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While Everyone Watched Nvidia… These AI Stocks Exploded |
Wall Street was glued to Nvidia’s earnings. |
Meanwhile, two little-known AI companies quietly had monster quarters. |
One added billions in new signed orders. |
The other reported its “best quarter ever”—then landed three of the world’s biggest drug companies as customers. |
Neither makes chips. |
Neither builds data centers. |
They’re Phase 2 AI stocks — companies USING AI to dominate entire industries. |
And the market is just starting to catch on. |
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☀️ The Week Ahead Has Three Dates On It |
Five sessions, two ex-dividends on the same Tuesday, and the Fed on Wednesday afternoon. |
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Next week is five sessions long, which makes it the first full trading week since August. That sounds like nothing, and for a long-term holder it mostly is. But short weeks compress activity into fewer days, and the two we just had ran that way — so a normal week is a reasonable thing to notice. |
Three dates sit inside it, and only one of them asks anything of anybody. Tuesday brings two ex-dividend dates from the watchlist at once. Wednesday afternoon brings the Federal Reserve's statement along with the quarterly projections, which is the document that tells you what the committee expects rather than what it has decided. Friday is September expiration, with the quarterly index review alongside it — a day that can make the tape look busier than the news justifies, and which has almost no bearing on a portfolio you are not trading. |
If you hold dividend payers and bond funds and you do nothing at all next week, you will have handled it correctly. The calendar is worth reading so that nothing surprises you, not so that you can act on it. Those are different reasons to look, and only the first one is reliable. |
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Here is what the dividend calendar actually holds. |
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💵 INCOME WATCH |
Declared. The declarations feed did not return for this issue, so I am not going to list any. Rather than reach for a second-hand figure on something you might act on, the honest answer is that this section is short today and the ex-dates below are the part I can stand behind. |
Ex-dates ahead. Two watchlist names go ex-dividend on Tuesday, September 15, which means you need to own the shares before that date to receive the coming payment.
· Coca-Cola — forward rate $2.12 a year, about 53 cents a quarter. Payable October 1.
· Altria — forward rate $4.44 a year, about $1.11 a quarter. Payable October 9. |
Yield check. Those two land the same morning and pay very differently: Coca-Cola's forward rate works out near a 2.4% yield, Altria's near 6.5%. A gap that wide between two long-established payers is not a scoring system. It is the market pricing two different sets of expectations about the decades ahead, and it is worth understanding before it is worth choosing between. |
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One name from the watchlist, looked at properly. |
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🧾 THE STEADY |
Emerson Electric |
A payment landed September 10. The forward rate is $2.22 a share a year, a little over 55 cents a quarter, which against trailing earnings of $4.04 a share works out to roughly 55% of what the company earns. That is a payout with room in it. |
Two honest qualifications. The yield sits near 1.5%, which is well under what a Treasury pays right now — you would not hold this one for the current income. And its shares have moved more than the broad market rather than less, which surprises people who file industrials under "defensive." The 52-week range runs $122.64 to $166.35. |
What it is: a long-established industrial that treats the payout as a commitment and funds it out of earnings rather than borrowing. The multi-decade payment record is the one figure the feed did not return today, so I am not printing a number for it. |
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📅 TOMORROW'S CALENDAR |
Monday, September 14 — the open. Markets reopen into the first five-session week since August. Nothing scheduled; the day is what the weekend made of Friday's inflation figure. |
Tuesday, September 15. Coca-Cola and Altria both go ex-dividend. Own before, not on. |
Wednesday, September 16, 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Federal Reserve statement and quarterly projections. Look at the projections rather than the headline — they are published as ranges, and the ranges are the information. |
Friday, September 18. September expiration and the quarterly index review, effective before Monday's open. Expect a busier tape than the news warrants. |
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When a payer yields 2% and another yields 6%, which one makes you more curious? Reply and tell me — I read them all. |
— Randy Cole, Editor |
P.S. Built for readers who check the numbers themselves — Good Morning Alerts is the morning version of this desk, earlier and shorter. Free to read. (From Good Morning Alerts) |
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