CoStar 2Q'25 Update

CoStar may not be a widely followed company (you can read my Deep Dive here if you’re unfamiliar), but it’s one of the earnings calls that I enjoy the most listening every quarter, primarily because CEO Andy Florance always comes up with new reasons to take a dig

Texas Instruments 2Q'25 Update

You hardly ever see sell-side analysts being livid to management in an earnings call, but TXN’s 2Q’25 call was a bit spicy. After the prepared remarks, Q&A started with a combative tone from an analyst probing management about “change of tone” compared to last quarter. Then

Alphabet 2Q'25, Corpay M&A, Portfolio Changes

Alphabet had another fantastic quarter. Admittedly, I am a bit surprised that the stock didn’t react even more positively. Here’s my highlights from the earnings. Revenue On an FX adjusted basis, Alphabet increased its revenue by 13% in 2Q’25 (~100 bps tailwind from FX). For the 12th

Danaher 2Q'25 Update

While S&P 500 is at its all-time high, Danaher is still ~34% below its peak from late 2021. The company was beleaguered with pandemic hangover and destocking trends for much of 2022-24 period. While the worst seem to behind them, the business isn’t quite humming enough to

Tariff conundrums, AI capex boom, Edge computing fallacy, AI ARR chicanery

A Programming Note: A couple of you have given me the feedback that instead of generic title of the Daily Doses, I should mention the topics covered in the title/email subject. As you can see, I have decided to implement it from today. Tariff conundrums While there was a

Cognex: Agents of Automation

You can listen to this Deep Dive here In 1981, Robert Shillman, a young lecturer in human-visual perception at MIT, resigned his faculty post, and teamed up with two of his top graduate students, Bill Silver and Marilyn Matz, to found a little startup in Massachusetts called Cognex. The name

MBI Daily Dose (July 20, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: YouTube, Replit A Programming Note: There will be no Daily Dose email tomorrow as I will be publishing my Deep Dive on Cognex tomorrow. A good rule of thumb is you will only receive one email from me everyday. So

MBI Daily Dose (July 19, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: OpenAI Agent, Elephant Graph OpenAI launched “OpenAI Agent” last week. It’s basically a marriage between “Deep Research” and “Operator”, but what’s new is the orchestration layer on top i.e. an agentic planner that decides when to invoke

MBI Daily Dose (July 18, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: AMA, Voidware, OpenAI's Monetization AMA: David Kim from Scuttleblurb and I will record an AMA episode for the next Never Sell podcast. Please reply to this email to send your questions! Matan Zinger acquainted me with a term

MBI Daily Dose (July 17, 2025)

Companies or topics mentioned in today's Daily Dose: Google, US innovation, Aging gracefully “Search Engine Land” published some interesting data about the evolution of Google Search post-AI Mode launch. Some key excerpts from the piece: The biggest shift has been from 1-2 word keywords to 3-4 word search