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The article compares Intel (INTC) and NVIDIA (NVDA) as AI stocks, weighing Intel’s turnaround effort against NVIDIA’s position as the leading GPU maker. Intel reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $52.9 billion, down 0.5%, a net loss of $267.0 million and negative free cash flow of $4.9 billion. NVIDIA’s fiscal year ended Jan. 25, 2026 brought revenue of $215.9 billion, up 65.5%, net income of $120.1 billion and free cash flow of $96.7 billion. Intel’s risks include rival AI innovation and regulatory scrutiny, while NVIDIA’s include customer concentration, geopolitical exposure in Taiwan, export controls and legal challenges over its $20 billion Groq deal. The author says they would choose NVIDIA between the two.

SpaceX (SPCX) has seen its price-to-sales ratio fall from about 100 times trailing 12-month sales at its June public debut to 68 times now, after sales rose 92% in Q2 2026, its first report as a public company. Growth came from its rocket-launch, Starlink and xAI segments, which rose 55%, 32% and 213%, but only Starlink is profitable and the company posted a net loss of $541 million. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas calls the stock “Cheap and Getting Cheaper,” citing 30 times 2028 expected profit versus a median of 16 for big tech, and a growth-adjusted ratio of 0.3 versus a 0.5 median for large caps. He sets a $300 target against today’s $162 price, while Raymond James’ Brian Gesuale sees $800. The article cautions that expected growth is uncertain and that SpaceX remains expensive and risky on standard measures.

Wendy's (WEN) shares traded at $6.31 on October 12, 2026, but the article argues that a low share price does not make the stock cheap. The stock has fallen 65.6% over three years, and its dividend yield has risen as the price dropped. It trades at 9.6 times trailing earnings and 4.6 times free cash flow, but with a $1.2 billion market cap and a $4.8 billion enterprise value, heavy debt is a major factor. The quarterly dividend was cut from $0.25 to $0.14 in May 2025 and again to $0.07 in August 2026, while U.S. same-restaurant sales fell 7% and traffic dropped 12.5% in Q2 2026. New CEO Bob Wright, the company's fourth since February 2024, faces a turnaround, and Q3 earnings are due November 5.

Asian technology stocks fell on Tuesday as a U.S. chip sell-off spread to regional markets, with worries over AI financing and rising competition weighing on sentiment. South Korea's SK Hynix dropped more than 8% and Samsung Electronics fell 7.9%, both hitting their lowest intraday levels since August, while Japan's SoftBank Group sank 8.03%. Other Japanese chip and equipment stocks also declined after the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.44% on Monday. Micron Technology slid 3.9% as investors weighed competition from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which reported progress on a new chip structure that boosts memory density. Analysts quoted in the article said the sell-off reflected broader anxiety over the AI trade rather than a fundamental shift, since CXMT has yet to reach large-scale production and still lags in HBM, while the Intel and Broadcom CEOs warned that access to capital could become a headwind for the AI boom.

Nvidia reported second-quarter revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year. In the first half of fiscal 2027, company-defined free cash flow was $69.895 billion, but after $35.163 billion of net equity-security purchases, $34.732 billion remained. Repurchases and dividends totaled $45.334 billion, and net equity purchases equaled 50.3% of free cash flow. The resulting $10.602 billion gap required other funding, including $24.896 billion of debt issuance. The article notes that the $99 billion equity-investment balance at July 26, $25 billion of equity-investment commitments, and a conditional $105 billion cap on data-center guarantees sit outside the current cash bridge.

Microsoft has announced Maia 300, its third-generation in-house AI chip, and plans to ramp up Maia from 2027 as the primary inference system for its own products. Microsoft estimates Maia 300 will generate 40% more tokens per megawatt than top GPU-based systems, though this is its own projection, and it still plans to deploy Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin systems. Nvidia's fiscal Q2 2027 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, while spending by hyperscale customers more than doubled to $48.7 billion. The author argues that custom chips like Maia may take some work from Nvidia, but the stock, about 6% below its October 6 record close, does not appear priced as if Nvidia will keep all of it. It trades at roughly 14 times the average analyst earnings estimate for fiscal 2028, compared with about 23 times for Microsoft's fiscal 2028.

Micron (MU) raised its stock repurchase authorization from approximately $2.16 billion remaining to $35.16 billion, its largest buyback ceiling ever, as CHIPS and Science Act restrictions on buybacks change on Dec. 9. In fiscal 2026, the company generated $133.2 billion in revenue (up 256%) and $99.3 billion in operating income, driven by surging memory prices from AI infrastructure demand, and fourth-quarter free cash flow reached $33.2 billion. At roughly $1,000 per share, the program could retire about 35 million shares, around 3.1% of outstanding shares. Applying a 17x forward P/E to projected fiscal 2027 earnings of $176 per share implies a price of $2,992, and the author argues buybacks alone won't push the stock to $3,000 but could act as a catalyst.