Head to Head
Comparisons
26 real head-to-head writeups spanning 60 tickers — each pairs or groups a held position against a competitor or watchlist name on real fundamentals: market cap, P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, capex. Search a ticker or company name to find it; every comparison it appears in shows up below.
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CoreWeave vs. Nebius vs. Applied Digital vs. Oracle Cloud
Four ways to bet on GPU-cloud demand outstripping supply, from two direct neocloud holdings to a speculative early-stage name and a legacy enterprise vendor reinventing itself as AI infrastructure.
American Airlines vs. Delta Air Lines
A deleveraging turnaround bet against the industry's most consistently profitable operator — the honest gap between the airline I own and the one I don't.
Symbotic vs. Honeywell
A focused, pre-profit warehouse-automation pure-play against the diversified industrial conglomerate whose Intelligrated unit competes directly with it.
Estée Lauder vs. Coty
A prestige-beauty turnaround bet against a smaller, mass-and-prestige hybrid beauty company also mid-restructuring.
ASML vs. Applied Materials
Two semiconductor-equipment names on my watchlist, not yet in the book — the lithography monopoly against the diversified deposition/etch leader.
Apple vs. Alphabet
Two watchlist mega-caps competing at the operating-system and ecosystem layer — Apple's hardware-and-services model against Alphabet's search-and-cloud model.
Coinbase vs. Robinhood
Two watchlist names monetizing retail trading activity from different angles — the crypto-native exchange against the multi-asset brokerage expanding into crypto.
Broadcom vs. Marvell vs. Qualcomm
Three custom/specialty silicon names serving hyperscalers and mobile — one held, one watched, one not owned — compared on growth-adjusted valuation.
Palo Alto Networks vs. Fortinet vs. CrowdStrike
All three cybersecurity platform-consolidation bets I actually hold, benchmarked head to head — the same theme, three different growth and valuation profiles.
Vertiv vs. Eaton
The pure-play data-center thermal/power specialist I hold against the larger, more diversified industrial electrical-equipment name I don't.
WhiteFiber vs. Equinix
The small, early-stage AI-infrastructure holding I own against the large, established data-center REIT I don't — the same physical-infrastructure theme, very different maturity.
Palantir vs. Snowflake
Two watchlist names monetizing enterprise and government data in different ways — the AI-native operating platform against the established cloud data warehouse.
ServiceNow vs. Salesforce vs. Workday
Three enterprise workflow-automation platforms, one held, two watched — compared on growth-adjusted valuation in a software category increasingly selling its own AI story.
Taiwan Semiconductor vs. Intel Foundry
The dominant contract-chipmaking leader I watch but don't own, against the manufacturing turnaround bet I do — two very different stages of the same foundry business.
Tempus AI vs. Veeva Systems
Two different applications of software to healthcare and life sciences — the speculative AI-diagnostics bet I hold against the established, profitable clinical-software platform I don't.
Meta vs. Alphabet vs. Microsoft vs. Amazon
Four mega-cap AI-capex bets, two of which I hold outright and two of which I've chosen to watch instead — compared on growth-adjusted valuation and the scale of their AI spending.
SanDisk vs. Micron vs. Western Digital
Two memory-cycle bets I hold, benchmarked against the storage-industry peer I don't — NAND flash, DRAM, and hard-disk exposure to the same AI-storage demand story.
Datadog vs. Dynatrace
Two cloud observability platforms serving the same growing telemetry-monitoring market, from different starting points on breadth versus depth.
Talen Energy vs. Vistra vs. Constellation Energy
Three ways to own the physical power constraint underneath the AI buildout — two direct holdings and the largest nuclear operator in the country, which I watch but don't own.
IonQ vs. Rigetti Computing
A watchlist comparison of two publicly traded quantum-computing companies pursuing different hardware approaches — trapped-ion versus superconducting qubits.
The Cheesecake Factory vs. Darden Restaurants
A multi-concept casual-dining growth story against the largest, most established full-service restaurant operator in the country.
Uber vs. Lyft
A watchlist look at the two major US rideshare operators — the larger, more diversified global platform against the smaller, US-focused specialist.
AMD vs. Intel vs. NVIDIA
Three different bets on the same AI-accelerator demand cycle, compared on real fundamentals — a leader I don't own, a challenger I do, and a turnaround story I also hold.
Super Micro Computer vs. Dell Technologies
A watchlist comparison of two AI-server builders — the smaller, faster-growing pure-play against the larger, more diversified enterprise-hardware incumbent.
SpaceX vs. Rocket Lab
Two space-launch holdings in the same speculative sleeve — the dominant, diversified operator against the smaller small-satellite specialist scaling toward larger payloads.
Netflix vs. Disney
The profitable, cash-generative subscription business I hold against the larger, more diversified media conglomerate I don't — both real, both real cash flows, different risk profiles.
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How these are read
Each comparison benchmarks real, dated fundamentals side by side — not a recommendation of one name over the other. Held positions are marked distinctly in each comparison's table; a name appearing here doesn't imply it's owned. Full sourcing conventions are on the Sources & Research Log page. Not investment advice.