After a rough September, October has so far been much more kind to stocks and has helped Wall Street cut into some of its third-quarter losses . More encouragingly, our biggest winners aren’t limited to one sector but come from a range of industries, including retail, health care and cybersecurity. This month through Monday, the S & P 500 gained about 2%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 2.8% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 1.5%. In September, the S & P 500 sank 4.87%, the Nasdaq tumbled 5.81% and the blue-chip Dow dropped 3.5%. Here are our top five performers so far in October, and the factors that are driving the strong performances. FL mountain 2023-09-29 Foot Locker’s stock performance so far in October. Our worst performer for the September quarter, Foot Locker (FL) has rebounded to start the fourth quarter with a 25% gain. The ascent began after Nike ‘s (NKE) late September earnings report and conference call, when the shoemaker mentioned a “reset” in its relationship with Foot Locker. While the stock move has been encouraging, we don’t want to chase it. Shares of FL remain down 42% year to date, and as Jim Cramer mentioned during our October Monthly Meeting , the company’s turnaround plan has a tight deadline. LLY mountain 2023-09-29 Eli Lilly’s stock performance so far in October. Eli Lilly (LLY) shares have returned to their winning ways after falling about 3% in September. The stock closed at an all-time high Thursday. Its 14.8% climb in October has pushed its year-to-date gains to roughly 68%, the fourth best in our portfolio. We locked in significant profits on Sept. 12 — before the stock began its multiweek draw down — which makes us more comfortable letting the stock ride here. Lilly’s best day this month came on Oct. 11, when it rallied 4.5% in sympathy with a bullish GLP-1 trial announcement from rival Novo Nordisk (NVO). Lilly’s diabetes drug Mounjaro and Novo Nordisk’s diabetes treatment Ozempic and weight-loss drug Wegovy are in a drug category known as GLP-1s. Mounjaro, a key piece to our LLY thesis, is awaiting U.S. regulatory clearance to also treat obesity. PANW mountain 2023-09-29 Palo Alto’s stock performance so far in October. Our third-best performer in October is Palo Alto Networks (PANW), which is up 11.55% through Monday. Similar to Eli Lilly, the cybersecurity company’s stock closed at a record high Thursday and has been a big 2023 winner — up 87.4%, trailing only Nvidia (NVDA) and Meta Platforms (META) in our portfolio. Nevertheless, the stock’s October gains are notable because they follow three consecutive monthly declines. PANW’s recent strength seems tied, in large part, to high-profile cyber attacks at companies such as Clorox (CLX) and Johnson Controls (JCI). The various breaches underscore the importance of security tools that Palo Alto and its cyber peers provide. Palo Alto offers a slew of security features on the same platform, which is attractive to customers looking to consolidate their spending. CTRA mountain 2023-09-29 Coterra Energy’s stock performance so far in October. Coterra Energy (CTRA) has gained about 8% in October, building on the stock’s 6.9% advance in the third quarter as crude oil prices rallied. Coterra’s stock rise was supported by a big jump in natural gas futures early in the month — though some of that move has faded. More generally, sentiment around exploration-and-production companies like Coterra has been boosted by Exxon Mobil ‘s (XOM) takeover offer for now-former Club holding Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), which some in the marketplace believe could spark additional consolidation in the energy sector. Additionally, the Israel-Hamas war has heightened geopolitical risk in the global oil market, placing some upward pressure on prices. We exited our Pioneer position on Monday. HUM mountain 2023-09-29 Humana’s stock performance so far in October. Occupying the No. 5 spot in October is Humana (HUM), which has climbed 7.75%. On Oct. 6, we made good on a pledge to trim Humana when the stock returned to $500 per share amid a recovery from a major sell-off in the summer. Sentiment around Humana has continued to improve in recent days. First, there was positive quarterly results Friday morning from fellow insurer UnitedHealth Group (UNH). 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After a rough September, October has so far been much more kind to stocks and has helped Wall Street cut into some of its third-quarter losses. More encouragingly, our biggest winners aren’t limited to one sector but come from a range of industries, including retail, health care and cybersecurity.
Today was the official start of racing at the Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix 2025! There was a tremendous energy (and heat) on the ground at NCM Motorsports Park as nearly a dozen teams took to the track. Currently, as of writing, Stanford is ranked #1 in the SOV (Single-Occupant Vehicle) class with 68 registered laps. However, the fastest lap so far belongs to UC Berkeley, which clocked a 4:45 on the 3.15-mile track. That’s an average speed of just under 40 mph on nothing but solar energy. Not bad!
In the MOV (Multi-Occupant Vehicle) class, Polytechnique Montréal is narrowly ahead of Appalachian State by just 4 laps. At last year’s formula sun race, Polytechnique Montréal took first place overall in this class, and the team hopes to repeat that success. It’s still too early for prediction though, and anything can happen between now and the final day of racing on Saturday.
Congrats to the teams that made it on track today. We look forward to seeing even more out there tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some shots from today via the event’s wonderful photographer Cora Kennedy.
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The numbers are in and they are all bad for Tesla fans – the company sold just 5,000 Cybertruck models in Q4 of 2025, and built some 30% more “other” vehicles than it delivered. It just gets worse and worse, on today’s tension-building episode of Quick Charge!
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Tesla has launched its new Oasis Supercharger, the long-promised EV charging station of the future, with a solar farm and off-grid batteries.
Early in the deployment of the Supercharger network, Tesla promised to add solar arrays and batteries to the Supercharger stations, and CEO Elon Musk even said that most stations would be able to operate off-grid.
While Tesla did add solar and batteries to a few stations, the vast majority of them don’t have their own power system or have only minimal solar canopies.
Back in 2016, I asked Musk about this, and he said that it would now happen as Tesla had the “pieces now in place” with Supercharger V3, Powerpack V2, and SolarCity:
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All of these pieces have been in place for years, and Tesla has now discontinued the Powerpack in favor of the Megapack. The Supercharger network is also transitioning to V4 stations.
Yet, solar and battery deployment haven’t accelerated much in the decade since Musk made that comment, but it is finally happening.
Tesla has now unveiled the project and turned on most of the Supercharger stalls:
The project consists of 168 chargers, with half of them currently operational, making it one of the largest Supercharger stations in the world. However, that’s not even the most notable aspect of it.
The station is equipped with 11 MW of ground-mounted solar panels and canopies, spanning 30 acres of land, and 10 Tesla Megapacks with a total energy storage capacity of 39 MWh.
It can be operated off-grid, which is the case right now, according to Tesla.
With off-grid operations, Tesla was about to bring 84 stalls online just in time for the Fourth of July travel weekend. The rest of the stalls and a lounge are going to open later this year.
Electrek’s Take
This is awesome. A bit late, but awesome. This is what charging stations should be like: fully powered by renewable energy.
Unfortunately, it will be much harder to open those stations in the future due to legislation that Trump and the Republican Party have just passed, which removes incentives for solar and energy storage, adds taxes on them, and removes incentives to build batteries – all things that have helped Tesla considerably over the last few years.
The US is likely going to have a few tough years for EV adoption and renewable energy deployment.
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