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5 Stocks To BUY HEAVY In Early August 2026

2026-08-05

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The video’s core case is that four small-cap names and PLTR each have clear rerating paths if current growth, backlog, or first-commercial revenue keeps compounding: PLTR on exploding commercial adoption, TEM on its first profitable quarter, FLNC on backlog-to-revenue conversion, LWLG on AI-photonic design wins, and AIRJ on first deployments. The common setup is the same: fundamentals already visible in the numbers, but the market still underpricing the duration and scale of the next 12-18 months. The final sponsored read pitches VNRX as a low-cost epigenetics platform with sepsis, cancer, and pet-cancer tests plus near-term catalysts.

  • The top five picks are framed as having 100%+ upside over the next 12-18 months, with explicit doubling math laid out for each.
  • PLTR just printed its strongest quarter ever: revenue was $1.935 billion, up 93% y/y and 19% q/q, the highest growth rate ever recorded.
  • PLTR US commercial revenue rose 149% to $764 million; US commercial bookings jumped 153% to $2.132 billion; 220 deals were closed above $1 million, including 70 above $10 million.
  • PLTR full-year guidance was raised to roughly $8.15 billion, about 82% growth, and the double case assumes revenue roughly doubles again while the stock holds its current multiple on a much larger business.
  • TEM posted its first quarterly profit in company history: Q2 revenue was $382.5 million, up 22%; diagnostics was $289.3 million, up 20%; data and apps was $93.2 million, up 28%.
  • TEM gap net income was $5.6 million versus a $42.8 million loss a year earlier; EPS improved from a 25-cent loss to 3 cents positive; adjusted EBITDA was $8 million, a $13.6 million y/y improvement.
  • TEM raised full-year revenue guidance to $1.595 billion-$1.605 billion, about 25% growth, and expected full-year adjusted EBITDA of about $65 million, roughly $72 million better than 2025.
  • TEM was described as trading around $42-plus versus a 52-week high of $104.32, with an ~$8 billion market cap against 2026 guidance of $1.595 billion-$1.605 billion, or about 5x sales.
  • FLNC faces earnings tomorrow, with expected post-earnings swings of about 5% to 12%, and the business is framed as grid-scale battery storage plus software and operating services that create recurring revenue.
  • FLNC year-to-date order intake roughly doubled to about $2 billion from $1 billion a year earlier; backlog hit a record 5.6 billion; management reaffirmed 2026 revenue guidance of $3.2 billion-$3.6 billion, $40 million-$60 million in adjusted EBITDA, and about $180 million in ARR.
  • FLNC Q2 revenue was $464.9 million, up 7.7%; adjusted EBITDA improved to $9.4 million from -$30.4 million a year earlier; losses were cut by about two-thirds.
  • FLNC has been trading below 1x forward EV/revenue; the thesis depends on the market accepting that the backlog is real and re-rating it toward roughly 2x sales if it proves conversion into profit.
  • LWLG says four Fortune 500 companies are designing next-generation hardware around its electro-optic polymer, with agreements in place at four major foundries including Silera and Global Foundaries, plus two unnamed, and three more foundries under consideration.
  • Tower Semiconductor’s agreement targets modulators above 110 GHz for 200-gig and 400-gig architectures; Tower also disclosed $1.3 billion in contracted silicon photonics revenue for 2027 from top customers, with AI infrastructure as the driver.
  • LWLG’s near-term setup is binary and small-cap sensitive: management targets high-volume production beginning in 2027, is in active negotiations on a material supply and licensing agreement, and any new-name customer or supply deal could force a double or triple over the coming weeks.
  • AIRJ is a roughly $300 million-$400 million market-cap water-from-air company with a key use in AI data centers; its material absorbs water molecules without chilling and releases them with low-grade or waste heat.
  • AIRJ’s products are AirJule Prime at about 2,000 liters per day and AirJule Core at about 250 liters per day; a dehumidification variant showed up to 40% energy savings in early tests.
  • On July 21, AirJuel announced an exclusive commercial partnership with Kubota, which has sole sales rights for multi-unit residential developments across Texas and California, with first deployments planned for Q3 this year.
  • On July 28, AirJule deployed an AirJule Core system at GV Vernova’s newly opened Frontier Campus in New York; GV Vernova is funding half the deployment in a 50/50 JV structure.
  • AIRJ also has a licensed relationship with Carrier Global and an exclusive Middle East distributor arrangement with 10X, while a hyperscale data center operator is running economics tests on Prime at specific sites using waste heat and chiller integration.
  • AIRJ was said to be worth roughly $3,400 million depending on timing, and a double from here was framed as only a $600 million-$700 million company, making first revenue and first deployments the rerating trigger.
  • VNRX is presented as a multinational epigenetics company built around nucleosomes and low-cost blood tests across sepsis, human cancer, veterinary cancer, and research tools.
  • VNRX’s pillars are NU.Q NETS for sepsis and immune-related disease, NU.Q Cancer and Capture/SEQ for human cancer detection, NU.Q Vet for dogs and cats, and NU.Q Discover for assay kits sold to pharma and academic labs.
  • VNRX says sepsis cases are about 166 million a year, all-cause sepsis-related deaths in 2021 were about 31.5% of total global deaths, and NU.Q NETS carries an annualized addressable market of about $3.8 billion.
  • For cancer, Coalition’s blinded validation cohort reportedly detected over 95% of stage 1 and stage 2 cancers at 95% specificity, while VNRX sizes multi-cancer early detection at about $23 billion annually and another $13 billion if used in minimal residual disease monitoring.
  • VNRX’s K9 cancer test is already commercially available in more than 20 countries; in May the company submitted the feline manuscript at 97% specificity, and the prototype assay detected 86% of feline lymphomas.
  • VNRX says the companion-animal pillar is worth over $1 billion annually and that a working feline test could roughly double that addressable market.
  • VNRX’s strategy is to outlicense the technology to large diagnostics and liquid-biopsy companies, taking upfronts, milestones, and royalties while keeping incremental costs low; a French DETECTS program, the feline-llymphoma publication, and a $5 million milestone are the near-term catalysts.