Intel’s Roller-Coaster, $PII Investment Case, Musk’s $1B $TSLA Buy, and More
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- Intel’s Roller-Coaster: From Falling Behind to a Potential Comeback
- Legacy Ridge Capital: Polaris Inc. ($PII) Investment Case
- Elon Musk Buys $1B of Tesla Stock
- Trending Tickers: $WBTN Expands Disney Partnership, $WDAY to Acquire Sana, $FORD Plans Capital Raise
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Intel’s Roller-Coaster: From Falling Behind to a Potential Comeback
Intel ($INTC) has endured a dramatic slide and is now showing signs of a potential reemergence. After losing ground to AMD and Nvidia in the early 2020s—suffering manufacturing delays, missed product cycles, and a 60% stock drop—Intel brought back veteran engineer Pat Gelsinger in 2021 to launch an aggressive “IDM 2.0” recovery plan. The company cut costs, slashed its dividend, and invested billions in advanced chip plants while courting foundry customers such as Microsoft. By 2024–25, U.S. government backing with a 10% equity stake and a $5 billion investment from Nvidia helped stabilize finances and highlight Intel’s strategic importance. Leadership changes continued with Lip-Bu Tan taking the CEO role in March 2025, and a landmark September 2025 collaboration with Nvidia to co-develop AI and PC chips reinforced Intel’s potential reemergence as a key player in next-generation computing. Read the full article here.
Legacy Ridge Capital: Polaris Inc. ($PII) Investment Case
Legacy Ridge Capital Management invested in Polaris Inc. (PII) at $41 per share, seeing an asymmetric opportunity in a dominant Off-Road Vehicle business trading at 15-year lows with 2.4-4.9x upside potential through improved capital allocation. The firm believes Polaris’s stable $1.16 billion gross profit ORV segment remains essential to farmers and ranchers, but management has destroyed shareholder value through poor acquisitions like Transamerican Auto Parts (sold for $42M after $740M purchase) and procyclical share repurchases that spent $2.4 billion while only retiring 17% of shares. Legacy Ridge advocates for asset sales of non-core businesses, aggressive buybacks at current depressed prices, dividend suspension, and operational right-sizing to restore the company’s historical 30%+ ROIC profile, though this small position sits outside their energy/airline expertise and depends on management abandoning growth-at-any-cost strategies. Read the full article here.
Elon Musk Buys $1B of Tesla Stock
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, Inc. ($TSLA), purchased 2,568,732 shares at $389.28 per share, totaling about $1 billion, in a series of transactions. Although this represents only about 0.5% of his total Tesla holdings, it stands out as his largest insider purchase to date—and his only insider trade in the past two years. After selling significant amounts of Tesla stock in 2022 and largely staying on the sidelines in subsequent years, Musk has now returned as a buyer. News of the purchase helped push Tesla’s share price higher in the days following the disclosure. You can track insider activity like this daily with InsiderEdge, available in the BBAE app.
Trending Tickers: $WBTN Expands Disney Partnership, $WDAY to Acquire Sana, $FORD Plans Capital Raise
This week, several stocks attracted attention due to major developments. Here’s a breakdown:
- WEBTOON ($WBTN): WEBTOON is expanding its partnership with Disney ($DIS) to launch a new digital comics hub featuring Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and 20th Century Studios titles. The initiative will also bring content to Disney+ Perks and integrate into WEBTOON’s Korean and Japanese platforms. Disney plans to take a 2% equity stake in WEBTOON.
- Workday ($WDAY): Workday will acquire Stockholm-based AI startup Sana for $1.1 billion. Sana’s tools for AI-driven learning and workflow automation will remain standalone but also enhance Workday’s platform, supporting deeper AI-driven enterprise solutions.
- Forward Industries ($FORD): Forward filed for a $4 billion at-the-market equity program to expand its Solana (SOL) treasury strategy. The move builds on recent Solana token purchases and underscores its shift from design manufacturing into crypto-based treasury management.
Read the full Weekly Highlights article here.
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