Charged Alpha Stock Encyclopedia
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<p><span>⚡ Charged Alpha — The S&P 500 Stock Encyclopedia</span><span> </span><span>Data-driven deep dives into every stock in the S&P 500 after every earnings report. Each episode breaks down one company from open to close: what they do, how the numbers look, what Wall Street thinks, the bull case, the bear case.</span><span> </span><span>🛠️ Check out our free beginner-friendly screening tools for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, bonds, REITs & more at https://chargedalpha.com — no signup, no paywall.</span><span> </span><span>📊 What you get in every episode:</span><span> </span><span> </span><span>Company overview & competitive moat</span><span> </span><span>Full financial breakdown — valuation, revenue, margins, cash flow</span><span> </span><span>Analyst consensus & price targets</span><span> </span><span>Bull case vs. bear case</span><span> </span><span>Peer comparison, options flow & insider activity</span><span> </span><span>Key metrics to watch</span><span> </span><span> </span><span>⚠️ Not financial advice. For educational purposes only. Episodes are researched, written, and produced using AI-assisted tools. All data aggregated from publicly available sources.</span><span> </span><span>#stocks #investing #S&P500 #stockanalysis #chargedalpha #financialdata </span><span>#earningsreport</span><span> </span><span>#earnings</span><span> </span></p>
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August 4, 2026
Atkore (ATKR): Prysmian Paid $95 Cash. Only $1.47 Is Left. Is ATKR Stock Still a Buy?
Atkore Inc. (ATKR) Q3 FY2026 — Reported August 3, 2026 BEFORE the US open for fiscal Q3 2026 - the 13-week quarter ENDED JUNE 26, 2026 (not June 30; Atkore runs a 13-week fiscal quarter and a September 30 fiscal year end). In the SAME release Atkore announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Prysmian S.p.A. for $95.00 per share in ALL CASH, an enterprise value of about $3.8 billion. Net sales $794.8M, +8.1% YoY. Adjusted EBITDA $104.7M, +4.7%. Adjusted diluted EPS $1.92 vs $1.63. GAAP diluted EPS just $0.02 vs $1.25, on net income of $0.745M, after a $50.0M litigation settlement. The stock closed August 3 at $93.55, up 28.2% on the announcement session, versus the $72.96 unaffected close of July 31. It closed August 4 at $93.53. The 12-month closing low was $53.85 on August 11, 2025. Guidance was withdrawn and the earnings call was cancelled because of the pending transaction. The deep-value versus value-trap debate on Atkore got settled - not by the cycle, but by a buyer. Prysmian, the Milan-listed cable maker, is paying $95.00 a share in cash, a 30% premium to the $72.96 unaffected close and 57% above the $60.69 close of September 29, 2025, the last trading day before Atkore announced its strategic review. Both boards approved unanimously, there is NO financing condition, and the deal is targeted to close by calendar year end 2026. Three things almost nobody has connected. FIRST, the cycle turned one quarter BEFORE the sale: trailing twelve-month adjusted EBITDA fell from $561.8M (March 2025) to $321.0M (March 2026), a 43% collapse, and then ticked UP to $325.8M this quarter - the first increase in six quarters. Quarterly it has gone $70.9M, $69.1M, $81.1M, $104.7M. Prysmian bought the bottom. SECOND, the buyback arithmetic: Atkore spent $1.61 BILLION on its own stock across fiscal 2021-2025 - half the $3.21B equity cheque Prysmian is writing for the entire company - retiring a net 12.27 million shares for about $120 of cash each, against a $95 exit. THIRD, the $186.5M of PVC antitrust settlements booked in nine months equal 57% of a full year of current earnings power: the super-cycle is being partially refunded. THE CALL: AVOID (2/5, THE DEAL ALREADY PAID YOU) — base-case value ~$84.0 vs ~$93.53 today. KEY METRICS: - CALL: AVOID 2/5. This is NOT a call against Atkore or against the deal. If you own the stock, vote for the merger and take the $95.00 - it is a good price and the board earned it. This is a call against putting NEW money in at $93.53. Standalone fair value ~$84 on normalized owner earnings. Normalized adjusted EBITDA $400M (23% ABOVE the $325.8M trailing twelve months, 48% BELOW fiscal 2024's $771.7M): less $100M D&A, less $29M net interest, taxed at 24%, add back D&A, less $70M maintenance capex = $236M of owner earnings, or $6.99 per share on the 33,772,550 shares on the 10-Q cover. At 12x, or as a perpetuity at a 10% discount rate with 1.5% terminal growth, that is ~$84. Bear $63 / base $84 / bull $117 at 10%; a 30/50/20 probability weighting also gives ~$84. The signed deal at $95.00 is about 13% ABOVE our standalone number - which is exactly what a strategic buyer with synergies is supposed to pay. - THE ARBITRAGE, WHICH IS THE WHOLE TRADE NOW: $95.00 deal versus a $93.53 close is $1.47, a 1.57% gross spread. Add the two permitted $0.33 quarterly dividends (the next is payable August 28, 2026) and total value to a year-end close is $95.66, about 2.3%, or roughly 5.5% annualised. Against that, the unaffected price is $72.96 - a break costs about 22%. Assuming a break takes the stock to roughly $78, the market at $93.53 is implicitly pricing an 88% chance of closing. We think the true probability is nearer 95% - unanimous boards, no financing condition, modest product overlap - but even AT 95% the expected value is only about $94.80, which annualises to roughly 3% and lands BELOW Treasury bills. You are risking $20 to make $1.47. We would want to pay under $91. - REVERSE DCF -
August 3, 2026
CNH Industrial (CNH): Profit Fell 35% And The Stock ROSE 8%. Is CNH a Buy?
CNH Industrial N.V. (CNH) Q2 2026 — Reported before the open (three months ended June 30, 2026). Consolidated revenues $4,803M, +2% (FLAT at constant currency); Industrial net sales $4,143M, +3%. Net income $141M vs $217M — DOWN 35%. Diluted EPS $0.11 vs $0.17. Adjusted EPS $0.13 vs a ~$0.10 Street number — a 3-cent BEAT. FY guide narrowed UP to $0.41-$0.46. The stock rose anyway: from a $10.25 close it opened $11.22, hit $12.02 (+17.2%), and sat at $11.08 — UP 8.1%. The arithmetic nobody ran: Agriculture net sales GREW $29M (to $3,277M) while Agriculture adjusted EBIT FELL $93M (to $170M). That is a decremental margin of MINUS 321% — and it happened with favorable price realization. THE CALL: HOLD (3/5, THE RECOVERY IS REAL, AND IT IS ALREADY IN THE PRICE) — base-case value ~$12.0 vs ~$11.08 today. KEY METRICS: - CALL: HOLD 3/5 — fair value ~$12.00 vs $11.08 (+8.3%), valued in two SEPARATE parts, because a manufacturer with a $28B captive bank cannot take one multiple. (a) INDUSTRIAL Activities on a DCF of INDUSTRIAL free cash flow: $300M/$700M/$1,000M/$1,200M/$1,300M through 2030, 2.0% terminal, 9.5% discount = $14,511M operating EV, less $2,520M of INDUSTRIAL net debt. (b) Financial Services SEPARATELY at 0.85x its $2,923M segment equity = $2,485M; its $22,055M of debt is NOT subtracted. Over 1,241M diluted shares: base $11.66, grid $8.53 (bear) to $15.16 (bull), weighted $11.75. Mid-cycle sum-of-the-parts cross-check: $12.99. - AGRICULTURE GREW REVENUE AND LOST A THIRD OF ITS PROFIT: net sales $3,248M to $3,277M (+$29M) while adjusted EBIT went $263M to $170M (-$93M). A decremental margin of MINUS 321% — three dollars of operating profit destroyed per extra dollar of revenue — and it happened WITH favorable price realization. Margin fell 290bps to 5.2% from 8.1%, on South America volumes, unfavorable North America/EMEA mix, tariffs, higher SG&A and R&D (6.1% of sales) and weaker JV results. Industry volumes: NA tractors under 140HP -16%, over 140HP -17%, combines -7%; SA combines -29%. - THE CASH FLOW NOBODY PRICED: first-half free cash flow of INDUSTRIAL Activities was NEGATIVE $439M against -$116M a year ago, versus a full-year guide of PLUS $200-400M — so the back half must produce $639-839M. Last year's back half did $629M, off a first half that was $323M better. Operating cash flow fell from $772M to $145M in the quarter. Inventories ROSE $520M to $5,171M in a destocking year. And dividends declared per share went $0.470 (2024) to $0.250 (2025) to $0.100 (2026) — cut 79% in two years, the second cut made going INTO the recovery management says starts in 2027. - THE DOMINO THAT FALLS LAST: Financial Services earned $71M of the quarter's $141M of consolidated net income — HALF the profit on 14% of revenue — while its own credit deteriorated. Receivables 30+ days past due 4.4% vs 3.9%, which CNH attributes to farmer economics in South America. Retail originations $2,740M to $2,531M; managed portfolio down $0.7B to $28.0B; segment net income -18% on higher Brazil risk costs. Mind the basis trap: consolidated revenue of $4,803M contains $656M of lender income — INDUSTRIAL net sales were $4,143M. Consolidated net debt is $23.35B; INDUSTRIAL net debt is $2.52B. - THE OTHER SIDE, AND THE STREET: the bull case is real. Construction net sales +12% into a global industry +17%, with demand up in EVERY region; the guidance floor raised from $0.35 to $0.41; dealer destocking nearly done, fleets aging, used-vs-new pricing rebalancing. Agriculture earned a 14.5% margin as recently as 2023 against ~5.25% guided now, so mid-cycle EPS is ~$1.11 against $0.44 — about 10x. Street: Buy (9 buy / 4 hold / 1 sell, 14 analysts), target $13.29 average, $12.63 median, range $10.50-$16.00 (+20.0%). We AGREE on direction and are more CAUTIOUS on size: $13.29 reads as an UNDISCOUNTED mid-cycle number. Reverse the DCF and $11.08 already assumes a 12.0% mid-cycle Agriculture margin against 5.2% today. What to watch: Bullish: A
August 1, 2026
Madison Air (MAIR): It RAISED Guidance — the Stock Fell 8% — Is MAIR Stock a Buy?
Madison Air Solutions Corporation (MAIR) Q2 2026 — Reported the MORNING of July 30 (quarter ended June 30, 2026). Net sales $991.3M (+21.0% GAAP, +14% pro forma, +14.1% organic), adjusted EBITDA $265.8M at a 26.8% margin (DOWN from 27.5%), GAAP EPS $0.15 vs $0.31 adjusted, backlog $2,868.4M (+133.0%). FY26 sales guidance RAISED $75M to $3,825-3,925M while adjusted EBITDA guidance was REAFFIRMED unchanged at $1,020-1,065M. The stock closed down 7.9% at $29.14 (low $28.69 intraday, the widely-quoted -9.3%), then $29.06 on July 31 — the lowest close of its public life. Four numbers in circulation are wrong. The $0.31 EPS is ADJUSTED, not GAAP ($0.15), and the '$0.00 prior year' is a carve-out artifact (it was $0.07). 'Resilient residential' is false: Residential ORGANIC sales FELL 4.8%. And tariffs were a Q2 TAILWIND, not a headwind — the Supreme Court voided them in February and MAIR booked refunds as a reduction to cost of goods sold. THE CALL: HOLD (3/5, A FAIR PRICE FOR A REAL BUSINESS WITH A MARGIN QUESTION) — base-case value ~$31.0 vs ~$29.06 today. KEY METRICS: - CALL: HOLD 3/5 — fair value $31 vs $29.06 (+6.7%). STREET: Buy, 5 buy / 0 hold / 0 sell, but only ~5 firms cover it. Average target $44.63, median $45. Stifel CUT to $41 from $49 on 7/31 (the only post-print revision), RBC $47 (cut from $50), Wells Fargo $46 (cut from $47). We DIFFER: their $44.63 implies 24.2x EV/EBITDA — a Trane multiple. - THE REAL STORY: sales guidance RAISED $75M at the midpoint to $3,825-3,925M, adjusted EBITDA guidance REAFFIRMED unchanged at $1,020-1,065M. That is an implied FY margin cut from 27.43% to 26.90%, 53bps. More revenue at zero incremental profit. The market read it correctly. - COMMERCIAL INCREMENTAL MARGIN 13.5%: Commercial sales +$126.5M (+23.8%, 22.3% organic) but Commercial adjusted EBITDA only +$17.3M. Segment margin fell from 29.3% to 26.3%, down 303bps. Management: the comparison 'primarily reflects rapid growth in large data center programs, project mix, capacity addition investments and program ramp costs'. The record backlog and the lost margin are the SAME event. - RESIDENTIAL IS NOT RESILIENT: reported +16.2% but ORGANIC sales FELL 4.8% (-3.4% for the half). AprilAire contributed $56.4M against a $46.5M total increase. Residential backlog FELL from $71.5M to $66.0M. Its margin rose 423bps to 29.5% — but $21.8M of the $25.9M EBITDA gain was AprilAire, plus 'favorable net tariff impacts'. - TARIFFS WERE A TAILWIND: the Supreme Court invalidated certain emergency-authority tariffs in Feb 2026; MAIR began receiving REFUNDS in Q2 and booked them as a reduction to cost of goods sold. Adjusted gross margin STILL fell 120bps to 39.0%. Underlying margin is worse than printed, and the help does not repeat. - THE Q4 BET: guidance implies H2 margin of 27.72% vs 26.07% delivered in H1. Management guided Q3 'roughly flat'. Hold Q3 at Q2's 26.8% and Q4 must print ~28.6% — the highest margin ever disclosed, 180bps above the quarter just reported. - SHARE COUNT + STRUCTURE: 10-Q cover 7/28/26 — Class A 177,342,753 + Class B 324,379,859 = 501,722,612 shares, both fully economic (Class B is 10 votes, not a stub). Market cap $14.58B, net debt $2,791.9M ($3,053.7M debt less $261.8M cash), EV $17.37B = 16.7x FY26E EBITDA. Holdings (founder Larry Gies) has 64.7% of economics and 95.2% of votes. - UNUSUALLY CLEAN FOR A SPONSOR IPO: NO Tax Receivable Agreement at all. And the control block is NOT a 180-day cliff — the prospectus discloses TWO-YEAR lock-ups with Holdings and Kedge running to ~April 2028. Backlog $2,868.4M (+133.0%), book-to-bill 1.34x (1.51x Commercial), net leverage 2.8x after repaying $2,625.7M with IPO proceeds. - VALUATION: 2027E sales ~$4.19B at 27.0% = $1.13B EBITDA, less $50M recurring equity comp (the 10-Q shows $93.0M unrecognised over 2.65 yrs), $55M real depreciation, $175M cash interest, tax 25% = owner earnings ~$637M, or $1.27/share. DCF at 9.0% = $28 (bear $19, bull $40). Peer cross-check 16-18x
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<p><span>⚡ Charged Alpha — The S&P 500 Stock Encyclopedia</span><span> </span><span>Data-driven deep dives into every stock in the S&P 500 after every earnings report. Each episode breaks down one company from open to close: what they do, how the numbers look, what Wall Street thinks, the bull case, the bear case.</span><span> </span><span>🛠️ Check out our free beginner-friendly screening tools for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, bonds, REITs & more at https://chargedalpha.com — no signup, no paywall.</span><span> </span><span>📊 What you get in every episode:</span><span> </span><span> </span><span>Company overview & competitive moat</span><span> </span><span>Full financial breakdown — valuation, revenue, margins, cash flow</span><span> </span><span>Analyst consensus & price targets</span><span> </span><span>Bull case vs. bear case</span><span> </span><span>Peer comparison, options flow & insider activity</span><span> </span><span>Key metrics to watch</span><span> </span><span> </span><span>⚠️ Not financial advice. For educational purposes only. Episodes are researched, written, and produced using AI-assisted tools. All data aggregated from publicly available sources.</span><span> </span><span>#stocks #investing #S&P500 #stockanalysis #chargedalpha #financialdata </span><span>#earningsreport</span><span> </span><span>#earnings</span><span> </span></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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