materials, lots of them. Where better to do them but in China 🇨🇳? We can be ambitious, but supply chain issues

      Tesla: Already Living in Its Own Future Tense

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      A Valuation That Assumes the Ending I see Tesla in May 2026 as the market’s boldest intellectual gamble—a company priced not on what it earns, but on whether it can industrialise autonomy before reality reasserts itself. At roughly $381 per share and a market capitalisation near $1.4 trillion, Tesla is being valued less as a business and more as a thesis. The numbers themselves are almost mischievous. A trailing P/E above 340 and a forward multiple near 180 would be ambitious even for a pure software firm, let alone a company still generating the majority of its revenue from manufacturing. Yet Tesla sits here comfortably, as if gravity were more of a suggestion than a law. The tension is unmistakable. The financials describe a company still wearing steel-toe boots. The valuation assumes it
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·05-02

      Meta’s $40 Billion Fault Line

      Zuckerberg is no longer being judged on earnings beats—he is being judged on whether $40 billion in AI spending will compound like AWS or combust like the metaverse with better branding Meta is once again doing what it does best: making investors richer, twitchier and occasionally behave as though a 30% profit margin is some sort of corporate distress signal. This time, the market’s anxiety is not about user growth, regulators or TikTok-inspired existential dread. It is about capital allocation—specifically Meta’s decision to drive annual capital expenditure towards roughly $35–$40 billion in AI infrastructure, data centres and computing power. For context, this is not a modest budget increase. It is one of the largest strategic spending surges in modern Big Tech, and a dramatic pivot from
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·05-01

      Tesla: Already Living in Its Own Future Tense

      A Valuation That Assumes the Ending I see Tesla in May 2026 as the market’s boldest intellectual gamble—a company priced not on what it earns, but on whether it can industrialise autonomy before reality reasserts itself. At roughly $381 per share and a market capitalisation near $1.4 trillion, Tesla is being valued less as a business and more as a thesis. The numbers themselves are almost mischievous. A trailing P/E above 340 and a forward multiple near 180 would be ambitious even for a pure software firm, let alone a company still generating the majority of its revenue from manufacturing. Yet Tesla sits here comfortably, as if gravity were more of a suggestion than a law. The tension is unmistakable. The financials describe a company still wearing steel-toe boots. The valuation assumes it
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·04-30

      The Moat in the Mirror

      Stretch Marks on a Premium Empire For years, $Lululemon Athletica(LULU)$ was treated like the Hermès of yoga pants. The brand did not simply sell leggings; it sold aspiration, discipline, wellness, and the subtle social signal that you probably own a standing desk and drink something involving oat milk before sunrise. Investors adored the formula because it looked nearly bulletproof: premium pricing, cult-like loyalty, industry-leading margins, and a customer base wealthy enough to shrug off inflation with the emotional resilience of a Labrador wearing AirPods. Now the market is asking a far more uncomfortable question: what happens when aspiration becomes ordinary? When aspiration scales, exclusivity quietly begins to fracture That, to me, is the
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·04-28

      Heat Premium: Pricing the Bottlenecks Powering Vertiv’s Surge

      Scarcity, Not Steel I’ve started to think of Vertiv less as an industrial manufacturer and more as a toll collector on a very crowded motorway—except the motorway is overheating, and everyone is willing to pay extra to keep moving. What it really sells is not equipment, but relief: relief from thermal limits, power instability, and hyperscale timelines that now resemble high-frequency trades rather than infrastructure planning. AI traffic surges; infrastructure quietly charges for every degree This is where 'constraint arbitrage' stops sounding clever and starts sounding accurate. Vertiv sits precisely where digital ambition collides with physical limitation, and right now, limitation is winning just enough to be profitable. As GPUs grow more power-dense and thermally unforgiving, the bott
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·04-27

      From Pills to Pipes: Lilly’s Quiet Infrastructure Coup

      The Biological Gold Rush Nobody Modelled Properly I have watched countless companies try to rebrand themselves as ‘platforms’, usually with the subtlety of a re-labelled spreadsheet. $Eli Lilly(LLY)$ feels different. What I am seeing is not a pharmaceutical firm stretching into adjacent markets, but infrastructure being laid beneath a global metabolic economy. While much of Wall Street remains hypnotised by silicon and servers, Lilly is quietly monetising something far more persistent: human biology. The demand curve here is not cyclical, nor particularly sensitive to gadget refresh cycles. It is, quite literally, embedded in the global population. Biology, not silicon, may become the century’s most profitable infrastructure The recent share price
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    • orsiriorsiri
      ·04-26

      The Orchard Gets a Bit Wild: Apple’s Reinvention Might Reprice the Tree

      From Metronome to Maverick The transition from Tim Cook to John Ternus feels, to me, like swapping a world-class conductor for a lead guitarist. Both can produce brilliance, but one is measured in precision and tempo, while the other occasionally leans into controlled chaos and sees what happens when the amp goes a little too far. For years, Apple Inc. has behaved like that conductor-led orchestra: perfectly timed, obsessively disciplined, and almost unnervingly consistent. Under Cook, $Apple(AAPL)$ became the market’s most reliable profit engine—less a growth story in the traditional sense, more a compounding machine disguised as a consumer tech company. That consistency is exactly what justified a premium valuation. When investors pay over 30 ti
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