John Barrett, CFA

@UNCGBasketball @UNCG @uncgspartans @SoConSports @CoachJerodHaase Let’s Go. Best of luck Coach Haase, we are pumped you are a Spartan!

Welcome to the G, Coach Jerod Haase! #letsgoG

@GavinSBaker Saw it, great job. Hosting is harder to do than it looks.

@FirstTake336 Let’s give him a shot, good move. Hopefully can re-energize program.

🚨 UNC Greensboro Spartans men's basketball: Mike Jones out, Jerod Haase in… and the reaction is ALL over the place. Some say upgrade. Some say head scratcher. No football money excuse here either. What’s YOUR take ? 👇 #UNCG #CollegeBasketball

@JonahLupton @victor_spath Jonah, take a look at Macom, MTSI. Semi component Data Center, Defense, and Telecom. DC growing in mix and winner with 800G to 1.6T speed transition. Diversified and less known optical plays like LITE and COHR. Numbers too low.

@victor_spath I don’t think it happens today but could happen by end of weekend. I got tied up today in meetings with my team. Will need to finish the model updates tonight or Sunday.

Now that earnings season is mostly over… I’m going to spend the next few hours updating all of our investment models (already got through 1/3 of them). These are investment models going out to 2030 or 2031 using my base case estimates… for our largest positions I also have bear case and bull case estimates. Later today I’ll share the 5-6 stocks that look the best in my 2030 models… using my base case estimates. Fwiw, I’ll always review what the sell side is forecasting but I’d never build my models off their numbers. PS: I definitely don’t run our fund based solely on these models but they’ve always been a helpful guide and allow me to stay focused on the next 2-3 years instead of the next 2-3 weeks or 2-3 months. Have a great day.

@StockSavvyShay @FuturumEquities @cvpayne Optical: LITE, CIEN, MTSI

How to invest across every layer of $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang’s five-layer cake: • Layer 1 Energy (The Fuel): $CEG, $VST • Layer 2 Chips (The Engine): $TSM, $MU • Layer 3 Infrastructure (The Factory): $NBIS, $VRT • Layer 4 Models (The Intelligence): $GOOGL, $META • Layer 5 Applications (Where Value Is Proven): $PLTR, $NET

@undecidedAce @blareponejo @UNCGBasketball @UNCG @uncgspartans @SoConSports I hear you. Couldn’t win in post season so we just disagree. I will donate.

@jsdbarrett @blareponejo @UNCGBasketball @UNCG @uncgspartans @SoConSports 93-69 record at UNCG 5 Years, Jarod Haase supposed front runner got 8 years at Stanford went 126-127. We had the #1 recruit from NC coming in this year. HE built a brand new team 11 guys and had them killing it by end of season. Looking forward to your NIL contribution.

UNCG Athletics Announces Leadership Change for Men’s Basketball Program 📰 go.uncg.edu/tbnin0 #letsgoG

@undecidedAce @blareponejo @UNCGBasketball @UNCG @uncgspartans @SoConSports Win more than one conference game sir. This is not charity. Like Mike but frankly, post season results were abysmal for FIVE years. Longer than most. Time for a change!

@blareponejo @UNCGBasketball @UNCG @uncgspartans @SoConSports This was such a bad move, that if Neal goes to another school and explodes on the scene. @uncgspartans whole staff should be fired starting from the top Decision maker AD. Timing is everything and in my opinion @UNCG routinely screws this up.

@UNCG_MikeJones Well said coach. Best of luck moving forward and thanks for the efforts.

more. So here’s a toast 🥂 to my supporters & deuces ✌️ to the rest. I look forward to my next opportunity to continue my record of success in coaching and mentoring young men to their own excellence on & off the court. With LOVE and APPRECIATION Mike Jones

It’s been a little over 24 hours since I was told my contract would not be renewed. I am disappointed & have done a lot of thinking. My thoughts… I appreciate the time that I’ve had here at UNCG. The 5 yrs have been both challenging & rewarding, like most low & mid-major jobs,

@UNCGBasketball @UNCG @uncgspartans @SoConSports Thank you Coach Jones, but I totally agree with this move. After five seasons, the program is in a worse spot since when Miller left. Bring in a young hungry coach.

@JonahLupton @FirstWaveFund Fills most of that funding gap for planned CAPX, with minimal debt. Not selling any ownership in Clickhouse a plus.

Big news for $NBIS shareholders 🔥 $NBIS is currently a top 3 position at @FirstWaveFund — announcements like this just reinforce our long term investment thesis

@JonahLupton Never looked at HIMS, will do.

According to multiple websites like Marketbeat, Benzinga and Yahoo Finance.. $HIMS short interest is approximately 44% marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/HI… benzinga.com/quote/HIMS/sho… finance.yahoo.com/quote/HIMS/key… I would not be surprised if $HIMS is up 50-60% next week on the $NVO news plus short covering I'm assuming this deal with $NVO will not only cover their injectable GLP-1s but also their new oral GLP-1 pills. $HIMS closed today at ~12x NTM EBITDA... once this $NVO news is officially confirmed by the companies there's a good chance the sell side raises their CY2026 and CY2027 estimates and then I think $HIMS re-rates to at least 20x NTM EBITDA. This also makes their recent acquisition of Eucalyptus even more promising. As mentioned by RFK Jr. last weekend on the Joe Rogan podcast... once they move 14+ peptides from Cat2 to Cat1, I suspect we get an announcement from $HIMS on the launch of their peptide business which I believe could be a $1 billion annual revenue segment within the next 2-3 years.

Nvidia Swears Off an Earnings Crutch, Putting Pressure on Other Tech Companies | My latest at ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ | See how cash costs related to employee stock-based compensation consumed about 24% of Nvidia’s free cash flow last year. $NVDA wsj.com/tech/nvidia-sw…

@MattJMcClintock @FundamentEdge Need core excel skills I take it? Who knows, changing quickly.

@FundamentEdge Glad we both could help each other!

I just tried this with ChatGPT 5.4 Thinking, not expecting it to work (doesn't really work in Opus 4.6...and 3-6 months ago, LLMs couldn't really even read a big Excel file) Step 1: Upload an existing financial model Step 2: "Analyze this model like an analyst. Explain what's been happening and what the key assumptions are saying about the future" Step 3: "What assumptions would you push back on?" I found it really, really good. Shockingly good, actually.

@firstadopter You must be short optical. I’ll expect a short report soon.

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@firstadopter Talking his own Ethernet book. Big pie as we transition to faster rates, both can win.

Broadcom CEO pounding table. You want to use copper as long as you can. It's the lowest latency, lowest power, lowest cost. $CRDO "You don't need to run to bright shiny object called CPO" "Not this year, maybe not next year" Optical guys crying now. Credo stock going rock tomorrow.

Yea, but Hock is talking his own Ethernet book, consider the source. With current data rates copper is the preferred interconnect choice. Cheaper. However, as data rates go up and more rack to rack solutions, optical will play a big role. Not either/or. the pie is exploding. LITE & CIEN also well positioned. Listen to ALAB from MS Conference yesterday, worth the time. CEO breaks down copper vs optics clearly.

Tomorrow should be good for $CRDO and $ALAB after this commentary from $AVGO

@HedgeyeComm Pretty much every software stock publicly traded cherry picks for non-GAAP. As do the Fintech providers.

Ummm it’s called GAAP earnings…

@HedgeyeComm Mercor!

Any financial professional who has acted as a “consultant” to an AI company looking to mine your “domain expertise” for a few hundred dollars an hour… you are seeding your own demise.

@PerpetualGains @JonahLupton Long overdue. Too important a player in payments ecosystem, needs major reforms and it’s coming.

@jsdbarrett @JonahLupton Yes to FISV. Something is brewing in the name

How many other publicly traded companies could cut their headcount by 40% and see their stock pop 20% or more? $XYZ Feel free to mention some names 🤔