Company Notes


November 10, 2026

GE Vernova (GEV) — SoftBank Just Paid $3.7bn to Learn What a Turbine Slot Is Worth. Musk Was Wrong. It’s Worse.

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Nobody defaulted. The most aggressive buyer in the turbine queue simply wrote off its deposits. That is our bear case, in the customer’s own words. Reiterate SELL. What happened. Overnight SoftBank reported a $7.0bn July-September…

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November 10, 2026

Jinko Holdings Ltd. (JKS) — 3Q26 Review: A Margin Beat on a 29% Revenue Miss; Oversupply and Leverage Leave Little for the Equity

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Bottom Line JKS Beat on Gross Margin and Missed Badly on Revenue. We Were Wrong on the Margin. We Think 3Q26 Is the High-Water Mark. Revenue of $2.03B missed Bloomberg consensus of $2.88B by 29.4%…

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November 9, 2026

China Retail Posts Weakest October on Record; the Cybertruck Exit is a Consensus Problem, not a Valuation Problem

By Gordon L. Johnson II

China domestic retail: worst October on record. Tesla’s October China domestic retail of 8,817 units fell 66.1% YoY and 67.6% QoQ (vs. July). It is the lowest month of any kind in our 2023-2026 series,…

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November 5, 2026

Tesla Inc. (TSLA) — Blue Sweep Doesn’t Veto the SpaceX Deal… It Does, However, Break the Clock

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Five client inquiries, one answer: the merger is slower, costlier and less likely — and the market-implied deal probability in TSLA has fallen ~12pp in two sessions Since Tuesday night we have fielded five client…

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November 4, 2026

Cameco Corp. (CCJ/CCO.TO) — 3Q26 Review: The May Risks We Warned of Arrived on Schedule; the Thesis didn’t Break. Stock Sits on Our Bear Case. Reiterate BUY; PT Cut to C$136.70

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Our May risks showed up nearly to the letter. What would change our mind didn’t. In May we told investors to size down for a noisier six to nine months and named four reasons, namely:…

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November 3, 2026

Nextpower Inc. (NXT) — Solar’s ‘Undisputed Heavyweight Champ’ Took Every Punch we Threw and Kept the Belt. The Only One that Landed was the 45X Margin; BUY, $158 PT (from $149 prior)

By Gordon L. Johnson II

F2Q27: a 17% EPS beat versus our model and a guide raise. Ex-45X gross margin fell to 23%. Reiterate Buy; PT to $158 from $149. NXT beat the bar we set, on the numbers and…

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November 2, 2026

Vertiv Holdings Co. (VRT) — 3Q26 Hit Some of What we Said Would Change our Mind, but Part of the Beat was Borrowed from 2Q. Overall Biz = Less Strong than it Looks. Maintain Sell; PT Down to $187 (from $188).

By Gordon L. Johnson II

We said what would make us wrong. Some of it happened. On 29 September we listed the tests: 3Q revenue inside the $3.65-3.85bn guide with no more “timing” talk, a 4Q guide held at ~$4.3bn,…

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October 30, 2026

First Solar Inc. (FSLR) — Q3 Earnings Review: Higher Prices, No Orders: 232 Bull Case Dented; Downgrade to HOLD, PT to $161

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Higher prices, no signatures. Since the Section 232 proclamation in August, FSLR has raised prices on every new inquiry and on deals still in early negotiation. It has not signed one at the new price….

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October 30, 2026

GEV Vernova Inc. (GEV) — Q3 Earnings Review: Strip out the Conversions and New Gas Orders Halved; the Guide Says 4Q Cash is Soft and the Float is Being Spent at the Top; PT to $540/shr (from $470); Maintain SELL

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Our estimates were too low. The thesis, a cyclical gas-turbine maker priced as a secular compounder whose order growth is slowing, is intact. Under a +178% Power order headline, new gas business nearly halved. GEV…

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October 29, 2026

Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. (AESI) — The Reimbursement Agreements Cover More than we Modelled, and Management says our 2028 is too Low and Our Multiple too Cheap. Only a Signed ESA Settles Either One. Reiterate Buy, $13 PT.

By Gordon L. Johnson II

What we learned from a follow-up call with Atlas Investor Relations yesterday, the day we initiated; what Liberty, ProPetro and an AI-power sell-off told us in the same week; and what we will be watching…

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October 28, 2026

Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. (AESI) — A Bridge to Somewhere: Initiating at BUY, $13 PT

By Gordon L. Johnson II

We are below the Street on 2027–28 estimates and still buyers. At $9.08 the market is paying for a sand company sitting on the floor of its cost curve, and is getting the 731 MW…

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October 28, 2026

Enphase (ENPH) — 3Q26 Review: The Quarter Borrowed from December, and the CEO’s Own 2027 Math is 16% below the Street

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Enphase is down ~18% pre-market; we warned this would happen two days ago in our preview note; below, we detail our takeaways from last night’s results/earnings call. Enphase reported 3Q26 revenue of $293.3mn, in line…

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October 26, 2026

Enphase Energy (ENPH) — 3Q26 Preview: The Street is Modeling a Fourth Quarter the Channel isn’t Buying

By Gordon L. Johnson II

We have updated our bottom-up earnings driver model for Enphase to reflect a number of recent channel checks, as well as recent data from the California Solar Initiative (“CSI”) and European pricing/share data from BWG….

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October 22, 2026

Tesla Inc. (TSLA) — 3Q26 Review: A Beat Built from Tariff Refunds, a 16% Tax Rate and Slower Supplier Payments. The Milestones that Carry the Valuation were Delayed Again

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Adj. EPS of $0.48 beat cons of $0.44. Gross margin of 19.6% beat 17.8%. Free cash flow of +$1.5bn landed against a Street est. of -$5bn. We are not going to argue w/ those numbers….

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October 19, 2026

Data Center Channel Check — Three Years of Backlog became One: a Hyperscale Developer Confirms AI Spending is Slowing

By Gordon L. Johnson II

Not for lack of wanting to spend. Land, power, moratoria and rates are the brakes. Reiterate SELL on VRT. Bottom Line A channel check dinner held this past Sunday night with a senior executive of…

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