While the weather has (finally) started cooling down, the heat is rising in the baseball world. With just a handful of games left, the race to the World Series is nearing its climax.

As thrilling as October is for baseball fans, it’s equally exciting for investors. Earnings season is officially underway, and October is historically the most volatile month of the year. While speculation and noise inevitably intensify, this period also creates new opportunities for diligent investors.

Investors who get to the bottom of a company’s true fundamentals and understand what the expectations baked into its stock price mean can make their hay during earnings season.

To give you an edge during this exciting time, we host special live training sessions, which we call Earnings Watch Parties. In these watch parties we detail the truth behind each earnings report, and what it means for a particular company’s valuation. In the first watch party of this season we discussed JPM, WFC, GS, C, BLK, DPZ, JNJ, ACI, and more.

For next week, you can sign up for a special training session: “Front-Run Wall Street with AI-Powered Earnings Predictions: Get The Beat/Miss Playbook That Beat the Market by 9%.”

More on our research from this week is below.

Don’t miss out on the replay of our Monthly Podcast. In the latest episode, hosts David Trainer and Kyle Guske II discuss the critical importance of high-quality training data on AI’s success and contrast Small Language Models (SLMs) with Large Language Models (LLMs).

We are hosting our monthly Ideas Dinner, available to Pro & Institutional members, on Tuesday October 21 at 3pm Central Time. If you’re a Pro member or above, don’t miss the chance to join us in what is always an excellent discussion. A lot of great investment ideas come out of these meetings.

FREE Stock Picks: We shared a free stock pick from our Most Attractive Stocks Model Portfolio and another free stock pick from our Most Dangerous Stocks Model Portfolio.

There’s opportunity in businesses that deal with inevitabilities in life, especially when those businesses are managed well and trading at a discount. This week’s Long Idea is one such opportunity.

On the Model Portfolio front, we updated our Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC and Focus List Stocks: Long Model Portfolios.

Links to all our newly published research are below along with a preview for next week’s research.

We hope you had a great week!

Long Idea: Going Gray Grows Profits

Members can read the latest Long Idea here.

Ideas Dinner – Pro & Institutional Only Webinar on October 21 at 3:00CT

Earnings Recap on JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and More

Thinking Small Drives Big Leaps in AI – Monthly Podcast with David Trainer and Kyle Guske II

Free Stock Pick from Our Most Attractive Stocks Model Portfolio

Free Stock Pick from Our Most Dangerous Stocks Model Portfolio

Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Portfolio Update for October 2025

Focus List Stocks: Long – Update 10/17/25

Danger Zone Podcast: 10/6/25: Why This Auto Manufacturer is Back in the Danger Zone

Upcoming Research