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The research log / 60 dossiers

What we just researched

Every dossier we have written or refreshed, newest first. A refresh shows what our verdict moved from, and where a later dossier corrected an earlier one we quote the correction in its own words.

29 new · 31 refreshed · 1 corrected an earlier dossier

Week of 5 October 2026

9 dossiers
  1. ABB LtdRefreshdatacenters

    The operating story strengthened again (Q2 record orders $12.0bn, Electrification orders +58% comp, backlog $30.0bn, FY guide raised twice), but the s…

    Was Best-in-class picks-and-shovels play on AI-power (Electrification 22.6% margin, triple-digit DC order growth), but at ~23x forward / ~25x EV-EBITDA th…

  2. AlcoaRefreshcritical materials

    The deal stopped being a black box. The pro forma filings show AliGroup earned ~$860M of LTM EBITDA and makes the combined company ~8–15% EPS-accretiv…

    Was The bear case fired — but through a door the prior dossier wasn't watching, and the stock overshot it.

  3. Applied DigitalRefreshdatacenters

    The quarter between prints changed the shape of the argument from "is the backlog real" to "who is the company being run for"

    Was The backlog stopped being a press release and became an audited receivable

  4. ASML HoldingRefreshhardware

    The earnings base has re-rated far faster than the stock.

    Was Q2 beat + a ~€7.5B FY26 guidance raise since the 20-F (now €43–45B net sales, 54–56% GM) confirms the June dossier's "AI demand broadening, not peakin…

  5. Johnson & JohnsonRefreshrobotics

    The two re-rate gates the June dossier named have both swung open

    Was A reserve-distorted GAAP optic hides a clean ~6-7% operational compounder that has visibly grown THROUGH the STELARA cliff; at ~20.6x forward adj EPS…

  6. Nanya TechnologyRefreshhardware

    The shortage outran our last dossier. Nanya will earn roughly 2x our July FY26 EPS base (~NT$75 vs NT$38–42), it has ~NT$200bn net cash, and it trades…

    Was The purest listed play on the commodity-DRAM shortage

  7. Penguin SolutionsRefreshhardware

    The story since July is the capital structure, not the P&L

    Was The Q3 print settled the prior dossier's open question

  8. Uranium EnergyRefreshcritical materials

    The print passed every operating test UEC set itself

    Was A quiet summer that moved the stock more than the business.

  9. Zijin MiningRefreshcritical materials

    The business got much better and the stock got cheaper.

    Was Operationally the best growth story in large-cap mining

Week of 21 September 2026

39 dossiers
  1. Cipher DigitalNew dossierdatacenters

    The landlord has started collecting rent — Black Pearl (AWS) delivered two months early in August — but Barber Lake just slipped a quarter and Cipher…

  2. Cirrascale Cloud ServicesNew dossierdatacenters

    A 16-year-old, ~40-person San Diego boutique that lives by hosting other people's GPUs and renting everyone else's silicon.

  3. Core ScientificNew dossierdatacenters

    CORZ swapped a tenant problem for a build-and-finance problem.

  4. Core42New dossierdatacenters

    G42's cloud arm is the best-licensed sovereign cloud in the Gulf

  5. CUDO ComputeNew dossierdatacenters

    Not a neocloud owner-operator on any filed evidence.

  6. Denvr DataworksNew dossierdatacenters

    Not a neocloud in the CoreWeave sense. Denvr is a bootstrapped Calgary builder and integrator with a small cloud attached. It has about US$12.5M of eq…

  7. DigitalOceanNew dossierdatacenters

    OWNS its GPUs (bought, finance-leased or equipment-financed with title passing to DO) inside LEASED colocation halls

  8. FirmusNew dossierdatacenters

    Firmus went from an immersion-cooling specialist with a 3 MW Singapore car-park GPU hall (Sustainable Metal Cloud) to Nvidia's Asia-Pacific AI-factory…

  9. FluidstackNew dossierdatacenters

    Fluidstack is no longer a GPU cloud — it is Anthropic's general contractor and tenant-in-the-middle, sitting between crypto-miner landlords (TeraWulf,…

  10. Galaxy DigitalNew dossierdatacenters

    For MenFem's purposes Galaxy is a data-centre company inside a digital-asset firm

  11. GMI CloudNew dossierdatacenters

    A Realtek-family, Nvidia-backstopped Taiwanese neocloud that owns its GPUs but rents its buildings.

  12. HumainNew dossierdatacenters

    PIF's AI champion has signed more than it has built

  13. Hut 8New dossierdatacenters

    The cleanest landlord in the miner-to-AI cohort got cleaner

  14. HyperbolicNew dossierdatacenters

    Hyperbolic owns no GPUs — it began as a crypto-funded broker of idle GPUs and has become a thin-capital LESSEE-RESELLER: it now signs 2–3-year take-or…

  15. IRENNew dossierdatacenters

    An AI-cloud landlord that finally delivered

  16. Lightning AI (Voltage Park)New dossierdatacenters

    Voltage Park no longer exists as a standalone company

  17. ModalNew dossierdatacenters

    Modal owns no GPUs — it RENTS them, mostly by the hour, from the hyperscalers and neoclouds and resells them by the second at ~1.6–2.5x a wholesale H1…

  18. NexGen CloudNew dossierdatacenters

    A real but small London GPU host (Hyperstack) that has spent three years announcing a $1B, 20,000-H100 "AI Supercloud" it never had the balance sheet…

  19. Northern DataNew dossierdatacenters

    A Tether-controlled fleet of ~22,400 Hopper GPUs that missed its own 2025 revenue guide by about 70%, sold its mining arm to companies run by Tether's…

  20. Radiant (formerly Ori)New dossierdatacenters

    Ori no longer exists as a company you can own.

  21. RunPodNew dossierdatacenters

    Runpod BROKERS, it does not own — a software-and-demand layer over other people's GPUs that keeps a ~20% marketplace fee (SEC-filed by its supplier Qu…

  22. SAKURA internetNew dossierdatacenters

    Japan's state-subsidised GPU landlord has finally turned the subsidy into operating profit (Q1 FY3/27 OP ¥1.23B, 11.1% margin, GPU revenue +246%), but…

  23. ScalewayNew dossierdatacenters

    Europe's most credible home-grown sovereign cloud is winning the contracts sovereignty politics was supposed to produce

  24. SesterceNew dossierdatacenters

    A Marseille ex-crypto-mining host with ~€12M of filed revenue carrying a €52bn / 1.5 GW announcement on its back.

  25. SF ComputeNew dossierdatacenters

    SF Compute is no longer a pure broker — it has become the Marriott of GPU clusters: by its own description outside capital owns the clusters and carri…

  26. TeraWulfNew dossierdatacenters

    TeraWulf is now an Anthropic landlord, not a Fluidstack one

  27. VerdaNew dossierdatacenters

    The rare neocloud with a filed track record.

  28. VultrNew dossierdatacenters

    The least levered name in the neocloud set and the only one with a pre-AI business under it

  29. Yotta Data ServicesNew dossierdatacenters

    India's sovereign GPU cloud is a family-financed, negative-equity balance sheet ($1.16B borrowings, $250.5M of it interest-free family loans with no r…

  30. Advanced Micro DevicesRefreshhardware

    The business ran past the June bull case — Data Center +107%, a $13B Q3 guide, and management now guiding Data Center revenue to more than double in 2…

    Was The number-two AI compute franchise is finally real (DC $16.6B FY25, MI450/OpenAI 6GW signed)

  31. AlbemarleRefreshelectrification

    The lithium price held and the stock did not.

    Was ALB is a high-quality, low-cost lithium asset wearing the price tag of a leveraged call option on the lithium spot price

  32. Earnings went up and the stock went nowhere.

    Was The best nuclear asset base in America, now bolted to a gas fleet and priced as an AI-power call

  33. Eli LillyRefreshbiopharma

    The machine kept accelerating and the stock barely moved.

    Was The best operating asset in pharma trading at a price that already imputes a $150B+ obesity TAM

  34. Fluence EnergyRefreshelectrification

    The June dossier's "priced for flawless execution" warning came true

    Was A levered call option on US grid-storage demand and IRA/OBBBA domestic-content rules

  35. KLA CorporationRefreshhardware

    The business got better and the stock got cheaper.

    Was The toll-booth on chip yield — a ~58%-share process-control near-monopoly whose revenue scales with chip *complexity*, not wafer volume, so it compoun…

  36. NVIDIARefreshhardware

    The print was a blowout and the guarantee turned out real

    Was The circularity flag stopped being a footnote and became the tape

  37. Arista NetworksRefreshnetworking

    The June dossier's bear case was graded by one print and mostly lost.

    Was The best-run pure-play in AI/cloud Ethernet

  38. Coherent CorpRefreshnetworking

    The business beat every number the June dossier projected and the stock fell a quarter anyway.

    Was An II-VI/Coherent merger debt-mule reborn as the picks-and-shovels supplier of the AI-optics supercycle

  39. Uranium EnergyRefreshcritical materials

    A quiet summer that moved the stock more than the business.

    Was A leveraged, no-reserves bet on the U.S. uranium-independence trade dressed as an operating miner

Week of 7 September 2026

1 dossier
  1. OracleRefreshai

    The Q1 FY27 print settles the two questions the July dossier could not

    Was none (no verdict, no call this pass)

Week of 31 August 2026

1 dossier
  1. TSMCRefreshhardware

    The Q2 beat was not a peak — July revenue accelerated to +44.7% YoY, the board appropriated a single-tranche US$29.4B of capacity capital, and H1 cape…

Week of 10 August 2026

10 dossiers
  1. AlcoaRefreshcritical materials

    The bear case fired — but through a door the prior dossier wasn't watching, and the stock overshot it.

    Was A genuinely deleveraged, vertically-integrated aluminum pure-play whose 2025-26 earnings recovery is being borrowed from a tariff

  2. Applied DigitalRefreshdatacenters

    The backlog stopped being a press release and became an audited receivable

    Was A real estate developer wearing an AI costume

  3. Bloom EnergyRefreshdatacenters

    The valuation short mostly worked and is now two-thirds spent

    Was A real business finally inflected to GAAP profit on the AI-power boom

  4. The platform thesis got materially better

    Was A genuine semiconductor moat wrapped around a sub-scale, still-unprofitable medtech

  5. First SolarRefreshenergy

    The subsidy thesis just got a second leg — a $0.38/W federal module price floor from the Aug 6 Section 232 proclamation now sits ABOVE First Solar's o…

    Was The best-run solar manufacturer on earth, but ~$1.6B of FY25's $1.5B net income is a US tax credit

  6. The franchise got stronger and the price got cheaper

    Was The dominant solar-tracker franchise (>50% US, ~30% global, 11 straight years #1) with a clean, net-cash balance sheet and a beat-and-raise FY26

    Correction The policy clock moved the right way, and the prior dossier's cliff framing was wrong. On 6 Jun 2026 the US District Court for DC vacated IRS Notice 2025-42 in Oregon Environmental Council v.

  7. nVent ElectricRefreshenergy

    The order line decelerated and the backlog shrank

    Was A boring enclosures-and-connectors company that bought and sold its way into the AI data-center build

  8. NVIDIARefreshhardware

    The circularity flag stopped being a footnote and became the tape

    Was Still the toll booth on the biggest build in history

  9. SK HynixRefreshhardware

    The rent got BIGGER and the price got HALVED. Q2 printed a 76.3% operating margin

    Was BULLISH / MEDIUM — the largest, highest-share slice of the HBM oligopoly rent (~57–62% share, ~2/3 of Nvidia HBM4, 72% op margin, ~61% ROE, DRAM crown…

  10. Southern CopperRefreshcritical materials

    The bear case got tested on its own terms and lost

    Was The world's lowest-cost, longest-reserve, highest-margin copper pure-play