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North America Institutional Trends
GameStop Pays $358.4 Million to End Its Dilution Formula
GameStop has replaced the unfinished part of a 35-trading-day share formula with US$358.4 million of cash. The amendment fixes this note exchange at approximately 55.5 million shares and brings expected closing forward, but it does not erase those shares or the US$2.8 billion of…
North America Institutional Trends
Aon's 14.5x USI Multiple Includes Synergies Due by 2029
Aon calls its net purchase price for USI 14.5 times synergized adjusted EBITDA. The arithmetic works only after replacing part of the seller's earnings definition and crediting the full run-rate value of synergies expected to be substantially realised between closing and 2029.…
North America National Telecom Trends
Charter's CFO Will Leave After the First Cox Quarter Closes
Jessica Fischer will leave Charter Communications after helping close the quarter ending 30 September, the first quarter-end since Charter completed its Cox and Liberty transactions. The timing protects continuity through the accounting cut-off. It also places the combined…
North America Datacenter Trends
Meta data centre could raise Alberta power bills
Pembina says Meta’s new load could raise wholesale power prices even if the company pays the direct cost of connecting its data centre.
North America Datacenter Trends
Anthropic reportedly agrees US$35bn Lambda compute deal
The reported deal depends on Hut 8 delivering Texas capacity before Lambda can turn Anthropic’s commitment into usable compute.
North America Institutional Trends
Symbotic's US$22.5bn RPO Excludes Walmart's Conditional 400-System Lane
Symbotic has US$22.5 billion of remaining performance obligations, but Walmart's promise to purchase 400 store-level automation systems is not in that number. The promise remains contingent on defined performance metrics and could add more than US$5.0 billion to future RPO.…
North America Datacenter Trends
SMA launches AI data centre power portfolio
The systems are designed to smooth volatile AI loads before they reach grids or generators, with an 800VDC option planned for 2027.
North America Datacenter
Compu Dynamics moves AI data-centre construction off-site
Compu Dynamics is expanding factory-built delivery for AI projects, shifting more power, cooling and white-space work away from the construction site.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Guidewire's US$5.9m Services Allocation Does Not Change ARR
Guidewire placed US$5.9 million of recurring licence-and-support or subscription contract value in services revenue during the first nine months of fiscal 2026. Its ARR calculation did not follow that allocation. The distinction is neither an error nor an extra pot of revenue…
North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta NDP seeks pause on AI data-centre approvals
Alberta’s NDP wants new AI data-centre approvals paused until the province sets broader rules for assessing project impacts.
North America Datacenter Trends
Sault Ste. Marie moves to pause data centres above 50MW
Council has ordered a bylaw for 21 September that would pause applications above 50MW while the city writes rules for large data centres.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Dropbox’s Cloud Carries US$285.9m of Finance-Lease Obligations
Dropbox looks like a subscription business until the raised floor comes into view. Its June accounts carried US$285.9 million of finance-lease obligations, while its engineers were describing racks, airflow, cooling and power headroom inside co-location facilities. The important…
North America Cloud Services Trends
CrowdStrike Disclosed US$2.9bn Beyond Its US$4.1bn Purchase Table
CrowdStrike's purchase-obligation note contains a number that does not belong to the date printed above its table. At 31 July 2026 the table totalled US$4.141527 billion. After quarter-end, the company committed to an additional US$2.9 billion, running from fiscal 2027 to fiscal…
North America Cloud Services
FreeCast targets telecom operators with streaming PaaS
FreeCast is pitching its streaming platform to telecom and broadband providers, with Assist Wireless and enTouch Wireless already signed to use the service.
North America Institutional Trends
Five Below Bounded Its Cyber Incident to One Employee Environment. The File Risk Remains Open
Five Below’s July disclosure draws a sharp line around the machine that was reached and a much softer line around the information that left it. The retailer said social engineering enabled access to one employee’s company computer, that the access was contained, and that no other…
North America Institutional Trends
ONEOK's US$9bn Class B deal is a shrinking capital claim
ONEOK's transaction presentation balances at US$9.425 billion, not US$9 billion. Apollo supplies the headline capital; US$161 million of cash and US$264 million of commercial paper complete the sources. On the other side sit a US$4.425 billion gas-infrastructure acquisition and…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Everpure Grew 38%. One Cash-Flow Line Absorbed $577 Million
Everpure's record quarter contains two truthful stories that do not yet meet. Revenue rose 38% and GAAP operating income reached US$63 million. Operating cash flow was negative US$136 million, however, after `prepaid expenses and other assets` consumed US$577 million. The company…
North America Institutional Trends
Tractor Supply Added 3.7 Growth Points to a 2.3% Quarter
Tractor Supply Company grew second-quarter sales by 2.3%, but the sales it grouped under new stores and VIP Petcare contributed 3.7 percentage points. That is not a paradox. It is a warning about perimeter: a company can expand its consolidated top line while the stores old…
North America Institutional Trends
Moneris' C$2bn sale moves ownership but keeps the bank referral gate
BMO and RBC are preparing to sell the company that carries a large share of Canadian merchant payments. They are not preparing to disappear from its route to market. Francisco Partners will acquire Moneris for approximately C$2 billion in cash, split equally between the two…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Keysight's US$2.09bn Order Record Has Three Growth Ledgers
Keysight Technologies ended its fiscal third quarter of 2026 with a record US$2.091 billion of orders. The headline grew 56%; the company's core measure grew 52%. Revenue rose 36%; core revenue rose 31%. Operating margin was 24.9% under GAAP, 33.2% after Keysight's non-GAAP…