Market noise is relentless. Financial headlines scream about the same handful of stocks while important opportunities—the kind that can meaningfully impact your portfolio—often fly completely under the radar.
That’s exactly why we publish this watchlist each week.
While most investors are distracted by mainstream narratives, we’re digging through earnings transcripts, analyzing technical setups, and monitoring institutional money flows to identify companies at potential inflection points. Our focus isn’t on what’s already priced in, but rather on what the market hasn’t fully appreciated yet.
Each week, we spotlight three stocks that merit your attention. We focus on opportunities where timing, valuation, and catalysts align to create potentially favorable entry points.
Our rigorous analysis goes beyond surface-level metrics to identify opportunities that most retail investors don’t have time to uncover. Each pick comes with clear reasoning, specific triggers to watch for, and a compelling risk-reward profile designed to help you make more informed investment decisions.
Here’s what we’re watching this week:
Netflix (NFLX)
Netflix represents a compelling opportunity as the streaming giant approaches a critical inflection point following a summer consolidation period that left it as an underperformer in the recent market rally. Up 36% year-to-date making it the 7th best performer in the S&P 500, the stock has nonetheless trailed its sector by approximately 14% over the past three months while the broader tech market surged on AI enthusiasm. What makes Netflix particularly attractive heading into its October 21st earnings report is the convergence of multiple positive catalysts including record-breaking content performance, accelerating advertising revenue, and expanding operating margins that should drive 24% year-over-year profit growth and 15% revenue expansion.
The fundamental story centers on Netflix’s ability to simultaneously drive subscriber growth, increase profitability, and maintain cultural relevance through zeitgeist content. The summer release “KPop Demon Hunters” became Netflix’s most-viewed title ever across films and series with 325.1 million views over its 91-day tracking period, overtaking previous record-holder Red Notice. The phenomenon’s momentum actually accelerated later in its run rather than fading, with its fifth week alone bringing in 25.8 million views—a feat no Netflix original film had previously achieved. The cultural impact extended beyond streaming as seven songs reached Spotify’s daily U.S. Top 25 while four charted simultaneously in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, with lead single “Golden” hitting number one on both the Billboard Global 200 and Hot 100.
Netflix’s improving fundamentals extend well beyond individual content hits through structural margin expansion and advertising monetization. Management raised full-year guidance last quarter while operating margins expanded to 30% from 29%, with that 1% increase reflecting both stronger revenue and wider margins from the advertising business flowing directly to operating earnings. Ad revenue is expected to double year-over-year while Q3 is anticipated to show 17% revenue growth with 29% earnings per share expansion. The fourth quarter slate includes high-profile releases such as the latest Monster true crime iteration, the next Knives Out film in December, and the final season of Stranger Things releasing in two parts. With Bank of America maintaining the Street’s highest price target at $1,490—representing 20% upside—and the stock consolidating near technical support levels, Netflix presents compelling risk-reward heading into the earnings catalyst that should re-rate the shares.
StoneX Group (SNEX)
StoneX Group emerges as an under-the-radar financial services opportunity positioned at the intersection of multiple high-growth markets including commodities, foreign exchange, derivatives, payments, and advisory services. Trading with minimal Wall Street coverage—just two analysts currently following the stock—and a market capitalization slightly over $5 billion against $130 billion in revenue, StoneX represents a ground floor opportunity that meets strict criteria for accelerating growth at reasonable valuations. What makes StoneX particularly compelling is its full-stack global financial services network delivering 31% revenue growth and 16% earnings growth year-over-year while trading at an extraordinarily low 0.04 price-to-sales ratio and just 16 times earnings.
The company’s diversified business model provides optionality to capture upside across multiple verticals including commercial/commodity services, institutional/execution capabilities, retail/FX & metals trading, and global payments. StoneX serves a diverse client base spanning producers and end-users of physical commodities, institutional and hedge fund clients, retail and self-directed traders, and businesses requiring global payments infrastructure. This comprehensive platform approach positions the company to benefit from booms in both commodity and foreign exchange markets while maintaining revenue diversification that reduces concentration risks.
Strategic acquisition activity is accelerating StoneX’s growth trajectory through the 2025 acquisition of R.J. O’Brien & Associates, creating one of the largest non-bank futures brokers and clearing firms in the United States. This transaction opens significant opportunities for scale advantages and cross-selling in derivatives markets while expanding StoneX’s addressable market. The company’s ownership of platforms including Forex.com demonstrates its established presence in retail trading markets while the full range of services spanning trading, physical delivery, and risk management creates sticky client relationships. While investors should monitor potential margin erosion in competitive verticals, execution risks around acquisitions, debt interest pressure, and regulatory challenges in global markets, the current valuation appears to more than compensate for these risks. With minimal analyst coverage providing potential for multiple upgrades as growth continues and a reasonable valuation that could expand toward 20 times earnings with sustained double-digit growth, StoneX offers the rare combination of enormous scale in high-growth verticals, multi-asset optionality, and under-appreciation by Wall Street that can compound significantly over time.
Consol Energy (CEIX)
Consol Energy represents a contrarian opportunity in thermal coal as the struggling industry’s outlook improves dramatically on growing U.S. power demand driven partly by artificial intelligence data center expansion. Once viewed as part of the “old economy,” coal is now gaining market share from fuels like natural gas that previously displaced it, with thermal coal demand increasing 15% year-over-year according to recent industry analysis. What makes Consol Energy particularly compelling is Jefferies’ recent upgrade to buy with a $125 price target representing 28% upside, as the firm believes we’re in the early stages of both an earnings upgrade cycle and equity valuation re-rating cycle for U.S. thermal coal miners.
The fundamental reversal in coal’s prospects reflects structural changes in U.S. power markets as AI data centers create unprecedented electricity demand that existing infrastructure struggles to meet. U.S. coal demand plummeted from one billion tons annually during 2003-2008 to just below 400 million tons in 2023-2024 due to natural gas growth and environmental concerns, creating what appeared to be a terminal decline for the industry. However, the industry’s worst days now appear to be over as coal captures incremental power demand that other fuel sources cannot immediately satisfy, with thermal coal positioned to benefit from the multi-year data center buildout supporting AI infrastructure.
Jefferies’ analytical framework suggests investors should buy shares now as the market underappreciates the earnings power and valuation re-rating potential for thermal coal miners. The 40% increase in Jefferies’ price target to $125 per share reflects growing confidence in the sustainability of improved coal fundamentals rather than a temporary cyclical bounce. While environmental concerns and longer-term decarbonization trends remain legitimate considerations for coal investments, the near-term dynamics favor thermal coal producers as essential providers of reliable baseload power for AI data centers that cannot afford interruptions. For contrarian investors willing to embrace a fundamentally challenged industry experiencing an unexpected renaissance, Consol Energy’s combination of improving demand fundamentals, analyst upgrades, and significant price target upside creates a compelling risk-adjusted opportunity to participate in coal’s revenge against the forces that previously displaced it.
