Research notes · September 30, 2026

Eight pieces from five publishers: Micron's fiscal Q4 beat and lower gross-margin guide, a first look at FTAI's power business, and a contrarian Treasury note

On 2026-09-30, five research publishers tracked here (Damnang, FundaAI, James Bulltard, Macro Charts and TMT Breakout) published eight pieces. They include an expert-call report on Micron's HBM design (Damnang), an initiation of coverage on FTAI Aviation (FundaAI), a promotional event notice (FundaAI), an options-flow and personal trading recap (James Bulltard), a macro and signals update centered on Treasuries (Macro Charts), and three TMT Breakout notes: a pre-market wrap, an end-of-day wrap on Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter results, and a podcast table of contents. Every statement below is attributed to the publisher, or to the broker it relayed, using the publisher's own numbers. Quant Data did not verify any of these statements and takes no view on them.

What was published

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What each piece said

Directional statements on the record

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Numbers the publishers put on the record

• TMT Breakout · MU: Fiscal Q4 revenue $54.23B vs Street ~$51B; EPS $33.42 vs Street ~$31.50; gross margin 87.0%; adjusted FCF ~$33B.
• TMT Breakout · MU: Fiscal Q1 revenue guidance $60-63B (midpoint $61.5B) vs Street ~$57B; EPS guidance midpoint $38.15; gross margin guide 86.25% vs buy side ~87-88%.
• TMT Breakout · MU: Pre-report buy-side bar: Q1 revenue guide $59B vs Street $56.5B, EPS ~$37.5 vs $35.65, gross margin ~88% vs 87%.
• TMT Breakout · MU: TrendForce: Q4 conventional DRAM contract prices +10-15% quarter over quarter, NAND +15-20%.
• TMT Breakout: 10-year yield 5.29% (highest since 2007), 30-year 5.64%; probability of an Oct 28 Fed hike about 35%, versus about 71% on Monday.
• FundaAI · FTAI: 10.5x forward EV/EBITDA vs two-year average 15.1x; Power valued at about $82 per share (80 Mod-1 units, $600m 2027E EBITDA at 15x) in the base case, about $36 (47 units) in the bear case.
• FundaAI · FTAI: $1.465b initial order on July 22, delivering through November 2027; Mod-1 delivers in about 2-2.5 months vs 24-36 months for new-build aeroderivative turbines.
• FundaAI · FTAI: Aerospace Products EBITDA margin fell from about 35% (25Q4) to about 29% (26Q2); FundaAI models share rising from about 15% to about 25%.
• Damnang · MU: Illustrative: a 32 Gbps pin split into 4 lanes of 8 Gbps; 1,024 external lanes would need about 4,000 internal lanes. These are the expert's example figures, not each vendor's actual ratio.
• Damnang · MU: Initial JEDEC HBM4: 2,048-bit, 8 Gb/s per pin, 2 TB/s per stack; Micron's product page: above 11 Gbps per pin, above 2.8 TB/s per stack.
• Macro Charts · TLT: Bond sentiment at the 1.7th percentile; record TLT put volume; 5-year futures open interest rose on 11 of the last 12 days, 10-year on 13 of 14.
• Macro Charts: October FOMC hike probability about 45-50% (about 70% a day earlier); December above 80%. Midterm-year Octobers: S&P 500, DJIA, Nasdaq and Russell 2000 gain more than 3% by month-end, Russell 1000 nearly 4%.
• TMT Breakout · CRWV: William Blair sees neocloud revenue rising from about $25B in 2026 to about $250B in 2031, with about $275B of customer commitments already at CRWV, NBIS, IREN and Nscale.

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What would prove them wrong

Several publishers name the observation that would falsify their own view. Those are the most useful sentences in any research note, so they are collected here.

• TMT Breakout · MU: Whether Micron's fiscal Q2 gross margin guide is above Q1's 86.25%; if not, the 'Q1 is the floor' framing fails.
• TMT Breakout: Whether the Oct 28 FOMC hike probability falls below 20% from about 35%, and whether the 10-year holds above 5.29% or breaks 5.5%.
• TMT Breakout · SPCX: Whether 4Q26 AI compute contracts ramp on schedule, to support the year-end 2026 ~$100B ARR target.
• TMT Breakout · CLS: Whether 2027 revenue points toward $40B (Street $35.5B) at the Oct 27 analyst day.
• TMT Breakout · MU: Whether Q1 revenue guidance reaches $59B and gross margin 88% to meet the buy-side bar; below the $56.5B Street figure counts as a miss.
• TMT Breakout: Whether Samsung and SK Hynix buybacks, about 80% complete, end in mid-October and foreign selling widens without them.
• FundaAI · FTAI: Whether about 10 Mod-1 units are delivered and accepted in 26Q4 versus a consensus of low single digits; a clear shortfall would damage the thesis.
• FundaAI · FTAI: Whether 2027 Power guidance is maintained at $450-750m, and whether a second hyperscale customer order arrives during 2027.
• FundaAI · FTAI: Whether Aerospace Products EBITDA margin holds near 30% and module output keeps pace with the 2026 target of 1,200.
• Macro Charts · TLT: Whether TLT rebounds after PCE/GDP, ISM and payrolls, with the sentiment gauge expected to fall below the 1st percentile.
• Macro Charts · XLU: Whether XLU holds support after its volume spike and bonds rally in step, which Macro Charts would read as confirming a bottom.
• Macro Charts · MU: Micron's after-hours reaction and the next day's follow-through, which Macro Charts says will set the tone for tech and semiconductors.
• Damnang · MU: Whether HBM4E/HBM5 custom-die disclosures show base-die logic designed by the customer or the memory maker, and whether a UCIe-style cross-customer I/O standard emerges.

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Common questions

Sources: publicly available Substack newsletters that Quant Data accesses through paid subscriptions. Statements and figures are attributed to their publishers and reproduced as stated; Quant Data has not verified them and expresses no view on them. Educational only: not investment advice, not a recommendation, not a forecast.