Value Picks

No pick this week as the Magnificent 7 earnings shake out — Microsoft makes history, Apple and Meta stumble, and the AI trade starts rewarding proven monetization only.

No pick this week as four mega-cap earnings reports and a Fed meeting loom — but Netflix is on sale at a 27% discount with 35–50% upside implied by analysts.

No pick this week as six mega-cap earnings reports loom — these companies alone account for nearly a quarter of the S&P 500 and $17 trillion in combined value.

No Value Pick this week. The S&P 500 managed a 1.2% gain during a turbulent week following the long Independence Day weekend.

This week’s Value Pick is Meta Platforms (META). This is the second time we’ve picked Meta, the first time being on April 27, 2025.

No Value Pick this week. The market seemed to get hit with something nearly every day, with the S&P 500 ending the week down 2.0%

No pick this week, but a check-in on the Defiance Quantum ETF (QTUM) — up 47.8% over six months and beating the S&P 500 by 37.9%.

Western Digital is this week's pick — the first storage company to deploy quantum-resistant security in production, with 183% gains this year and still room to grow.

Dell Technologies is this week's pick — stellar earnings, a $51 billion backlog, and a 12.7% pullback bring it into value territory.

No pick this week as the S&P 500 closes at a record high for the ninth consecutive week — but Dell's historic AI earnings sent shockwaves across the sector.

IBM is this week's pick, coming off a 32.9% dip driven by AI disruption fears, with a rare trifecta of recovery, 10%+ weekly gain, and high volume — plus a quantum computing catalyst that changes the story.

Cardinal Health is this week's pick after a seven-week drought, as the healthcare sector shows signs of a turnaround.

A solid week for the S&P 500 with a new record high set on May 8.