Dear Reader,
The stock market just entered a highly dangerous new phase – which is going to have dramatic consequences for your money this summer.
The signs are everywhere:
SpaceX is set to go public as soon as June 11. OpenAI and Anthropic will likely follow it.
If you're thinking of buying these... PLEASE DON'T. They're likely to be disasters – the most overhyped, overvalued large-cap stocks of all time, foisted on gullible investors by Wall Street insiders.
At the same time, the President and his family are openly picking winners in the stock market... while a 24-year-old just founded his own hedge fund and made $5 billion in less than a year.
But it's what's coming NEXT that I'm most worried about.
I've spent 30 years on Wall Street. I have my MBA from Harvard and spend my time in correspondence with billionaires like Warren Buffett and Bill Ackman. I've forecast the collapse of dozens of stocks.
But what I see happening today scares me – as a former money manager, as a father, and as an American.
Because our country is headed toward an economic event unlike anything we've seen in over 100 years.
Perhaps you see the signs too. Or maybe you just feel it – that creeping, nagging doubt that tells you something is dangerously wrong in our country.
If that's you, I'd urge you... listen to your gut.
If you care about your wealth, your family, and your future, you need to understand what's really coming.
I've put together a free analysis explaining exactly what I see, and the specific steps I recommend you take with your money today.
I strongly encourage you to check it out here.
Regards,
Whitney Tilson
Editor, Stansberry Investment Advisory
Former Hedge Fund Manager
Co-Founder, Teach for America
Harvard MBA
P.S. What's happening today will reset the financial system in a way most of us can't imagine. If I'm even half-right, it's going to have a huge impact on your money and your future. Get the details here...
CAVA Group’s Stock Looks Delicious After Strong Earnings
By Chris Markoch. Originally Published: 5/22/2026.
Key Points
- CAVA beat earnings and revenue expectations while raising same-store sales and EBITDA guidance.
- Strong foot traffic growth highlights continued demand from younger, health-conscious consumers.
- Despite the bullish earnings reaction, valuation concerns and short-term volatility remain key risks.
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Shares of CAVA Group Inc. (NYSE: CAVA) gained 3% the day after the company delivered a solid beat on both the top and bottom lines in its Q1 2026 earnings report.
The headline numbers were strong. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of 20 cents beat expectations of 17 cents. Revenue of $438.27 million topped forecasts of $418.46 million and rose 32.2% year over year (YOY).
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Watch Adam O'Dell's full briefing and get his free ticker nowSame-restaurant sales (SRS) increased 9.7%, with foot traffic growth of 6.8%. That is notable at a time when many fast-casual restaurants are reporting declining traffic. CAVA also opened 20 net new restaurants during the quarter, lifting the store count by about 20% YOY.
A Different Way to Assess Consumer Health
The report comes at a time when investors are looking for direction on the health of the consumer, particularly at lower income levels.
That may not be as relevant for CAVA. While the company doesn’t explicitly market to a single demographic, research shows that CAVA's primary customer segments skew young and affluent, with Millennials and Gen Z driving over 60% of foot traffic and a median household income above $100,000, aligning with the brand's premium fast-casual positioning.
Still, the report may offer a read on consumer health. CAVA is a category-defining Mediterranean fast-casual brand that competes in the health and wellness food category. That aligns with Millennial and Gen Z consumers who are seeking healthier options in the fast-casual space.
A Victim of Its Own Success?
If there was one blemish in the report, it was that adjusted EPS was about 10% below the 22 cents per share posted in Q1 2025. By itself, that’s not very notable. The company maintained its YOY profit margin of 25.1%. However, YOY EPS remains a metric for investors to watch going forward.
The company added its first-ever seafood item to the menu. The Pomegranate Glazed Salmon performed in line with test expectations. But popularity has its price, and management warned that the item will be a margin headwind for the remainder of the year. Even so, the company maintained its prior guidance for Restaurant-Level Profit Margin.
One justification for the earnings outlook is the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) buildout. On the earnings call, management noted that the company has completed CavaCore, its modern data platform that will provide a unified, scalable foundation for managing and using data across the business, including leveraging emerging AI capabilities.
On the rest of its metrics, the company raised its guidance, which helps explain the market's reaction after the report. Notably, full-year same-restaurant sales growth guidance was raised to 4.5%–6.5% from the prior 3.0%–5.0%, and adjusted EBITDA guidance was lifted to $181M–$191M.
Even the Whispers Were Too Low
Heading into the earnings report, institutional investors were optimistic about CAVA Group’s earnings. The whisper number, an unofficial forecast, put CAVA’s adjusted earnings per share at 19 cents. That was 2 cents higher than the consensus estimate of 17 cents. So CAVA didn’t just beat the consensus; it beat an even higher bullish expectation.
Analysts noticed. After earnings, the CAVA analyst forecasts on MarketBeat showed that seven analysts had boosted their CAVA price targets, with many setting targets above the consensus price target of $91.85.
Why the Rally May Be Volatile
Heading into the earnings report, CAVA was under selling pressure, as evidenced by the long red candle on slightly above-average volume. That correlates with short interest of around 11% in CAVA. It also means that some of the post-earnings rally may be due to short covering by traders who are quickly unwinding their positions.
That doesn’t mean investors shouldn’t buy into this rally, just that there may be some volatility in the next few days. CAVA is currently trading below its 50-day simple moving average (SMA) of about $85, so investors will want to see a sustained close above that level. That would likely confirm a bullish divergence in the MACD, where the signal line and MACD line remain negative but are curling upward — a potential early sign of momentum shifting back in the bulls' favor.
One more headwind for CAVA is its lofty valuation. The stock trades at around 150x earnings and about 7.2x price-to-sales. That’s pricing in several quarters of future growth.
But like other stocks with lofty valuations, performance may drive near-term sentiment in CAVA. As the price action into earnings showed, investors were expecting the report to disappoint. By flipping the script, the company has bought itself another quarter for investors to assess the growth trajectory.
Apple’s Agentic AI Plans Could Be Its Biggest Growth Story Yet
By Sam Quirke. Originally Published: 5/29/2026.
Key Points
- Apple stock has been setting all-time highs this week as the market continues to price in the company's progress with its AI ambitions.
- Bank of America just raised its price target this week, arguing that Apple's control over user identity, payments, and device experience gives it a strategic advantage in the upcoming agentic AI era.
- With the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference set to be a major catalyst in the next fortnight, the near-term setup is as interesting as the long-term thesis.
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Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) have been setting record highs in recent sessions and are currently sitting around $310. It’s been a solid couple of weeks for the tech giant as it looks to extend a run of more than 25% in less than two months.
Yes, the stock's relative strength index (RSI) is nudging into stretched territory, and its price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is at one of its highest levels in more than a decade—both worth keeping an eye on. But in the context of a company whose AI ambitions are still gaining traction with the market, neither reading is necessarily a reason to step back.
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Watch Adam O'Dell's full briefing and get his free ticker nowThe more important questions right now are how much upside potential remains and how far the stock could still run. There are several reasons to think the bulls will be happy with the answer to both. Let's take a closer look below.
Bullish Analyst Updates
The market has been leaning increasingly toward Apple’s AI initiatives over the past few months. That shift is continuing to gain momentum, at least based on this week’s update from Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan.
In a note to clients, Mohan raised his Apple price target to $380 from $330, reiterated his Buy rating, and laid out a thesis that doubles down on Apple’s AI potential. The conventional view, at least through the end of Q1, was that Apple was an AI laggard, slow to respond to the AI wave and lacking a marquee in-house model to show for it. The stock had a correspondingly sluggish start to the year, trading back to December 2024 levels by the time April began.
And yet, the market has clearly started to change its mind. The stock's 25% rally since then suggests investors are warming to the idea that the AI-laggard framing was always too simplistic, and Mohan's note this week makes the case that there's still a long way to go.
Apple’s Starting Point Is Far Ahead of the Competition
The crux of it is that in an agentic AI world, value doesn't accrue to whoever builds the best model—it accrues to whoever owns the trusted platform through which users interact with those models. Mohan makes a fair point that Apple’s iPhones already control user identity, personal context, app access, payments, and privacy in ways no AI lab can replicate from scratch.
If AI assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping, become the new front door to search, commerce, scheduling, and daily tasks in general, Apple sits at exactly the right chokepoint to extract enormous value from that transition. That's a compelling take, and Bank of America’s $380 price target, not to mention Wedbush’s $400 target, shows just how real it could be.
The Siri Redesign Is the Catalyst to Watch
The next major update on this should come at Apple’s WWDC event on June 8, where the company is widely expected to unveil a significantly redesigned Siri. Investors will be hoping for an update that delivers something meaningfully different from what Siri has been. Simply making it a smarter voice assistant is unlikely to cut it. A step toward making it a genuine agent capable of understanding intent, personal context, and completing multi-step workflows autonomously would be a strong move.
If Apple pulls that off, the revenue implications are significant. There’s a growing consensus that an agentic Siri could meaningfully boost Apple's revenue in the coming years, with the upside scaling considerably if users genuinely embrace it as their primary interface for daily tasks.
The Broader Ecosystem Argument
What makes this agentic AI thesis particularly interesting is the broader argument sitting underneath it. Increasingly, Apple is no longer seen simply as an expensive hardware business. It’s a consumer ecosystem business with cult-like retention, growing high-margin software revenue, and a financial engine that keeps rewarding long-term shareholders even in quieter periods.
Each iPhone sold effectively represents a multi-year revenue stream, given the subscriptions, storage, payments, and increasing exposure to AI that consumers have through the device. That flywheel becomes significantly more powerful if agentic AI deepens the switching costs that already make Apple's installed base so durable.
That’s an important pillar in the bulls’ thesis for the coming years, especially when you consider the stock’s current valuation. At 37 times earnings, investors are being asked to pay more for every dollar earned than at almost any time over the past decade. That's a little frightening. Still, if this agentic AI opportunity plays out as expected, Apple’s earnings trajectory could make that multiple look like a bargain.
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