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Oct 17, 2025
     
        
      Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of October 17 
  Let's take a look at firms raising/lowering their dividends this week. Oct 15, 2025
     
        
      Key Comments from the Banks This Earnings Season 
  Image: The banks continue to perform well. Let's read through key comments from banking executives this earnings season. Oct 11, 2025
     
        
      View Current and Archived Best Ideas Newsletters 
  View previous editions of the Best Ideas Newsletter in this article. Oct 11, 2025
     
        
      Valuentum's Best Ideas Newsletter Portfolio 
  We disclose the holdings of the portfolio of the Best Ideas Newsletter in this article. This portfolio can always be found in each edition of the monthly Best Ideas Newsletter. Oct 10, 2025
     
        
      PepsiCo’s Earnings Stagnate While Organic Revenue Expands 
  Image Source: TradingView. Looking to 2025, PepsiCo continues to expect a low-single-digit increase in organic revenue and core constant currency earnings per share to be approximately even with the prior year. Management expects total cash returns to shareholders of approximately $8.6 billion, comprised of dividends of $7.6 billion and share buybacks of $1.0 billion. On a core earnings per share basis, the company expects a 0.5% decline in 2025 versus previous expectations of a 1.5% decline and compared to core earnings per share of $8.16 in 2024. The company ended the quarter with debt obligations of $50.8 billion and cash and short-term investments of $8.7 billion. We like PepsiCo, but think there are better opportunities in the simulated newsletter portfolios. Oct 10, 2025
     
        
      Delta Air Lines Generates Record September Quarter Revenue 
  Image Source: TradingView. Looking to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, Delta Air Lines expects total revenue to increase 2%-4%, with an operating margin of 10.5%-12%, resulting in earnings per share in the range of $1.60-$1.90. For fiscal year 2025, earnings per share is targeted at approximately $6.00, while free cash flow is expected in the range of $3.5-$4 billion. Gross leverage is anticipated to be less than 2.5x. Delta ended the quarter with $14.9 billion in debt and finance leases and $3.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents. Delta’s third quarter results speak to healthy consumer spending as a read on the economy, but we won’t be investing in any airline anytime soon. Oct 10, 2025
     
        
      Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of October 10 
  Let's take a look at firms raising/lowering their dividends this week. Oct 7, 2025
     
        
      Casey’s General Stores Executing Well 
  Image Source: TradingView. Looking to fiscal 2026, Casey’s expects EBITDA to increase 10%-12% and inside same-store sales to increase 2%-5% on an inside margin of approximately 41%. The company expects to open at least 80 stores in fiscal 2026, through a mix of M&A and new store construction, bringing the three-year strategic plan period total to approximately 500 stores. We like Casey’s, but shares aren’t cheap enough for us to bite. Oct 7, 2025
     
        
      Lennar Continues to Navigate Weakness in the Housing Market 
  Image Source: TradingView. In the fiscal third quarter, Lennar’s new orders increased 12% to 23,004 homes. Excluding mark-to-market gains, fiscal third quarter net earnings were $516 million, or $2.00 per diluted share, compared to $1.1 billion, or $3.90 per diluted share in the prior year quarter. The average sales price of homes delivered was $383,000 in the third quarter of 2025, compared to $422,000 in the third quarter of last year. Gross margins on home sales were $1.4 billion, or 17.5%, in the third quarter of 2025, down from 22.5% in the third quarter of 2024. Lennar is navigating weakness in a housing market that is requiring additional incentives, hurting margins, while it deals with higher land costs. We’re not interested in Lennar’s shares at this time. 
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Image Source: TradingView. Looking to the fourth quarter of 2025, ASML expects total net sales between €9.2 billion and €9.8 billion, the midpoint above the consensus forecast, and a gross margin between 51%-53%. For the full year 2025, total net sales are targeted to increase around 15% relative to 2024, with a gross margin around 52%. The company pays an interim dividend of €1.60 per ordinary share and repurchased around €148 million worth of shares in the third quarter. We like the momentum behind ASML’s business and continue to include shares in the ESG Newsletter portfolio.