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Hold your horses, because things aren’t as dreary as they might first appear! Apple’s performance was, in fact, rather remarkable for the quarter, showing a crisp $1.57 per share in earnings and a towering revenue of over $94 billion. A smashing victory for the tech giant, to say the least! Their revenue growth—up a full 10% compared to last year—is the highest they’ve seen since 2021, a truly splendid achievement! But here’s the curious bit—iPhone sales alone topped $44.5 billion, a figure that was almost double what analysts had been whispering in their tea cups (roughly $89.5 billion). Oh, and don’t forget those pesky $800 million in tariffs—they do love to sneak in like unwanted guests at the dinner table.

The truth is that Fluor’s actions have cast a shadow over Oklo’s prospects, and investors, ever alert to omens, are beginning to question whether they should follow suit.

It seems Fluor, despite being a veteran in the industry, just can’t catch a break. Their latest earnings report was, how should I say, not exactly a testament to corporate brilliance. A 6% drop in sales year-over-year and a nearly 50% cut in their adjusted profit. But here’s the kicker: Fluor is apparently sitting on a pile of NuScale shares, and now they’re looking to offload a significant chunk of them. The plan? Convert 15 million Class B shares into Class A shares and then sell them off into the market.

Carvana’s quarterly letter to shareholders reads like a fever dream: “April demand spiked after the auto tariff announcement… transitory benefit positively impacted Q2 Retail GPU by ~$100.” Transitory? Please. This is the Drug Enforcement Administration of economic policy, folks—tariffs as a hallucinogenic crutch to prop up margins in a market already teetering on the edge of sanity. The company sold 143,280 retail units, a number so absurd it makes the moon landing look like a local civic event. But ask yourself: when profits quintuple overnight, is it genius… or a collective delusion?

Imagine, if you will, that two decades ago, you had placed $3,000 within this particular tome. Today, your modest investment would have transformed into a veritable fortune of $2.3 million—a sum so vast it might tempt even the most stoic librarian to abandon their shelves for the chaos of Wall Street. And should you have chosen to reinvest dividends along the way, your wealth would swell further still, reaching nearly $2.5 million. An annualized return of 39.5%, contrasted against the S&P 500’s respectable yet pedestrian 9.22%, suggests not merely growth but something closer to alchemy.

Eli Lilly (LLY) has maintained a dividend payout since 1885, underscoring its historical emphasis on returning value to shareholders. While the current yield is modest at less than 1%, this reflects the stock’s robust total return profile, which has exceeded 400% over the past five years. The company’s GLP-1 franchise, anchored by Mounjaro and Zepbound, has redefined its growth trajectory, contributing nearly $13 billion in Q1 revenue—a year-over-year increase of 45%.

This is not merely an investment in a ledger of abstractions. Ethereum, that beleaguered titan of the crypto world, now contends with a host of upstart rivals—leaner, faster, and less encumbered by the weight of its own legacy. Yet it persists in its peculiar habit of self-reinvention. The recent upgrade, a technical marvel of sorts, sent ripples through its price chart, inspiring a 42% surge in three days. One might call it a Hail Mary pass, though Ethereum has a habit of converting such gambles into touchdowns.

Roku, perched on the narrow ledge of the entertainment labyrinth, has shattered expectations by its quiet resurrection—an anomaly in the often indifferent machinery of Wall Street. An earnings per share of $0.07, a seemingly insignificant figure borne out of the shadows, now gleams with the hollow promise of renewal, a 31-cent swing from the previous year’s despair. Revenue, climbing boldly by 15%, is driven primarily by the ascent of its high-margin platform segment—an almost desperate attempt to cling to some semblance of profitability across the crumbling edifice of device sales. The devices, once the crown jewel, now limp behind, their revenue contracting, barely acknowledging the tariffs that enshroud them.

In its fiscal fourth quarter of 2025, which ended on the last day of May, Tilray posted net revenues of $224.5 million — a number that would have been quite respectable a year ago. Alas, this was a modest drop from the $230 million it recorded in the same quarter of 2024. The two principal engines of the company’s revenue — cannabis and beverages — both appeared somewhat underwhelming in their performance. Cannabis sales, once the darling of the investor’s eye, languished under the shadow of a $68 million revenue figure, a notable dip from the previous year’s $72 million. Meanwhile, beverages, which have offered some hope for diversification, slid further into the murk with $65.6 million in sales, down from $76.7 million. The story here is one of stagnation rather than growth — a tale with no great surprises, but still, the nuances speak volumes.

Now, let’s be clear: the company’s second-quarter results weren’t exactly a plot twist Shakespeare would envy. After a first quarter where Asian competitors sprinted ahead to flood the market—probably in a panic over the looming tariffs—the sequel was deja vu all over again in quarter two. The White House’s 90-day tariff pause in April was reminiscent of that uncomfortable family dinner where everyone knows the argument is coming but pretends it’s not, hoping the turkey will distract everyone. It didn’t, of course. Instead, it merely postponed the inevitable, much like Whirlpool’s margins.