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Assalamu Alaikum! Markets moved sharply this week, with a handful of names standing out for all the right reasons. From a regulatory shake-up to a major chip milestone, the catalysts were real and the moves reflected it.
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🤷 What Happened?
$HIMS ( ▼ 9.19% ) surged this week after HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced the FDA is reviewing whether to remove 12 peptide drugs from its restricted substances list, with seven more peptides queued up for review in July.
Peptides are basically tiny proteins. Your body naturally makes them, and they act like little messengers, telling cells what to do.
The reason they've become such a hot topic is that they can mimic or amplify things the body already does naturally, making them feel safer than traditional drugs. That's also why there's huge consumer demand for them
This is a big deal for Hims. If the FDA moves forward, compounding pharmacies would be able to legally produce and sell these peptides, and Hims is one of them. The company has already been positioning itself for exactly this opportunity, having acquired a peptide manufacturing facility in California early last year. So if the regulatory green light comes through, Hims won't be scrambling to catch up, it'll be ready to go.
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☪ Halal Status: Comfortable
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🔍 PIF TAKE
We believe Hims is well positioned to ride the peptide wave.
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🤷 What Happened?
$BTDR ( ▼ 9.49% ) gained this week, supported by several positive catalysts.
On the macro side, Bitcoin's rally fueled by easing US-Iran geopolitical tensions, provided a meaningful tailwind for the stock.
On the fundamental side, the company's March report delivered strong results across both business segments. Mining capacity reached 70 EH/s, surpassing every other public miner, while the AI cloud business posted approximately $43M in ARR, a 105% month-over-month increase, at a 94% utilization rate, reflecting robust demand for its AI/HPC services.
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☪ Halal Status: Comfortable
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🔍 PIF TAKE
Bitdeer's investment thesis centers on the scarcity of land and power. The company has built a strong power portfolio across strategic locations, Texas, Tennessee, and Washington in the US, Norway in Europe, Malaysia and Bhutan in Asia, and Ethiopia in Africa, totaling roughly 3GW of capacity.
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🤷 What Happened?
$TSLA ( ▼ 2.13% ) made headlines and it had nothing to do with car sales.
Tesla jumped after Elon Musk announced that the AI5 chip has reached tape-out the engineering milestone that moves a design from blueprint to manufacturing readiness. Musk is targeting a 50x performance improvement over AI4, with production planned for 2027.
Why does this matter? Tesla has long been positioning itself as more than an automaker, it wants to be an AI and energy company. The AI5 chip is central to that vision, powering everything from Full Self-Driving to its Optimus robot program. Progress here signals that Tesla's most ambitious bets may finally be moving from promise to production.
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☪ Halal Status: Comfortable
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🔍 PIF TAKE
Of all the companies working on autonomous vehicles and robotics, Tesla stands out as a likely leader in both. Its advantage lies in deep vertical integration, the ability to manufacture hardware at scale with remarkable efficiency, and an unmatched dataset, over 9 billion miles of real-world FSD driving data, capturing both everyday scenarios and rare edge cases that no other company comes close to matching. The upcoming AI5 chip is set to push performance even further, enabling significantly larger neural network models and bringing Tesla closer to near-perfect autonomy.
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💬 FROM THE DISCORD
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❓ Are we Comfortable with Adyen?
A member recently asked whether we are comfortable investing in Adyen, the Dutch payments company.
Adyen processes payments on behalf of merchants, collecting funds from shoppers before passing them on. Because it handles over a trillion euros in annual payment volume, it sits on an enormous pool of cash at any given moment, which it invests in short-term debt instruments to earn interest in the meantime.
The issue is straightforward: that interest income represents approximately 10% of Adyen's total revenue, well above our 2.5% threshold. At this scale, interest income is not incidental to the business but a meaningful driver of it.
For that reason, we are not comfortable investing in Adyen at this time.
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