A rideshare company that has spent two years promising profitability finally has to show the cash on Thursday, with ridership improving and autonomous partnerships progressing quietly while expectations sit near the floor.
Read on before the print and two more post-earnings discounts get closed without you.
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Real Estate
Easterly’s Government Rent Roll Leaves a 7.3% Yield at 8x FFO
Easterly Government Properties Inc. (NYSE: DEA) trades near $24.60 after raising full-year core FFO guidance to $3.07 to $3.13 per share. Second-quarter core FFO reached $0.78 per share, while the 106-property operating portfolio remained 98% leased with 9.2 years left on the average lease.
The guidance midpoint puts the stock near 7.9 times forward core FFO. Its $0.45 quarterly dividend annualizes to a yield around 7.3%. You are paying a troubled-office multiple for a portfolio leased mainly to federal, state, and local government agencies.
Three development properties are expected to begin government leases lasting 20 to 25 years after completion. Easterly also closed a $200 million term loan maturing in 2031, extending capital for acquisitions and development.
The Dividend Has Real Coverage
Cash available for distribution reached $25.8 million, or roughly $0.54 per diluted share, against the $0.45 payout. High occupancy and long leases give your income case support that many office landlords cannot match.
Debt Keeps the Multiple Near 8x
Total debt stands near $1.7 billion, while adjusted net debt equals 7.1 times annualized EBITDA. Easterly also issued almost 797,000 shares at $23.86, and quarterly cash available for distribution declined from last year. You still need lower leverage and stronger per-share cash growth before the government-backed rent roll earns a higher multiple.
Retail
Sally Beauty Jumped 13%, but $200 Million in Cash Flow Still Trades Near 8x Earnings
Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. (NYSE: SBH) trades near $16.97 after third-quarter GAAP earnings rose 25% to $0.55 per share. Free cash flow reached $62 million, while the company repaid $20 million of debt and spent $25 million buying back 1.9 million shares.
Management narrowed full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $2.04 to $2.08 and maintained its $200 million free-cash-flow outlook. The midpoint puts Sally Beauty near 8.2 times adjusted earnings, while expected cash flow equals almost 12% of its current $1.69 billion market value.
The stock already jumped about 13%, but the valuation still assumes little growth. Wider margins, lower leverage, and a shrinking share count leave you with more operating support than the single-digit multiple suggests.
Cash Flow Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
Net debt leverage fell to 1.4 times, and guidance assumes half of annual free cash flow goes toward repurchases. Gross margin expanded 90 basis points, giving your valuation case more support than another quarter of financial engineering alone.
Weak Sales Still Control the Ceiling
Consolidated revenue increased only 0.2%, while Beauty Systems Group sales fell 2.4% and comparable sales declined 2.1%. Full-year revenue guidance also moved toward the bottom of its previous range. You still need steadier sales growth before the market rewards Sally Beauty with more than a deep-value retail multiple.
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Technology
Resideo’s ADI Breakup Finally Separates a 20% Margin Business From a 6% One
Resideo Technologies Inc. (NYSE: REZI) trades near $35.84 as it completes the ADI Global Distribution spin-off on August 3. Shareholders receive one ADIG share for every two REZI shares, with regular trading expected to begin on August 4.
The split separates Resideo’s building controls and safety products from ADI’s lower-margin distribution network. Resideo generated $581 million in standalone adjusted EBITDA on a 20.3% margin in 2025, while ADI produced $295 million on a 6.2% margin.
The old structure forced both operations under one valuation. The separation gives you a cleaner view of which business deserves the premium and which one still needs to prove it can grow through thinner margins.
Together, the companies produced $876 million in standalone adjusted EBITDA last year against a pre-distribution equity value near $5.56 billion. Debt blocks a simple multiple, but the breakup creates a sum-of-the-parts test the market can no longer avoid.
Resideo Gets the Cleaner Rerating Case
Resideo targets 4% to 5% annual revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA margins of 23% to 25% by 2030. ADI’s $900 million payment will help reduce existing borrowings, so your return now depends more directly on product growth and margin expansion.
ADI Begins With More Debt and Less Margin
ADI raised about $1 billion of new debt to fund the payment back to Resideo. You still inherit separation costs, early selling pressure, and the risk that standalone expenses absorb part of the value the breakup is supposed to reveal.
Actionable Picks This Week
Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) Thursday is the day the entire thesis gets tested. Management has been telling the profitability story for two years, and this is the print where they have to show the cash rather than describe it.
Ridership trends have been improving, autonomous vehicle partnerships are progressing quietly behind the scenes, and expectations sit low enough that a merely clean quarter would land as a positive surprise. If Lyft delivers real free cash flow with any credible autonomous commentary, the stock reprices quickly because so few investors are positioned for it.
The risk is straightforward and worth respecting: this is a binary bet on a single print, so size the position accordingly rather than treating it like a core holding.
Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) Arista reported Q2 on July 30, and the setup played out roughly as the bulls hoped. Guidance moved higher, AI-driven demand is still building across the customer base, and hyperscaler insourcing has not put the dent in the order book that the bear case required.
The stock has room to move from here, but chasing a post-earnings gap up is a worse entry than waiting for the inevitable pullback that comes when momentum buyers rotate out. Watch for weakness in the days following the report rather than paying up on the initial pop.
The risk is that hyperscaler custom silicon eventually does displace more of the networking stack than the current order book suggests.
Brinker International (NYSE: EAT) Brinker reports fiscal Q4 on August 12, and the Chili’s turnaround has been one of the more underappreciated operational stories in casual dining.
This is not a fad-driven comp story; it is tech-led operational improvement, disciplined menu engineering, and traffic gains that have already shown up in prior quarters. Casual dining fear is thoroughly baked into the multiple, which means any positive surprise on the print or confident guidance into fiscal 2027 moves the stock more than the fundamentals alone would justify.
Accumulating ahead of the call gives you the setup before the market re-rates it. The risk is that consumer trade-down behavior finally reaches the sit-down segment and traffic gains stall.
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Kymera Therapeutics (NASDAQ: KYMR) Kymera appointed a new chief medical officer ahead of a set of pipeline readouts, which is the kind of hire that signals a company preparing for a commercial transition rather than another year of research.
Discounted cash flow estimates peg the stock as roughly 23% undervalued, which is meaningful for a clinical-stage name where valuation usually swings on data rather than models.
This is a high-conviction setup if you can tolerate the volatility that comes standard with biotech.Darling Ingredients (NYSE: DAR) Darling reported Q2 results that reinforced management’s confident outlook into 2027, and the stock has not caught up to the improved commentary.
The combination of renewable diesel exposure through the Diamond Green joint venture and a genuine specialty ingredients moat gives this business two distinct earnings drivers that rarely move in sync.
As sentiment on renewable fuels stabilizes, this is a name worth watching closely.SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) The chief executive purchased nearly 14,000 shares on the open market in mid-June, and open-market buying at that size from the person with the most information is a signal worth taking seriously.
Paired with fundamentals that keep improving across lending, financial services, and the technology platform segment, this belongs on the radar. The setup is not urgent, but the insider conviction is real.
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New York State sued prediction market operator Kalshi, alleging the platform is running an illegal gambling operation under state law.
FIFA is exploring the sale of a 20% stake in its World Cup commercial operations, testing private equity appetite for large-scale sports assets.
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge and August labour data remain the key macro catalysts as markets grind toward record territory.
Gold held near recent highs on a softer dollar as markets weighed Federal Reserve policy against continuing Middle East supply disruptions.
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