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Editor's Notes: * Early January is quieter in terms of earnings. This past week, we saw a few Japanese and US consumers companies confirming interesting consumer trends - value ranked above convenience (decline of convenience stores) in Japan, legacy super stores revitalized after reforms, China weakness, and US K-shape
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Editor’s Notes * A quick follow-up to our earlier work on Komatsu. A few days ago we laid out a profile on Komatsu itself. Today’s exercise is stepping one layer out and listening to what its competitors and suppliers are telling us. In my experience, this kind of value-chain
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Editor's Notes: * We’re watching AI grow up in real time, and the market is finally paying for the “picks and shovels.” The conversation is shifting from chips to the grid, and Meta’s 20-year nuclear deals are the cleanest signal yet that power is the next choke
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Editor’s Notes * My read this morning: the market still wants to own AI, but the psychology is shifting. You can feel the skepticism creeping in, especially around the “AI debt bubble” talk and the sense that we’re paying premium multiples for stories that haven’t fully shown up
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Editor's Notes: * Akeso recently saw a big price jump due to a significant label update in China for one of its flagship products. Its robust R&D track record (impressive breakthrough with efficacy outperforming Merck's $30B blockbuster + inclusion of all 5 self-developed drugs in NRDL
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Editor’s Notes * AI enthusiasm hasn’t cracked—but the cracks are being actively debated. On one hand, Nvidia and the broader AI stack (memory, storage, chips) still feel like the market’s gravitational center; on the other, the “AI bubble vs. new paradigm” argument is getting louder as valuations
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Editor's Notes * Upcycle for metals & mining and industrial capex for supply chain migration can be beneficial tailwind for Komatsu. * Komatsu trades at a significant discount to CAT (peak valuation level), Deere, and Hitachi, with ~7% FCF yield, around 3-year mid point. While tariff impacts, regional exposure and
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Editor's Notes: * AI is still the whole story in the U.S.—and that’s both the bull case and the risk. Nvidia’s CES push (Vera Rubin + “physical AI”) keeps extending the narrative, but the fact that the Magnificent 7 drove the majority of S&P
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Editor’s Notes * I’ll start with a confession: I’m a longtime Jordan Brand fan, so Nike is one of those companies I can’t look at purely through a spreadsheet. The brand still matters, culturally and globally—and that’s not something that disappears overnight. I do believe
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Editor's Notes: * Defense stocks rise dominated yesterday's markets. Theme has not changed much yet, but starting to see new names entering our "large daily move" scan and profit-taking on overbought hot stocks (e.g. Jabil), which may signal some thematic narrative shift - namely
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Editor's Notes: * Broader themes for early 2026 trading align with cautious mood in the US and improved sentiment for China / Japan. Starting to notice more price decline for SaaS in the US, as AI story turns negative for some of them. * Expect attention to continuing shifting from "
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Editor's Notes * I mentioned Accenture as a potential target to look into after their Dec 18 earnings in a previous newsletter. Their strong performance vs. AI impact and soft IT cycle phase provided an interesting entry point - multiples close to 10-year low. * Below is a new experimental