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HSBC assesses that, given previous $35 billion in financing that supported over 1 gigawatt, this transaction would roughly support a 1.7 to 1.8 gigawatt deployment. This falls short of management's 2027 target of 5 gigawatts, and funding continuity will require monitoring going forward.
Goldman Sachs concludes that the funding gap can be covered by debt financing, customer advance payments, and operating cash flow.
Goldman Sachs assesses that strong demand for AI platforms and a favorable customer product mix are driving revenue and gross margins to exceed expectations, but with valuations already close to target prices, upside for the stock remains limited.
JPMorgan estimates that the commercial value of Vera Rubin is approximately 40% higher than that of the leading GB300 system, with compute scaling and premium monetization supporting the annual recurring revenue target. The report maintains an overweight rating and raises the price target from $240 to $500, based on a 20x multiple applied to the 2028 GAAP EPS of $24.41. Current price: $147.79.
ARK Invest has released an update to its open-source Tesla valuation model, projecting that Tesla will be worth approximately $4,400 per share by 2031. A Monte Carlo simulation based on 32 independent variables shows a bear case of around $3,300 per share and a bull case of around $5,000 per share, corresponding to annualized share price gains of 53% and 66%, respectively, with the base case implying an annualized return of approximately 62%.Under the base case, ARK Invest expects Tesla's total revenue to reach approximately $1.45 trillion by 2031, with EBITDA of about $902 billion and a market capitalization of approximately $17.5 trillion.To support the development of its AI and robotics businesses, the model also assumes that Tesla's cumulative AI infrastructure spending will increase from approximately $7 billion at the end of 2025 to approximately $225 billion by the end of 2031. Robotaxi is expected to become Tesla's primary source of value, contributing approximately 80% of enterprise value by 2031. The humanoid robot Optimus will also become an important growth engine, with Tesla's cumulative external sales of Optimus robots reaching approximately 1 million units by 2031, and revenue from robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) and related businesses amounting to approximately $212 billion.However, ARK Invest cautions that these valuations depend on multiple assumptions, including the pace of autonomous driving commercialization, the maturity of robotics technology, profit margins, and capital efficiency. Actual results may differ significantly from these projections. The model is for reference only and does not constitute investment advice.
Bernstein estimates that Azure and Office can accelerate simultaneously. With Copilot paid seats surpassing 30 million and capacity constraints easing, both businesses will grow in tandem, offering Microsoft a valuation re-rating opportunity. It maintains an Outperform rating, raising its price target from $660 to $662, representing 25% upside from the current stock price of $529.05.
According to an official announcement from Tenstorrent, the company has completed a $1.5 billion Series E financing round, with a post-money valuation of $6.2 billion. Led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, the round saw participation from both new and existing investors, including Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Cadence Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Morgan Stanley, Sandisk, Tether Investments, T. Rowe Price, Virtu Financial, and XTX Markets.
According to The Block, TD Cowen analysts Lance Vitanza and Jonnathan Navarrete raised their price target for Strive (ASST) on Friday from $44 to $56. Strive's bitcoin holdings have increased to 35,595 BTC, valued at approximately $2.9 billion, up from 28,000 BTC at the end of September. This represents an acquisition of nearly 7,600 BTC over two weeks, surpassing TD Cowen's previous forecast of adding 4,750 BTC in the fourth quarter. The purchases include 3,311 BTC acquired on Tuesday (approximately $280 million, marking its largest single transaction since January) and 2,822 BTC on Wednesday. Strive is now the publicly traded company with the fourth-largest bitcoin treasury, marginally ahead of MARA's reported holdings. Strive has simultaneously expanded its SATS preferred stock offering to 7 million shares at $90 per share, targeting $630 million in proceeds, with completion expected by October 20. The company plans to reserve cash sufficient to cover dividend payments for 18 months. TD Cowen expects the offering to fund future bitcoin acquisitions without necessitating additional common stock issuance.
Morgan Stanley notes that the market only sees rockets and satellites, while pricing for enterprise AI and distributed inference clouds is nearly zero. AI compute for FY2027 is estimated at 4.9 gigawatts, with the company targeting nearly 10 gigawatts; every additional 1 gigawatt of compute capacity could increase the stock price by approximately $27. Maintains an Overweight rating.
Odaily News: Cantor Fitzgerald has initiated coverage of digital asset securitization company Securitize with an Overweight rating and a price target of $21.2. Securitize shares rose 12% yesterday to $14.57, hitting an all-time high. Cantor Fitzgerald stated that tokenization represents one of the largest overhauls of financial infrastructure in the past century, and believes the stock's current valuation is attractive.
According to Chaotang Research, Morgan Stanley's September 15, 2026 research report maintains an Overweight rating on SpaceX with a $300 price target against a current price of $148.15, indicating upside potential of 102.5%. Morgan Stanley breaks down the target price into four segments: $165 for AI compute, $118 for satellite broadband, $8 for rocket launches, and $8 for X and Grok. AI compute accounts for more than half of the valuation. The report raises its 2026 earnings per share forecast by 1% and its 2027 estimate by 3.8%, primarily reflecting the newly disclosed $1.1 billion NeoCloud deal.
PPP prediction market monitoring shows that on Polymarket, the probability of "OpenAI's valuation will reach $1 trillion by the end of 2026" has risen to 82%, up 20% in 24 hoursIf from the event creation date through December 31, 2026, the OpenAI NPM Price published by Nasdaq Private Market corresponds to a private market valuation that at any point reaches or exceeds the target valuation set by the event, it resolves as "Yes"; otherwise, it resolves as "No."NPM publishes data only on trading days and updates it at 1:00 PM ET the following day. If by January 1, 2027, relevant data has still not been published, the event may remain open at the latest until January 4 at 11:59 PM.If OpenAI conducts an IPO or direct listing during this period, then in addition to the pre-listing NPM valuation, the valuation corresponding to the official offering price and the public market market cap from after listing through December 31, 2026, will also be referenced. Public market cap is calculated as "the highest/lowest official trading price on a trading day × the total number of outstanding common shares at that time."In simple terms: as long as before the end of 2026, OpenAI has at any point reached the valuation threshold set by the event according to NPM or official post-listing market data, it counts as "Yes."Join the PPP signal push community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
According to Reuters, AI startup Temporal announced the completion of a $550 million late-stage funding round, more than doubling its valuation to $12.55 billion over seven months. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Wellington Management, Growth Equity under Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and Tiger Global participating as co-leads. SV Angel and T. Rowe Price Associates advisory accounts also participated, while existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Sequoia Capital, and GIC continued their investment. The funds will be used to expand global operations and advance platform R&D. Founded in 2019, Temporal develops open-source software that helps applications, including AI agents, recover from failures, reducing the need for engineers to write custom recovery code. Its customers include OpenAI, Snap, Nvidia, Netflix, and JPMorgan Chase. The company employs 570 staff members and maintains an annualized revenue run rate of over $250 million, representing more than double year-over-year growth. In February this year, the company completed a round led by a16z at a $5 billion valuation
Odaily News – Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, responded on X to the intense price volatility of the LAPTOP Meme coin shortly after its launch, as well as related "Rug Pull" allegations. He stated that the available liquidity at launch was insufficient to meet market demand, which—combined with technical issues and "snipers" engaging in front-running—caused the price to surge rapidly before pulling back. The price has now stabilized.Hunter Biden stated that the team's token allocation is locked, no team members have sold tokens, and he personally has not received any profit from LAPTOP. Currently, LAPTOP's fully diluted valuation (FDV) exceeds $1 billion. The team is exploring ways to optimize liquidity and will continue advancing community development.He also addressed the matter of distributing LAPTOP tokens for free to users who suffered losses on TRUMP, saying that external descriptions of this as a "failure" do not reflect the actual situation, and emphasized that the project will continue to move forward in the long term.For more LAPTOP-related information, read: Biden's Son Launches Meme Coin LAPTOP, Also Plans Airdrop for TRUMP Holders.
Odaily News "White-haired Stock God" Serenity posted on X, expressing optimism about storage chip maker Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT, 3006) over the coming months, suggesting its trajectory could mirror the strong rally seen in SanDisk (SNDK).Serenity noted that a single DDR2 memory chip currently costs around $0.96. If the ASP (average selling price) triples, the cost per chip would increase by roughly $2. While this cost increase remains relatively limited for end products, sustained price hikes in memory products could have a significant impact on ESMT's own profitability. Additionally, SLC NAND is expected to see ASP increases of 120% to 170% in the second half of the year, with NOR Flash and other products also facing pricing upside expectations.Serenity stated that based on July performance, ESMT's current monthly net profit stands at approximately $111 million, with a market cap of around $2.8 billion, and believes there remains substantial room for valuation re-rating. Serenity noted that ESMT's current situation reminds them of early-stage SanDisk, but this opportunity is primarily concentrated in the legacy and specialty memory market.
According to Chaoxiang Research, a Morgan Stanley report dated August 25, 2026, indicates that SpaceX has announced a $100 billion Starbase project in Louisiana, planning five launch complexes totaling 10 launch pads, with construction set to begin in 2027 and the maiden flight scheduled for 2029. SpaceX has currently planned a total of 15 launch pads. Morgan Stanley believes the market has not fully appreciated the scale of Starship; even without including the new base, projected launches through 2040 would only require eight launch pads to sustain operations. Morgan Stanley maintains an Overweight rating with a $300 price target, offering 118% upside from the current $137. Louisiana has provided a substantial incentive package, selected for four key reasons: access to polar orbits, natural gas supply, political hedging, and government incentives. With a payload capacity exceeding five times that of Falcon 9 and full reusability, Morgan Stanley projects launch costs will fall to $500/kg by 2030 and drop below $200/kg by 2035. In Morgan Stanley's sum-of-the-parts valuation, the Enterprise AI segment carries a value of $165. The current stock price implies an extremely low single-digit multiple for this business line, while the orbital AI call option is priced near zero. SpaceX has completed its final Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida, with all future Starlink missions transferring entirely to Starship. Each launch's downlink capacity is Falcon
Odaily News: According to market reports, Databricks has completed a $5 billion funding round, bringing its valuation to $190 billion.
Bitcoin analyst Plan B stated on the X platform that the core of Bitcoin's long-term value lies in scarcity, not short-term price fluctuations.Plan B believes that many people focus on Bitcoin's price charts, while the S2F model he uses focuses on the degree of asset scarcity. This model measures scarcity through "existing supply ÷ annual new production," where the S2F for gold is approximately 60. Due to Bitcoin's fixed total supply of 21 million coins and its predictable issuance schedule, its S2F is currently around 120 and continues to rise over time.The Bitcoin halving mechanism is an important driver of the S2F model. Approximately every four years, the Bitcoin network reduces the block reward by half, decreasing new supply and roughly doubling the S2F level, making it the core supply-side event observed by the model.Plan B emphasized that the S2F and its upgraded version, the S2FX model, predict long-term average value rather than precisely forecasting market tops or bottoms. Bitcoin's price typically fluctuates around the model's estimated value, and investors should focus on multi-year cycle averages rather than single-day price highs. Additionally, Plan B believes that as scarcity increases, Bitcoin is undergoing different stages of development, including proof of concept, payment network, "digital gold"/store of value asset, and institutional-grade financial asset. Each increase in scarcity could bring new market narratives and capital inflows.However, Plan B also reiterated that "all models are wrong, but some are useful." He stated that the S2F model is merely a tool for long-term understanding of Bitcoin's scarcity, not a trading signal or a "crystal ball" for price prediction. Although the model has withstood major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and China's mining ban, it still has limitations.
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor confirmed that the company's Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock STRC will maintain a Stretch Dividend Rate of 12.00% in August 2026. STRC was launched in July 2025 with an initial rate of 9%, and has since seen seven consecutive monthly increases. STRC's dividend adjustment mechanism stipulates that when its trading price falls below $95, the dividend rate increases by 0.5%, and once triggered, the increase is irreversible even if the price recovers. Strategy resets this rate monthly to drive STRC's price closer to its $100 par value, and issues new shares through its ATM program to raise funds for Bitcoin purchases. STRC closed at $89.46 on July 31, down from the previous closing price of $89.50, approximately 10% to 11% below its $100 par value. The stock touched a low of $71.25 in June and has not returned to par value since mid-May. Strategy has paused new STRC issuance through its ATM program, limiting its ability to use this funding channel to increase its Bitcoin holdings. The company maintains a liquidity buffer covering approximately 26 months of dividend and interest obligations, and in late June, authorized a $2 billion preferred stock and common stock buyback and Bitcoin monetization program through the Digital Credit Capital Framework.
Brokerage firm TD Cowen lowered Sharplink's target price from $16 to $13, as it reduced its Ethereum price forecast for the end of 2026 to $2,371. However, TD Cowen still maintains a "Buy" rating on Sharplink, stating that the company recently completed a $75 million financing, purchased 10,000 ETH, and initiated a 2.13 million share buyback, indicating that its capital reserve execution continues to advance.