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NOVEMBER 4, 2026  ·  COVERING OCT 28 – NOV 3  ·  6 MIN READ

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"The rush towards CapEx, the rush towards getting AI agents out there, the rush to grow, I think is dangerous for AI as a business and dangerous for the rest of us. But the only thing [companies] listen to is the market. And maybe the message from the market today to everybody involved in the process, the hyperscalers, the suppliers, the LLMs, is slow the process down."

Aswath Damodaran — Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
Closing Bell, Oct 30. Asked by CNBC's Scott Wapner what the market is trying to figure out about the AI trade.

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"…if we go back to what happened in software, during that whole period where we lost $500 billion of market cap from that space, the median estimate was up in that space. Estimates kept going. You didn’t see it in numbers… Adobe’s 2026 revenue hasn’t changed by more than 2% plus or minus over that entire time period. The stock lost 60%, right? It’s all on the multiple." — explaining to host Doug Garber why investors can't rely on earnings estimates alone

"In a normal environment, what Alphabet would be doing is raising its buyback authorization because they are making a ton of money… We’re not in a normal environment. These companies are deliberately going free cash flow negative. They spent 10 years buying back stock. Now they’re selling stock." — on Alphabet's results, the day its stock fell 12.6%

"No, I think this is more an immediate reaction to a signal that the search business was weaker than expected… But just the suggestion that there is some sort of terminal value risk around that search side of things, that’s what we’ve been worried about for four years." — asked by CNBC's Mike Santoli whether Alphabet's drop is an enduring repricing of its core business

"I find [Amazon’s and Alphabet’s] valuations very forgiving. There’s no sign of CapEx letting up. So, all of this to me is just the market flinching." — asked by CNBC's Scott Wapner for his read on Amazon; he said he had trimmed his Alphabet shares the day before

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"Remember, that’s exactly the kind of reasoning that we had in 2021, where we decided to pause for a little bit too long, I would suggest. I was on the committee then. And I think this period is very reminiscent of that. If you have a series of supply shocks, eventually they’re not shocks. They’re just feeding into constrained supply." — asked by CNBC's Morgan Brennan whether the Fed's wait reflects an energy supply shock tied to conflicts in the Middle East

"I think about the 30-year Treasury as the sum of all fears… Obviously, the debt and deficits roll in. So there’s lots of factors that I think influence the 30-year, and then you have the crowding out piece as well. So I think the 10-30 curve is way too flat… I think ultimately the 30-year is going to do what the 30-year needs to do, and that is likely reprice with a higher term premium." — asked by Bloomberg Intelligence's Noel Hebert whether the long end of the curve is worth the risk

"There are action-forcing events, must-pass legislation, regardless of the election scenario. So there will be policy change either way… every election scenario is expansionary, marginally added to the deficit, marginal tailwind to growth. But it’s a question of composition of that deficit… The better Republicans do, the more defense you’ll get, the better Democrats do. In effect, the more health care spending you get." — asked on Piper Sandler's podcast, before the vote, what investors should watch after election night

◈ PHI MOVERS — HOTTEST & COLDEST THIS WEEK
Public stocks gaining and losing the most conversation vs. baseline · Oct 26–Nov 1

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PHI — Particle Heat Index: how much a company is being mentioned on podcasts versus its own 4-week baseline. 1.0 = normal; 2.0 = twice the usual chatter. Movers are ranked by distance from that baseline across the US-listed names we track. We read the transcript lines behind every name we print and remove spikes that came from namesakes or unrelated chatter. Full methodology ↓

"…in one snapshot, yes, EPS [$1.02] was an expectation versus $1. And everybody knows in software that’s the least important measurement at the time. And Jim, I got to tell you, what other company can say that they’re growing the way we are with no compute constraint, no memory constraint, no data center build-out constraint, just pure free cash flow, operating margin, and revenue growth?" — asked by Jim Cramer on the October 28 show about a two-cent earnings miss; ServiceNow's stock fell about 27% the next day

"I don’t think we have much pricing power… with capacity reductions, you’re going to see, I think, record increases in airfares in Europe, in the UK from in summer [2027] onwards… Consumers will finally have to pay for these higher oil prices. We’ve insulated them for the last 12 months because of our fuel hedging." — asked by Bloomberg's Stephen Carroll how much pricing power Ryanair has, on the day it reported half-year results

"Well, I’ve been using it constantly. When I wrote my memo about AI in February, I fed it to Claude. I said, what’s your reaction? And he gave me some suggestions and said, most of it’s really good. So the next time I said, please be hypercritical. And he wrote back, do you want me to be hypercritical or hypocritical? So he’s making jokes at my expense."

◈ THE PARTICLE HEAT INDEX (PHI), EXPLAINED
The number next to the companies we track in this issue

The formula. PHI = distinct podcast episodes mentioning the company in the most recent full week ÷ its average weekly episodes over the trailing four weeks, computed from entity mentions across 160,000+ actively transcribed podcasts in Particle's podcast intelligence database. Movers are ranked across the US-listed companies we track.

How to read it. It's a ratio with no ceiling. A quiet company that suddenly hits the news can print 10 or higher. Pills are colored by temperature: blue for cold, gray for baseline, warming to red as conversation heats up. Before a name is printed we read the transcript lines behind it, so a spike is real discussion of the company and not a coincidence of names.

0 — silent this week 0.3 — cooler than normal (Lennar) 1.0 — baseline chatter 2.5 — running hot (ServiceNow) 4.6 — this week's extreme (DoorDash)

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