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Rackspace Technology CFO Mark A. Marino sold 234,683 shares on February 23, 2026, at $1.63 per share in a sell-to-cover transaction tied to tax withholding for vested restricted stock units. The sale was carried out under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted in September 2023. After the trade Marino directly holds 2,193,115 shares. The stock is trading with …
PayPal looks like a cash machine that can no longer grow into its historic narrative. Weak execution on Branded Checkout, a surprise CEO exit, and multiple securities suits make the upside story fragile. At around $44, I recommend a mid-term short with tight risk controls: entry $44.00, stop $47.00, target $30.00 (45 trading days).
Johnson Controls (JCI) benefits from broad HVAC and energy-management tailwinds and a growing services mix that supports earnings resilience. Valuation is rich but justified by high ROE and recurring revenue; trade the stock long with a clear entry at $142.83, a stop at $137.00 and a target of $155.00 over the next 45 trading days.
LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover publicly reaffirmed his and the board's support for Chair Casey Wasserman after recent U.S. Justice Department documents included decades-old emails linking Wasserman with Ghislaine Maxwell. Hoover highlighted the committee's commercial progress and said there has been no sponsor concern or operational disruption.
David Marshall Wright, Itron's vice president and corporate controller, sold a block of shares to satisfy tax withholding tied to a restricted stock unit vesting. The transaction reduced a portion of his holdings but left him with 9,124 shares. Separately, Itron announced a private offering of convertible senior notes and reported quarterly results…
USD1, a stablecoin tied to the Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial, slipped to roughly $0.994 on Monday before regaining value and trading near $0.9994. World Liberty said its teams repelled a coordinated attack and that no smart contracts or wallets supporting USD1 or WLFI were hacked, though some co-founders' X accounts were accessed with…
The administration is reportedly evaluating fresh national security tariffs on roughly six industrial sectors following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a broad set of second-term levies. The possible tariffs would be implemented under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and would be separate from a 15% global tariff the president…
Paramount Skydance has submitted an improved cash offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to displace a prior agreement between Warner Bros. and Netflix. The updated bid increases certainty around financing and follows a week-long negotiation window reopened by Warner Bros. Discovery's board; if the board favors Paramount's proposal, Netflix will…
John F. Marcolini, senior vice president of Networked Solutions at Itron Inc., sold 1,074 shares on February 20, 2026 to cover tax-withholding on a restricted stock unit vesting. The sale, executed at $100.17 per share for $107,578, leaves Marcolini with 25,838 directly held shares. The move comes amid an upbeat corporate backdrop that included Q4 …
Itron Inc. SVP and CFO Joan S Hooper sold 1,426 shares on February 20, 2026, to meet tax withholding obligations tied to a restricted stock unit vesting. The company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter 2025 results and disclosed a proposed private offering of $600 million in convertible senior notes due 2032, while analysts raised price ta…
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force are accelerating production capacity for the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, backed by more than $5 billion invested in digital engineering and manufacturing infrastructure. Multiple test aircraft are flying and reporting performance that exceeds digital model expectations, the program’s first operational aircraf…
Silvercorp is a complex mid-tier precious-metals miner that now offers a clear asymmetric trade: a market cap of ~$2.74B against a $522M after-tax NPV Condor PEA, steady Chinese silver-lead-zinc cashflow and an expanding project pipeline. We lay out an actionable long trade (entry $12.00, stop $9.50, target $30.00) for a long-term horizon (180 trad…
Watkins Latriece, an executive vice president at Walmart Inc., sold 10,000 shares of the company's stock on February 20, 2026, for roughly $1.2 million in multiple trades. The stock now trades above the sale price, while valuation metrics and recent analyst price-target increases paint a mixed picture of near-term momentum and stretched valuation.
Matthew Tappin, President of Software Products at Stem, Inc. (NYSE:STEM), sold 366 shares on February 20, 2026, for $11.40 apiece, totaling $4,172, according to a Form 4 filing with the SEC. The transaction leaves Tappin with 2,237 directly held shares. The sale coincides with a share price of $10.62 and a 36% decline over six months, even as Inves…
Democratic members of the U.S. House raised alarms after the administration paused several tech security measures targeting Chinese firms, saying the moves place national and economic security at risk. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, lawmakers requested briefings on the security assessments behind decisions to shelve bans on China…
Toast is a mission-critical point-of-sale and restaurant management platform trading near its 52-week low. With $608M in free cash flow, $1.4B in cash, healthy liquidity ratios, and high customer integration, Toast looks better insulated from the latest 'SaaSpocalypse' headlines. The trade: initiate a long at $25.00, stop at $22.50, target $40.00 o…
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued at up to $98,871,411 by the U.S. Department of War to provide sustaining engineering for F-16 avionics intermediate shop automatic test equipment. The work will be carried out at BAE's San Diego facility, cover…
Walmart Inc. Executive Vice President Nicholas Christopher James sold 34,082 shares of common stock on February 20, 2026, at $122.00 per share, producing proceeds of $4,158,004. The transaction was disclosed in a Form 4 filed with the SEC on February 23, 2026. The share sale occurred amid a recent 6% slide in the stock over the prior week and subse…
The U.S. government is intensifying its scrutiny of foreign financial relationships with American colleges and universities, adding the State Department to a Department of Education-led compliance push. Officials say the move is intended to improve reporting and transparency under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, while critics raise concern…
An analysis of campaign finance disclosures for the most contested U.S. House districts finds Democratic candidates outpacing Republican opponents in fundraising among the competitive races. Incumbents in battleground districts raised a collective sum exceeding $84 million last year, and Democratic challengers running in Republican-held districts b…
Guidewire Software Chief Executive Michael George Rosenbaum sold 1,200 shares on February 23, 2026, netting $150,600 under a 10b5-1 plan adopted on October 14, 2025. The transaction leaves Rosenbaum with 229,543 directly held shares. The move coincides with Guidewire’s announcement of a new $500 million repurchase authorization, completion of its p…
Cullinan Therapeutics (CGEM) looks like a tactical long: clinical momentum around its CD19 T-cell engager CLN-978, positive data flow from zipalertinib, and a multi-hundred-million dollar cash position reduce near-term financing risk. We outline an actionable trade with entry at $14.00, stop at $11.00 and a $22.00 target over a 180 trading-day hori…
IonQ shares ticked higher in after-hours trading as the company confirmed it was awarded a place on the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle. The designation makes IonQ - and its subsidiaries - eligible to bid on future task orders across a wide range of defense-related capabilities, though any re…
Australia will begin a government-backed Royal Commission on Tuesday to examine antisemitism and social cohesion following a fatal mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach that killed 15 people. The inquiry, led by retired judge Virginia Bell, can compel witnesses and is expected to deliver its findings by December this year. An openi…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a special exemption permitting intraday trading of tokenized shares in WisdomTree's Treasury Money Market Digital Fund. The relief removes the end-of-day pricing constraint that would otherwise apply, and officials say the change could shorten settlement times and make fund access easier for re…
