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NVDA AMD
Earnings Intelligence Jun 14, 2026

NVDA vs. AMD: Q1 2026 Earnings Comparison

NVIDIA data center hit $75B (+92% YoY) while AMD data center hit $5.8B (+57% YoY), a 12.9x gap. Both companies target the same H2 2026 next-gen GPU production window, but with sha…

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Earnings Analysis ORCL Jun 12, 2026

Oracle Q4 FY2026: The $638 Billion Backlog That Markets Still Don't Believe

Oracle posted record Q4 revenue and a decisive non-GAAP EPS beat, then watched its stock fall 10% — the gap between $638 billion in contracted backlog and near-term gross margin c…

CRWV NBIS IREN
Earnings Intelligence Jun 8, 2026

Neoclouds Q1 2026: How CRWV, NBIS, and IREN Are Racing to 12 Gigawatts

All three AI cloud providers report zero idle capacity and rising prices. The binding constraint is no longer customer demand but the physical speed of building and commissioning …

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MSFT GOOGL META AMZN
Earnings Intelligence Jun 8, 2026

Hyperscaler AI CapEx: $620B and Still Climbing

Five of the world's largest technology companies reported in the same week of April 2026, collectively disclosing or guiding toward more than $620 billion in 2026 capital expendit…

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Earnings Analysis CRM May 30, 2026

Salesforce Q1 FY2027: Agentforce Crosses $1B, Buyback Boosts EPS

Q1 FY2027 delivered a headline non-GAAP EPS beat of $0.75 and record free cash flow of $6.6B, yet both figures carry structural footnotes — a $25B debt-financed buyback inflating …

Earnings Analysis DELL May 30, 2026

Dell Technologies Q1 FY2027: AI Revenue Multiplies 9x, Full-Year Guide Raised $27B

Q1 FY2027 delivered revenue of $43.8B — $8.1B above consensus — as AI server demand obliterated forecasts. Dell raised its full-year guide to $167B, the largest single-quarter gui…

Earnings Analysis NVDA May 22, 2026

NVIDIA Q1 FY2027: $81.6B, Record Free Cash Flow, and a New $200B CPU Bet

NVIDIA's fourteenth consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth produced a record $13.5B sequential gain, a $48.6B free cash flow print, and the disclosure of a Vera CPU busi…

Earnings Analysis AMAT May 16, 2026

Applied Materials: Gross Margin Crosses 50%, WFE Growth Estimate Upgraded to 30%+

Q2 FY2026 delivered record revenue of $7.91B and the highest non-GAAP gross margin in more than 25 years, as AI-driven demand in foundry logic, DRAM, and advanced packaging accele…

Earnings Analysis NBIS May 16, 2026

Nebius Group: The Hyperscaler in the Making Finds Its Operating Leverage

Q1 FY2026 delivered $399M in revenue — a 684% year-over-year surge — alongside the first-ever positive adjusted EBITDA at the group level, a $27B Meta contract, and a CapEx raise …

Earnings Analysis HIMS May 13, 2026

Hims & Hers Health: The GLP-1 Pivot and the Price of Reinvention

A deliberate March 2026 exit from compounded GLP-1s into branded Wegovy and Zepbound products produced a $33M restructuring charge, a catastrophic EPS miss, and a full-year EBITDA…

Earnings Analysis RKLB May 9, 2026

Rocket Lab: $200M Quarter, Record Backlog, and the Neutron Moment

Rocket Lab crossed $200M in quarterly revenue for the first time in Q1 FY2026, beating estimates on both top-line and margins while stacking the largest contract in company histor…

Earnings Analysis PLTR May 5, 2026

Palantir Q1 FY2026: Triple-Digit U.S. Growth and the Largest Guidance Raise in Company History

Palantir's first quarter of 2026 produced 85% revenue growth — the highest growth rate since its direct listing — driven by 104% U.S. expansion, a 60% adjusted operating margin, a…

Earnings Analysis AAPL May 4, 2026

Apple Q2 FY2026: Record Quarter Frames a Leadership Handoff

Tim Cook's 89th — and penultimate — earnings call delivered $111.2B in revenue and a 49.3% gross margin, both above guidance, while announcing John Ternus succeeds him as CEO on S…

Earnings Analysis SNDK May 1, 2026

Sandisk: The Quarter That Rewrote the NAND Playbook

Q3 FY2026 results delivered a historic triple-beat — revenue, gross margin, and EPS each came in above the top of management's own guidance range — as AI-driven data center demand…

Earnings Analysis AMZN May 1, 2026

Amazon Q1 FY2026: AWS Hits Escape Velocity While CapEx Overwhelms Free Cash Flow

AWS growth accelerated to 28% year-over-year — its fastest pace in 15 quarters — and operating margins hit a record 13.1%, but $44.2 billion in quarterly CapEx flipped free cash f…

Earnings Analysis META May 1, 2026

Meta Platforms Q1 FY2026: The CapEx Shock That Overshadowed a 33% Revenue Beat

Meta's first quarter delivered its fastest revenue growth since 2021, powered by AI-driven ad improvements and 3.56 billion daily users — but a $10B CapEx guidance hike sent share…

Earnings Analysis MSFT May 1, 2026

Microsoft Q3 FY2026: Azure Hits 40%, AI ARR Surpasses $37B as CapEx Ramp Tests Free Cash Flow

A broad beat on revenue and EPS masks a post-earnings stock decline driven by Q4 CapEx guidance above $40 billion and a Q4 revenue midpoint marginally below consensus — the tensio…

Earnings Analysis GOOGL May 1, 2026

Alphabet: Cloud Crosses $20 Billion, AI Full Stack Delivers the Quarter

Q1 FY2026 results mark an inflection point for Google Cloud as enterprise AI monetization accelerates sharply — while a $37.7B non-cash investment gain inflates the headline EPS a…

Earnings Analysis IBM Apr 26, 2026

IBM Q1 2026: Z17 Surge, Confluent Closed Early, and the Guidance Gap

IBM delivered its strongest Q1 free cash flow in a decade and beat on both revenue and EPS, yet shares fell 8.25% as investors penalized management for maintaining — rather than r…

Earnings Analysis INTC Apr 26, 2026

Intel Q1 FY2026: The CPU Reasserts Itself

Intel beat its own guidance by $1.4 billion in revenue and delivered $0.29 non-GAAP EPS against a near-zero consensus, triggering a 24% single-day stock surge as AI infrastructure…

Earnings Analysis TSM Apr 24, 2026

TSMC Q1 FY2026: Gross Margin Inflection, N3 Global Expansion, and the Agentic AI Demand Step-Up

TSMC delivered a new gross margin record of 66.2% in Q1 FY2026, raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance to above 30%, and disclosed a coordinated global expansion of N3 …

Earnings Analysis TSLA Apr 24, 2026

Tesla: Margin Recovery Meets the $25 Billion Capital Escalation

Q1 FY2026 delivered a 16% non-GAAP EPS beat and the highest gross margin in six quarters, while simultaneously raising 2026 CapEx by $5 billion to more than $25 billion and signal…

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Earnings Intelligence Apr 20, 2026

Robots, Real and Promised: A Cross-Earnings Intelligence Report on Physical AI

Four companies at four different stages of physical AI maturity: one with 30 years of proof, one booking $6B in infrastructure revenue, one converting a car factory for humanoids,…

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Earnings Analysis NFLX Apr 20, 2026

Netflix Q1 2026: A $2.8B Windfall Masks a Solid, But Not Spectacular, Quarter

Netflix posted headline EPS of $1.23 — a 61% consensus beat — but the number is almost entirely a function of a $2.8 billion one-time Warner Bros. Discovery termination fee. Strip…

JPM BAC C WFC
Earnings Intelligence Apr 19, 2026

Credit Quality & the Consumer: Resilient Today, Nervous About Tomorrow

All four major U.S. banks reported benign Q1 2026 consumer credit metrics — but each flagged the second half as the real test, with energy prices, a bifurcating consumer, and a sh…

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JPM GS BAC MS
Earnings Intelligence Apr 19, 2026

Q1 2026: What Bank CEOs Are Saying About Iran, Oil & Recession Risk

All four major U.S. banks reported record or near-record Q1 FY2026 results while naming the Iran-Hormuz conflict as the primary macro variable — a geopolitical crisis that has sim…

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LLY MRNA RXRX EXAI
Earnings Intelligence Apr 16, 2026

Biotech x AI: The First Clinical POC and What Comes Next

Across four companies spanning Big Pharma to pure-play AI biotech, the Q4 2025/early 2026 earnings cycle marks a genuine inflection: the sector now has its first confirmed AI-enab…

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META GOOGL TTD SNAP
Earnings Intelligence Apr 16, 2026

AI & Advertising: The Intelligence Stack Is the New Moat

Across four Q4 FY2025 earnings calls, a unified signal emerges: AI has ceased to be a performance layer on top of traditional advertising and is now the substrate of the entire st…

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AMZN MSFT GOOGL
Earnings Intelligence Apr 15, 2026

The AI Flywheel: Cloud Reacceleration at Scale

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all posted accelerating growth in Q4 2025 — simultaneously and across meaningfully different bases — with each management team signaling that AI deman…

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ASML TSM INTC AMKR
Earnings Intelligence Apr 14, 2026

EUV & Advanced Packaging: The Infrastructure Race That Will Define AI

Across four earnings calls in January–February 2026, executives at ASML, TSMC, Intel, and Amkor drew a strikingly unified picture: AI has validated its demand, capacity is the bin…

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ANET AVGO MRVL NVDA
Earnings Intelligence Apr 13, 2026

Networking at Scale: The Race to Wire the AI Megacluster

Four companies are collectively building the most expensive network ever constructed. Their earnings calls tell a coherent but tension-filled story: Ethernet is winning scale-out,…

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CEG NEE VST DLR
Earnings Intelligence Apr 13, 2026

Grid Buildout & Utility Response: The Race to Power AI

Four companies at the center of America's power supercycle -- nuclear operators, utilities, and data center landlords -- are all signaling the same structural shift: hyperscaler d…

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CEG VST OKLO NNE
Earnings Intelligence Apr 11, 2026

Nuclear Renaissance for AI: The Gap Between Today's PPAs and Tomorrow's Reactors

Across four earnings calls, a two-phase story emerges: existing nuclear is already being repriced and contracted for AI demand, while the SMR and microreactor wave that meets the …

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PLTR LMT RTX RKLB
Earnings Intelligence Apr 11, 2026

The Defense Stack Rebuild: AI, Missiles, and Space at Full Speed

Palantir, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Rocket Lab collectively describe a defense modernization playing out simultaneously at three layers -- AI at the command layer, record munition…

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RKLB ASTS LUNR RDW
Earnings Intelligence Apr 11, 2026

Commercial Space Race: Government Is the Rocket Fuel

Reading RKLB, ASTS, LUNR, and RDW Q4 FY2025 calls together reveals a sector pivoting from commercial disruption narratives to Pentagon dependency, while SpaceX dominates launch ca…

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VRT CEG DLR EQIX
Earnings Intelligence Apr 10, 2026

Power Is the Product: Data Center Power & Cooling Q4 FY2025 Cross-Earnings Report

From nuclear PPAs to liquid cooling fluid networks, Vertiv, Constellation, Digital Realty, and Equinix collectively reveal that power availability has replaced location as the def…

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MU NVDA AMD
Earnings Intelligence Apr 9, 2026

HBM4 & the AI Memory Chokepoint: What MU, NVDA, and AMD Execs Are Saying

Micron's HBM4 volume shipments for NVIDIA Vera Rubin confirm AI memory has crossed from commodity to strategic asset, while AMD's leap to HBM4E in 2027 and MU's 50–67% fulfillment…

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MSFT CRM NOW SNOW
Earnings Intelligence Apr 8, 2026

Enterprise AI Spending: Where the Budgets Are Actually Going

We analyzed earnings calls for seven enterprise software companies in Q4 2025 spanning the full AI stack. Reading them together reveals a hierarchy no single call discloses: three…

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CRWD PANW ZS
Earnings Intelligence Apr 6, 2026

Cybersecurity in the AI Era: What CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Zscaler Are Telling Investors

We analyzed the latest earnings calls from CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler to see what executives are actually saying about AI-driven threats, enterprise spending, an…

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CRWV NBIS IREN
Earnings Intelligence Apr 5, 2026

Neocloud Power Race: Gigawatt Ambitions, Billion-Dollar Bets

CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN each reported selling out all available capacity — but the real competition is being fought in capital markets, where three divergent financing strateg…

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NVDA MSFT GOOGL AMZN
Earnings Intelligence Apr 4, 2026

Mag-7 AI CapEx: $700B and Counting

Six of seven Magnificent-7 companies are accelerating AI infrastructure investment at an unprecedented pace, with aggregate 2026 CapEx guidance from the top hyperscalers approachi…

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The Power Delivery GapReport
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The Power Delivery Gap

The interconnection queue holds more than 1,100 GW of power. The grid delivers renewables quickly and firm gas slowly, if at all. A model of what the US grid can actually deliver, and when, built on MLQ's queue and generator data.

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