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TFI Earnings Beat: Is This Stock the Freight Recovery King?

Author: Jeffrey Neal Johnson. Posted: 4/30/2026. 

Key Points

• TFI International’s Less-Than-Truckload segment experienced a dramatic positive reversal in shipment volumes, signaling a sustainable demand recovery.
• TFI International is achieving higher revenue per truck by intentionally reducing its fleet size, proving a strong focus on profitability over market share.
• Following a strong earnings beat and improved guidance, Wall Street analysts are upgrading their ratings and price targets for the company.
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The transportation sector continues to weather a protracted freight recession, with persistent margin compression and volume headwinds challenging even the most established operators. Against this difficult backdrop, TFI International (NYSE: TFII)delivered first-quarter results that suggest a cyclical bottom may be forming for best-in-class logistics companies. TFI’s ability to pull operational levers and preserve profitability in a weak market signals a potential turning point, positioning it to capture upside as supply chains normalize and industrial activity rebounds.

From Deep Freeze to Spring Thaw

The most compelling evidence of a market shift is in TFI International’s Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) segment, its largest division by revenue. The segment experienced a dramatic intra-quarter reversal that outpaced general market trends. After starting the year with a 10% year-over-year decline in shipment volumes in January — exacerbated by severe weather — momentum shifted sharply, with March volumes expanding by 8%.

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Management confirmed on its April 27, 2026, earnings call that this positive trend has continued into the second quarter, suggesting the demand inflection is not a temporary rebound but the start of a sustainable recovery.

This volume inflection is the direct catalyst behind management’s aggressive forward guidance. TFI expects a sequential improvement of 400–500 basis points in its consolidated operating ratio (OR) for Q2, with the LTL segment forecast to lead the charge with a 600–700 basis-point sequential OR improvement.

As volumes return, TFI’s leaner cost structure and improved network density should allow a greater share of revenue to flow through to operating income. This improvement is further supported by the mid-March implementation of a general rate increase (GRI), which will provide a pricing tailwind through the second quarter. While TFI’s service levels are still being refined relative to industry leaders, the volume recovery gives the company the operational leverage to be more selective with freight and begin closing the pricing gap with peers.

The Art of Shrinking to Grow

While the LTL segment shows signs of recovery, the Truckload division demonstrates the power of disciplined fleet management and strategic market focus. TFI grew its revenue per truck per week, excluding fuel surcharges, by 8.6% in the first quarter while reducing its total truck count by 7.1%.

Running fewer assets while generating higher revenue per unit is a clear sign of a management team prioritizing productivity and profitability over sheer market share. It reflects a cultural shift, particularly within the legacy Daseke operations, from being good truckers to being good stewards of capital who focus on return on invested capital.

This operational discipline is translating into pricing power, especially in TFI’s industrial-focused end markets. Management noted recent U.S. flatbed contract renewals are coming in at high-single to low-double-digit increases. That pricing strength is partly driven by tightening capacity across the U.S. and Canada, as regulatory actions have removed unsafe and non-compliant operators from the market. By focusing on industrial freight — for example, data center construction logistics, which grew from $8 million to $21 million year over year — TFI insulates itself from the volatility of retail-centric freight and aligns with a potential North American industrial resurgence.

The Political Risk Masking TFI’s True Potential

Despite the strong quarterly performance and optimistic Q2 outlook, management has refrained from issuing full-year 2026 guidance. That caution is primarily tied to geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, specifically the mandatory joint review of the USMCA (CUSMA) trade agreement scheduled for July 2026. The review creates a “certainty cliff” for cross-border freight, a highly profitable area for TFI. While this presents a near-term risk that tempers full-year forecasts, it also creates a coiled-spring opportunity: a smooth, favorable resolution would likely trigger a meaningful relief rally and force analysts to revise full-year estimates upward.

TFI’s capital allocation choices underscore internal confidence. In the earnings release, the board approved a 4% increase in the quarterly dividend to 47 cents per share. That decision came even as Q1 free cash flow fell year over year to $123.7 million — a dip management attributed to a temporary working capital distortion driven by fuel payment timing. Raising the dividend in that context signals a strong belief in the sustainability of future cash flows and a commitment to returning capital through the cycle.

TFI International Charts a New Course

The first-quarter earnings beat and strong guidance were major catalysts, sending shares to a new 52-week high on heavy volume. The stock’s performance reflects the emerging narrative, with a year-to-date return of over 35%.

Sell-side analysts moved quickly to validate the thesis. Following the report, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy and raised its price target to a street-high $161. The current consensus rating is Moderate Buy, reflecting a mix of bullish outlooks and some analysts waiting for further confirmation of the recovery.

Investors seeking exposure to the freight cycle may find TFI’s demonstrated operational control a compelling reason to add the stock to their watchlist. While macro risks tied to trade policy and fuel costs persist, TFI’s ability to drive a margin inflection before a full market recovery sets it apart. Those with higher risk tolerance may view the current momentum as the start of a sustained cyclical upswing; more cautious investors may prefer to wait for consolidation before establishing a position.

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Barry Bonds, Ted Williams and … who??

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Welcome to The Pregame Lineup, a weekday newsletter that gets you up to speed on everything you need to know for today’s games, while catching you up on fun and interesting stories you might have missed. Today’s edition is brought to you by David Adler.

If you’re the first hitter to do something since Barry Bonds, you’re probably in a pretty good spot. 

Well, Nick Kurtz is drawing walks like Barry Bonds. 

To be more specific: The A’s slugger has walked in 18 consecutive games entering play today. That’s the longest walk streak since Bonds at the peak of his powers in 2002-03. 

And it’s not just that. Kurtz’s walk streak is the fourth-longest in MLB’s Modern Era — that’s since 1900. The list is a pretty cool one: Kurtz, Bonds, Ted Williams … and one surprise name at the very top. 

Most consecutive games with a walk, Modern Era 

1. Roy Cullenbine: 22 games (1947)
2. Barry Bonds: 20 games (2002-03)
3. Ted Williams: 19 games (1941)
4. Nick Kurtz: 18 games (2026) 

Let’s take a second to talk about the elephant in the room: Roy Cullenbine??? How is he No. 1 and not Bonds or the Splendid Splinter? 

Well, Cullenbine was actually something of a walk machine back in the ’40s. He was a two-time All-Star, he led the American League with 113 walks in 1945 (when he won a World Series with the Tigers), and he had a career-high 137 in 1947. That’s the year he had his streak, walking in every game for Detroit from July 2 to July 22. And now he has an MLB record to show for it.

But anyway, back to Kurtz.

The 23-year-old Rookie of the Year winner has already blown past the A’s franchise record, which was held by the great Rickey Henderson, who walked in 15 straight games during the 1993 season. 

And even Bonds never had a walk streak as long as Kurtz’s within a single season. In 2002, Bonds walked in the final 18 games of the season before continuing his streak at the start of 2003. And even in his record-setting 232-walk 2004 season, Bonds’ longest walk streak was 16 consecutive games. 

Kurtz, unsurprisingly, leads the Majors with 32 walks this season (entering play today), and as he’s gotten hot, the A’s have taken over first place in the AL West.

The A’s game today just started as of the sending of this newsletter, so tune in on MLB.TV to see if Kurtz can extend his streak to 19. 

 

ELLY OF ALL TRADES

We’re a month into the season, and Elly De La Cruz is doing it all. 

We already knew Elly had all the tools to be an all-around superstar. But it’s fun to watch him put it all together.

First of all, there’s the elite power-speed combo, which has him in rare company. De La Cruz has 10 home runs — tied with James Wood and Kyle Schwarber for the National League lead — and eight stolen bases through the Reds’ first 30 games. 

Only seven players in the Modern Era have had at least 10 homers and eight steals in the first 30 games of a season.   

10+ HR and 8+ SB in team’s first 30 games of a season

• Elly De La Cruz, 2026 Reds: 10 HR, 8 SB
• Vladimir Guerrero, 2002 Expos: 10 HR, 8 SB 
• Larry Walker, 1997 Rockies: 11 HR, 10 SB
• Barry Bonds, 1996 Giants: 13 HR, 10 SB
• Mo Vaughn, 1995 Red Sox: 12 HR, 8 SB
• Eric Davis, 1987 Reds: 13 HR, 15 SB
• Ken Williams, 1922 Browns: 11 HR, 11 SB 

The last two players to do it before De La Cruz are Hall of Famers, and then you have Bonds. It’s also pretty cool to see Elly on a list with the Reds’ previous power-speed icon, Davis — whose 37-homer, 50-steal season in ’87 was the first 30-50 season in MLB history.

(Also … yes, that’s really Mo Vaughn on that list. That was the year Vaughn won MVP, and he had a career high in stolen bases. Now, that career high was only 11 steals, but Vaughn stacked up most of them at the beginning of the season. Strange but true.)

Then you throw in De La Cruz’s defense on top of that bat and those wheels. Elly led the Majors in errors in both 2024 and 2025, but he’s cut down on those significantly in 2026, and he’s making plays like this: 

The Reds wouldn’t be in first place without De La Cruz. It’s no wonder his teammates are calling him “the best player in the world.” 

AROUND THE LEAGUE

Here are five big things happening around the Majors. 

• Olson’s first walk-off in ATL 

Would you believe Matt Olson had never hit a walk-off home run with the Braves until now? Well, it’s true. But the star slugger, who came to Atlanta in 2022, finally did it yesterday with a game-winning blast off Kenley Jansen to lift the MLB-best Braves past the Tigers (in a Tarik Skubal start, no less). It was the fourth walk-off homer of Olson’s career, but his first three all came with the A’s.   

• PCA hitting his stride 

Pete Crow-Armstrong homered in his second straight game for the Cubs yesterday after going homerless over his previous 18 games. Both of those blasts led Chicago to wins over the Padres. Crow-Armstrong has been playing his usual elite defense in center field all season, but with so many other hitters on the Cubs raking right now, PCA breaking out of his slump makes that lineup extremely dangerous.

• Druw Jones one-ups his dad 

The junior Jones just did something his Hall of Famer father Andruw never did: The D-backs prospect hit for the cycle yesterday at Double-A. That rare feat showcased the 22-year-old’s offensive potential … and it’s just a cool thing to hit for the cycle. Druw, who was drafted No. 2 overall in 2022, is currently ranked Arizona’s No. 16 prospect by MLB Pipeline.

• Jays getting it going 

The Blue Jays are starting to play like the reigning pennant winners they are. Toronto is 7-3 in its last 10 games and has won three straight series against the Angels, Guardians and Red Sox. Yesterday’s win over Boston was an encouraging game for a couple of key hitters in particular: George Springer, who returned from the injured list with a pinch-hit RBI single, and Kazuma Okamoto, who has three homers and 10 RBIs over his last 10 games and is looking good in the cleanup spot.

• Ildemaro’s streak reaches 26 

Ildemaro Vargas’ hitting streak is rising to historic heights. It’s now at 26 games overall going back to last September, and Vargas has hit safely in 23 straight games to start the 2026 season — including another hit today against the Brewers. Vargas’ streak is the longest season-opening hit streak in two decades, since Edgar Renteria’s 23-game streak for the Braves in 2006. He has the longest active hitting streak in the Majors — no one else has one longer than 14 games — and he’s leading the MLB batting race. 

THAT’S WHY YOU PUT THE TALL GUY OUT THERE

There’s already a must-see highlight from today’s slate of day games: James Wood using every inch of his 6-foot-6 frame to rob Juan Soto of a home run. 

The Nats star is known more for his own home run hitting, but this time Wood went way up and over the fence at Citi Field to take a homer away from the Mets slugger.

It’s been a huge season for home run robberies — just yesterday, Cardinals rookie left fielder Nathan Church took a walk-off home run away from the Pirates’ Nick Gonzales — and now you can add Wood’s to the ever-growing highlight reel.   

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Congress beat the S&P by 6% last year.

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Congress beat the S&P by 6% last year.

In 2024, members of Congress averaged 31% returns on their stock portfolios. The S&P 500 returned 24.9%. (Source: Fortune, Jan 2025 · STOCK Act filings)

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S&P 500 Return

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

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+40% vs S&P

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)

Armed Services Committee+31%

+6% vs S&P

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX)

Foreign Affairs Chair+26%

+1% vs S&P

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)

Armed Services Committee+24%

-1% vs S&P

Source: STOCK Act filings via Unusual Whales 2024 Annual Report · as reported by Fortune

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Why Buffett Is About To Lose $100 Billion

Issue #67, Volume #3Why Buffett Is About To Lose $100 BillionBy Porter Stansberry • Thursday 30, April 2026View in browser

Inside today’s Daily Journal…

• Essay: Why Buffett Is About To Lose $100 Billion
• Reaching Trump’s T-bond threshold level
• Another strong Hershey quarter
• War-related commodity prices higher
• Chart Of The Day… Alphabet (GOOG)
• Today’s Mailbag

Warren’s Blind Spot Led To This Big Energy Blunder

Editor’s note: On May 16, 2025, Porter released The Better Than Berkshire Index, designed to show Complete Investor subscribers that they can outperform Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. Yesterday, Porter detailed how Warren Buffett long held onto his misguided belief in Peak Oil – a belief that led to some very questionable investments… Porter details those investments today.

Next week, using the insights he has learned from Buffett himself over the decades, Porter will continue to explain exactly what’s gone wrong with Berkshire and how investors can build a portfolio that can do better…

I first made the case against Peak Oil as early as 2006. At first I did so almost purely on philosophical grounds. I am a student of Austrian economics. I have studied the work of economist Julian Simon, and knew about the Simon-Ehrlich Wager, where in 1980 Simon bet the neo-Malthusian author Paul Ehrlich that the inflation-adjusted price of any five commodities Ehrlich chose would fall, not rise, over the next decade. Simon won decisively – all five commodities fell in real terms.

In the intellectual circles I frequent, the question of running out of oil is laughable. Free markets and human innovation have dramatically increased the supply of every commodity necessary for life on this planet, easily, for centuries and that’s overwhelmingly likely to continue. In fact, as is now only beginning to be recognized by economists outside of the Austrian school, the only possible shortage is humans. The real threat to our civilization isn’t running out of commodities, it’s running out of people.

Twenty years ago, these ideas were far from mainstream. And I might have been the only financial analyst in the world that was predicting a massive renaissance in U.S. oil and gas production. I certainly was among the first financial writers in the world to describe the full ramifications of the fracking revolution.

My first report, in Stansberry’s Investment Advisory in April 2010, about the enormous scope of the energy opportunity in Texas was written about the Eagle Ford Basin, the first big shale oil play discovered in Texas:

I expect Eagle Ford to yield more than $2 billion in oil by 2013 and to increase steadily for at least 20 years. These numbers mean Eagle Ford will probably produce hundreds of billions worth of oil and gas over the next 30 to 40 years. I know these numbers must sound like pie in the sky. After all, U.S. oil production fell every year from 1991 until 2009. The decline led some pretty smart folks to declare we’d reached “peak oil.” They believed onshore oil production would continue to decline until there was literally no oil left. I never believed any of that nonsense. I knew eventually prices would rise enough to support the development of new technologies for finding more oil and extracting it more efficiently. Not surprisingly, that’s exactly what has happened.

My Eagle Ford prediction was woefully conservative, even though at the time it seemed delusional. The basin generated $36.8 billion of oil revenue in 2013 alone – not the $2 billion threshold I had set, but 18x that figure in a single year. Cumulative oil and gas revenue from the Eagle Ford through 2025 has reached approximately $515 billion. The “hundreds of billions” figure has already been delivered, with 15 of the original 30-to-40-year window still ahead. The University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology projects continued production from the basin through 2040 to 2050.

Understanding the American oil-production boom did not require any industry connections or even much insight. The well-by-well economics were published quarterly by every shale operator. The directional pattern and the magnitude of the enormous growth in production were unmistakable.

As I detailed yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chair Charlie Munger did not seem to care. They stayed wrong, on a falsifiable forecast, for 15 years. Worse, they stayed wrong while their largest single capital commitment was being deployed under the assumption that they were right.

As I wrote yesterday,

Berkshire Hathaway Energy is the only Berkshire subsidiary whose capital-allocation strategy was explicitly premised on the worldview that the United States was running out of cheap, accessible hydrocarbons. The investment only makes sense if the country must fund, at utility-rate-based expense, a multi-decade build-out of wind, solar, and high-voltage transmission infrastructure to replace cheap, abundant, hydrocarbon energy.

Meanwhile, the reality – that a continent-wide shale energy revolution was producing more cheap hydrocarbons than the United States could consume – never seemed to enter their minds.

The windmills would be funded, no matter what.

Sources: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Field Production of Crude Oil; EIA Today in Energy, April 23, 2026; Berkshire annual letters; CNBC; Daily Journal Annual Meeting transcripts; Farnam Street Blog. US crude oil figures are annual averages and exclude natural gas liquids. Total US liquids production (crude + NGLs) approached 20 MMbpd by 2025

Today, Berkshire Hathaway Energy (“BHE”) is the second-largest owner of utility-scale wind generation in the United States, behind only NextEra Energy (NEE).

• It owns approximately 9,500 megawatts of wind nameplate capacity across Iowa, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, and the Midwest
• It owns approximately 1,300 megawatts of utility-scale solar in California through Topaz Solar Farm, Solar Star, and a minority interest in Agua Caliente
• It owns the largest single geothermal complex in California through CalEnergy
• It is the developer of the Greenlink Nevada transmission project, a $4.2 billion 525-mile high-voltage line designed to move renewable energy across the state

By the end of 2025, BHE’s cumulative capital deployed into renewable generation, transmission, and tax-equity investments had reached approximately $45 billion, on its way to $50 billion by 2028 per the company’s own published disclosure.

But BHE has never made a dime for Berkshire. How is that possible…?

In March 2000, Berkshire bought a 76% economic interest in MidAmerican Energy Holdings, a regulated electric and gas utility based in Des Moines, Iowa, for a total investment of approximately $2 billion – roughly $1.25 billion in common and convertible preferred equity plus $800 million in trust preferred securities.

Over the next 26 years, Berkshire deployed an additional $13 billion of equity capital into the company – in tranches funding the acquisitions of PacifiCorp in 2005, Northern Natural Gas pipelines in 2002, NV Energy in 2013, and the buyouts of the minority partners David Sokol, Greg Abel (now Berkshire CEO), and the Walter Scott family between 2000 and 2024. Across the same period, BHE generated approximately $40 billion of cumulative net income. But MidAmerica (now Berkshire Hathaway Energy) retained every dollar inside the company, and paid Berkshire Hathaway exactly zero in dividends.

Twenty-six years. Roughly $54 billion of total capital committed. Zero cash returned to the parent company.

The combined Berkshire interest in BHE was implicitly valued at $88.8 billion in June 2022, when Greg Abel’s remaining 1% stake was repurchased by the company for $870 million.

A little over two years later, in September 2024, when Walter Scott family’s estate sold its remaining stake, the same calculation produced an implied valuation of $48.9 billion.

The valuation declined by $39.9 billion in 27 months, on Berkshire’s own internal-transaction book. Roughly $40 billion of marked value, lost in 27 months, on a balance sheet whose cardinal rule is: Don’t lose money.

And BHE is not done losing money. PacifiCorp, the western utility BHE acquired in 2005, is the defendant in the largest single live wildfire-liability case in American utility history. The aggregate exposure, in the worst documented scenario, runs to approximately $50 billion. That is roughly the entire current value of the subsidiary, despite retaining $40 billion of earnings over the last 25 years.

To state the position clearly: the largest single live legal liability on Berkshire’s consolidated balance sheet is, at its worst-documented exposure, equal to the entire value of the subsidiary that holds it.

PacifiCorp’s exposure is not unique among western U.S. utilities. PG&E in California paid $13.5 billion in 2019 to settle wildfire claims associated with the 2017 and 2018 fire seasons in northern California, and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020 having transferred a substantial portion of its equity value to a wildfire-victim trust. Edison International’s southern-California subsidiary has settled approximately $11 billion in claims associated with the 2017 Thomas Fire and the 2018 Woolsey Fire. Hawaiian Electric, in 2024, settled the Maui Lahaina fire claims for $4 billion against a market capitalization of less than $2 billion at the time of settlement.

The pattern across the western U.S. utility sector since 2017 has been clear, repeated, and uniformly destructive: a single fire season can produce litigation exposure that exceeds the equity value of the utility responsible for the proximate cause.

PacifiCorp operates approximately 18,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines across six western states, large portions of which traverse timber, sagebrush, and rangeland in regions that are projected by every published climate model to experience increasing fire weather over the next several decades. The exposure, on a forward-looking basis, is structural. It will not be litigated away. It can be transferred only by selling the asset or by restructuring under bankruptcy protection – and BHE has consistently disclosed that neither option is under consideration.

There is a one-in-five chance, in my judgment, that PacifiCorp produces a write-down within the next five years that exceeds the cumulative write-downs of every other Berkshire subsidiary combined. There is a smaller, but non-trivial, chance that the eventual liability requires a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of PacifiCorp itself. In either scenario, the combined Berkshire shareholder loss – the lost equity, the lost retained earnings, the lost compounding – exceeds $50 billion in present-value terms.

And that’s not even the real problem. The real problem is this: Windmills don’t work.

The premium-priced renewable electricity these BHE assets were designed to sell into a hydrocarbon-scarce world was, by the time most of them were commissioned, competing against natural-gas-fired electricity at a fraction of the cost. Buffett knows the underlying economics do not work. He said so on the record, in May 2014, speaking to an audience in Omaha. He was asked why Berkshire was building so many wind farms in Iowa.

He answered:

I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire’s tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.

The wind farms do not make sense without the tax credit. He said it in front of an Omaha audience and the comment was reported in the Daily Caller, U.S. News & World Report, and entered the official record of the Utah State Legislature in subsequent testimony.

The federal Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit have, across the period BHE was deploying capital, paid Berkshire approximately $9.8 billion in cumulative cash tax benefits between 2018 and 2024 alone, per BHE’s own investor presentations. The subsidiary operated with a negative effective income tax rate for five consecutive years. Across the same period the U.S. Treasury was, on net, paying Berkshire to install renewable generation that BHE itself, by the chairman’s own admission, did not believe earned its cost of capital on the underlying economics.

In July 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ended new wind and solar production tax credit eligibility for projects starting construction after July 4, 2026.

The economic case for BHE Renewables’ ongoing capital deployment, on Buffett’s own analysis, ends soon. The roughly $45 billion of capital already deployed will continue to earn whatever it earns from the sale of physical electricity, less the operating costs of the assets, less the lost subsidy stream, less the eventual decommissioning costs of the wind turbines whose useful life is approximately 20 years and whose original installations are entering retirement age now.

I am virtually certain that there’s not a single Berkshire Hathaway shareholder who realizes how much Berkshire has at risk in these investments – and I’ll be watching to see if anyone brings it up at Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday. There’s $45 billion of fixed-asset investment, sustained by a subsidy that is ending, into a sector whose customer base – the U.S. electric ratepayer – is now demanding lower-cost natural-gas-fired alternatives.

Buffett has never made money in energy. And that track record is about to become meaningfully and materially worse.

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1. The 10-year Treasury is closing in on Trump’s pain threshold again. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note has risen back to 4.40%, closing in on the level that has triggered two White House interventions in the past 13 months. President Trump moved aggressively to talk down yields when they breached this threshold in April 2025 and again in March 2026 – and for good reason. The U.S. economy, with its mountain of debt and massive refinancing needs, simply cannot afford a sustained move higher.

2. Hershey’s cocoa-price shock is over. Complete Investorrecommendation The Hershey Company (HSY) reported Q1 this morning with net sales up 10.6% to $3.1 billion (beat) and adjusted earnings per share (“EPS”) of $2.35 (up 12.4% year over year), crushing the $2.07 estimate by nearly $0.30. Management reaffirmed full-year guidance of 30% to 35% EPS growth. The cocoa-price shock that squeezed earnings in 2024-25 has subsided. Hershey continues to be a market-leading consumer staple – and one of Porter & Co.’s favorite “forever stocks.”

3. Agricultural commodity prices are rising as the Iran war collides with crop stress. U.S. wheat futures are up 30% year to date, driven by drought and soaring fertilizer costs. Only 30% of the U.S. crop is currently rated good or excellent, and farmers are expected to plant the least wheat this season since records began in 1919. Meanwhile, sugar futures are up nearly 10% over the last two weeks, as Brazilian mills are diverting roughly 95% of cane production to ethanol amid higher crude prices. Costlier oil and 20% to 40% jumps in nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer prices – both a direct result of the ongoing Strait of Hormuz closure – mean food inflation is likely to accelerate.

Chart Of The Day… Alphabet (GOOG)

Last night, Alphabet (GOOG) reported Q1 revenue up 22%, smashing consensus, with operating margin expanding to 36.1% and operating income up 30%. Google Cloud was the standout: revenue accelerated 63% to $20.0 billion while backlog doubled quarter over quarter (“QOQ”) to $460 billion. And the big one related to AI: Gemini Enterprise paid monthly active users jumped 40% QOQ… We first featured Alphabet a year ago, in our Sunday Screen – up 124% since then – before formally recommending it to Complete Investor subscribers in September – up 63% since then… and to Tech Frontiers readers in February.

Poll Results

Earlier this year, we polled readers on three war-related topics. On April 10, we asked about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the majority of readers (86%) rightly predicted it would reopen after April 30… On March 25, 46% of survey takers expected a deep correction in the S&P 500 over the following month, while only 9% were right, with the market index climbing 8%. On oil prices – under $70 a barrel before the war – a strong 79% majority predicted correctly on March 12 that prices would climb above $90 by April 30… oil now sits at $105 a barrel.

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“Berkshire Hathaway And Its Shareholders”

Gale S. writes:

Thanks for your articles about Berkshire Hathaway and information regarding the investments in insurance and oil. Your explanation has helped me to understand why the stock has lost so much this year. As an 81-year-old retired educator, I always admired Warren Buffett and his investment philosophy and his philanthropy. However, recently as a widow dependent upon her investments, I have become very concerned about the results of the company.

“Buffett And Oil”

Bill J. writes:

Porter,

My view is there’s no energy source more reliable than oil/gas and nuclear.

I don’t see those as going away and it doesn’t appear we’re running oil dry.

My view is sticking with ExxonMobil for years, recently with AI’s continuous expansion and requirement for energy to fuel the data centers, that I’ll be making a solid investment for years going forward making lots of money.

Exxon’s the biggest baddest oil/gas energy company out there. They can produce the most oil/gas. I like them as the data center play.

“T-Bill Collapse”

On Tuesday, Martin Fridson wrote a guest essay in Porter’s Daily Journal explaining the grim demise of U.S. Treasury bills.

Felix C. writes:

The collapse is likely to happen by 2029 particularly if the wrong people are elected to the highest offices in the country. Then under those circumstances, you better prepare your relationship with God because the book of Revelations in the Bible is going to play out as America becomes part of the one world order. Good luck!

Porter & Co. Market Snapshot

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Good morning! It’s Thursday. Here are today’s top stories:

• The U.S. Supreme Court reinterpreted a provision of the Voting Rights Act and struck down a majority-black congressional district in Louisiana
• President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and said that he will continue the U.S. Naval blockade until the regime accepts his administration’s demands over its nuclear program.
• The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for the third straight policy meeting on Wednesday, with the meeting marking the end of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s tenure as central bank chief.
• The Florida Legislature passed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s congressional redistricting proposal. The new map would add four districts favorable to Republicans.
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Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling on Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark decision reinterpreted a provision of the Voting Rights Act and struck down a majority-black congressional district in Louisiana, opening the door for more redistricting across the United States.

In a 6–3 ruling, the high court found that the Louisiana district represented by Rep. Cleo Fields (D-La.) relied on race when the congressional map was drawn up.

The ruling was authored by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Alito wrote that “allowing race to play any part in government decisionmaking represents a departure from the constitutional rule that applies in almost every other context.”

He said Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is effectively limited to instances of intentional discrimination, a very high standard.

“Only when understood this way does (Section 2) of the Voting Rights Act properly fit within Congress’s 15th Amendment enforcement power,” Alito wrote.

The 15th Amendment, a Reconstruction-era amendment of the Constitution that was ratified in 1870 following the end of the Civil War, allows Congress to pass laws ensuring that the right to vote cannot be denied “on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.”

Interpreting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law in 1965, to “outlaw a map solely because it fails to provide a sufficient number of majority-minority districts would create a right that the amendment does not protect,” Alito argued, referring to the 15th Amendment. (More)

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POLITICS

• Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he will continue to serve on the Board of Governors “for a period of time to be determined.”
• The Supreme Court appeared dividedover the Trump administration’s terminations of Temporary Protected Status shielding Haitians and Syrians from deportation.
• The U.S. House of Representatives extended a key federal surveillance program in a 235–191 vote, sending the measure to the Senate just ahead of the program’s expiry.
• The Department of Justice is proposing to roll back and modify 34 gun regulations in an attempt to benefit law enforcement and gun owners. The changes will usher in a shift in firearm policy, supported by Second Amendment advocates, with more rule changes than the ATF has issued in the last 15 years combined.
• A former government official has been charged with illegally conspiring to destroy records. A grand jury indicted Dr. David Morens, who was a senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci from 2006 through 2022, when Fauci was head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 
• The California Coastal Commission has issued an apology to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and agreed not to require coastal development permits for the company’s rocket launch program at Vandenberg Space Force Base, ending a federal lawsuit that alleged that the agency was guilty of political bias.

LATEST NEWS

• A Food and Drug Administration expert found indications of safety problemswith COVID-19 vaccines several months after they were authorized, according to newly released emails.
• Attorneys representing OpenAI on Wednesday pushed back againstallegations in federal court that the company’s CEO Sam Altman defrauded Tesla CEO Elon Musk and betrayed a founding mission to operate as an open-source, nonprofit lab dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
• The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against a Houston-area “birth tourism” operation that the Attorney General’s office said has claimed responsibility for “1,000+ American-born babies.”
• Most infant formula tested by the Food and Drug Administration had low or undetectable levels of contaminants such as lead, the agency said.
• A U.S. special forces soldier involved in a military operation to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty on April 28 to using classified information about the secret plan to win more than $400,000 on prediction market Polymarket.

MORNING READ: She fled persecution in China. Now Beijing wants to take her freedom in the West.

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IRAN WAR

• Combat operations against Iran have cost the U.S. military about $25 billionin two months, a top Pentagon accounting official told House Armed Services Committee members.
• Iran’s rial fell to a record low on April 29, weakening to about 1.8 million to the U.S. dollar as a shaky ceasefire with the United States and Israel continued to hold, raising fears of a new inflation surge in an economy already battered by war, sanctions, and a U.S. naval blockade

WORLD

• The United States objected stronglyafter Iran was selected as one of the 34 vice presidents of the United Nations Nonproliferation Treaty conference.
• Acting U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine Julie Davis will leave her post in June and retire after three decades as a foreign service officer.
• Europe’s smaller airports are facing an “existential threat” due to the spike in jet fuel prices, according to the Airports Council International.

 

OPINION

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• Southern Poverty Law Center’s Alleged Fraud Exposes the Hate It Claimed to Fight—by Steven W. Mosher (Read)
• Is Your Car Underwater?—by Jeffrey A. Tucker (Read)
• Spain Sides With China as NATO Fractures Over Iran—by Antonio Graceffo (Read)

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MUSIC

“Night and Sleep,” 1878, by Evelyn De Morgan. (De Morgan Centre, UK) 

Classical Music for Bedtime

Busy schedules and evening screen time can make it difficult to get the sleep we need. But establishing a nightly bedtime routine can help our overstimulated minds and bodies prepare for rest.

Classical music can be a powerful tool for one’s bedtime routine. A George Mason University article notes that listening to music in the classical tradition can provide stress relief and help with chronic pain management. It can decrease the heart rate and improve oxygen saturation. Classical music can also help support a healthy brain as we age.

The following three classical worksby celebrated composers can help calm the mind and body, creating a peaceful environment for a rejuvenating night of sleep.

In 1868, Johannes Brahms pennedone of classical music’s most popular compositions. His “Lullaby” has connected generations for more than a century as mothers have long hummed its gentle melody while their newborns fall asleep. The classical pianist and composer wrote the dreamy ballad as a tribute to his dear friend Bertha Faber and the birth of her son, but he included a hidden message in the song.

Before Faber married, she and Brahms would take walks together and, to pass the time, she would sing him a song by Alexander Baumann from the 1840s, “S‘Is Anderscht.” Brahms incorporated the Austrian folk tune into his “Lullaby” piece as a secondary melody, knowing that when Faber heard it, she’d recognize the composition wasn’t just for her son but for her as well. Brahms had become smitten with Faber during their time together, and he included “S’Is Anderscht” as a hidden message of his affection. (More)

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