Like I said... $ETH $3K waiting room!
$ETHA and $BMNR about to wake up.
Enough weekly blue diamonds since below $2K and just needed some patience.
At $3K, I'll share my next target. 😄
$IREN This consolidation is absolutely crazy.
Such a wide range.
Already 45% off the support
And the breakout is still pending.
People who believe in the company should already be in. No exceptions.
Nobody cares about $BTBT anymore but how has no one shared this BTBT / ethereum:native pair chart
We've got a 4 year falling wedge, with an incredibly strong support / base being created. A move into the cloud is a 2.5 - 3.5x outperformance against ETH
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Prediction: within 12 months, top three models will be open source.
Economic winners will be the American clouds that serve them:
Nebius
Iren
Baseten
Together
Fireworks
I think $VST looks compelling here.
At $138, Vistra feels like one of the cleaner ways to play the AI/data center power trade without paying a large multiple.
The numbers:
- Q2 adjusted EBITDA: $1.77B, +31% YoY
- 2026 EBITDA guide: $6.8B-$7.6B
- 2026 FCF before growth: $3.9B-$4.7B
- 2027 core EBITDA opportunity: $7.4B-$7.8B
- Shares outstanding down ~30% since 2021
The obvious bottleneck continues to be energy and it seems like $VST is attacking that head on:
- AWS signed a 20-year deal for up to 1.2 GW from Comanche Peak.
- Meta signed 20-year agreements covering 2.6+ GW across Vistra’s nuclear fleet.
Roughly 3.8 GW tied to AWS + Meta alone. Then there is also Helix, the AI infrastructure platform with KKR, NVIDIA and KIA. Vistra is the preferred power provider for this.
VST is also acquiring Cogentrix, adding ~5.5 GW of gas generation, with the deal expected to be accretive to FCF/share starting in 2027.
The valuation is compelling:
At $138:
~13-15x forward EPS
~9-10x 2026 EV/EBITDA
~8x 2027 EV/EBITDA
~10-11x 2026 FCF before growth
Meanwhile $CEG trades closer to ~22x forward earnings and ~14-15x EV/EBITDA.
I don’t think VST deserves CEG’s full multiple, but the gap looks wide given how much exposure VST has to the same nuclear/power scarcity theme. At the same time, CEG has almost the same amount of debt as VST at $19B. CEG has much more hyperscaler exposure so it deserves a higher premium, but it seems likely for VST to be rerated on solid execution.
The risks:
- Merchant power prices can weaken
- Debt/leverage is meaningful
- Nuclear outages/regulatory issues can hurt earnings
- AI power demand is already a crowded theme
- Heavy hedging limits near-term upside from higher spot power prices
- Cogentrix/Helix still need to execute
- More generation or slower AI capex could reduce the scarcity premium
The risks are important here but they are mainly tied to regulation/execution, the underlying thesis is that energy continues to be a huge bottleneck.
What I also like is that you don’t need some crazy AI multiple for this to work and deliver returns from here as the stock is already down 15% YTD:
- Bear: $110
7x EBITDA / ~$7B EBITDA
- Base: $185
9x EBITDA / ~$8B+ EBITDA
- Bull: $240
10-11x EBITDA / ~$9B EBITDA
$VST has $1.22B remaining on its buyback authorization and 336M shares outstanding, after repurchasing $778M of stock in 2026 and $6.5B since November 2021, helping reduce its share count by roughly 30% since 2021. That’s actually interesting now because the stock is around $138 so if management keeps allocating FCF to repurchases at these lower prices, every $1B of buybacks would retire roughly 7.2M shares, or a little over 2% of the current share count.
Finally, Peter Thiel bought $59M of it in Q2 and David Tepper added to his position by 10% making it now worth 4% of his portfolio with a $350M position size.
I took a small starter position today to keep track of it as I'm still doing DD but it does feel more compelling than not.
If I had to bet on ONE sector delivering one of the most powerful bull runs of the next 5 years...
Energy & battery solutions would be my pick.
The upside potential I'm tracking is ridiculous:
$SMR → 1,400%
$OKLO → 1,400%
$EOSE → 800%
$TE → 800%
$FLNC → 750%
$AMPX → 700%
$NRGV → 600%
$BE → 500%
Sounds crazy? It should.
If everyone already believed in the next 10x, you wouldn't be getting 10x prices.
Opportunity comes before consensus.