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📉 The Garbage Company Absolutely Printing Money

AI’s surging energy demand is creating new winners

AI workloads are scaling and data centers are expanding rapidly — driving unprecedented demand for electricity, cooling, and grid infrastructure. 

Massive capital is flowing to the companies that enable AI at scale — the power producers, infrastructure owners, and critical technology suppliers behind the scenes.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• A data-center landlord gaining pricing power
• A stealth REIT pivoting to AI infrastructure
• A monopoly supplier embedded in advanced AI chips
• A nuclear power leader partnering with Big Tech
• An industrial firm modernizing the electric grid

As AI growth increasingly depends on energy and infrastructure, these companies sit at the center of the next opportunity.

To Your Trading Success,
The Stock Alert Daily Team

☕️ Afternoon, Munchers! My wife asked why I'm excited about a garbage company. I said "they're crushing earnings and paying massive dividends." She said "you get this excited about trash but can't remember to take out our trash?" Fair point, but one makes me money and the other just smells bad.

BREAKING NEWS

🗑️ The Garbage Company Absolutely Printing Money (While Everything Else Burns)

While the market's melting down over oil and stagflation, Waste Management just hit all-time highs and announced they're showering shareholders with cash.

The stock's up 12% in 2026. Wall Street's treating a trash hauler like the next Tesla.

The Setup: Waste Management spent four years dropping $3 billion on "sustainability investments." Translation: renewable natural gas facilities that convert landfill methane into fuel, and AI robots that sort recycling. Now they're done building and entering the "harvesting phase." Wall Street code for "we spent all the money, now we're printing cash."

The Numbers:

  • Free Cash Flow: $3.8 billion expected in 2026, up 29.4%. They're returning 90% ($3.5 billion) to shareholders via dividends and buybacks.

  • 14.5% Dividend Raise: Their 23rd consecutive year of increases. Previous 3-year average was 11%. They're accelerating because cash flow is that strong.

  • $2 Billion Buyback: After paying down debt in 2025, they're aggressively buying their own stock.

  • Margins: Hitting 30.8% to 31% EBITDA margins for the first time ever. That's insane for garbage. How? AI and automation.

The Tech:

"Smart Trucks" with AI cameras detect overfilled bins and contamination, then automatically bill customers. Sensors across 260 landfills remotely monitor operations, cutting labour costs. AI recycling sorters process materials 20% faster. In 2025, recycling commodity prices dropped 20%, but their recycling EBITDA grew 22% because robots don't care what cardboard costs.

The Munch Take: Waste Management turned trash into tech-powered cash flow while everyone else panics. Fat dividend (up 14.5%), $2B buyback, 30%+ margins, regulatory tailwinds. Stock trades at 36x P/E versus industry 25x, but generating $3.8B in free cash and returning 90% justifies the premium. This is what happens when you bolt AI and renewable energy onto a boring business.

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INVESTING 101

🧠 Buffett's Brutal Truth

Time to drop a famous Warren Buffett reminder that every panicking retail investor needs to hear right now: "If you can't handle a 50% drop, don't own stocks."

The market just had its worst week since October. Oil spiked 34%. Jobs crashed. Portfolios are bleeding. And everyone's staring at the "sell all" button wondering if they should just cash out and hide under their mattress until this nightmare ends.

Here's what Buffett wants you to understand: volatility is the price of admission. If you panic-sell the moment things get scary, you will get slaughtered.

The Stats That Matter:

  1. Even Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's own company, has crashed 50% from its highs three separate times since 1965. The best investor alive couldn't avoid massive drawdowns. Neither can you.

  2. Buffett guarantees that terrifying crashes will happen again. He doesn't know when. Nobody does. But he knows they're coming.

  3. His rule: only buy stocks you're prepared to hold for at least five years. If you need the money sooner or can't stomach watching it drop 50%, stay out entirely.

And never, ever use margin. If you borrow money to trade and the market crashes 50%, you get margin called and wiped out permanently.

The Munch Take: The money gets made during times like this. Not when everything's green and euphoric. When portfolios are bleeding and everyone's panicking. Quality companies are on sale. Oil will stabilize. Wars end. Recessions pass. If you sell now, you lock in losses and miss the recovery. If you can't handle watching red numbers for months or years, Buffett's right, you shouldn't own stocks. But if you can? This is when generational wealth gets built.

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