A record backlog is usually read as a promise. In Dell Technologies’ case it is closer to a fixed-price contract written before the cost of the parts moved. Dell (NYSE: DELL) closed at $451.50 on 25 August 2026, up 4.23% on the day and up roughly 245% from the $130.99 it fetched a year earlier.
Intel’s two biggest numbers of 2026 both run backwards from intuition, and that is the most useful thing to understand before touching the stock. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) closed at $87.48 on 25 August 2026, up roughly 259% over twelve months but about 39% below the $142.35 high it set in July. In the second quarter
Updated 25 August 2026 Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) traded at $104.00 in the pre-market on 25 August 2026, up 0.37%, after closing at $103.62 on 24 August, down 4.17% from a $108.13 previous close, per stockanalysis.com. Market capitalisation is about $93.16 billion and the one-year range runs $63.52 to $153.86. Verdict: Robinhood has quietly stopped
SK Hynix is not trading at seven times earnings, whatever the screen says. The Korean memory maker closed at ₩1,678,000 on 25 August 2026, up 568.5% over twelve months and still 43.8% below its 52-week high of ₩2,987,000. On headline numbers that puts it on a price/earnings ratio of 7.4x, which for a company whose
Oracle’s business had the best year in its history and its shareholders had one of the worst. That is not a figure of speech. Over the twelve months to 31 May 2026, Oracle’s contracted backlog — the revenue it has already signed and not yet delivered — rose from $137.8bn to $638.0bn, a 363% increase,
D-Wave Quantum is not expensive because the market is excited about quantum computing. It is expensive because of arithmetic that almost nobody quotes. QBTS trades at $18.68 as of 24 August 2026, carrying a market capitalisation of $6.96bn against trailing twelve-month revenue of $12.43m. That is roughly 560 times sales. And the denominator is not
Gold is not in a bull market or a bear market right now. It is in both, and the price ladder proves it. Gold trades at $4,628.70 as of 25 August 2026, which is 36.7% above where it sat a year ago and 14.0% below its closing peak of $5,379 on 29 January 2026. A
The week of August 17–21 was a game changer for Gold and Bitcoin, and the trigger was the Treasury bonds market as Scott Bessent had tried to stop a long-end selloff that had already pushed the Nasdaq through five red sessions. The core of the week was simple. After the 30-year yield touched a 19-year high
Marvell has tripled in twelve months and still trades 28% below where it stood in June. Both halves of that sentence matter, because the stock has already run a full boom-and-bust cycle inside a single year: up 233% to a $316.43 closing peak on 4 June, down 48% to $163.40 by 29 July, and back
Amazon’s second quarter looked like one of the best in its history: net income of $62.6bn, earnings per share of $5.75 against $1.68 a year earlier, a stock that jumped 15.3% in a single session. Read the fourth bullet of the company’s own release, though, and the picture changes: “Second quarter 2026 net income includes