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The Pragmatic Optimist · Apr 27, 2026

A Very Disruptive Week Ahead For Markets

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Uttam Dey, Amrita Roy · The Pragmatic Optimist

An uber-important Q1 earnings season is upon us. All four hyperscalers along with SanDisk & other storage stocks are set to report their ER this week after months of elevated geopolitical tensions.
Join us as we help hundreds of investors navigate the rapidly evolving AI innovation landscape amid a potentially tricky Q1 earnings season, identify rock-solid businesses with strong growth trajectories & operational grit and deliver proven alpha-generating returns.
Since March, the TPO Portfolio delivered returns of 17%, significantly outperforming the broader indices.

What a monstrous week this is going to be!

Hyperscalers are scheduled to report Q1 earnings the same day Jerome Powell announces the FOMC’s rate cut decision on Wednesday. Seagate, Western Digital and (drumroll…🥁🥁) SanDisk also report ERs this week, accompanied by Apple’s first-ever ER after announcing the departure of Tim Cook, which is going to be another Q&A bonanza by itself.

But we still can’t get over Intel’s ER from last week and what it means for the server CPU market and hyperscaler capex.

1️⃣ So, firstly, we’ll begin this post by going over Intel’s INTC 0.00%↑ Q1 ER and use it to arrive at our conclusions for AMD AMD 0.00%↑, Arm Holdings ARM 0.00%↑, Qualcomm QCOM 0.00%↑ and what that means for our TPO portfolio.

2️⃣ Second, we’ll switch gears in the post to delve into the market’s earnings expectations on all four hyperscalers Amazon AMZN 0.00%↑, Google GOOG 0.00%↑, Meta META 0.00%↑, Microsoft MSFT 0.00%↑ and how we are positioning our portfolio. Note: 20% of our portfolio is allocated across three of the above names, so the stakes are quite high.

3️⃣ Finally, we will also discuss what we’re doing with our Micron MU 0.00%↑ position as SanDisk SNDK 0.00%↑, Seagate STX 0.00%↑ and Western Digital WDC 0.00%↑ announce their respective earnings. This is going to be highly crucial for 2 reasons: One, DeepSeek quietly dropped V4 last week that showed an enormous amount of focus on memory utilization. Two, remember that Google TurboQuant paper? That will come back to haunt memory stocks this week, and we’ll explain our updated stance on memory/storage stocks too.

📌The TPO Portfolio has staged an impressive rally since March 1, now up 17% 💪, significantly beating the S&P 500 and benchmark ETFs that include AIQ AIQ 0.00%↑, GRNY GRNY 0.00%↑, IVES IVES 0.00%↑ and SPRX SPRX 0.00%↑ during this period of time.

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Read the original on amritaroy.substack.com

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