CEO Watchlist: Week In Review (1/11/26)

Earnings Kick Off This Week, But These 3 Stocks Could Outperform the Headlines … (Source)

Stocks mentioned: $TSM, $JPM, $INFY

Earnings season is officially underway, and this week marks the first real test for markets in the new year. While investors will be watching macro data and inflation prints closely, the spotlight quickly shifts to corporate earnings as companies begin to reveal how demand, margins, and guidance are shaping up for 2026. This is where real opportunities start to emerge. While broad indexes often react modestly, individual stocks can make decisive moves based on expectations versus reality. We are focusing on companies with strong fundamentals, clear narratives, and asymmetric setups heading into their earnings reports. Here are three names we are paying very close attention to this week:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM): The backbone of the global semiconductor industry, TSM is the world’s most advanced chip manufacturer and a critical supplier to nearly every major AI and computing company. Analysts currently rate the stock a Strong Buy, with price targets reaching as high as $400/share. The stock currently trades at just $323.63, which implies it has over 20% upside. We believe TSM is going to have a very strong report with a beat on the top and bottom. The most important thing is the commentary on the future guidance. Any commentary around AI driven demand, advanced node utilization, or customer strength could quickly shift expectations higher. Risks remain around geopolitics and capex cycles, but TSM’s technological moat makes it one of the highest quality ways to gain exposure to AI infrastructure. TSM is set to report earnings Thursday before the open.
JPMorgan Chase (JPM): The largest and most influential bank in the U.S., JPMorgan often sets the tone for the entire financial sector. Analysts currently rate the stock a Buy, with price targets as high as $400/share. The stock currently trades at just $329.19/share, which implies an upside of over 20%. Loan growth, credit quality, net interest income, and management commentary on the consumer will heavily influence market sentiment. If Jamie Dimon strikes a confident tone on economic stability and capital markets activity, financials could quietly lead the next leg higher. The risk comes if credit losses rise faster than expected, but JPM’s balance sheet strength gives it a significant margin of safety. JPM is scheduled to report earnings Tuesday before the open.
BlackRock (BLK): BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager and a direct beneficiary of rising asset prices, ETF flows, and long term investment trends. Analysts currently rate the stock a Strong Buy, with price targets as high as $1,514/share. The stock currently trades at just $1,085.10/share. This implies roughly 40% upside from current levels, which is notable for a company of this size and quality. Earnings will hinge on asset flows, fee growth, and management commentary around ETFs, private markets, and long term investor demand. If markets remain constructive and inflows surprise to the upside, BLK could re rate higher. The main risk is market volatility hurting assets under management, but BlackRock’s scale and diversification help mitigate downside. BLK is set to report earnings Thursday before the open.

This week’s earnings will help shape expectations for the rest of the quarter. While macro headlines and economic data will always matter, individual company execution is what ultimately drives returns. These three stocks offer a mix of quality, narrative, and opportunity that could outperform if earnings surprise to the upside. We will be closely monitoring each report and breaking down the key takeaways inside the Investment Club as results are released. If you are a member, make sure you have app notifications turned on so you do not miss any updates.

One Of The Biggest Tech Conventions Just Took Place: Here Are 5 Stocks Poised To Benefit ... (Source)

Stocks mentioned: $NVDA, $INTC, $VRT, $ENS, $ANET

The biggest misconception about CES is that it is a "Consumer Electronics Showcase". In reality, CES is a forward-looking signal for where capital, talent, and infrastructure are being pulled next. Hosted annually in Las Vegas, CES sits at the intersection of hardware, software, energy, and compute. What made CES 2026 notable was not flashy devices, but a clear message repeated across keynotes and booths alike: the limiting factor in technology is no longer ideas or demand, it is infrastructure. The show reframed the conversation away from apps and toward the physical and digital systems required to support the next decade of growth. We found 3 key takeaways from this year's CES event, and 5 stocks poised to benefit, ranging from lower risk to high risk. Let's dive in...

The first major takeaway from CES 2026 was the quiet shift from “AI features” to “AI systems.” Large companies showcased not just models, but full end-to-end AI pipelines, including data ingestion, training, inference, and deployment at scale. The message was simple and powerful. Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to production. The bottleneck is no longer algorithms, it is compute capacity, networking speed, and power availability. A fair counterpoint is that software efficiency improvements could reduce infrastructure needs over time. That may happen eventually, but CES made clear that near term demand for raw compute and connectivity is accelerating faster than optimization can offset.

The second takeaway was energy as a first class technology constraint. Power was no longer a side conversation, it was front and center. AI workloads require enormous, stable, and predictable electricity, far beyond what legacy grids were designed to handle. Multiple exhibitors highlighted on site generation, grid scale storage, and energy management software. In plain terms, the digital economy is running into physical limits. While skeptics argue renewable buildouts and grid upgrades will take years, that is exactly the opportunity. Capital flows to the companies that solve hard, slow problems first.

The third takeaway was the rise of the “physical cloud.” CES 2026 highlighted how data centers, factories, vehicles, and edge devices are converging into one continuous compute fabric. This matters because latency, or delay, is now a competitive advantage. Processing data closer to where it is generated saves time, money, and energy. Some argue centralized hyperscale data centers remain more efficient. CES showed that the future is hybrid, with centralized scale paired with localized intelligence. That shift unlocks new demand across semiconductors, networking, and industrial infrastructure.

Stocks positioned to benefit from these CES 2026 takeaways:

NVIDIA (NVDA) - NVIDIA sits at the center of the AI systems shift. Its GPUs and networking hardware are the core building blocks for training and running large AI models. As AI moves into production, demand for NVIDIA’s full platform, not just chips, increases. If we wanted to take a little bit more risk, and play the "America First" reshoring theme, we could take an investment into Intel (INTC) as our semiconductor play.
Vertiv Holdings (VRT) - Vertiv provides the power, cooling, and infrastructure inside data centers. As energy becomes the binding constraint for AI growth, companies like Vertiv benefit from every new data center build or expansion. If we wanted to take a little bit more risk and play more of the battery/storage technology, we could take an investment into EnerSys (ENS).
Arista Networks (ANET) - Arista builds the high speed networking equipment that connects AI clusters. As compute scales out, the need for ultra fast, low latency networking grows, making Arista a critical enabler of the physical cloud. This is what we would call a "medium risk" play. It's not quite "low risk" and it's not quite "high risk" either, it's somewhere in the middle.

CES 2026 made one thing clear. The next wave of technology gains will not be unlocked by better apps, but by solving the hard constraints beneath them. Compute, power, and connectivity are becoming the scarce resources of the digital age. Markets tend to underprice infrastructure because it looks boring, capital intensive, and slow. History shows those are exactly the conditions where durable value is created. The transition is already underway, and the companies enabling it are still being valued as if this shift is optional. It is not.

"Super Investor" Spotlight: LM Assets (Source)

Stocks mentioned: $LUMN, $VET, $GTE, $TSAT, $ARMN, $ASTL, $GT, $JHX, $HYMC

For newer readers, a “Super Investor” is a capital allocator who consistently compounds wealth at rates far above the broader market by making concentrated, higher-conviction decisions. These investors tend to focus on business quality over headlines, and think in multi-year time horizons. Thanks to quarterly 13F filings, we get a rare look into how these elite managers deploy capital, even if the data is slightly delayed.

LM Asset is a Canadian based deep-value, contrarian asset manager that seeks to compound long-term investor capital through a high-conviction, concentrated portfolio of undervalued investments in the United States and Canada. In other words, the firm is known for focusing on opportunities that are being overlooked by more conventional institutional investors.

So with that being said, let's take a look at a full breakdown of LM Asset's 9 stock portfolio, ranked by position sizing:

Lumen Technologies (LUMN) – 48.3%
Vermilion Energy (VET) – 17.8%
Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) – 11.7%
Telesat (TSAT) – 9.3%
Aris Mng Corp (ARMN) – 3.5%
Algoma Stl Group Inc (ASTL) - 3.1%
Goodyear Tire & Rubr Co (GT) - 3%
James Hardie Industries (JHX) - 2.1%
Hycroft Mining (HYMC) - 1.2%

What makes this portfolio especially interesting is that several of these names have shown up in our research of recent politician and insider transactions, such as Hycroft Mining (HYMC), Gran Tierra Energy (GTE), and Lumen Technologies (LUMN). Specifically Hycroft Mining was able to yield us over 117% in profits in just over 1 week, last month, as you can see below:

This is why paying attention to "Super Investors", Politicians, and Insiders is key to our money making strategies. But it's not just us who have been able to get gains like these. Even beginning investors in the CEO Watchlist Investment Club have been putting up incredible numbers. We just put out a new list of our Top 5 insider transactions for January 2026, so if you're an Investment Club Member, [CLICK HERE] to get access to this list if you haven't already.

But just because an insider is buying a stock doesn't mean it's an automatic buy for us. For example, with Hycroft Mining we saw a combination of insiders AND "Super Investors" buying the stock, and when we back tested it against our filtering process, it passed on multiple metrics, thus leading us to buy the stock and get the large outsized return in a short timeframe. For every winner, you're going to need to filter through 100 losers, so knowing which stocks to pay attention to, and which ones to ignore, is important. Another key thing to look at when deciding what stocks to copy from a "Super Investor", is looking at how that "Super Investor" has actually performed versus the overall market. The whole point of investing our time into researching CEOs, insiders, and “Super Investors” is to find an edge on the market and so it's important that they can prove, through their returns, they can significantly beat the market over multiple years. Over the past 3 years, LM Asset has returned 189.73% versus roughly 80% for the S&P 500. That is an outperformance of over 100%, demonstrating the power of concentrated high-conviction investing, as can be seen below:

The takeaway for retail investors is clear. LM Asset shows that long-term outperformance often comes from owning fewer businesses, understanding them deeply, and sizing positions aggressively when conviction is highest. This portfolio reinforces a commitment to energy and communications infrastructure, and undervalued opportunities that traditional strategies may overlook. We like LM Asset because this approach represents serious compounding potential, and they own multiple names that we've spotted notable insider activity on in the past. Plus, their emphasis on deeply undervalued positions can create asymmetric upside when value recognition finally occurs.

INSIDER STOCK TRADES FROM THE WEEK:

1. Par Technology (PAR) - Voss Capital, hedge fund, bought over $7,100,000 worth of PAR at $36.24/share between Dec. 30, 2025 - Jan. 6, 2026, but it was most recently reported to the public on Jan. 7, 2026. (Source)

2. Staar Surgical (STAA) - Broadwood Partners, hedge fund, bought roughly $8,800,000 of STAA for an average price of $21.68/share between Jan. 6-8, 2026, and it was most recently reported to the public on Jan. 8, 2026. (Source)

3. Gran Tierra Energy (GTE) - LM Asset, hedge fund, bought roughly $725,000 of GTE at an average price of $4.02/share between Jan. 5-6, 2026, but it was most recently reported to the public on Jan. 7, 2026. (Source)

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