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AstraZeneca's Summit stake buys time, not certainty
AstraZeneca's Summit investment is best read as financing math: at Summit's recent cash burn, the gross check adds 45.6 months of runway…
Oct 1, 2026 6 min read BlackMoney Desk
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Akamai’s Anthropic Deal Turns on Annual Revenue, Not Hype
Akamai’s $11.6 billion Anthropic contract equals $11.6 billion / 7 years = $1.66 billion a year, before capex and execution risk.
Sep 27, 2026 6 min read BlackMoney DeskParamount-Warner math now turns on a 26.5% debt layer
The settlement moves Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery deal from courtroom risk toward balance-sheet math: $110.0 billion of enterprise…
Sep 21, 2026 6 min read BlackMoney Desk
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Generac’s Amazon deal makes backup power the equity story
The Amazon supply agreement is large enough to reframe Generac: initial deliveries equal 57.0% of 2025 sales, before any upside from the…
Sep 18, 2026 6 min read BlackMoney Desk
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Dave & Buster's Equity Problem Is EBITDA, Not Just Sales
Dave & Buster's reported an adjusted EBITDA decline of $30.9 million, calculated as $129.8 million minus $98.9 million, showing that softer…
Sep 15, 2026 6 min read BlackMoney Desk
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Snowflake's AI bump prices a $230 million guide raise at 48.1x
Snowflake raised product-revenue guidance by $230 million; the stock's net two-session move added about $11.06 billion of equity value.
Sep 6, 2026 6 min read BlackMoney Desk
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Broadcom’s 46% cash margin is the AI-chip number to watch
Broadcom’s key number is 46%, calculated as $13.665 billion of free cash flow divided by $29.591 billion of revenue, or 46.2%, rounded to…
Sep 3, 2026 7 min read BlackMoney DeskNvidia’s AI buildout now equals 2.90 quarters of revenue
Nvidia’s earnings beat was real, but the cleaner equity question is capacity risk: $279 billion / $96.221 billion = 2.90 quarters of latest…
Aug 29, 2026 8 min read BlackMoney Desk
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How to analyze a stock from scratch, in seven steps and no shortcuts
A complete route from "this company looks good" to an actual number, with the calculations spelled out and the places the analysis usually…
Aug 17, 2026 3 min read Ellen Marsh
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The dividend yield trap: when 12% is a warning, not a prize
Yield is a division, and there are two ways for the result to get large. Only one of them is good news for the person buying today.
Aug 5, 2026 2 min read Ellen Marsh