Result Review - Western Digital Beats Q4 Expectations as Gross Margin Reaches 54.4%
Western Digital delivered a Q4 FY2026 beat, with the clearest upside in profitability rather than revenue. Management said it expects gross margin to improve for many quarters, supported by pricing, higher-capacity drives and lower cost per TB.
Result Review - Sandisk’s Q4 Beat, How Much Was Structural Growth?
Sandisk delivered another unusually large beat in fiscal Q4. The results were not purely a datacenter story: management attributed roughly two-thirds of the sequential revenue increase to higher pricing and only one-third to volume.
Breaking News - DeepSeek foreshadows significant API price increases? Amid off the chart usage - Aug 6, 2026
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek announced on Thursday that it plans to comprehensively raise the prices of its API (Application Programming Interface) services soon, with a significant increase expected, according to Yahoo and company sources.
Results Review - Astera Labs Beats - Tailwind for AI Hardware Yet Again? 3Q2026 Guidance Surpasses Consensus by 32%
Astera Labs’ Q2 results exceeded expectations, while Q3 guidance implied further acceleration as Scorpio ramps ahead of schedule. The next tests are customer breadth, revenue-mix changes and whether operating leverage can offset lower gross margin.
Results Review - SpaceX’s First Public Earnings Beat Comes With a $15.8bn AI Spending Question
SpaceX beat Q2 expectations, but surging AI and Starship investment widened its free cash flow deficit, pressuring the shares ahead of the first post-IPO lockup expiration.
Results Review - Arista’s Q2 Beat Was Strong, Its Q3 Guidance Was Even Stronger
Arista Networks delivered an strong Q2, beating expectations across revenue, earnings and profitability while issuing a Q3 outlook well above Wall Street forecasts. Shares jumped nearly 10% in after-hours trading following the release.
Results Deep Dive - Is AMD's AI Growth Outlook Strong Enough to Please Investors?
AMD shares fell more than 9% after hours despite better-than-expected second-quarter results. The selloff reflected elevated expectations rather than weak fundamentals.
Results Review - Caterpillar, big beat, once again confirmed data center strength
Caterpillar just reported second-quarter 2026 results this morning (August 4) — and this is a genuinely enormous beat, with the company crossing $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time in its history - partly confirming the huge demand of power generation in data center.
Breaking News - Is Sandisk And SK Hynix making a new era with its HBF structure? (August 4, 2026)
Sandisk and SK hynix Inc. tannounced the release of the HBF (High Bandwidth Flash) technical specification through the Open Compute Project (OCP), advancing the workstream to drive HBF standardization for the AI inference era, just six months after the consortium began work in February 2027.
Breaking News - OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices as cost sensitivity grows; will others follow?
OpenAI on Thursday announced it is slashing the price of two of its latest artificial intelligence models, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, roughly three weeks after their public release, according to the company and a CNBC report (July 30, 2026).
Results Review - LVMH 2Q2026, did it fail to reassure on luxury recovery?
LVMH reported H1 2026 on July 27 — a "solid but uneven" print by the company's own framing, with a genuine inflection in Fashion & Leather Goods undercut by a miss against consensus and an unusually harsh stock reaction for a division showing sequential improvement.
Results Review - FY2026, P&G forecasts slower annual sales growth as costs weigh
P&G's fiscal Q4 2026 broke from the beat-heavy run of prints this earnings season: revenue and organic sales fell short as value-conscious consumers kept trading down, margins compressed for the full year, and next year's guidance came in below Street expectations.
