#stock-valuation

#stock-valuation

The company sold shares at $6.50 each, well below its closing price of $9.10, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The raise also included warrants - instruments that give investors the right to buy additional shares later at a set price, in this case as low as $6. The financing came from existing backer Ares Management and several unnamed institutional investors.

AppLovin delivered strong first-quarter 2026 results, with quarter-over-quarter revenue growth of 11% and year-over-year growth of 59%, coming in 5% ahead of guidance. The company's financial strength is reflected in its perfect Piotroski Score of 9 and impressive gross profit margin of 87.86%, according to InvestingPro data.

Adobe provides content creation, document management, and digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, and engaging with compelling content across multiple operating systems, devices, and media.

Meta sees its role in AI as "building personal superintelligence." Across its apps, Meta aims to deliver content and services that are personalized to the user, and this should result in us spending more time on these apps. As a social media leader, Meta is well-positioned to take on such a task.

The Disney Experiences segment just delivered record quarterly revenue of $10.006 billion, and D'Amaro built that machine. The segment generated $9.99 billion in full-year operating income for FY2025, making it the company's most profitable division. A CEO whose fingerprints are all over that result is not a liability.

The headline story here is the EPS beat paired with genuine AI monetization. Agentforce ARR hit $800M, up 169% YoY, and combined Agentforce and Data Cloud ARR exceeded $2.9B, growing over 200% YoY. Current RPO of $35.1B, up 16%, suggests durable near-term revenue visibility.

The Trade Desk said fourth-quarter 2025 revenue rose 14% year over year to $847 million. Highlighting how the company's growth has been decelerating, The Trade Desk's revenue grew 25% in the first quarter of 2025, followed by 19% growth in Q2 and 18% growth in Q3.

The Trade Desk has been one of the most punishing holds in tech over the past 12 months. The stock is sitting around $25.14 this morning, down more than 33% just the first trading day of the year. The sell-off accelerated in February after AI disruption fears hit the ad-tech sector, a CFO departure rattled confidence, and broader tariff uncertainty weighed on the whole market.

The five-year chart of Salesforce stock might look aimless and random at first glance. Bear in mind, though, that charts can tell us where the buyers tend to step in. This five-year chart provides some clues about how far CRM stock could travel in either direction. The stock was double its current price just a year ago, and it has rallied above $300 at least three times in the past.

Last year was a roller coaster ride for e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE: ELF), but also a transformational one. The company continued to take market share, but it did see its swift revenue growth stall after running into some industry headwinds and tariff pressures. E.l.f. also acquired the prestige skincare brand Rhode, which helps set it up for its next leg of growth.

From late 2020 to the summer of 2024, Eli Lilly & Co. ( NYSE: LLY) stock was on a tear, up more than 635%, before taking a breather and then heading higher. The past couple of years have been a transformative time for the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant, with substantial financial growth driven by its innovative medicines and GLP-1 drugs, significant regulatory successes, and continued investment in its pipeline and manufacturing capabilities. Meanwhile, it has struggled to meet overwhelming demand and faces intense competition in the weight-loss space.

And while he's raised some intriguing bear points (such as the GPU depreciation schedule and other accounting practices that might be a bit on the aggressive side) about the big tech innovators, which seem to be going all-in on the AI boom, I'm not so sure such finer details matter as much in the grander scheme of things, provided the AI revolution lives up to the high ROI hopes.