The Revolution Will Be Personalized
CLOSING BELL
The Revolution Will Be Personalized
Happy Tuesday, and welcome back to the ‘who knows’ market after a long weekend. Prices jumped around all day, ending with a slight climb.
The tech sell-off started to slow, the Nasdaq 100 ending the day down 2.17% for the year. Private Software compaies like McAfee started dropping Q4 reports for their debt investors, Bloomberg reported, after the AI-will-replace-software scare gave pause to the industry as a whole.
Investors are looking for what industry is next up on the sell-off chopping block, but after nearly four weeks of selling for the Dow and S&P 500, the hurt has gone on long enough to make groggy holiday weekend traders hold off today.
Amazon broke its 9-day losing streak after droping $450 B from its market cap, adding insult to the self inflicted injury of a $200 B CapEx projection for the year.
Paramount Skydance was back in the news, with a one-week deadline demand for the Warner Bros. buyout.
Nvidia and Meta were making friends, Palo Alto was missing forward estimates, and Nvidia and Berkshire’s investing moves from last quarter finally came through.
AFTER THE BELL
Palo Alto Networks Earnings Beat Overshadowed by Soft Guidance 🛡️
Palo Alto Networks surpassed fiscal second-quarter expectations but saw shares slide 7.89%. It’s a tale as old as this particularly punishing earnings season: soft guidance was not enough for Wall Street. The sell-off was triggered by fiscal third-quarter earnings guidance of $0.78 to $0.80, well below the $0.92 consensus estimate.
The cybersecurity leader reported adjusted earnings of $1.03 per share on revenue of $2.59 billion. The firm also said it would buy Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi, after earlier agreeing to pay out $25B for a security company called CyberArk. In Jan., they bought Chronosphere for $3B.
Looking ahead, $PANW significantly raised its full-year revenue guidance to a range of $11.28 billion to $11.31 billion, signaling hopeful demand for its “Precision AI” tools.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nvidia Back in the News: Next Gen Meta Partnership, Portfolio Changeups 🤖
Meta and Nvidia have long been fast friends, and Tuesday the pair announced a refreshed partnership for millions of chips. Nvidia will provide Blackwell and its newest Rubin designs for training and hosting Meta’s fleet of AI models.
Though there was no dollar amount listed, Meta’s capital expenditure is projected at $135 billion for 2026, and analysts estimate this specific deal to be worth tens of billions of dollars. Meta leaders have staked their goal towards offering ‘personalized superintelligence’ coming to a timeline near you.
“No one deploys AI at Meta’s scale: frontier research with industrial-scale infrastructure to power the world’s largest personalization and recommendation systems for billions of users,” Nvidia Chief Jensen Huang said in a statement.
By becoming the first to deploy NVDA Grace CPUs as standalone units, Meta is pivoting toward a highly optimized architecture designed specifically for agentic AI and inference workloads at a massive scale. They are also playing all sides of the AI arms race, developing their own in-house silicon, and using AMD hardware.
$AAPL ( ▲ 3.17% ) Apple was also in the news for the first time in a while, after reports surfaced detailing a push into AI-powered wearables, including smart glasses and camera-equipped AirPods, and maybe even a ‘pendant.’ Curiously, their CapEx has not ramped up as severely as its buddies in the massive market cap club.
WHALE NEWS
13Fs Show What Nvidia and Berkshire Think They Know 🧓 🤖
There was one more reason Nvidia was up in the news today: its massive pile of invested capital is shifting.
Both Nvidia and Berkshire Hathaway issued 13Fs today to show how their piles of capital shifted at the end of the last quarter. NVDA rotated toward networking and legacy compute while Warren Buffett trimmed its tech and banking. Nvidia fully exited its stake in Applied Digital, while Berkshire continued to pare back its massive position in Apple.
Nvidia is doubling down on the AI-run market, while Berkshire is aggressively accumulating high-dividend energy assets, old companies like the New York Times, and of course insurance.
Nvidia’s now holds a $7.9 billion stake in $INTC (214.8 million shares) and around $1 billion position in $APLD, $RXRX, $WRD, and $ARM. $APLD ( ▼ 4.88% ) was falling after the news dropped. Synopsys was notably added to the list after the December purchase announcement.
Nvidias 13f investment filing
Berkshire Hathaway’s reshuffle saw Buffett piling into energy and insurance, boosting stakes in $CVX by 6.6% and $CB by 9.3%. Despite the 10.3 million share trim to its $AAPL ( ▲ 3.17% ) holding, the tech giant remains Berkshire’s largest position at $62 billion. The firm also notably slashed its $AMZN ( ▲ 1.19% ) stake by over 77%, leaving it with just 2.28 million shares as part of a broader “de-risking” of its tech exposure.
DEAL NEWS
ZIM Integrated Shipping Hapag-Lloyd Deal Sparks Massive Premium 🚢
Shares of $ZIM ( ▲ 25.45% ) are skyrocketing after German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd said it could buy its Israeli rival for $4.2 billion, or $35/share.
At open, that valuation was a a massive 58% premium over previous trading levels. This move aims to bolster the buyer’s global fleet and route efficiency during a period of shifting trade alliances. Of course, it all comes down to regulator and shareholder approval.
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TRENDING STOCKS
Market Movers
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$NCLH ( ▲ 12.15% ) Norwegian Cruise Line: Up after activist firm Elliott Management disclosed a 10% stake in the company, sparking expectations for strategic changes to close the performance gap with rivals.
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$FISV ( ▲ 6.89% ) Fiserv Inc: as investors buy the dip following a significant period of underperformance, with recent analyst notes highlighting its strong position in core banking and merchant services.
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$LUV ( ▲ 6.16% ) Southwest Airlines: following an upgrade to Buy from Neutral at UBS, with a price target hike to $73 based on improved margin outlooks for 2026.
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$ALNY ( ▲ 5.79% ) Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: as the market re-rates the stock for profitability, supported by a strong 2026 revenue guidance range of $4.9 billion to $5.3 billion.
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$CEG ( ▲ 5.06% ) Constellation Energy: on continued power-demand optimism and favorable sentiment following the completion of its Calpine acquisition.
Top Losers
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$GPC ( ▼ 14.56% ) Genuine Parts Company: Down 14.56% after missing Q4 expectations with an EPS of $1.55 vs. $1.81 forecast and announcing a plan to split into two independent companies by 2027.
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$VMC ( ▼ 7.76% ) Vulcan Materials: Down 7.76% after reporting a significant earnings miss with adjusted EPS of $1.70 vs. the $2.11 consensus, alongside a weak 2026 EBITDA outlook.
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$FDS ( ▼ 7.64% ) FactSet Research Systems: Down 7.64% due to lower-than-expected fiscal 2026 guidance and rising technology expenses that pressured margins.
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$GIS ( ▼ 6.99% ) General Mills: Down 6.99% after cutting its fiscal 2026 outlook, now projecting organic net sales to decline up to 2% citing a “challenging consumer environment.”
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$EXPE ( ▼ 5.76% ) Expedia Group: Down 5.76% following a post-earnings reset where conservative 2026 margin expansion guidance overshadowed a solid Q4 beat.
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$DJT ( ▼ 9.75% ) Trump Media & Technology: trending after hours as it plummeted to new lows.
WHAT’S ON DECK
Tomorrow’s Top Things 📋
Macro: Import Prices, 5-Year Note Auction, 7-Year Note Auction, Crude Oil Inventories. 📊
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