Uber $UBER reported mixed results this quarter, topping revenue, but missing EPS expectations. 

Instead of celebrating what seemed to be a decent quarter, the stock dipped 2.5% on the day.

That’s not what strength looks like.

Revenue growth is slowing, and the company's sales and marketing spend is ramping up. This is a red flag for a business that’s supposed to be "scaling efficiently."

So while the revenue numbers came in hot, the internals are raising eyebrows.

In this tape, surface-level beats won’t cut it. Investors want margin discipline, accelerating growth, and clean execution. 

Uber didn’t deliver that. And the market responded accordingly.

This wasn’t a disaster, but it wasn’t convincing either.

So what else did we learn from yesterday's earnings reactions? Let’s dive into the details.

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Charles River Laboratories $CRL had the best reaction score...

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📌 Powell Industries  $POWL — This is the headliner. Kovitz Investment Group just filed a 13G, revealing a 13.49% passive stake in this small-cap electrical equipment name.

Kovitz is a value-focused investment firm known for taking concentrated, long-term positions in underappreciated companies. When they show up with a size like this, it sends a clear signal.

📌 The CEOs of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust $PEB, Huntsman Corp $HUN, and WillScot Holdings $WSC just filed Form 4s revealing open market buys of $600,000, $493,000, and $268,000 worth of their own stock, respectively.

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Technology just printed its first green box in nearly three months.

Yesterday, I touched on the Growth vs. Value ratio and how Growth looks ready to regain leadership as markets recover from recent losses.

Adding fuel to that view, Technology — a cornerstone of the Growth trade — has reversed its breakdown relative to the broader market. That’s a failed move worth paying attention to.

You cannot miss this chart.

The setup is now in place: after a sluggish start to the year, Tech looks ready to step back into a leadership role.

Given its heavy weighting in U.S. indexes, this could be the tailwind needed to push the market toward fresh highs.

Steve Strazza caught this rotation in real time — flipping from puts to calls and riding the bounce with six trades that have already doubled.

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The US Dollar Index $DXY lives and dies by the Euro.

The Eurozone and the US are two of the largest economic blocs in the world, and their currencies sit at the heart of global trade and capital flows. 

It’s no surprise that the Euro makes up nearly 60% of the DXY — so when EUR/USD moves, it doesn’t just influence the Dollar Index, it drives it.

This year, the Euro has ripped higher in a near-vertical line, breaking out of a massive multi-year base.

Now price is coiling just above former resistance near 1.1240 — a key level that’s flipped into support.

This is a textbook bullish pennant pattern forming right above the breakout level, with strong momentum behind it.

My gut’s been talking lately—and it’s telling me that the odds of a market pullback are on the rise.

After a string of strong sessions, it’s only natural that the market might need to catch its breath. But it’s not just that. If we do head back toward the recent lows, I don’t expect it to be quiet. There will be noise. A lot of noise.

Some voices will shout that we’re “retesting the lows”—a technical inevitability, they’ll argue. Others will pound the table that this whole bounce was nothing more than a dead cat bounce, and that the real drop is just beginning.

I’ve got my own hunch about how this might play out—something I discussed on this morning’s Options Jam Session (watch below). But regardless of how far we pull back, I’m increasingly focused on one specific area of the market: housing stocks.

If things get slippery from here, I think the housing sector is particularly vulnerable. That vulnerability could come from multiple angles: rising rates, shifting consumer sentiment, or simply relative underperformance catching up with absolute price.

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Uber has significant resistance a little higher. The amount of patterns coming together is pretty impressive.  In no particular order, LOG projection, 1.618 extension, 3 drives to a top w/ a 'nested' butterfly sell along w/ measured moves all coming together in/around the 90-95 level. Expect this to be formidable resistance to higher.  If it gaps and goes above this level, then believe Uber has underlying strength for a much higher move. Holding judgement till the levels mentioned (90-95) are firmly smashed in a move higher.

Bart

My gut tells me the odds of a pullback in the markets are increasing. And the next pullback in the direction back to recent lows will likely come with a lot of noise. There will be lots of shouts about "retesting lows," from some camps, and other shouts of "this was just a dead cat bounce, we're going much lower!" from other camps.

I have a hunch of how that plays out, which I discussed on this morning's Options Jam Session.

But if the market gets slippery here, and especially if the shouting class gets it right, I think housing sector stocks are vulnerable.

Macke portfolio holding Peloton reports in the morning. Officially the Street is looking for a loss of 6c on ~$650mm for the quarter and about $2.5b in revenue for the year, cranking out about $300 to $350 million EBITDA.

But that's not what I'll be watching. I'm grading the company on Churn, Cuts and Cashflow. I don't really care if Peloton is selling a lot of bikes. The head of marketing got fired last week so I suspect they aren't. Bikes and Treads and rowing machines crank out 1/3 of Peloton's revenues but it's only a 13.5% gross margin business. With Tariffs that margins falls to nothing-ish. Peloton runs inventory lean and has China exposure so there could be headlines related to moving product around ahead of the tariffs. Under old management that would be scary. The new team seems quite competent. Both me and the Street will forgive a little inventory kerfuffle.

If Peloton can't get more apparel and decides to close its pointless stores I'll be almost giddy.

So the tariff doesn't scare me.

Investors need to see churn (the number of people who quit) stay low (under 2%). This is a hard time of the year for churn but that's the key to Peloton as an...

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Welcome to The 2 to 100 Club.

In this scan, we look to identify the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega cap status (over $200B).

Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.

But the scan doesn't just end there.

We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.

Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey to becoming the market behemoths they are today.

When you look at the stocks in our table, you'll notice we're only focused on Technology and Growth industry groups such as Software, Semiconductors, Online...

In today’s Daily Digest, we’ll review the following:

1. No new positions today.
2. Adjustment to XLC position.
3. Closed IBB at Profit Target.
4. Current status of open campaigns.
5. Volatility Snapshot.

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Uber is is pulling back premarket, ostensibly on slightly light revenues and solid but not spectacular guide. At least that's going to be the reason analysts will cite for not taking up their ratings on Uber, despite the company crushing on trailing numbers and guiding to just a whisper better than estimates for the current quarter. 

The truth is both more nuanced and quite simple.

1. ) UBER shares are up 42% since April 6th. As discussed on Monday, Uber needed gargantuan numbers across the board. In this economy? Was never going to happen. The stock needed a little rest. We'll see how fast buyers come in:

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2.) This wasn't a quarter that was going to change anyone's mind. Uber didn't post terrible news as the stock fell from $80 to $60 earlier this year. It just got dragged down the rest of the flotsam, with a bunch of misunderstood news about autonomous vehicles thrown in on top of it.

Now that Uber has reported huge earnings and cash flow analysts with a bearish take will go back to mumbling about unsustainability and the ever-looming threat of Tesla releasing a fleet of cabs.

At least that's what I suspect...

Palantir $PLTR just delivered a double beat, with both revenue and earnings exceeding expectations. 

But you wouldn’t know it from the chart.

Despite the solid headline numbers, the stock suffered its worst earnings reaction in over a year.

This is the kind of tape where good news isn’t good enough. 

When a high-profile name like Palantir delivers and still gets sold, it tells you all you need to know about sentiment at the moment.

Sure, the business is growing, and the AI story is still intact, but the market doesn’t care. 

This wasn’t about fundamentals. 

It was about expectations… and clearly, they were too high.

That’s not disappointment in the company, that’s exhaustion in the trade.

So what else did we learn from yesterday's earnings reactions? Let’s dive into the details.

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Constellation Energy $CEG had the best reaction score after...

Disney just beat the crap out of estimates and (surprising part here) guided higher for the year. 

Despite collapsing consumer sentiment, a drop off in US park visits, leaning even deeper into cruises (which might be the only way to vaporize your money faster than going to a theme park) and national disinterest in all things Marvel and Star Wars Disney guided pretty much every higher for just about every segment and hiked the annual estimate by over 30c a share.

Just to flex a little more Disney also raised expected cash flow by more than $2 billion. 

Oh yeah, Disney also added the news of a new park in Abu Dhabi. Which raises a whole bunch of questions

Let's Grade It!

Financials: A

This is why you have a conglomerate. Parks fall off? Entertainment picks up the slack. Cruises are disappointing? Streaming picks up some slack. This is probably the best quarter for Disney since the return of Iger, given the cross-currents.

Consumer: B+

Park profitability went up despite less traffic. I'd like to think that was because the company was controlling traffic levels by raising prices, a...

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📌Organon & Co $OGN — CEO Kevin Ali and CFO Matthew Walsh filed separate Form 4s, collectively scooping up nearly $399,918 in stock. 

This is easily the standout trade of the day. When the top two executives double down at the same time, that’s a serious vote of confidence — and a signal we don’t ignore.

📌Ardelyx Inc $ARDX — Foresite Capital Fund is back with a massive $1.6 million buy. 

When a fund known for backing early-stage innovation leans in this hard, it tells us they like what they see under the hood.

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Large-cap stocks continue to dominate the U.S. equity markets, and this trend looks poised to persist in the near future.

Growth $IWF has just broken to new relative highs relative to Value $IWD, signaling a shift in the underlying trend.

Despite the considerable headwinds faced by the U.S. markets and growth stocks in particular throughout this year, it seems that growth is far from surrendering.

In fact, it appears that growth stocks are positioning themselves for a potential rebound, showing resilience and the capacity to deliver returns despite their recent weakness.

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With the market back above key levels, we're seeing early signs of rotation, particularly into tech. 

Among the tech subsectors, cybersecurity is emerging as a standout, showing strong potential to lead the next phase of growth.

This group has been carving out a massive bottoming formation relative to the S&P 500 for over two years.

We've seen multiple failed attempts at the top of the range — but now we're back at those former highs, and this thing looks ready to go.

This is what a bearish-to-bullish reversal looks like.

If this base completes and this breakout holds, then it will mark the...

In trading, we’re taught early on that risk management is everything. “Use stop losses!” they say. And I agree. But what I’ve come to learn—especially when trading options in volatile markets—is that stops aren’t always about a precise line in the sand. Sometimes, they’re more like zones. Areas. Regions on the chart where you start paying close attention, rather than pulling the trigger at the first sign of trouble.

This came into sharp focus recently as volatility spiked. When the market threw its “tariff tantrum” and everything went haywire, we saw stocks and indices swinging wildly in both directions. On any given day, the same stock could be up 5% in the morning and down 5% by the afternoon. It was chaos. And chaos doesn’t play nicely with rigid stop-loss levels.

I had several long positions on during that time—mostly defined-risk spreads with expirations a few months out. The kind of trades that allow for a bit more breathing room. Yet many of these positions would repeatedly dip below my stop levels… only to recover just hours later. Over and over. A less experienced version of me might have panicked and bailed the moment my mental stop was breached. But I’ve...