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01 / Earnings Season
Public Company Earnings
Q1 FY2026 prints and upcoming earnings cycles Vektor is actively covering. Published briefs include the full pre-print setup, bull/bear/base scenarios, and Vektor's call.
Earnings · Q1 FY2026
GMV acceleration thesis: take-rate expansion on merchant premium services and international penetration driving beat-and-raise setup.
May 5 AMC
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Earnings · Q1 FY2026
BTC above $90K driving trading volume recovery — institutional fee structure vs. retail mix shift, Base L2 growth angle.
May 7–8 AMC
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Earnings · Q1 FY2026
Crypto trading volume + Gold Card launch — fastest growing net deposits in consumer fintech. Q1 setup vs. COIN on user monetization.
May 7 AMC
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Earnings · Q1 FY27
Beat-and-raise: $80–81B Q1 vs. $78.4B consensus. HUMAIN 600K-GPU sovereign AI backlog, China upside as free option, GB300 yield tailwind.
May 27 AMC
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Earnings · Q1 FY2027
Custom ASIC ramp for Google and AWS vs. merchant GPU — structural re-rate setup on hyperscaler silicon design wins. Data center inflection thesis.
~Jun 5 AMC
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Earnings · Q2 FY2026
AI cluster infrastructure spending vs. VMware cross-sell — margin profile at $50B+ annualized revenue. Custom ASIC share gains vs. NVDA.
~Jun 12 AMC
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Earnings · Q3 FY2026
HBM3E supply discipline + data center DRAM pricing recovery — memory cycle inflection thesis. AI server demand pull vs. PC/mobile inventory drag.
~Jun 25 AMC
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Earnings · Q1 FY2026
First print as a public company — hyperscaler GPU lease backlog vs. IPO revenue guide. Cash burn profile and contract concentration risk.
Jun 2026
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02 / Private Company Events
Funding Rounds & Product Events
Capital raises, ARR updates, and product launches from private AI-era companies that move the public market narrative. These briefs focus on competitive implications and investor positioning context.
Series E Funding Round
Rumored $4B+ at $61B valuation — AI lab financing dynamics and what the round signals about compute runway vs. OpenAI's spending cadence.
May 2026
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Developer Event
Developer conference + product launches: inference pricing, API infrastructure, competitive response to Anthropic and Google's developer tooling push.
May 2026
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Capital Raise (Pre-IPO)
Rumored $1B+ at $28B valuation — defense-tech vs. traditional prime contractors. Lattice OS traction and DoD contract backlog heading into IPO window.
May–Jun 2026
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ARR Milestone Update
Rumored $500M ARR — developer tooling market consolidation vs. GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. Enterprise expansion dynamics and pricing power signals.
Jun 2026
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AI Day / Optimus Day — May 2026
Gen 3 production-ready showcase. If the demo impresses, it reprices every other humanoid company. If it stumbles, it buys Figure AI 12 months. The most watched robotics event of Q2.
May 2026
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$1B Funding Round Close — Q2 2026
1X is seeking $1B at $10B+ valuation to fund the EQT portfolio deployment (up to 10,000 NEO robots 2026–2030). Close validates the consumer humanoid thesis — or signals investor skepticism about the teleop model.
Q2 2026
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03 / Next Cycle
Q2 Pipeline
Catalysts beyond the 60-day window that Vektor is pre-scheduling. Briefs for these drop 48h before the event date — subscribe to get notified when they're locked.
F.03 Commercial Deployment Announcement — Q2-Q3 2026
Figure has been tight-lipped about F.03 customers beyond BMW. A second disclosed customer at commercial scale — manufacturing, logistics, or consumer — would be the most bullish data point in the sector and the strongest signal BotQ is executing.
Q2–Q3 2026
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Earnings · Q2 FY2026
MI350 shipment velocity and EPYC server CPU share gains vs. Intel — post-record-Q1 momentum check on the AI infrastructure thesis.
~Jul 28 AMC
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Earnings · Q2 FY2026
AIP commercial expansion + government AI contract backlog after record Q1. US commercial guidance vs. beat pattern — does the re-rate thesis hold?
~Jul 28 AMC
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Product Launch
Grok 3.5 launch + Colossus 2.0 capacity expansion — compute stack vs. OpenAI and Anthropic, and what Musk's X integration means for enterprise traction.
Jun–Jul 2026
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Earnings · Q4 FY2026
First print after $190B capex shock — Azure acceleration test, Copilot ARPU expansion with Agent Suite, and whether the $627B RPO backlog starts converting at scale. The bull vs. bear case resolves here.
~Jul 30 AMC
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Product · Copilot Agent Suite Pricing Rollout
$45/user/month Agent Suite tier vs. $30/user standard Copilot — the ARPU expansion catalyst that could push Copilot revenue run rate from ~$7.2B toward $12B+. Pricing rollout timing and enterprise uptake rate are the key signals for Copilot monetization thesis.
Q3 2026
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