A Cable Breakdown, an AI Infrastructure Breakout, and a Media Giant Still Stuck in the Middle

One communications name just showed that a cheap valuation does not matter when the core business keeps slipping. Another company forced the market to rethink its place in the AI buildout after a huge guidance-backed move, while a larger peer delivered decent numbers without giving investors a clear reason to come back. We’ll show you where to stay away, where to lean in, and where patience still wins.

Early adopters could have already multiplied their money year after year with this AI, based on the average winning trades it identifies – WITHOUT reading headlines, WITHOUT tracking interest rates, and WITHOUT the constant pressure most traders face.

Right now, you can test this AI yourself, completely free – no email, no credit card required.

Click here to learn more.

Futures are treading water as Iran peace talks wobble again and oil heads higher on fresh Strait of Hormuz tension. Traders are balancing the geopolitical noise against a huge week for Big Tech earnings and a Fed meeting that could carry extra weight this time.

Elite Trade Club now offers text alerts — so you get trending stocks and market-moving news sent straight to your phone before the bell.

Email’s great. Texts are faster.

👉 Click here to get our pre-market report to your cell for free!

You’ll be first in line when the market starts moving.

Earnings (Premarket):
• Verizon Communications Inc. [VZ]

Earnings (Aftermarket):
• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. [CDNS]
• Public Storage [PSA]
• Nucor Corporation [NUE]
• Celestica, Inc. [CLS]
• Ventas, Inc. [VTR]
• Cincinnati Financial Corporation [CINF]
• AvalonBay Communities, Inc. [AVB]
• Brown & Brown, Inc. [BRO]
• Amkor Technology, Inc. [AMKR]

Economic Reports:
• None scheduled

A major holder in one of the market’s hottest recent winners sold a combined $334.4 million worth of stock across three sessions, even as a board member at a major chip name lined up another $1.19 million sale.

These executives know something you don’t - but our Insider readers get the full breakdown inside today's Insider section.

Every day, insiders and institutions move millions before the market catches on. We surface the data behind those moves before the rest of the market sees it.

A subscription gets you:

$25/mo or $250/yr. 30-day money back guarantee. Cancel anytime. Founding member pricing: lock in $25/mo before we raise it.

Charter Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) got hit because the market no longer wants to hear that the revenue line is holding up while the customer story keeps getting worse. The company posted $13.6 billion in revenue, slightly above expectations, but adjusted EPS of $9.17 missed the $9.91 forecast.

More importantly, broadband net losses worsened to 120,000, up from 59,000 a year earlier, while total customer relationships fell 1.5%.

That is the core issue. Cable investors can tolerate slow growth if the base is stable and cash flow is dependable. What they do not like is a shrinking core business paired with weaker profitability and heavier spending.

Adjusted EBITDA fell 2.2% to $5.6 billion, capex jumped 19% to $2.9 billion, and free cash flow dropped by $192 million year over year. Mobile remains the bright spot, with 368,000 net additions and 17% growth in total lines, but that is not enough to offset concerns around broadband erosion.

The stock now trades near its 52-week low, and the low P/E of 4.98 tells you the market sees this as a value trap until proven otherwise.

My Take For You: The cheap multiple is not the story. The real story is whether broadband losses can stabilize before the business model looks structurally weaker.

My Verdict: Avoid this. The risk is that more broadband losses and margin pressure keep pushing investors away from what looks cheap on the surface.

MaxLinear Inc. (NASDAQ: MXL) did not just move on hype. The company posted $137.2 million in revenue, beat expectations, guided above Wall Street estimates, and got a sharp vote of confidence from analysts as the optical side of AI infrastructure started showing up more clearly in the numbers. Roth/MKM upgraded the stock to Buy and lifted its price target to $60 from $18, citing accelerating optical momentum and better multi-quarter visibility.

That matters because MaxLinear has now moved from an interesting small-cap semiconductor name to a direct participant in the bandwidth arms race inside AI data centers.

As XPU clusters get larger, the need for faster optical interconnects rises with them, and that is where the company is finding demand. Needham also upgraded the story, and Stifel raised its target, which tells you the Street is adjusting quickly to the new setup.

The stock’s 76% one-day move makes it look stretched, and it probably is in the very short term. But big breakouts backed by guidance, not just headlines, deserve respect. This is now a higher-quality momentum story than it was a week ago.

My Take For You: The move is huge, but the reason behind it is better than a simple squeeze. This is what a real re-rating looks like when a company proves it belongs in the AI spending cycle.

My Verdict: Buy it. The risk is that a stock this overextended pulls back hard even if the business momentum stays strong.

Oil prices are on the rise, putting the energy sector back in the spotlight.

Large banks have raised their crude outlooks, and investors are reexamining which companies could benefit most if supply risks persist.

In a new report, Zacks highlights three oil stocks standing out in the current market backdrop.

[View the briefing]

Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) delivered a quarter that looked better than the stock action. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.79 versus $0.73 expected, revenue reached $31.46 billion against a $30.35 billion consensus, broadband losses improved sharply to 65,000 from 183,000 a year ago, and Peacock added 2 million subscribers to reach 46 million. Mobile was also strong, with 435,000 net additions and the best quarter in that business so far.

On paper, that is a solid report. The problem is that investors do not want “less bad” from Comcast anymore. They want a clear return to durable broadband growth, and they are not getting it yet.

Broadband ARPU fell 3.1%, pricing pressure remains real, and competition from fiber and fixed wireless is still intense. Even Peacock’s progress, while encouraging, came alongside a huge advertising boost from special events that will not repeat every quarter.

So the market is still treating Comcast as a business that can produce cash, but not one that deserves a cleaner rerating yet. The 4.80% dividend yield helps, but it is not enough to overpower the concern that the core connectivity engine is still under pressure.

My Take For You: Comcast is executing better than the stock suggests, but the market wants proof that broadband can become a growth story again, not just a slower decline.

My Verdict: Hold, don’t chase. The risk is that broadband pricing pressure and competition keep this stock stuck even when quarterly results come in above expectations.

Intellia is exploding higher because traders are loading up ahead of a make-or-break Phase 3 readout in hereditary angioedema. The setup is easy to understand: earlier data showed a 96% drop in monthly attack rates, with 97% of patients attack-free for up to three years. If the Phase 3 data backs that up, this becomes one of the biggest validation moments CRISPR has seen in a public stock.

This is still a binary biotech event, which means the upside is real and the downside is real too.

Cliffs is higher because the market is buying the idea that Q1 was the low point. Revenue rose to $4.9 billion, shipments held above 4.1 million tons, and management is calling for a much better Q2 with steel prices up about $60 per ton from Q1 levels. The options tape is backing that up too, with call volume running hot.

The company is not out of the woods yet. It still lost $229 million in Q1, and this only works if better pricing actually turns into better cash flow fast.

Avis is still falling because the squeeze is dead. This stock ran on forced buying, meme energy, and trapped shorts, not on a real change in the rental-car business. Now that the squeeze has broken, the air is coming out fast.

That matters more than any bargain-hunting argument. When a stock loses more than half its value in a week after a vertical run, the market is telling you the move was built on momentum, not fundamentals.

No one believed Whitney Tilson when he predicted the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Or when he went on 60 Minutes exposing a company poisoning its own customers. (The stock fell nearly 80%.)

Now he has a new warning about what's REALLY around the corner for America's most beloved tech companies.

Watch for free here.

That’s all for today. Thank you for reading. If you have any feedback, please reply to this email.

Best Regards,

— Adam Garcia
Elite Trade Club

Click here to get our daily newsletter straight to your cell for free.

P.S. Just like this newsletter, it's 100% free*, and you can stop at any time by replying STOP.