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Standard Lithium owns a lithium operation stretching across East Texas and Arkansas-a venture that recently benefited from the government’s “critical materials” panic. You know, the same panic that made every lithium stock rally harder than a teenager asked to clean their room. But today, Standard Lithium decided to throw its shareholders under the bus. Literally. Not metaphorically. There’s video.

A COMPANY THAT SELLS CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS LIKE IT’S SELLING HEROIN. SerDes, DSP, chiplets-these are the new narcotics. They’re in data centers, networking gear, and the pockets of executives who think they’re untouchable. The world’s a Wi-Fi hotspot, and Credo’s the provider with a monopoly on the signal.

The SEC, that grand arbiter of finance’s finer points, let slip the news on the same date: Harbor Capital had been trimming its sails in Comfort Systems USA during Q3. The arithmetic is plain as day-$23.58 million vanished from their ledger, and now they hold 9,286 shares worth $7.66 million. A ship’s captain might call it a course correction; a man of the markets might call it a midlife crisis.

Perincheril, our first host of the affair, began the proceedings on Monday with a most generous gesture, elevating his fair-value estimate from £25 (or its American cousin, $25) to a sprightly $40 per share. One might liken it to a gentleman tipping his hat to a passing cloud. The next three days saw Thakkar, Strouse, and Percoco follow suit, their adjustments ranging from the modest (Thakkar’s $16 to $19) to the merely polite (Strouse’s $27 to $29). Yet, for all their numeric derring-do, not one of these estimable souls deigned to bestow a “Buy” rating. Instead, they clung to their existing verdicts-neutral for Perincheril and Strouse, and the equivalent of “Sell” for the others. A most peculiar social dance, to be sure, where the music plays on but no one dares to take the floor.