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$Palantir Tech(PLTR.US)Palantir stock has jumped about 46% in August and 43% since its August 3 earnings report. Still, Wall Street sees about 10% upside from current levels. Trump's investment accounts also bought Palantir shares in June, adding another point of interest as the stock continues to rally. However, the stock's high valuation could limit further gains if growth slows.The company's revenue jumped 93% year over year, while U.S. commercial revenue rose 149% to $764 million. Earnings per share came in at $0.41, which beat the consensus estimate of $0.35 per share. Operating cash flow also reached $1.22 billion. The results showed continued strong demand for Palantir's products across commercial and government customers. Following Palantir's Q2 results, analysts upgraded the target price for Palantir, with an average of $200.

Personally, I took partial profit at around the $160 mark. Despite overall optimism on the company, I also held through the lows when it struggled to even break through $130 for the 1st half of the year. Hence, I will continue to hold and only look to buy more when the stock pulls back to $140+ or sell when the stock reaches $210+. @Captain's Treasure

$Apple(AAPL.US) While other 'Magnificent Seven' companies spend big on AI, Apple's more conservative strategy has turned the stock into a valuable portfolio hedge against volatility. Apple's "business is built on a consumer hardware and services ecosystem rather than cloud infrastructure or ad-supported platforms." Analysts have speculated for months that Apple could be one of the most resilient Big Tech names. While Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet pour hundreds of billions of dollars into capital expenditures for AI initiatives, Apple hasn't participated in the same level of spending. Earlier attempts to roll out Apple Intelligence back in 2024 largely failed, leading many to see the company as an AI laggard. But Apple's "go-slow" strategy comes in handy on days when investor concerns about AI overspending flare up, insulating the stock from downturns that hit the semiconductor space. By focusing on its hardware products instead of chasing emerging AI technologies, Apple has grown its installed base to over 2.5 billion active devices. As a result, the company now has an unrivaled distribution network to monetize on-device. This is the main reason why I'm holding on to my position in Apple. In the new AI era, Apple has managed to stay relatively competitive even when it does not engage in the AI war with the other Mag 7 companies. I will be looking to add if the share price retraces back to around $280. @Captain's Treasure

$Apple(AAPL.US) Apple has been Berkshire Hathaway's largest holding for a long time, even though the conglomerate has trimmed its position in the iPhone maker in recent years (but not during the second quarter). Buffett once said that Apple is probably the best business in the world. That's high praise, and it's entirely warranted. Apple generates consistent earnings and cash flows thanks to its popular devices, especially the iPhone. The iPhone almost functions like a subscription that hundreds of millions of people renew every few years. Apple's customers are highly loyal. Because the iPhone has unique features and ways to interact with other devices within the company's ecosystem -- not to mention the large amount of data that is a pain to transfer to a competitor's platform -- Apple boasts a wide moat from high switching costs.The company still has significant growth opportunities. For instance, Apple has been integrating artificial intelligence (AI) features to improve its devices. This could help increase renewal rates and even bring new people into its ecosystem. Apple has an advantage, as it boasts more than 2.5 billion active devices in circulation, enabling it to distribute AI services very rapidly, including via software updates. With Apple now well positioned to finish the year strongly amongst the Mag 7 companies, I'm holding on to my current shares and perhaps look to add if it does pull back more. @Captain's Treasure

$SPDR Gold Shares(GLD.US) Gold prices rose on Monday as a weaker dollar and fading expectations of a U.S. Federal Reserve rate hike next month supported the bullion. Gold is benefiting today from a weaker USD and lower US interest rates. Based on weaker-than-expected jobs data and lower inflation data, the market participants have started to reduce their expectations of US Fed hikes this year, which has supported the yellow metal. Data showed U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell in July and mild consumer price inflation, reducing expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month. Markets are now pricing a 31% chance of a September rate hike from 51% a month earlier. @Captain's Treasure

$Netflix(NFLX.US) Netflix jumped approximately 3% after Bill Ackman revealed he was back in the stock. Ackman bought Netflix during the brutal 2022 selloff, then dumped the position months later at a loss. Now he is taking another swing after Netflix crashed roughly 50% from its June 2025 high. The difference? Netflix today is a much stronger cash machine than the company Ackman walked away from four years ago. Netflix has more than 325 million subscribers, nearly twice Disney+ and HBO Max combined. But subscriber count is no longer the most interesting number. Margins are. Netflix's operating margin has climbed from 21% in 2021 to roughly 31.5%, while annual cash content spending has increased only around 2%. That is serious operating leverage. Advertising revenue is also closing in on $3 billion this year, opening another monetization engine on top of subscriptions. Netflix does not need explosive subscriber growth anymore. It needs to keep extracting more dollars from the audience it already owns. @Captain's Treasure

$Figma(FIG.US) Figma reported Q 2 2026 revenue of $370 million, marking a 48 % year-over-year increase alongside its first full quarter of AI credit monetization. The company achieved a net dollar retention rate of 136 % for paid customers with over $ 10,000 in annual recurring revenue and raised its full-year revenue outlook to a range of $ 1.463 billion to $ 1.467 billion.On a non-GAAP basis, gross profit totaled $314 million, up 40% year over year, and gross margin reached 85%, improving 2.5 percentage points sequentially. Non-GAAP operating income was $36 million, representing a 10% operating margin. Free cash flow was $53 million, or a 14% margin. Melwani said the company’s annual Config user conference, which drew more than 10,000 community members in San Francisco during the quarter, affected both operating income and free cash flow. Increased AI inference costs were also the largest driver of the year-over-year change in free cash flow. The company seems to be on a recovery mode as it seeks to be consistent on its earnings post IPO, and it is no surprise that the stock currently still trades way below its IPO price, though it remains to be seen whether it has the potential to grow faster in the future. @Captain's Treasure

$Netflix(NFLX.US) In the first half of this year, Netflix delivered two numbers that do not quite match: combined revenue for the first two quarters was approximately $24.81 billion, up 14.7% year-over-year; during the same period, member viewing exceeded 97 billion hours, but grew by only 2%. A rough calculation dividing total revenue by total viewing hours shows that Netflix's "revenue per hour" increased by about 12.5%. Users didn't watch much more than last year, but the money Netflix collected from every hour of viewing increased noticeably.In 2025, Netflix's revenue grew by 16%, its operating margin rose from 26.7% to 29.5%, and paid memberships surpassed 325 million. For 2026, the company expects revenue to grow by 13% to 14%, operating margin to rise to 31.5%, and full-year operating profit to grow by more than 20%. Second-quarter revenue grew by 13.4%, and third-quarter guidance slowed further to 11.7%. This is not a recession. Netflix is simply stepping out of rapid user expansion into a mature growth stage: revenue growth is stepping down, but profits are still growing faster. And that's why I'm not panicking. The market is sleeping on Netflix. Yes, there are more and more platforms offering the same services as Netflix, but Netflix remain the leader in its industry and the data still supports that. @Captain's Treasure

$Oracle(ORCL.US)Burry re-entered a direct short position on Oracle around $145 per share. Oracle shares previously jumped toward $350 during last year's AI rally before pulling back significantly over growing market concerns about data center debt burdens. While Oracle's future contract backlog grew 363% over the past year, Burry remains skeptical about its long-term financial path. He previously called Oracle's large spending strategy "a Homeresque own goal by a modern deity," arguing that the software firm took on unnecessary financial risks to chase cloud growth. Oracle's roughly $130 billion net debt has historically been a "red flag" for investors wary of aggressive capital allocation and the situation is now becoming more complicated, as cloud infrastructure providers dramatically increase capital spending to support the AI boom while the returns from those investments become ever more uncertain.

Meanwhile, Oracle's rising spending is putting pressure on its financial position. Net interest expense is gradually increasing, while free cash flow has fallen deeply into negative territory despite strong operating cash flow. Although operating income remains sufficient to cover higher borrowing costs and capital expenditures could theoretically be reduced, the market is growing more concerned about how long Oracle and its peers will need to maintain exceptionally high levels of spending to compete in the AI race. @Captain's Treasure

$Palantir Tech(PLTR.US) Palantir investors had been waiting for their own change of fortunes around earnings reports. In recent quarters, strong results haven't always translated into higher share prices, largely due to expectations that seemed almost impossible to satisfy. This time around, however, Palantir produced results that proved difficult for the market to dismiss. Its recent report showed revenue jumping 93% year-over-year to about $1.94 billion, while U.S. commercial revenue surged 149%. Management raised its full-year outlook as well, providing further evidence that businesses are spending heavily to bring Palantir's AI technology into their operations. Goldman analyst Gabriela Borges sees considerable promise in Palantir's AI opportunity as well, although her enthusiasm comes with more reservations. The analyst believes "the key to unlocking stock outperformance" will be how much of the growing enterprise AI budget Palantir can win as customers broaden their use of different models. Borges believes Palantir's ability to help enterprises put AI into everyday use could prove particularly valuable. However, investors may still remain cautious over investing in Palantir due to its ridiculously high p/e ratio compared to its peers, which is definitely understandable. Nonetheless, I am sure most of us holders are just glad to see Palantir finally getting some love after sliding for months and stagnating at 120 price range. @Captain's Treasure