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Is Intel's Foundry Comeback Real, Or Just A Story The Market Wants To Believe?
Intel has rallied close to 12% this month and now trades around $139, a sharp reversal from under $100 in early June. Before anyone decides whether to chase it here, the key question is simple. Is the...
For almost two years, the entire AI story was told through two characters: the GPU and the memory chip. Nvidia got the headlines, Micron got the memory trade, and almost nobody outside the industry could name the company that actually connects thousands of those GPUs into one working brain.
Then at COMPUTEX, Jensen Huang said the name out loud. Marvell. And the stock jumped 32% in a single day.
Here is how I would explain it to a friend who does not follow chips. Imagine a city obsessed with building taller and taller skyscrapers, the GPUs. Marvell is the company quietly laying the high-speed expressways between every building. You do not notice the roads until someone points out that without them, the city is just a row of beautiful, disconnected towers.
What does this mean for us ordinary investors? Two things. First, the AI buildout is wider than the few names everyone already owns. The plumbing has value too. Second, by the time a CEO says your name on stage and the stock is already at an all-time high, the easy part of the story is behind you. The real question is no longer what Marvell does. It is whether the orders keep coming after the applause fades.
Costco's Q3 2026: A Master Class in Why Business Quality Matters More Than Valuation Timing
I'll be upfront: Costco has never been cheap by traditional valuation metrics. It trades at a significant premium to most retailers. And yet, every time I've looked at selling on valuation grounds, the business has continued compounding in a way that made the timing call feel irrelevant.
Q3 FY2026 reinforced this again. Net sales up 11.6% to USD 69.15 billion. Comparable sales up 9.8%. E-commerce comparable sales up 21.5%. EPS $4.93 versus $4.28 a year ago. Membership renewal rate 92.2% in the US and Canada.
The membership model is the thesis. Costco collects USD 1.37 billion in membership fee income that it essentially treats as pure margin contribution before selling a single product. The retail operation runs at deliberately thin margins; the membership fee is where the business earns its profitability. This means Costco's incentive is always aligned with the customer: keep prices low to retain memberships, not to maximise product margin.
With 41.2 million paid executive members growing at 9.6% YoY, the recurring revenue base keeps expanding independently of any individual quarter's sales performance.
The long-term investor mistake with Costco is spending too much time on whether the P/E ratio looks elevated today. The right question is whether Costco will have more members, higher renewal rates, and more executive tier subscribers in five to ten years than it does today. Every quarter's evidence points to yes. That's why I hold it and don't trade around it.

