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Investing for income: what yield figures and monthly payouts don't tell you
US investors are being sold more income and more ways to trade: monthly payouts from covered-call funds, fat dividend yields, round-the-clock options. The question behind the pitches: what does a yield actually measure, and what does reaching for it cost?
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Retirement is a chain of trade-offs: where your attention actually pays off
Five US retirement stories, from a sceptical 25-year-old to a couple weighing a $15,000-a-year policy, point to one question: across a retirement that can last decades, where does your attention actually pay off? These are the choices, the trade-offs and the traps.
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HubSpot cuts about 7% of staff as its latest quarter shows record cash margins
The 6 October filing was not an earnings report but a memo cutting about 7% of staff. Against the June quarter, with adjusted EPS of $3.26 versus a $3.02 analysts' average and free cash flow at a record 23.1% margin, the cut comes from apparent strength, not distress.
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Retirement is four questions, not one: saving, tax, care and purpose
Four recent US retirement stories trace one arc: the pot you build, the tax you pay to use it, the late-life care costs that can drain it, and the life it is meant to fund. The account names are American; the trade-offs they describe are not.
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Six companies that grow, convert cash and shrink their share count: what the filings show
A screen of SEC filings for double-digit growth, free cash flow of at least a quarter of revenue and a falling share count returns fourteen names. We read the figures behind the top six and the caveat each one carries.
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Buyback Monitor, 2026-Q4: Dropbox leads a table where buybacks outrun free cash flow
Dropbox leads the 2026-Q4 Buyback Monitor with its diluted share count down 18.25% in a year, ahead of Pegasystems and CarGurus. Across the 58 companies ranked, the pattern to watch is buyback spending running ahead of free cash flow.
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Datadog vs Dynatrace: what the filings show
Datadog's revenue grew 31.5% on a trailing-twelve-month basis and is accelerating; Dynatrace's grew 17.9%, the slowest in its filed history. Yet Dynatrace runs a 12.1% operating margin to Datadog's 0.4%. A dimension-by-dimension read of two observability vendors' SEC filings.
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NVIDIA's profits are growing far faster than the cash behind them
NVIDIA's trailing-twelve-month net income grew 122.7% year over year; free cash flow grew 76.3%. Both are extraordinary, but the gap between booked profit and banked cash is now wide enough to deserve its own explanation, and the filings' structured data alone cannot supply one.
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Adobe's free cash flow machine is quietly buying back the company
Adobe converts roughly 41 cents of every revenue dollar into free cash flow and is using it to retire more than 6% of its diluted shares a year. The cash economics remain among the strongest a software company can show. The debate is what they're worth.
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One of these four cash machines is not like the others
We computed trailing-twelve-month capex intensity and free-cash-flow margin for the four companies in our coverage universe. The AI buildout's cost is concentrated almost entirely in one of them, and the free-cash-flow consequences are now the widest in the dataset.
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Microsoft FY2026: the income statement says record year. The cash flow statement disagrees.
Microsoft closed fiscal 2026 with near-record operating margins and 17.8% revenue growth, and the weakest free-cash-flow margin in the seventeen years of filings we analyse. The gap between those two sentences is $115.9B of capital expenditure.