SharkWater Trading • Semiconductor Desk • Annual Report Micron's 10-K: $133.2 Billion in Revenue, $59 Billion in Free Cash Flow, and Capex Nearly DoubledOctober 11, 2026
The Year in Four Columns
Source: Micron Technology Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 3, 2026, filed October 9, 2026 (accession 0000723125-26-000023), financial statement pages R3 and R7. Fiscal 2026 had 53 weeks. Cash flow cells were read by an automated page reader and the source flagged some run-together cells in the prior-year columns; the FY2026 column was not flagged. What the Filing Adds Over the Press ReleaseThe September 30 earnings release gave the quarter. The 10-K gives the full year, audited, and the year is the bigger story. Revenue rose 3.56 times. Gross margin on the filed GAAP numbers was 80.7 percent for the year, against 39.8 percent in fiscal 2025. Net income was 63.8 percent of revenue. All three are desk arithmetic on the filed figures. Capital spending rose 94 percent to $30.71 billion, but fell as a share of revenue to 23.1 percent. That is the number to watch. A memory maker spending a quarter of revenue on fabs is normal. The prior two years in the table above show nothing like this combination. The segment split is concentrated by size. Fiscal 2026 revenue by business unit was CMBU $43.09 billion, CDBU $37.59 billion, MCBU $36.60 billion and AEBU $15.89 billion. By product, DRAM was $100.68 billion and NAND $31.79 billion. The business section says roughly half of revenue has come from the top ten customers in each of the last three years. A reservoir that more than triples in a wet year tells you about the rain. It does not tell you what the next dry year looks like. Balance Sheet and Capital Return
Source: Micron Form 10-K, balance sheet page R4, filed October 9, 2026. Cash and investments total ($73,453 million) and debt totals are desk sums of the filed lines. Net cash of about $68.3 billion is a desk calculation. Debt fell by $9.4 billion in the year. Capital return was small: about $610 million of dividends and $650 million of program repurchases in fiscal 2026, per the cash flow page (some cells in that table were flagged as garbled by the reader; verify before quoting). Against $85 billion of net income, that is a rounding error. The dividend declared on September 30 is $0.15 per share, payable October 29, 2026. Shares outstanding were 1,131,423,212 on October 2, 2026, per the 10-K cover. What Is Still OpenThe filing text I could read covers risk factors, segment and product revenue, and the financial statements. It states that HBM3E 12-high was the majority of fiscal 2026 HBM shipments and that HBM4 36GB 12-high began volume production in 2026. I did not read MD&A, so there is no sourced fiscal 2027 capital spending outlook in this post. I also have no verified MU price series. Pre-market data for October 1 is an aggregator figure from the prior scan and is not used here. The Bull Case
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Sunday, October 11, 2026
Micron's 10-K: $133.2 Billion in Revenue, $59 Billion in Free Cash Flow, and Capex Nearly Doubled
Saturday, October 10, 2026
Nebius Insider Tape Sorted: One 500,000 Share Plan Sale and Four Routine Ones
SharkWater Trading • Data Centers • Insider Filings Nebius Insider Tape Sorted: One 500,000 Share Plan Sale and Four Routine OnesOctober 10, 2026
Who Sold, and Why
Source: Nebius Group N.V. Forms 4 and Forms 144 on EDGAR: accessions 0001513845-26-000126 (Nave), -000120 (Volozh), -000118 (Boynton), -000122 (Shtan), -000124 (Korolenko, role per its Form 4), and Form 144 0001950047-26-010048 (Nave) and 0001950047-26-009868 (Boynton trust). Nave average price and all dollar totals computed by this desk from the filed rows. Sizing the PileNave's sale is 6.1 times the three tax sales combined. Against the 238,400,165 shares outstanding cited on the Nave Form 144, his sale is about 0.21 percent of the company and the tax sales together are about 0.03 percent. Neither moves the float. The tax sales are mechanical. Each Form 4 says the shares were sold when restricted share units vested, solely to cover estimated withholding, under automatic sale instructions in the unit agreement and not as a discretionary trade. After the sale the CEO still held 785,236 shares directly. The Boynton trust is a drip, not a surprise. Its September 29 Form 144 lists three earlier plan sales in the prior three months: 6,958 shares on July 15, 5,296 on August 14 and 6,364 on September 15, 18,618 shares for $4,144,629.26 in total. The 50 share sale is a stub on a monthly schedule. Five boats left the harbor this week. Three were ferries running on a timetable, one was a rowboat on its usual route, and one was a trawler hauling out half its direct catch. What Is Still OpenNave's Form 4 remarks state that no further sales will be made under his plan. That is the issuer's own filing, but a new plan can be adopted later, and the filing does not say when. This desk has no verified NBIS price or volume series for the week, so any market reaction to this selling is NOT VERIFIED. The Goldman Sachs 13G/A cut covered here yesterday sits alongside this paper but is a separate and unrelated filer. A correction to this desk's October 7 post: it gave October 7 as the Nave Form 4 filing date. The EDGAR feed shows filing date October 6, 2026, and the filing is signed October 6. The Bull Case
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Friday, October 9, 2026
Goldman Sachs Cut Its Nebius Stake by 44 Percent in Two Months
SharkWater Trading • Data Centers • Ownership Filings Goldman Sachs Cut Its Nebius Stake by 44 Percent in Two MonthsOctober 9, 2026
The Two Filings Side by Side
Source: Schedule 13G/A filings on EDGAR, Goldman Sachs Group and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, each reporting identical figures. Amendment No. 1 filing date not read by this desk; only its event date is shown. What It Does and Does Not SayBoth filings report shared voting and dispositive power and zero sole power. Goldman files under Rule 13d-1(b), the institutional route. Exhibit 99.3 states the filing excludes shares held by operating units of the group. So this is the reporting entity's aggregate, not necessarily house inventory. A 13G does not separate client assets from the bank's own book, and it does not name a buyer. A drop of this size could be client outflows, hedge unwinds, or a market-making position shrinking. The form cannot tell us which. One note on the math. 10.5 percent implies a class near 220 million shares, and 5.1 percent implies about 255 million. Rounding and a changing share count could explain part of that. This desk did not find the denominators in either filing, so the implied counts are unreconciled. Yesterday we saw a big boat at the dock and could not tell if it was loading or unloading. The earlier log entry shows the hold was nearly twice as full in July. The Bull Case
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Tight lines, SharkWater Source: Schedule 13G/A Amendment No. 2, EDGAR accession 0000886982-26-000526, filed October 7, 2026, event date September 30, 2026; Schedule 13G/A Amendment No. 1, accession 0000886982-26-000308, event date July 31, 2026. Percent change is this desk's arithmetic. Educational and informational purposes only. Not personalized investment advice. The author may hold positions in securities discussed. Do your own work. |
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Goldman Sachs Reports 5.1 Percent of Nebius Class A, and a Date Fix on the Nave Form 4
SharkWater Trading • Data Centers • Ownership Filings Goldman Sachs Reports 5.1 Percent of Nebius Class A, and a Date Fix on the Nave Form 4October 8, 2026
What the Filing ShowsThe filing is a Schedule 13G/A, a passive holder report. Goldman is the joint filer on both entities. The filing reports 13,023,110.37 Class A shares for each filer and 5.1 percent of the class. The 5.1 percent sits barely above the 5 percent reporting line, so small changes in share count move it across. The numbers do not tie cleanly to the Nave Form 144. That filing cites 238,400,165 shares outstanding. 13,023,110 divided by that count is about 5.5 percent, not 5.1 percent. The 13G/A percentage implies a Class A count near 255 million. The gap may come from different share-class counts or dates. This desk did not find the denominator in the filing, so treat it as unreconciled. Percent math here is this desk's arithmetic. Large banks file 13Gs for client and trading positions alike. A 13G does not say whether the shares are house inventory, hedges, or client assets. It does not carry a direction. A 13G/A is a harbor log entry. It tells you a big boat is tied up at the dock on a given day. It does not tell you whether it is loading or unloading. The Date FixThe October 7 post said the Nave Form 4 was filed October 7. The EDGAR submissions feed lists accession 0001513845-26-000126 with a filing date of October 6, 2026. The Form 144 for the same 500,000 shares (accession 0001950047-26-010048) is dated October 5. So the Form 4 landed the day after the sale, not two days after. The Form 144 values ($121,405,000, 238,400,165 shares outstanding, plan adopted May 22, 2026) match what we reported. One oddity to flag: the Form 144 lists sales in the past three months as "Nothing to Report" while its remarks cite a 10b5-1 plan. The Bull Case
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Tight lines, SharkWater Source: Schedule 13G/A, EDGAR accession 0000886982-26-000526, filed October 7, 2026, event date September 30, 2026; Nebius Form 4 accession 0001513845-26-000126; Form 144 accession 0001950047-26-010048. Educational and informational purposes only. Not personalized investment advice. The author may hold positions in securities discussed. Do your own work. |
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Nebius COO Sold 500,000 Shares at a $235.53 Average, Over Half His Direct Stake
SharkWater Trading • Data Centers • Insider Filings Nebius COO Sold 500,000 Shares at a $235.53 Average, Over Half His Direct StakeOctober 7, 2026
What the Form 4 ShowsA Form 144 is a notice. A Form 4 is the receipt. This one reports twelve sale lines on October 5, 2026, all coded as sales, all direct ownership. The weighted average prices run from $231.12 to $243.50. The pre-sale direct balance of 954,685 shares is derived from the first line (938,465 remaining plus 16,220 sold), not stated outright.
Source: Nebius Group N.V. Form 4, EDGAR, filed October 7, 2026 (accession 0001513845-26-000126), all sales dated October 5, 2026, Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted May 22, 2026. Each row is a weighted average within a price range stated in the filing. Total and average computed by this desk from the rows. The filing remarks say the shares sold were settled restricted share units, about 17 percent of the reporting person's granted equity. Nave is listed as a director and an officer with the title COO. The Form 144 listed him as Director and Officer, so the two filings agree on the person. The Form 144 value of $121,405,000 is an estimate made at filing. Actual proceeds came in about $3.6 million lower on this desk's math, which means the stock traded below the Form 144 reference price for most of the session. Nebius has not issued a press release on this, and none is required. A Form 144 is the weather forecast and a Form 4 is the logbook. The forecast said the boat would leave at $242. The logbook says it left across a dozen tides between $231 and $243, and most of the catch went out in the low to mid $230s. What Is Still OpenThe plan terms are not public. This desk does not know whether the May 22 plan has more tranches. The September 30 Nebius Form 144 (accession 0001950047-26-009868) was not read, so how it relates to this sale is unknown. Two other officers sold shares on October 1 at $234.16 to cover tax on vested units, which is routine and a different animal at about 9 percent of this size. The Bull Case
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Tight lines, SharkWater Educational and informational purposes only. Not personalized investment advice. All figures sourced as noted and accurate as of publication. Options involve substantial risk of loss. The author may hold positions in securities discussed. Do your own work. |