News•Feb 19, 2026
Mastech Digital Inc (MHH) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
TTM Technologies reported a 19% year‑over‑year increase in Q4 2025 net sales, reaching $774.3 million, driven by strong demand in data‑center computing, networking, and aerospace & defense. Non‑GAAP earnings per share hit a record $0.70, matching the top of guidance, while adjusted EBITDA margin rose to 16.3%. Management reaffirmed its 15‑20% annual revenue growth target and a plan to double earnings by 2027, supported by $200‑$300 million of additional capital spending for data‑center capacity. The company will combine data‑center and networking segments in future reporting, reflecting their AI‑related convergence.
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Workiva Inc (WK) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Workiva reported Q4 2025 revenue of $239 million, up 20% year‑over‑year and surpassing the top end of its guidance. Subscription revenue rose 21% to $219 million, driven largely by new customer additions, while non‑GAAP operating margin expanded to 19.1%, beating expectations by...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Century Aluminum Co (CENX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Kaiser Aluminum reported $3.4 billion in net sales for 2025, generating $1.5 billion in conversion revenue after $1.9 billion of alloy metal hedge costs. Total shipments fell 5% to 1.1 billion pounds, while packaging conversion revenue rose 11% thanks to a shift toward coated...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
DT Midstream Inc (DTM) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
DT Midstream reported 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $1.138 billion, a 17% increase driven by a 27% surge in its Pipeline segment after the Midwest Pipeline acquisition. The company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.88 per share, up 7.3%, and achieved investment‑grade...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Alight Inc (ALIT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Alight Inc. posted FY 2025 revenue of $2.3 billion, with recurring revenue down 2.2% and project revenue plunging 22%, resulting in a 5% decline in revenue under contract for 2026. Adjusted EBITDA reached $561 million, delivering a 24.8% margin, while free cash flow...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Strawberry Fields Reit Inc (STRW) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Star Equity Holdings reported Q4 2025 revenue of $48 million, a 30% increase driven primarily by the August 2025 merger. Net loss widened to $1.8 million, but adjusted earnings turned positive at $0.02 per share, with pro forma EPS of $0.19. Adjusted...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Copart Inc (CPRT) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Motorcar Parts of America (MPAA) trimmed its FY 2026 sales outlook to $750‑$760 million, reflecting a $50 million shortfall from a major customer’s store closures. Gross margin fell to 19.6% year‑over‑year but rose sequentially, and operating income is projected between $72 million and...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Floor & Decor Holdings Inc (FND) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Floor & Decor announced a leadership transition, naming President Brad Paulsen CEO effective fiscal 2026 while Tom Taylor moves to Executive Chair. The company posted EPS of $0.53, a 10.4% increase, and total sales of $1.18 billion, up 5.5% year‑over‑year, but...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
WillScot Holdings Corp (WSC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
WESCO International reported record fourth‑quarter revenue of $6.1 billion, a 10% year‑over‑year increase driven by 9% organic growth. Data‑center sales exploded 30% to $1.2 billion, pushing full‑year data‑center revenue to $4.3 billion, roughly 18% of total sales. Adjusted EBITDA rose to $409 million with...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Yeti Holdings Inc (YETI) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
YETI Holdings reported a record Q4 2025 with net sales of $583.7 million, up 5 % year‑over‑year, driven by 6 % growth in drinkware and a 25 % surge in international revenue. Adjusted gross margin fell to 58.4 % as tariffs added a 310‑basis‑point cost...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Barings BDC Inc (BBDC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Barings BDC reported a fourth‑quarter NAV of $11.09 per share, essentially unchanged from the prior quarter, while net investment income slipped to $0.27 per share. The firm declared a $0.26 quarterly dividend, delivering a 9.4% annualized yield on NAV, and...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Evergy Inc (EVRG) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Evergy reported third‑quarter adjusted EPS of $2.03, a modest year‑over‑year rise, while narrowing its 2025 adjusted EPS outlook to $3.92‑$4.02 due to below‑normal cooling degree days. The utility unveiled a $17.5 billion capital plan through 2029 aimed at grid modernization and...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Opendoor Technologies Inc (OPEN) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Opendoor reported $1.6 billion revenue for the quarter and posted its first adjusted EBITDA profit in three years, $23 million, driven by wider offer spreads and pre‑spring acquisition timing. The company completed a full rollout of its agent‑driven platform, which is delivering...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Comfort Systems USA Inc (FIX) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Comfort Systems USA reported record Q4 2025 results, posting 35% same‑store revenue growth and a gross margin above 25% for the first time. Backlog surged to a record $12 billion, driven largely by technology and modular bookings tied to hyperscaler data‑center...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Savers Value Village Inc (SVV) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
InvenTrust Properties Corp. reported a robust 2025 year, delivering 5.3% same‑property NOI growth and a 6.2% rise in NAREIT FFO to $1.89 per share. The REIT completed $460 million of Sunbelt‑focused acquisitions while maintaining sector‑low leverage, with net debt to adjusted...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
American Homes 4 Rent (AMH) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
American Homes 4 Rent reported a 6.2% year‑over‑year increase in core FFO per share to $0.47 and nudged its full‑year core FFO guidance to $1.87 per share. The company completed its development deliveries for the quarter, redeploying proceeds from the...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Accendra Health Inc (ACH) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Sensus Healthcare reported a sharp revenue decline to $4.9 million in Q4 2025, driven by the loss of its largest customer, but offset slightly by growth in its Fair Deal Agreement program. The company secured exclusive CPT codes for its...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Medpace Holdings reported a strong Q4 2025, with revenue of $708.5 million—a 32% year‑over‑year increase—and full‑year sales of $2.53 billion, up 20%. EBITDA rose 20% to $160.2 million, though the margin slipped to 22.6% because of higher reimbursable‑cost activity. Net new business awards...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
Zuckerberg Grilled About Meta's Strategy to Target 'Teens' And 'Tweens'
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Los Angeles as part of a high‑profile social‑media addiction trial, facing questions about internal documents that show the company deliberately targeted users as young as ten. Plaintiffs highlighted memos from 2015‑2018 that set goals...
By NPR — Economy
News•Feb 18, 2026
High-Yield Prospects: February 18 Edition
The February 18 edition spotlights ETFs that deliver at least a 5% annual dividend yield, hold over $100 million in assets, and trade with a 20‑day average volume above 0.5 million shares. The list features a mix of traditional dividend funds, leveraged products,...
By ETF Database (VettaFi)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Toyota Union Lowers Annual Bonus Demand
Toyota Motor Corp's labor union lowered its annual bonus demand to 7.3 months' pay, a 0.3‑month reduction from last year’s record level, as the automaker faces higher U.S. tariffs. The union also called for wage hikes in the spring “shunto”...
By Japan Today – Business
News•Feb 18, 2026
Cattle Futures Mixed Ahead of On Feed Report
Live cattle prices slipped modestly on the CME, with April contracts down $0.27 to $242.52 and June contracts down $0.02 to $238.42. Feeder cattle also fell, March contracts losing $0.40 to settle at $370.57. The market is largely waiting for...
By Brownfield Ag News
News•Feb 18, 2026
Sprite to Issue $495 Million in Aviation ABS Notes
Sprite’s aviation securitization platform is launching a $495 million asset‑backed securities (ABS) program backed by lease contracts on 30 aircraft. The issuance comprises three fixed‑rate tranches with an anticipated repayment date in March 2033 and a final legal maturity in March 2041. World...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
53-Year-Old Home Depot Rival Closing Down, No Bankruptcy
Home Depot, Lowe’s and Amazon together captured 56% of the U.S. home‑improvement market in 2025, leaving independent hardware retailers struggling. Independent stores such as C&H Hardware and the 53‑year‑old Blossom True Value in Mountain View have shut down or announced...
By Yahoo Finance – Finance News
News•Feb 18, 2026
Nasdaq Leads a Rocky Risk-On Rally: Stock Market Today
The Nasdaq Composite posted the strongest advance among U.S. indexes, rising 0.8% as risk‑on sentiment persisted amid solid earnings and encouraging economic data. Federal Reserve officials remain divided on rates, while housing starts jumped 6.2% to a five‑month high and...
By Kiplinger All
News•Feb 18, 2026
Activist Jana Builds Stake in Payments Business Fiserv
Activist investor Jana Partners has taken an undisclosed stake in payments processor Fiserv, aiming to improve its underperforming stock. Fiserv, valued at about $32 billion, saw shares plunge nearly 70% in 2023 and are down more than 11% year‑to‑date. Jana is...
By The Strawhecker Group (TSG) Blog/News
News•Feb 18, 2026
Bullish Options Traders Bet Big on Firefly Aerospace’s (FLY) “Stairway to Seven” Return to Flight
Firefly Aerospace saw a massive influx of bullish options as traders bought 10,700 February‑27 $25 calls, a ten‑fold increase over existing open interest. The contracts surged in value, delivering up to 163% unrealized gains within 24 hours while the stock...
By Market Rebellion – Options News
News•Feb 18, 2026
Golden Pass LNG Activity Normalizes; Permian Lateral Cleared to Proceed
Golden Pass LNG’s gas nominations have settled back to average levels after a brief surge, now hovering around 1.5% of the terminal’s capacity. The project received approval to construct a 1.1‑mile, 42‑inch lateral linking the facility to the Permian Basin,...
By Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI)
News•Feb 18, 2026
2026 Global Bond Credit Outlook: Q&A
European investment‑grade credit remains resilient in early 2026 despite a 2% YoY dip in EBITDA growth and modest leverage creep. Interest‑coverage ratios have stabilised and rating upgrades in Spain and Italy bolster the sector’s outlook. Spreads have tightened to historic...
By Loomis Sayles — Blog
News•Feb 18, 2026
Northeast Issuers Juggle Crumbling Infrastructure, Increasing Costs
Northeast public issuers are grappling with crumbling infrastructure, rising construction costs and a wave of federal funding cuts. Tariffs and buy‑American requirements are inflating bus purchases for NJ Transit, while the Gateway tunnel project remains stalled after a $205 million funding...
By The Bond Buyer (municipal finance)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Bull Signal Flashing on Struggling Aerospace Stock
Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT) has retreated about 8% from its January 22 peak, settling near $12.39. The stock sits within 0.75 of its 50‑day moving average’s 20‑day ATR, a bullish signal that historically preceded a 5.9% average gain after one...
By Schaeffer’s Investment Research – News & Analysis
News•Feb 18, 2026
Op-Ed: How Canada and Mexico Can Align a Critical Minerals Strategy
Canada and Mexico are drafting a joint action plan on critical minerals, infrastructure and supply chains, slated for release in the second half of 2026. The framework targets non‑geological bottlenecks such as permitting, transport corridors, power supply, processing capacity and...
By MINING.com
News•Feb 18, 2026
The Energy Transition Has a Price
Ernest Scheyder’s book *The War Below* chronicles the hidden battle over lithium, copper and other critical minerals needed for the global energy transition. The author travels from Nevada to Bolivia, interviewing miners, activists, investors and Indigenous communities to illustrate the...
By Engineering & Mining Journal (E&MJ)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Metals Prices Regain Stability After Frenetic January Sell-Off
Metal prices rebounded in February after a volatile January sell‑off, with gold up 14.5% and silver up 18.9% month‑over‑month. All platinum‑group metals rose more than 10%, while lithium hydroxide surged 38.8% and tin climbed 23.6%. The sharp end‑January decline was...
By Engineering & Mining Journal (E&MJ)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Greater Miami Home Sales Uptick as Luxury Demand and Cash Buyers Power Market
Miami‑Dade’s housing market continued its gradual rebound in January 2026, with total residential closings rising 1.2% to 1,869. Luxury activity surged, as sales of homes priced above $1 million jumped more than 21% year‑over‑year, while all‑cash purchases accounted for 44% of...
By World Property Journal
News•Feb 18, 2026
Liberty Global Nets Broadband Momentum
Liberty Global reported that its core European operators—Virgin Media O2, VodafoneZiggo and Telenet—delivered full‑year guidance despite tough competition in Q4 2025. Virgin Media O2 expanded its full‑fibre footprint to 8.3 million premises and improved broadband net losses to 16,700. VodafoneZiggo posted...
By Broadband TV News
News•Feb 18, 2026
Scope Ratings Seeks Distinction by Incorporating Europe's Differences
Scope Ratings became the first European rating agency approved under the ECB's Eurosystem Credit Assessment Framework, allowing its ratings to be used as collateral in monetary‑policy operations. The firm differentiates itself by embedding the EU’s fragmented legal and market environments...
By Asset Securitization Report
News•Feb 18, 2026
Omnicom Swings to $941M Q4 Loss After Closing IPG Deal
Omnicom reported a $941.1 million GAAP loss for Q4 2025, the first quarter after completing its $15 billion acquisition of Interpublic Group. Revenue surged 27.9% year‑over‑year to $5.5 billion, and adjusted EBITA reached $928.9 million with a 16.8% margin. The company doubled its cost‑synergy goal...
By Adweek
News•Feb 18, 2026
Krungsri Eyes Extra B100bn in SME Loans
Bank of Ayudhya (Krungsri) announced a plan to add 100 billion baht in SME loans over the next four years, lifting its total SME portfolio to 350 billion baht. The initiative pairs soft‑loan financing with ESG education and advisory, targeting high‑growth sectors...
By Bangkok Post – Investment (subset within Business)
News•Feb 18, 2026
TC Energy Forecasts Natural Gas Demand Surge Equivalent to Entire European Market
TC Energy projects North American natural‑gas demand will rise by 45 Bcf/d by 2035, a volume comparable to the entire European market. The surge is attributed to accelerating LNG exports, expanding power‑generation capacity, and heightened reliability requirements for distribution utilities. Midwest...
By Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Corpus Christi to Tap Future Bond Proceeds for Water Project Costs
The Corpus Christi City Council approved a resolution to tap up to $410 million in future water revenue bonds, slated for issuance as late as 2027, to reimburse current cash outlays for critical water‑supply projects. The plan funds a $175 million containerized...
By The Bond Buyer (municipal finance)
News•Feb 18, 2026
PFM Partners up with DebtBook
PFM announced a partnership with DebtBook to embed artificial‑intelligence capabilities into public‑sector treasury operations, leveraging PFM's Synario financial‑modeling platform alongside DebtBook's debt‑management suite. The alliance aims to automate cash‑flow, leasing and investment tracking, freeing municipal finance teams to focus on...
By The Bond Buyer (municipal finance)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Anglo Asian Expects Copper Output to Triple in 2026
Anglo Asian Mining announced it will aim to triple copper production in 2026, targeting 20,000‑25,000 tonnes after delivering 7,915 tonnes from its newly‑online Gilar and Demirli mines in 2025. The company expects an all‑in sustaining cost (AISC) of $6,800‑$7,800 per...
By MINING.com
News•Feb 18, 2026
How Wingstop Plans to Weather Traffic Slides and Winter Storms
Wingstop reported a 5.8% decline in domestic same‑store sales for Q4 2025, while overall system sales rose 9% thanks to 493 new restaurants. The chain is rolling out Club Wingstop, a loyalty program that lifted guest frequency by 7% in...
By Restaurant Dive (Industry Dive)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Bloomberg Intelligence: Berkshire Slashes Amazon Stake (Podcast)
Berkshire Hathaway has cut its Amazon stake by 75%, reducing a once‑$15 billion holding to roughly $10 billion. The move, disclosed in a Bloomberg Intelligence podcast, reflects Warren Buffett’s bearish view on the e‑commerce giant’s growth prospects. It marks a rare portfolio...
By Bloomberg — Business
News•Feb 18, 2026
Japan Accounting Group Seeks to Ease Insurer Bond Loss Rule
The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA) has proposed treating life insurers' government‑bond holdings as held‑to‑maturity, removing the need for impairment accounting when certain criteria are met. Under current rules insurers must record a loss if market value falls...
By Accounting Today
News•Feb 18, 2026
You Can Invest in SpaceX Before Its IPO — but Should You?
Investors can now gain exposure to SpaceX through private secondary markets, specialty ETFs and pooled funds, sidestepping the wait for a public listing. The rocket company is valued at roughly $1.25 trillion, making it one of the most coveted private assets....
By MarketWatch – Top Stories
News•Feb 18, 2026
Isabel Schnabel: Fiscal Challenges Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty and Ageing Societies
Isabel Schnabel highlighted the euro area’s mounting fiscal pressures, noting that low debt levels often coincide with weak public investment. She examined Germany’s new defence and infrastructure package, showing it can lift GDP but also raise debt ratios under different...
By European Central Bank — Press/Speeches
News•Feb 18, 2026
Rates Spark: Pressures Rebuild for Long Dates
Equity volatility in the US is easing, opening the door for a near‑term rally in 10‑year euro swap rates that sit about 20 basis points below their January peak. Market participants expect a bear‑steepening move as the front end of...
By ING — THINK Economics
News•Feb 18, 2026
France’s Very Low Inflation Rate Is a Major Challenge for Public Finances
France’s inflation fell to 0.3% year‑on‑year in January, the lowest level since 2016 and well below the euro‑area average of 1.7%. The drop, driven by falling manufactured‑goods and energy prices, leaves core inflation at just 0.7% and fuels criticism that...
By ING — THINK Economics