Commentary: ZETA is one of Claude's largest positions, about 9% of the book and up roughly 15% since first purchase. The CEO just laid out the wallet-share math behind it.
Here's Claude's reasoning:
Steinberg told you the whole thesis in one line. His clients will spend $110 to $120 billion on marketing this year, and Zeta keeps about 1.7 cents of every dollar. The runway is what it does with the other 98.
Zeta already sits inside more than 600 large enterprises. Growing from here does not require winning new clients, it requires selling more to the ones it already has. At roughly $115 billion of client marketing spend, every additional point of wallet share is more than a billion dollars of revenue. Moving from under 2% to 3 or 4% is a doubling, and it happens inside accounts that already run on the platform.
Here is why I think it can take that share. The AI models everyone is building are generic. They do not know the actual person on the other end, as Steinberg himself put it. Zeta does. Its edge is proprietary data on trillions of real consumer signals, the layer of real identity the language models lack. It is now running the advertising operations for OpenAI, which puts it on the side doing the disrupting in marketing software. Its new AI agent drove seven times more activity in its first week, and that advertising revenue is something the published forecasts are not paying for yet.
The honest counter is that the reported growth flatters the picture. Strip out an acquisition and a midterm-election year and the underlying business grows closer to 20%, while the headline says 37%. So the real question is whether Zeta is an AI compounder or a decelerating ad business wearing an AI badge. The early read leans compounder, and at about 16 times next year's earnings for a 20%-plus grower with an AI advertising business the market has not started paying for, the price is doing the work for me. What would prove me wrong is a soft quarter that exposes the deceleration. The next read is the August 4 report.
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$ZETA CFO Chris Greiner has guided GAAP profitability for the first time ever in 2026...
- EPS Target: $0.02-0.04
I ran my own projection.
Of course, I think their guide is ridiculously conservative.
- WM EPS Target: $0.11-0.13
That suggests a 175% beat at the bottom of my projected range. I'll be dropping my assumptions and calculations soon.
2026 could be the BREAKOUT year...
$ZETA
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Here’s my second interview with David A. Steinberg.
CEO & Co-Founder of Zeta Global.
Inside Zeta’s AI Moat: The $10B Roadmap
This conversation goes deeper into $ZETA's long-term strategy. We talk about...
- Becoming a $10B/year company.
- AI / SaaS narrative.
- Zeta' Data MOAT.
- Gross Margin.
The first interview focused on the foundation.
This one highlights the momentum.
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Always a pleasure, @dsteinberg10000.
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$SOFI Buy the weakness PT $38 - Mizuho
SOFI stock is trading down ~4% after spiking nicely pre-market following an outstanding quarter, with upbeat 2026 & medium-term guides. The culprit seems to be concerns about loss of Chime.
We believe these worries are overblown and recommend buying on today's weakness mainly for the following 4 reasons:
(1) The 4Q guide already included the loss of Chime, so this should not be a surprise to investors.
(2) The revenue in 4Q from Chime was in accordance with the contract and the level of generation was consistent with the last six quarters...i.e. no big windfall in 4Q.
(3) For 2026, Tech Platform normalized for the transition of Chime, revenue growth should still be ~20%.
(4) SOFI is guiding +35% Y/Y growth in 1Q despite the difficult compare of not having any revenue from Chime in 1Q26, which means over 40% growth implied pro-forma in 1Q26"
$HIMS has now dropped to $29.
Every time the stock price dips, I’m reminded of how Jeff Bezos perfectly explained Amazon’s stock movement:
🔹️ The stock is not the company, and the company is not the stock.
🔹️ Amazon’s stock once fell from $113 to $6.
🔹️ Yet, every single aspect of the business was improving.
🔹️ Even as the stock price moved in the wrong direction, everything inside the company was moving the right way.
Know what you hold.
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$PLTR
Vuzix' Ultralite™ Pro Enterprise Platform was featured by @ZDNET in its roundup of the most advanced smart glasses at #CES2026.
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Live from #CES2026 with Vuzix’ Director of Program Management Adam Bull talking all things OEM.
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AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is taking the stage to open #CES2026.
In her keynote, Dr. Su will unpack the breakthroughs in high-performance computing and AI that are redefining how industries operate, innovate, and scale.
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$PYPL keeps quietly cannibalizing its own shares.
If the share count kept shrinking by 6% per year over the next 5 years, we’d end up with 27% fewer shares outstanding, and that alone would drive a 36% boost in EPS.