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Nov 3, 2025
Apple Looks to Strong December Quarter
Image Source: TradingView. For the 12 months ended September 27, Apple generated $111.5 billion in cash from operations, while it spent $12.7 billion in property, plant, and equipment, resulting in free cash flow of $98.8 billion. Looking to the December quarter, total company revenue is expected to grow 10%-12% year-over-year, resulting in its best quarter ever. Apple expects iPhone revenue to grow double-digits year-over-year, which would be its best iPhone quarter ever. Services revenue is targeted to grow at a similar year-over-year pace to what it reported in 2025. Gross margin is expected between 47%-48%, which includes an estimated impact of $1.4 billion of tariff-related costs. We continue to like Apple as an idea in the newsletter portfolios.
Oct 30, 2025
Chipotle Facing Consumer Spending Pressures
Image Source: TradingView. For the first nine months of 2025, Chipotle generated $1.69 billion in cash from operations and spent $468.9 million in property and equipment, resulting in free cash flow of $1.22 billion. Looking to all of 2025, management expects full year comparable restaurant sales to decline in the low-single-digit range and to open 315-345 new company-owned restaurants, with over 80% having a Chipotlane. For 2026, management expects to open 350-370 new restaurants, including 10-15 international partner-operated restaurants, with over 80% of company-owned restaurants having a Chipotlane. Though Chipotle’s business is under pressure, we continue to like the long-term growth story. Shares remain an idea in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio.
Oct 30, 2025
Alphabet Remains a Net-Cash-Rich, Free-Cash-Flow Generating Powerhouse
Image: Alphabet’s revenues eclipsed $100 billion in the quarter. In the quarter, Alphabet generated $48.41 billion in cash from operations and spent $23.95 billion in property and equipment, resulting in free cash flow of $24.46 billion. Year-to-date, cash from operations was $112.3 billion, while the company spent $63.6 billion in property and equipment, resulting in free cash flow of $48.7 billion. Total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities was $98.5 billion at the end of the quarter, versus $21.6 billion in long-term debt. The company pays a quarterly cash dividend of $0.21 per share. Looking to all of 2025, Alphabet expects capital expenditures in the range of $91-$93 billion. Even in the face of higher capital spending, Alphabet remains a net-cash-rich, free-cash-flow generating powerhouse. We continue to like shares in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio.
Oct 30, 2025
Microsoft’s First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results Solid
Image Source: TradingView. Microsoft’s Azure and other cloud services revenue increased 40% (up 39% in constant currency) in the quarter. The company returned $10.7 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases during the first quarter of fiscal 2026. Looking to the fiscal second quarter, revenue is targeted to be between $79.5-$80.6 billion, growth of 14%-16%, compared to expectations of $80.08 billion. Azure is expected to grow 37% in constant currency in the quarter “as demand remains significantly ahead of the capacity (it) has available.” Though some expected more from Microsoft, we thought the quarter and outlook was solid. The company remains a core holding in the newsletter portfolios.
Oct 29, 2025
Booking Holdings Looks to Robust Growth in Fourth Quarter
Image Source: Booking Holdings. Looking to the fourth quarter of 2025, Booking Holdings expects revenue growth in the range of 10%-12% (5%-7% in constant currency), with room nights growth of 4%-6% and gross bookings growth of 11%-13%. Constant currency gross bookings growth is targeted in the range of 6%-8%. Adjusted EBITDA is expected in the range of $2.0-$2.1 billion, reflecting 8%-14% growth. Looking to all of full year 2025, revenue growth is expected to be about 12% (9% in constant currency), with adjusted EBITDA growth of about 17%-18%. We continue to like Booking Holdings as an idea in the newsletter portfolios.
Oct 29, 2025
Visa Expects Low Double Digit Earnings Growth for Fiscal 2026
Image Source: Visa. For the 12 months ended September 30, Visa hauled in $23.1 billion in cash flow from operations and spent $1.5 billion in property, equipment, and technology, resulting in free cash flow of $21.6 billion, or 53.9% of total revenue. Visa ended the year with cash and cash equivalents and investment securities of $19 billion and total debt of $25.2 billion. The company returned $6.1 billion in share buybacks and dividends in the quarter, and the board of directors increased its quarterly cash dividend 14%, to $0.67 per share. For full year fiscal 2026, management expects low-double-digit growth in net revenue, operating expense, and diluted earnings per share. We continue to like Visa as an idea in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio.
Oct 28, 2025
UnitedHealth Group Raises Full Year 2025 Earnings Outlook
Image Source: TradingView. UnitedHealth Group continues to work through an elevated cost environment: “The year-over-year increase (in the medical care ratio) of 470 basis points was primarily driven by the previously described significantly elevated cost trends, as well as the ongoing effects of the Biden-era Medicare funding reductions and changes to the Part D program from the Inflation Reduction Act.” Looking to 2025, UnitedHealth Group raised its adjusted earnings guidance to at least $16.25 per share. We continue to include UnitedHealth in the newsletter portfolios.
Oct 28, 2025
Thinking Slow: 3 Research Blind Spots That Changed the Investment World
Image Source: EpicTop10.com. We have to be on high alert about how our minds work. PBS recently delivered a four-part series examining how easily our minds are being hacked, and why it is so important to "think slow." When it comes to the active versus passive debate, does the analysis suffer from parameter risk? With respect to empirical, evidence-based analysis, does the analysis have the entire construct wrong? When it comes to short-cut multiples, are we falling into the behavioral trap of thinking on autopilot?
Oct 27, 2025
Ford Reports Record Third Quarter Revenue
Image Source: Ford. Looking to full-year 2025, Ford noted that its business is performing at the high end of the guidance range previously outlined in February, despite absorbing a $1 billion net tariff headwind. It also said that between 2025 and 2026, Ford expects the Novelis fire to be a headwind of $1.0 billion or less. Ford now expects full-year 2025 company adjusted EBIT of $6-$6.5 billion, adjusted free cash flow of $2-$3 billion and capital expenditures of ~$9 billion. Ford is working to navigate the Novelis fire impact as well as tariff headwinds, but record revenue speaks to resilience. Ford yields 4.3% at the time of this writing.
Oct 23, 2025
IBM Raises Full-Year Revenue Growth and Free Cash Flow Outlook
Image Source: TradingView. Looking to full-year 2025 expectations, IBM now expects constant currency revenue growth of more than 5%, with free cash flow now expected to be about $14 billion. IBM ended the third quarter with $14.9 billion of cash and marketable securities, up $0.1 billion from year-end 2024. Debt, including IBM Financing debt of $11.3 billion, totaled $63.1 billion, up $8.1 billion year-to-date. IBM continues to pay a regularly quarterly dividend of $1.68 per common share and has paid consecutive quarterly dividends every year since 1916. IBM is one that we’re watching closely for the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio, but we remain on the sidelines at this time. Shares yield 2.3% at the time of this writing.


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