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  "ticker": "SEI",
  "name": "Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc.",
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  "status": "WATCHLIST",
  "current_conviction": "MEDIUM",
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  "current_thesis": "Solaris Energy Infrastructure's raised data-center power guidance and funded $1.25 billion build-out still support the shares after a rate-driven pullback to $73.08. The third-quarter report, expected around 3 November 2026, shows whether adjusted EBITDA reaches the guided $110–130 million.",
  "invalidation_trigger": "A weekly close below $70.97, the September 25, 2026 close and the nearest reference low; separately, third-quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA below the $110 million guidance floor, or a cut to the fourth-quarter or first-quarter 2027 ranges, breaks the operating case.",
  "catalyst_date": "2026-11-03",
  "pick": {
    "id": "P-2026-10-05-SEI",
    "conviction": "MEDIUM",
    "status": "open",
    "opened": "2026-10-05",
    "open_close": 74.75,
    "kill_level": 70.97,
    "kill_basis": "weekly",
    "horizon_end": "2027-01-05",
    "last_date": "2026-10-09",
    "last_close": 76.4,
    "return_pct": 2.21,
    "spy_return_pct": 0.48,
    "excess_pp": 1.72,
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  "themes": [
    "ai-datacenter-infrastructure"
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  "notes": [
    "Solaris Energy Infrastructure has Class A and Class B shares; Class B holders own units in the operating subsidiary, which affects share counts and earnings per share.",
    "The company still operates an oilfield logistics segment alongside its data-center power business, so reported totals mix two end markets.",
    "Third-party sites list a 52-week high near $86.19, an intraday figure; the adjusted daily closing high is $82.72."
  ],
  "body_markdown": "## Current Thesis\nSolaris Energy Infrastructure's raised data-center power guidance and its funded $1.25 billion expansion still support the shares after a two-session pullback driven by rising interest rates. The third-quarter report, expected around November 3, 2026, settles whether adjusted earnings reach the guided range. The shares closed at $73.08 on October 8, 2026, 11.7% under their $82.72 52-week closing high, per adjusted daily closes.\n\nThe operating case has not changed since September. On September 8, 2026, management raised third-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) guidance by 23% to $110–130 million and fourth-quarter guidance by 48% to $145–180 million, and set an initial first-quarter 2027 range of $200–240 million, according to Benzinga. Second-quarter adjusted EBITDA was about $108 million, per the August 5 results, so the third-quarter floor asks for modest sequential growth. Most of the guided climb sits in the fourth quarter and after.\n\nWhat changed is the price of money. StockStory tied the October 7 decline to the 10-year Treasury yield reaching 5.349%, its highest since April 2002, and the 30-year reaching 5.703%. That matters for a company that closed $1.25 billion of 7.000% senior notes due 2032 on October 1, per its [8-K](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001697500/000119312526410682/d567251d8k.htm). The coupon is fixed, so higher yields do not raise its interest bill, but they lower what the market pays for earnings that arrive in 2027.\n\nThe narrative is maturing: the guidance raise and the September round of target increases are widely reported, and the latest moves have come from interest rates and sector flows with no new company announcement since the October 1 debt closing. The broader AI data-center infrastructure group also cooled back to maturing in the week to October 9 after a single accelerating week.\n\n## Bull Case\n- **Guidance points to steep growth.** The September 8, 2026 update guided first-quarter 2027 adjusted EBITDA to $200–240 million, against about $108 million reported for the second quarter of 2026 on August 5.\n- **Power revenue is already scaling.** Second-quarter 2026 Power Solutions revenue was about $158 million, up 23% sequentially, on about 950 megawatts of average revenue-generating capacity, per the [August 5 results](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1697500/000162828026053383/sei-ex99x6302026.htm).\n\n- **Analyst targets sit well above the last close.** Barclays raised its target to $116 from $90 on September 28, per GuruFocus, and Citigroup ($100), Stifel ($101) and Needham ($104) raised theirs in September, per Benzinga. StockAnalysis listed an average target of $101.27 across 14 analysts as of October 7.\n- **A director bought on guidance day.** Director A. James Teague bought 3,900 shares at $64.21 on September 8, 2026, about $250,000, per MarketBeat's summary of the Form 4.\n- **Overbought readings have cleared.** The 14-day relative strength index (RSI) fell to 55.7 on October 8 from 76.3 on October 6, so the pullback has worked off the stretched momentum reading ahead of the report.\n\n## Bear Case\n- **Rising long-term yields hit long-dated growth.** The 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.349% on October 7, 2026, per StockStory, the day the shares fell 4.9% alongside SLB, ProFrac and Peabody.\n- **Valuation leaves little room for a miss.** GuruFocus put the price-to-earnings ratio at 95.20 on October 6 and its own fair-value estimate at $27.55, far below the market price.\n- **Leverage rises before new capacity earns.** The $1.25 billion of notes carries a 7.000% coupon to April 2032, a fixed cost that runs whether or not new megawatts come online on schedule.\n- **Two end markets blur the numbers.** The company still runs an oilfield logistics segment, and StockStory grouped the shares with oil producers and service companies on October 7, so energy-sector selling reaches the stock even when data-center demand holds.\n- **The guided ramp is back-loaded.** The fourth-quarter range of $145–180 million and the first-quarter 2027 range of $200–240 million carry most of the growth, so the case depends on delivery after the third-quarter report as well.\n\n## Setup & Price Structure\nThe shares closed at $79.70 on October 6, 2026, up 6.6% on the day, per GuruFocus, then at $76.46 on October 7, per StockAnalysis, and at $73.08 on October 8, per adjusted daily closes. The October 8 close is 11.7% below the $82.72 52-week closing high and 9.0% above its level three months earlier.\n\nThe nearest reference low is the September 25, 2026 close of $70.97. A weekly close under it would give back the late-September advance that followed the notes pricing. The 14-day RSI of 55.7 on October 8 is neutral after the 76.3 reading two sessions earlier.\n\nCrowding evidence is mixed. GuruFocus measured a 45.2% one-month gain as of October 6, and the quarterly report falls inside the next 30 days. Against that, the only recent insider transaction is a purchase, and Two Seas Capital disclosed a new stake of 786,838 shares built in the third quarter, per MarketBeat on October 6. No share issuance has been announced since the debt deal.\n\n## Catalyst Calendar (next 30 days)\n- **~2026-10-13 (est.):** The company announces its third-quarter results date and call time. The third-quarter 2025 call was scheduled on October 13, 2025, per Business Wire.\n- **~2026-11-03 (est.):** Third-quarter 2026 results, with the call likely the following day. Last year's third-quarter release came on November 3, 2025 and the call on November 4. The report shows whether adjusted EBITDA reaches $110–130 million and whether the fourth-quarter and first-quarter 2027 ranges hold.\n- **Ongoing:** Long-term Treasury yields. Further moves above the 5.349% 10-year level of October 7 would keep pressure on long-dated growth names.\n\n## What Would Change Our Mind\nThe operating case breaks if third-quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA comes in below the $110 million guidance floor, or if management cuts the $145–180 million fourth-quarter or $200–240 million first-quarter 2027 range. A new equity offering or stock-funded acquisition before the report would also weaken it, because the October debt raise was meant to fund the build-out.\n\nOn price, a weekly close below $70.97, the September 25, 2026 close, would show the market rejecting the September re-rating before the report arrives. A sustained climb in the 10-year Treasury yield above the October 7 high of 5.349% alongside that close would point to a rate-driven de-rating that company results alone may not reverse.\n\n## Correlation Notes\nThe shares trade with the AI data-center power group, including Vicor, Penguin Solutions, Pinnacle-era power names such as Pulse-style suppliers like Power Solutions International, and Dell, and with oilfield services names because of the logistics segment. On October 7, 2026, StockStory grouped the decline with SLB, ProFrac, Peabody Energy and Centrus Energy, which shows the stock responding to energy and rate moves as much as to data-center news. The data-center group cooled to maturing in the week to October 9, which raises the bar for this name to outperform on its own results. A broad rebound in long-duration growth stocks would likely lift the shares with the group; a further rise in yields would likely weigh on the group together.",
  "first_seen": "2026-09-27",
  "last_analyzed": "2026-10-09T08:52:47+00:00",
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