SpaceX's First Profit Lifts AI Stocks; Meta Plans New Non-Voting Shares

Elon Musk's SpaceX posted its first quarterly profit, about $4.4 billion, as sales of its AI computing power jumped ninefold to $7.6 billion. The rocket and satellite company rose nearly 8% Wednesday, adding about $150 billion in market value. Musk also said SpaceX and Tesla have set up independent board committees to weigh a merger, and Tesla gained 3.4%. Server maker Super Micro Computer rose nearly 10% after raising its revenue forecast by $4 billion, with Dell up 5.5% and Nvidia up 2.6%. The semiconductor fund SMH gained 1.6%, the Nasdaq-100 rose 1.1% and the S&P 500 added 0.6%. High-beta stocks, the ones most sensitive to market moves, led the bounce. Hedge funds' favorite stocks lagged, while the stocks they own least gained about 1%.

After the closing bell, Meta Platforms showed how expensive the AI race has become. Revenue grew 26% to about $65 billion. But it spent about $35 billion on data centers and equipment in the quarter, enough to leave it about $2 billion short on free cash flow. Meta raised the low end of its 2026 spending forecast to $135 billion and plans a new class of non-voting shares to raise money for AI computing. The stock rose 2.8% in late trading. The move toward selling stock comes as lenders grow warier of AI borrowers: the cost of insuring Meta's debt against default hit a record this month, and bonds of AI cloud provider CoreWeave yield 15% to 16%. Elsewhere after hours, German software giant SAP jumped 5.2% on strong cloud sales and IBM added 3.3%. Chip-equipment maker Lam Research fell 6.9% even though its revenue rose 54%.

Borrowing costs stayed high in the bond market. A $13 billion sale of 20-year Treasury bonds drew weaker-than-usual demand and priced at a yield of about 5.47%, the highest since 1986. The 10-year yield held near 5.12%. Earnings disappointments hit some big names: AT&T fell 6.3% after missing on new phone-plan subscribers, and Netflix lost 5.3% after cutting its ad-revenue forecast. Investors have been stingy all season. Only about 15% of the big companies that have reported so far got a solid lift from their results, compared with about a third at this point in a typical season. Bitcoin rose 2.6% to about $84,600, and the crypto miner fund WGMI gained 3.9%, though the fund is still down 39% over the past month.

Meta Turns to Non-Voting Equity for $135B AI Tab

During regular trading, investors bought proven AI hardware revenue: SpaceX (SPCX) closed the session up 7.8% (+7.6% combined with late trading), adding $147.8B of market value after reporting its first quarterly net profit of $4.4 billion on $14.58 billion in revenue, led by a ninefold surge in its Super Intelligence AI compute segment to $7.6 billion The Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk also disclosed that SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA, up 3.4% in the regular session) formed special independent board committees to evaluate a potential merger The Wall Street Journal. Super Micro Computer (SMCI) closed up 9.5% (+6.0% stock-specific) after lifting preliminary first-quarter revenue guidance by $4.0 billion to $18.5 billion–$19.5 billion and projecting gross margins of 12.0%–12.5% The Wall Street Journal. Server peer Dell Technologies (DELL +5.5% regular session) and Nvidia (NVDA +2.6%) followed, lifting the Semiconductors factor 0.37% (z=+0.6) and the S&P 500 0.6% while the Nasdaq-100 gained 1.1% in regular trading; both indexes were little changed after the close.

After the closing bell, the focus shifted to how that hardware tab will be financed. Meta Platforms (META) closed the regular session up 0.7% and gained a further 2.8% in late trading (+3.5% combined) after third-quarter revenue rose 26% to $64.60 billion and non-GAAP diluted EPS reached $7.40, excluding a $9.89 billion legal settlement charge. However, third-quarter capital expenditures of $34.91 billion pushed Meta's quarterly free cash flow to negative $2.12 billion. Management lifted the bottom of its full-year 2026 capital expenditure forecast by $5 billion to $135 billion–$145 billion and announced a new class of non-voting Class C common stock to raise capital for AI compute requirements Bloomberg Crypto Briefing.

That turn to equity financing arrives as the credit market demands steeper compensation for AI debt: the Financial Times reported Tuesday that five-year credit default swaps on Meta reached a record 108 basis points in October, alongside record protection costs on Nvidia (101 bps), and that Oracle's reached 322 bps on Oct. 19, while CoreWeave's five-year CDS reached roughly 1,090 basis points with its unsecured notes yielding 15% to 16%. Janus Henderson portfolio manager John Lloyd argued Tuesday that the CoreWeave bond selloff is an overreaction to higher Treasury rates rather than an AI demand problem given the absence of near-term maturities, according to CNBC. Elsewhere in after-hours reporting, Tesla (TSLA, -0.1% post-close) posted adjusted EPS of $0.48 and $1.53 billion in free cash flow on 19.6% GAAP gross margins Bloomberg. Enterprise software reporters also rallied late: SAP SE (SAP) closed the regular session up 1.5% and jumped 5.2% after the bell on stronger-than-forecast cloud revenue growth, while IBM closed up 3.8% and added 3.3% post-close after reporting 5% sales growth on revived infrastructure deals Bloomberg.

Earnings reactions in the regular sessionReporters worth over $100 billion, or moving more than 10% with a value above $5 billion

Company	Move	Stock-specific	Market cap	Revenue YoY	Margin YoY	What drove it
AT&T T	-6.3%	-5.5%	$160B	+5%	+2.2 pts adj. operating	Postpaid subscriber miss and 3.13x net leverage
Netflix NFLX	-5.3%	-4.4%	$286B	+12%	+6.4 pts operating	Cut 2026 ad revenue forecast and Q4 guidance The Wall Street Journal
Intuitive Surgical ISRG	-2.2%	-2.4%	$155B	+22%	+2.7 pts adj. operating	$450 million antitrust settlement charge
Abbott Laboratories ABT	-1.9%	-1.3%	$177B	+14%	-1.6 pts adj. pre-tax	Trimmed sales-growth outlook to about 6%
Philip Morris International PM	-1.4% light volume	-0.8%	$312B	+5%	+1.7 pts adj. operating	GAAP EPS drop and narrowed guidance
NextEra Energy NEE	-0.8% light volume	-1.0%	$164B	+2%	+0.7 pts operating	Modest Q3 top-line revenue growth
Chubb CB	-0.8%	-0.8%	$138B	+3%†	-1.4 pts† adj. operating	Operating margin contraction in Q3
CME CME	+0.2% light volume	+1.2%	$106B	+13%	+1.0 pts adj. operating	Q3 revenue and operating margin expansion
Thermo Fisher Scientific TMO	+1.0%	+1.5%	$254B	+9%	+1.2 pts adj. operating	Q3 revenue growth and margin expansion
Capital One Financial COF	+2.3%	+3.0%	$124B	+6%	-0.6 pts pre-tax	Q3 revenue growth despite pre-tax margin dip
Danaher DHR	+4.4%	+4.6%	$158B	+8%	-0.1 pts operating	Adjusted EPS beat and raised 2026 guidance
SpaceX SPCX	+7.8%	+4.7%	$1.9T	+161%	+24.0 pts operating	Ninefold AI compute revenue surge and profit The Wall Street Journal

Reported after the close, as of 17:09 ETLate trading from the 4 PM close; same size rule

Company	Move	Market-adjusted	Market cap	Revenue YoY	Margin YoY	What drove it
Lam Research LRCX	-6.9%	-6.8%	$330B	+54%	+5.6 pts operating	Beat estimates; December-quarter sales guided to $8.6B Morningstar
Texas Instruments TXN	-0.6%	-0.6%	$254B	+28%	+12.4 pts operating	Earnings and fourth-quarter outlook beat estimates
Tesla TSLA	-0.1%	+0.0%	$1.5T	-0.2%	-3.2 pts operating	Profit beat; free cash flow stayed positive Bloomberg
Meta Platforms META	+2.8%	+2.9%	$1.8T	+26%	-20.0 pts operating	$9.89B legal charge; spending forecast raised Bloomberg
IBM IBM	+3.3%	+3.3%	$228B	+5%	+0.7 pts adj. pre-tax	Delayed infrastructure deals came back Bloomberg

Stock-specific: the part of a stock's move not explained by the market, style or thematic (industry and theme) factors in the FactorPulse risk model.

After the close: moves trade on a fraction of a normal session's volume, so each is an early read. Market-adjusted: the move minus the stock's beta times the S&P 500's late-trading move.

Revenue and margin from the company's earnings release, year over year; margin change in percentage points; — where the release is not parsed or the figures failed checks.

† The company's year-ago figure differs from the one originally filed, usually a restatement; growth is on its current basis.

Light volume: the company's earnings filing confirms the report, but trading volume has not caught up yet, so the move is an early read.

Of the 500 largest companies, 71 have reported (20% of market cap), on day 15 of the season.

How earnings reactions split, day 15 of the seasonThe 500 largest US companies with a confirmed earnings reaction so far (57), vs the same day in the past eight seasons and in four-season stretches back to mid-2020

Earnings reactions this season vs the past eight seasons, day 15 — Weighted by size, 15% of this season's reporters rose 2σ or more on a stock-specific basis, against 34% at this point in the past eight seasons; 29% fell 2σ or more (past: 33%).

Earnings reactions this season vs the past eight seasons, day 15
Season	≤ −5σ	−5 to −2σ	−2 to 0σ	0 to 2σ	2 to 5σ	≥ 5σ
This season	5%	23%	30%	26%	13%	2%
Past 8 seasons	12%	21%	16%	17%	19%	15%
Q2 2026	11%	25%	18%	15%	20%	12%
Q1 2026	17%	15%	12%	27%	19%	10%
Q4 2025	14%	27%	21%	12%	16%	11%
Q3 2025	2%	23%	18%	18%	9%	29%
Q2 2025	15%	28%	17%	14%	15%	11%
Q1 2025	19%	10%	18%	16%	32%	5%
Q4 2024	6%	20%	15%	16%	28%	16%
Q3 2024	15%	15%	10%	20%	19%	21%
Q3 '23–Q2 '24	12%	20%	18%	15%	21%	14%
Q3 '22–Q2 '23	9%	23%	17%	17%	22%	12%
Q3 '21–Q2 '22	15%	19%	13%	22%	25%	6%
Q3 '20–Q2 '21	5%	26%	22%	25%	16%	5%

σ: a stock's earnings-day stock-specific move divided by its typical daily stock-specific move over the past year. Each bar is cut at the same business day of the season; companies weighted by the square root of market cap.

Hedge-Fund Favorites Lag at z=-2.8 as Uncrowded Beta Rallies

Factor	Return	Z-Score	5d Z	20d Z	63d Z	Category	Direction
Hedge-Fund Ownership	-0.30%	-2.8	+0.3	-0.3	-0.2	Style-Positioning	Lightly owned led
Beta	+1.16%	+1.2	-0.7	-1.8	-0.7	Style-Risk	High-beta led
Short-Term Momentum	-0.36%	-1.2	+0.4	+1.1	-2.2	Style-Momentum	5-day losers bounced
Medium-Term Momentum	+0.31%	+1.1	-0.3	-0.3	+0.9	Style-Momentum	20-day winners led
Value	-0.25%	-1.1	-0.6	+0.2	+0.1	Style	Expensive names led
China	-0.31%	-0.8	+0.2	+0.0	+0.3	Thematic	China-exposed lagged
Semiconductors	+0.37%	+0.6	-1.2	-1.3	-1.7	Thematic	Chip names led
Short Interest	-0.10%	-0.6	+0.9	+0.0	-0.6	Style-Positioning	Un-shorted led

Beneath the index advance, factor decomposition shows institutional books held back from chasing the bounce. Hedge-Fund Ownership dropped 0.30% (z=-2.8, and -0.18% at z=-1.3 on a raw basis), ranking in the 97.8th percentile of variance share since 2020 as the least-owned stock bucket gained 0.9%. Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage described last week's record tech selling, over the five sessions through October 15, as mainly long liquidation rather than new short bets, with chipmakers taking the biggest dollar outflows. Even so, tech was still 23.5% of Goldman's global prime book afterward, around the 90th percentile of the past five years. Meanwhile, the Beta factor's 1.16% gain (z=+1.2) accounted for 14.5% of today's cross-sectional variance, lifted by its highest-exposure bucket (+3.0%) and factor-carried rallies in MARA Holdings (MARA +5.2%), Vicor (VICR +5.0%), MaxLinear (MXL +3.9%) and AXT (AXTI +3.8%).

Today's Return by Hedge-Fund Ownership Exposure z=-2.8
Bucket	Avg Ret Pct
1	0.86
2	1.04
3	0.42
4	0.37
5	-0.30
6	0.71
7	0.35
8	0.21
9	0.32
10	0.94
11	0.06
12	0.24
13	0.47
14	0.43
15	-0.08
16	0.27
17	0.24
18	-0.04
19	0.52
20	-0.08

Horizon returns underscored the snapback: 5-day reversion (Short-Term Momentum in the table) printed -0.36% (z=-1.2; 63-day z=-2.2) as last week's losers bounced 0.6% in the bottom bucket, whereas 20-day momentum (Medium-Term Momentum in the table) rose 0.31% (z=+1.1) and Value slipped 0.25% (z=-1.1). Even strong semiconductor results struggled to hold after-hours bids: Lam Research (LRCX) closed the regular session down 0.7% and tumbled 6.9% in late trading (-7.6% combined) despite reporting a 54% jump in fiscal first-quarter revenue to $8.22 billion and guiding December-quarter sales to $8.6 billion. Texas Instruments (TXN) closed the session up 2.4% before slipping 0.6% post-close (+1.8% combined). Across 57 earnings reactions so far among the 500 largest US companies, only 15% rose 2σ or more on a stock-specific basis, below the 34% norm at this point in the past eight seasons and below every four-season stretch since mid-2020. In biotech, Arcus Biosciences (RCUS) fell 19.6% in regular trading and 4.7% after the bell (-24.3% combined) after its Phase 3 lung cancer trial with Gilead Sciences failed to meet its primary progression-free survival endpoint Bloomberg.

Soft 20-Year Treasury Auction Keeps Pressure on Indebted Equities

Bucket Return Profile — Medium-Term Momentum z=+1.1
Bucket	Ret 1D Pct	Ret 5D Norm Pct	Ret 20D Norm Pct	Ret 63D Norm Pct
1	0.23	0.43	-2.08	-1.45
2	0.31	-0.46	-1.57	-0.83
3	0.08	-0.40	-1.31	-0.52
4	0.34	-0.64	-0.86	-0.75
5	-0.18	-0.59	-1.26	-0.58
6	0.10	0.21	-0.56	-0.21
7	0.16	0.45	-0.07	0.14
8	0.75	0.39	-0.08	-0.06
9	0.41	0.18	-0.18	-0.51
10	-0.32	0.62	-0.02	0.24
11	0.51	0.40	-0.10	-0.26
12	0.23	-0.05	-0.44	-0.40
13	0.37	0.55	-0.03	0.07
14	0.18	0.49	-0.02	0.03
15	0.25	0.79	0.36	0.72
16	0.72	-0.17	-0.38	0.13
17	0.59	-0.12	-0.56	-0.21
18	0.54	-0.18	-0.36	-0.02
19	1.02	-0.30	-0.76	0.49
20	0.66	-1.17	-2.08	-1.34

The afternoon's $13 billion 20-year Treasury bond auction capped the morning's rate relief, pricing at a 5.469% high yield—the highest since 1986—with a 0.9 basis-point tail against a 0.2 basis-point average as indirect buyers took 58.2% versus the 65.2% norm investingLive. By late afternoon, the 20-year Treasury yield sat at 5.466% (-1.3 bps) while the 10-year yield edged up 0.2 bps to 5.119% and the 2-year rose 2.1 bps to 4.808%, leaving the 20-year yielding more than both the 10-year and the 30-year (5.410%, -1.5 bps) CNBC. Newsquawk noted that the 20-year remains the Treasury's least-favored tenor, trading cheap to the curve on thin liquidity Newsquawk. With borrowing costs pinned near multi-year highs, the Leverage factor finished flat today (-0.01%, z=-0.1) and remains down 4.73% over the past 60 sessions, while high-yield credit spreads sit roughly 70 basis points wider over the past month, judging by fund prices.

ETF	Theme	Today	1d Ago	5d Ago	20d Ago	63d Ago
WGMI	crypto miners	+3.9%	+0.2%	-16.6%	-39.0%	-44.8%
DRAM	memory chips & storage	+2.8%	-1.3%	-9.7%	-25.0%	-17.4%
AIPO	AI power infrastructure	+2.5%	-1.1%	-9.9%	-13.1%	-16.0%
GRID	AI power infrastructure	+2.3%	-0.5%	-6.3%	-8.0%	-6.8%
IGV	software	+2.2%	+0.9%	-3.7%	+0.2%	+20.1%
SMH	semiconductors	+1.6%	-0.4%	-7.1%	-10.1%	-6.9%
NLR	nuclear power	+1.5%	-0.1%	-6.2%	-16.7%	-16.3%
DTCR	data centers	-0.8%	+0.8%	-5.2%	-10.0%	-9.1%
ITB	homebuilders	-1.3%	+2.8%	+3.2%	-4.1%	-7.7%
KWEB	china	-2.2%	+0.3%	-1.5%	-4.0%	-7.9%

Across the thematic ETF complex, today's gains in crypto miners (WGMI, as bitcoin rose 2.6% to $84,627 at 5:12 PM ET), nuclear power (NLR) and smart-grid infrastructure (GRID) trimmed only a fraction of their steep 20-day drawdowns, where WGMI (-39.0%, 0.3rd percentile since 2022) and NLR (-16.7%, 1.5th percentile since late 2018) remain among their worst 20-day stretches CNBC. Meanwhile, the China factor fell 0.31% (z=-0.8; 95.4th percentile of variance share since 2020) as Alibaba (BABA) dropped 3.9% and KWEB fell 2.2% on 3.0× the typical session pace.

Cyclical ETFs (XLI, NLR, URA, GRID) — Cumulative Total Return, 1 Month
T	Xli	Nlr	Ura	Grid
2026-09-22	0.17	1.10	1.77	0.98
2026-09-23	0.07	-2.17	-2.30	-0.82
2026-09-24	-0.68	-4.07	-4.93	-1.36
2026-09-25	0.26	-4.47	-4.82	-0.64
2026-09-28	-0.71	-6.10	-6.63	-1.77
2026-09-29	-0.50	-5.95	-6.84	-1.36
2026-09-30	-1.76	-6.57	-7.28	-2.00
2026-10-01	-0.79	-7.21	-7.89	-1.06
2026-10-02	-0.02	-7.22	-7.42	1.21
2026-10-05	0.07	-6.32	-6.49	0.77
2026-10-06	0.94	-1.17	-2.75	1.99
2026-10-07	-1.26	-4.93	-7.10	-0.52
2026-10-08	-0.93	-7.54	-10.28	-1.36
2026-10-09	-0.43	-6.66	-9.49	0.09
2026-10-12	-0.49	-9.51	-12.24	-1.12
2026-10-13	-0.77	-10.25	-13.03	-0.81
2026-10-14	-1.73	-14.64	-17.31	-3.45
2026-10-15	-1.23	-12.89	-15.96	-4.77
2026-10-16	-1.31	-14.80	-17.57	-6.02
2026-10-19	-1.94	-15.75	-17.94	-6.60
2026-10-20	-1.87	-15.82	-18.15	-7.09
2026-10-21	-0.71	-14.53	-16.94	-4.95

Factor Regime Reference

Variance decomposition: live intraday — 20261021 session, bracketed against its trailing-year range. Factor returns are trailing through last close. Total cross-sectional dispersion: 34%ile of the past year.

Variance mix — % of total, today vs 1d ago vs 1-yr avg

market 42%ile style 63%ile thematic 47%ile idiosyncratic 54%ile

Today (live)

22%73%

1d ago

18%14%63%

1-yr avg

9%23%65%

Variance explained — today vs. factor's trailing-year range

Marker = the factor's share of today's total variance, placed in its own trailing-year range (box 25–75%ile, ticks 90%ile and max). Amber marker = unusually load-bearing today (≥90%ile of its own year). Factor name green = up today / red = down.

Correlation & dispersion — realized vs implied

Pairwise realized correlation (20d): 10.30% 11%ile since 2020 · 93.7%ile 3m

Top-500 pairwise: 10.16% 8.5%ile since 2020 · 43%ile 3m · implied (Cboe COR1M): 8.40 2.2%ile since 2006 (gap +1.8pp)

Realized 20d vol (ann. pts): all stocks 37 vs VIXEQ 41 · index 11 vs VIX 17 · style factors 19 67%ile

20-day window (19 completed days + today); percentiles vs model history since 2020; '3m' tokens rank vs the trailing 63 trading days; definitions in Terms below. Implied prints (Cboe) are delayed ~15 min. as of 16:58 ET

High-beta momentum cohort (eq-wt, since-2020 rank): +2.5% 87%ile · rest of market -0.2%

Trailing factor returns

Factor	Today	1d	5d	20d	60d
Style-Risk
Beta	+1.16% z+1.2	-0.58%	-1.55%	-7.64%	-0.33%
Residual Volatility	+0.21% z+0.4	+0.27%	+0.01%	-0.29%	+5.41%
International	-0.03% z-0.1	-0.09%	+0.01%	-0.23%	+0.54%
Style
Value	-0.25% z-1.1	-0.21%	-0.31%	+0.21%	-0.25%
Profitability	-0.18% z-1.0	-0.18%	+0.02%	+1.24%	-0.54%
Size	+0.14% z+0.4	-0.61%	-0.87%	+1.26%	+4.03%
Dividend Yield	+0.04% z+0.3	+0.06%	-0.18%	-1.12%	-0.43%
Growth	-0.05% z-0.2	-0.19%	-0.23%	+0.41%	+0.66%
Liquidity	+0.02% z+0.1	+0.08%	+0.37%	-0.62%	+3.06%
Leverage	-0.01% z-0.1	+0.03%	-0.44%	-1.62%	-4.73%
Style-Momentum
Short-Term Momentum	-0.36% z-1.2	+0.39%	+0.28%	+1.52%	-3.61%
Medium-Term Momentum	+0.31% z+1.1	-0.11%	-0.16%	-0.38%	+0.23%
One-Day Momentum	+0.21% z+0.8	+0.18%	+0.67%	+0.02%	-2.90%
Long-Term Momentum	+0.42% z+0.7	-0.10%	-1.15%	-0.67%	+1.17%
Style-Positioning
Hedge-Fund Ownership	-0.30% z-2.8	+0.12%	+0.07%	-0.16%	-0.14%
Short Interest	-0.10% z-0.6	+0.31%	+0.34%	+0.00%	-1.65%
Style-Flow
Short-Sale Activity	+0.07% z+0.7	-0.02%	+0.24%	-0.22%	+0.84%
Morning Activity	+0.05% z+0.4	-0.03%	-0.12%	-0.69%	+1.31%
Thematic
Bitcoin / Crypto	+0.28% z+0.9	+0.34%	+0.31%	-0.47%	+2.77%
Oil	+0.37% z+0.8	-0.56%	-0.73%	+0.21%	+6.46%
China	-0.31% z-0.8	+0.30%	+0.17%	+0.04%	+0.43%
Semiconductors	+0.37% z+0.6	-0.47%	-1.65%	-3.41%	-2.42%
Treasury (Duration)	-0.10% z-0.3	+0.51%	+1.02%	-0.91%	-3.24%
Gold	+0.08% z+0.2	-0.02%	+0.41%	-0.58%	+2.61%

5/20/60d windows include today's session; 1d is the previous session.

Terms

Pairwise realized correlation. Index variance net of the weighted idiosyncratic diagonal, over the cross terms — the estimator used for implied-correlation indices. 20-day window unless noted; history since 2020.

Market variance share. The fraction of cross-sectional variance explained by the market factor — the attribution companion to pairwise correlation, not a substitute for it.

Factor z-score. Today's factor return divided by its daily-return standard deviation over ~1,600 trading days.

Conditional importance. A factor's relative share of what a tree-based fit of today's stock returns explains; sums to 100% across factors.

High-beta momentum cohort. US names above $2B market cap in the top quintile of both raw beta and 12-month momentum; membership frozen at each month's first business day. “Top 50” = the 50 strongest by combined rank.

Dispersion (realized). Total cross-sectional volatility net of the market component; high dispersion is the flip side of low correlation.

Stock-specific (idiosyncratic) return. The part of a stock's move not explained by the market, style or thematic (industry and theme) factors in the FactorPulse risk model.

VIXEQ / DSPX / COR1M. Cboe implied indices: single-stock volatility, dispersion, and 1-month implied correlation (top-50 S&P names). Quotes delayed ~15 minutes.

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