Hand-written analysis from the Marvin Labs equity research team. Independent commentary, not generated by an agent.
Shell (SHEL.L)Adjusted Earnings rose $2.9bn sequentially to $9.8bn. Shell's own segment bridges show prices and margins contributing $2.7bn of that and tax $0.7bn, while volume and mix subtracted $1.0bn.
Roblox (RBLX)Payer growth collapsed from 52% to 15% and infrastructure leverage inverted at its first test. Bookings +8%, then guided down 14-18%.
Microsoft (MSFT)Capacity is converting fast. Azure at 43%, 88 new datacentres, dock-to-live down by half. Whether it converts at sufficient returns is the open question.
Volkswagen (VOW3.DE)H1 reported margin of 3.75% sits below the 4.0% guidance floor, and the segments that held their earnings were cushioned by falling provisions.
Ubisoft (UBI.PA)A slight beat on a light slate, guidance reaffirmed. The group trades far below its marked Vantage stake alone, and execution is the only bridge.
TSMC beat guidance on every margin line and raised 2026 growth past 40%, but shares fell 7% amid a sector sell-off, rising capex, and a lower margin guide.
Morgan Stanley (MS)A record 2Q26 across every segment, led by Institutional Securities. With the stock up 30% YTD at 4.3x tangible book, the question turns to durability.
A Domesday survey of Nintendo's enforcement machine — the lockout, the takedowns, the Palworld patents — measured against the company's own forty-year code. The motte holds. The moat keeps moving.
Microsoft (MSFT)Microsoft's restructure cuts 3,200 Xbox roles and moves five studios out. The structural change: franchise control now sits above the studios that build them.
Micron Technology (MU)The price behind Micron's 84.6% margin trades dark. DDR5 trades on the tape. Watching the lit price is the cheapest way to be early on the one you can't see.
Ubisoft (UBI.PA)Event addendum to the Ubisoft reset primer. Covers the FY25-26 Universal Registration Document and the 1 July 2026 Creative House 2 leadership appointment, scoped to the conditions they move: Vantage structural…
Five-segment OI resilience through correlated entertainment downside and a next-gen platform transition over FY27-FY29, tested against four load-bearing conditions.
Nike (NKE)A $986M tariff refund flatters reported FY26 margins. Underlying, the reset is unfinished. North America leads, China diverges, the CFO departs.
Micron Technology (MU)Sixteen agreements put $100B of revenue under floor pricing behind the supply-constraint thesis, while the price re-rates past what the cash flows support.
Roblox (RBLX)O18 demographic expansion mechanics, safety friction absorption, developer economic sustainability under elevated DevEx rates, infrastructure operating leverage against photorealistic compute demands, and the conditions…
Paramount Skydance (PSKY),Ubisoft (UBI.PA),
Take-Two Interactive (TTWO),Microsoft (MSFT)Four showcases in eight days surfaced concrete data points across Xbox exclusivity, Switch 2 third-party density, and Capcom's franchise engine. Steam Next Fest added a different read: 4,931 demos, one in five flagged…
Microsoft (MSFT)AI infrastructure capex conversion cycle, Azure consumption acceleration, cloud gross margin recovery, consumption-based AI monetization transition, OpenAI IP dependency and revenue circularity, and the quantitative…
Apple (AAPL)Whether Apple's edge-first AI strategy, 75% margin services engine, and $90B annual buyback can sustain the 12% FCF growth its $4.6T valuation requires, through regulatory exposure, an AI capability gap, and a CEO…
Ubisoft (UBI.PA)Ubisoft's sixth restructuring round of 2026 closes two studios and cuts 380 roles. The cost target is tracking. The mechanism used to get there is what the thesis needs to watch.
A walkthrough of the sources used in gaming equity research and thematic writing, ordered by veracity, and how the type of piece determines which tiers earn weight.
Sony's $765M Bungie impairment sits inside a record-profit gaming segment. The story is about what live service capability is, and whether it can be acquired.
EA's final quarter as a public company produced record net bookings of $8.026 billion. GAAP operating income came in at $1.162 billion — down a third year-on-year. The gap between those two numbers is what PIF, Silver…
AMD (AMD)Instinct MI450 production ramp, ROCm software ecosystem maturity, OpenAI infrastructure commitment mechanics, competitive position against NVIDIA's full-stack model and Intel's operating decline, and the quantitative…
Songs of the Past confirmed as a 2027 full expansion under Fool's Theory co-development, the Witcher bridge strategy activating ahead of The Witcher 4, and the 2026 monetisation path becoming less clean as incentive…
