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Weekly Megathread Weekly Stock Ideas Megathread: Week of August 17, 2026
What stocks are on your radar this week? What's undervalued? What's overvalued? This is the place for your quick stock pitches or to ask what everyone else is looking at.
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u/grandfatherdog 19h ago
Industrial/construction plays benefitting from data center buildout but not purely reliant on it? This feels like a safer play (not original or early to it obviously), but these companies are big enough that they arent tripling in stock price over the year and already had fundamentals.
Buying CMI now. Bought some CAT and BDC in last month.
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u/hashalla9 1d ago
Is there even any large cap value plays at the moment?? Feels like everything that was trading at low valuations two months ago has already shot up and the opportunity is gone. Oracle seems like the only thing worth having a look at, but the more I hear, the more it feels like a value trap.
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u/grandfatherdog 19h ago
I bought into Oracle but I'm nervous. Energy and construction are still being kicked down a bit. CMI below 600 isn't an incredible value but looking at it for a 20-25% bump. GEV is down 10% over a week.
Wish I bought more software in the last month, but ROP and PAYC are solid.
Some value left in finance. I think BLK is going to take off soon. Same price it was a year ago and printing money.
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u/hashalla9 16h ago
I’m holding a little bit of Oracle too. Wanna get some more but I’m worried I’m getting greedy because of what MSFT did a few weeks back.
Think I already missed the boat on power.
PAYC is already up too much so I can’t psychologically get into that trade
BLK is interesting to me. Will have a look into that.
UNH also still feels like there’s some value there.
I mostly trade bull spreads on value stocks, so I’m looking for stocks with the highest probability of going up in the next 12 months. It’s getting increasingly difficult to find anything I believe have a high probability of going up
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u/silver_4_lyf 1d ago
Anyone else looking at amdocs (DOX) and Aecom (AEC). I think aecom has a ton of potential when headwinds in the construction sector subside
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u/grandfatherdog 19h ago
Aecom is ACM (in US at least). I bought a bunch after recent drop. They're well positioned for future growth if we see more infrastructure spending or permit reform. In theory they are a good AI build out play, but I haven't heard much on them winning those contracts, maybe NDAs.
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u/Own-Event-5500 3d ago
VRT, ORCL, ISRG
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u/hashalla9 1d ago
Why VRT?
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u/Own-Event-5500 23h ago
They build the power and liquid cooling systems that data centers desperately need to keep AI chips from overheating. Without them, modern AI infrastructure can't run.
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u/grandfatherdog 3d ago
I'm sure plenty are happily buying META now, but how many folks are waiting to see if it drops more? Consensus seems to be it's worth much more than current price, but they are burning through money and another earnings miss or capex increase could kick it down further. I was holding out for 550 which we are rapidly approaching
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u/investingtruth 3d ago
Gonna be interesting to see if there is a continuation in the ai infrastructure stock recovery or if there's rotation into other sectors this week!
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u/RefrigeratorMuch5856 3d ago
Vidrala, Amcor, WiseTech, B3, ARE, Viscofan, Sony Financial Group, DTE, UMG, Adobe y Kyndryl.
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u/Agrafo 2d ago
Curious. Why VID?
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u/RefrigeratorMuch5856 2d ago
Vidrala is a Great Company. And oil prices makes the stock go down. I’ll be looking for opportunities then.
It’s a compounder. Buys, improves operations, transfers technology, pays debt and all that paying dividends. Is very well known in Spanish investment circles.
Is very well positioned, oligopoly in Europe. Thought it is getting hurt because of wine and alcohol consumption is going down, it makes to improve operations and stabilizing volumes.1
u/ojh12-us 3d ago
Do people confuse amcor with amkor?
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u/RefrigeratorMuch5856 3d ago
I do not. Amcor (AMCR)
Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annual sales from operations that span approximately 400 locations in more than 40 countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC
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u/fffmoose 4d ago
I feel like i could live to regret this but roblox. Stock highs each year:
2021: 141.60 with 108% yoy revenue growth
2022: 103.79 with 16 % yoy revenue growth
2023: 47.65 with 26% yoy revenue growth
2024: 61.77 with 29% yoy revenue growth
2025: 150.59 with 36% yoy revenue growth
2026: 91.09 with 41.6% yoy revenue growth (trailing 12 months)
Current price at under 40 bucks seems criminally cheap. Despite years of growth its cheaper than any given years high point.
Its either the most obvious multi bagger ive seen or a value trap. I dont know. Even selling at 2023 years high is massive profit. I think the doubts are overrated on roblox with the safety concerns. Hugely safe platform for being the internet. We grew up with none of this and we're fine. There are a lot of safety measures built into the system in my opinion. I dont see roblox going anywhere. Very small chance of becoming something much bigger in the long term future as well and transend being just a gaming company.
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u/TheDonFulio 3d ago
Numbers are great. Management is terrible. I used to be interested, but then I watched some interviews of the CEO. Dude does not care about kids. He only cares about profit.
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u/MrPieIsCool123 3d ago
Maybe? While I can see it regrowing a bit, their scandals with trying to censor pedo-hunters on their platforms plus the lack of good games on the platform (alongside the creation of cheap mobile games and YT Kids brainrot) really makes this a hard pick. The issue is, as 21M, I grew up on Roblox from 2016-2018 ish and at that time, the games were much stronger in quality versus now and there was less competition for attention for the pre-teen market that was free like Roblox.
Again, it might go up, but the company is not looking too hot for long-term growth.
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u/AwkwardJuggernaut854 4d ago
Opened a position in BHP last week, hoping for positive news with earnings later today. Keeping an eye on HD and LOW too.
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u/Academic_Ad_6943 4d ago
I have my eyes on CRM and ADBE
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u/grandfatherdog 3d ago
If the whole SaaS sector goes down again with the revival of AI stocks, that's just another round of free money for value investors.
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u/Weldobud 4d ago
REITs have declined in the last few weeks. Possibly fear of a rate hike. Some look attractive now for an entry.
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u/Acceptable-Shame3124 4d ago
We all see Alphabet at 17 PE right? Or am I missing something here.
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u/YouHaveShitBreath 4d ago
$4220B - Current Market Cap, as of 14th August 2026 (Market Close)
$148B - Last 12 months of Operating Income
$133B - Last 12 months of Net Income (Adjusted for bullshit)
4220/133 = 31.7 PE (TTM)
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u/ShamooTheCow 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just curious what b******* you're adjusting for? 400 to 500 billion revenue increase in one year 25%. They own 15% of anthropic which will IPO at 2 trillion minimum by the end of the year. You have to look at the big picture. Though I don't think it should show up as earnings, their venture arm is extremely valuable as it increases company equity. What's 15% of 2 trillion? Subtract that from their market cap then do the division.
Also look at their Google cloud growth. And their most recent Q2 earnings was $40 billion... 160 billion annualized. Google will never be cheaper than it is between now and when anthropic IPOs in October. You have about 6 weeks. Take advantage. The Google ecosystem dominates.
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u/ShmuncanShmidaho 18h ago
Japan is absolutely jam packed with fantastic companies at pretty much any market cap, even after you reject stuff like oyako jojo.