Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call Recaps: Norfolk Southern (NSC)
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Our latest recap available to Bespoke subscribers covers Norfolk Southern’s (NSC) Q3 2025 earnings call.
Norfolk Southern (NSC) is one of the largest freight railroads in North America, operating a 19,000-mile network across 22 eastern US states. The company transports a broad mix of industrial products, including automotive, chemicals, metals, construction materials, coal, and intermodal containers, linking manufacturers, utilities, and ports. NSC is a critical barometer of the US industrial and trade economy, serving major sectors like autos, energy, and agriculture. Norfolk Southern’s quarter reflected a freight economy under pressure from tariffs, oversupplied truck capacity, and weaker coal exports. Revenue grew 2% year-over-year, but volumes were flat, and management cited about $75 million in expected revenue that didn’t materialize. The pending Union Pacific merger weighed on intermodal demand as competitors reacted, especially in the Southeast, though leadership expects the effect to fade over upcoming bid cycles. Despite headwinds, NSC raised its cumulative cost-savings goal to $600 million by 2026 and highlighted advanced inspection portals that have already prevented over 40 potential derailments. NSC reported better-than-expected EPS on weaker revenue as shares fell around 1% on 10/24…
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Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call Recaps: Medpace (MEDP)
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Our latest recap available to Bespoke subscribers covers Medpace’s (MEDP) Q3 2025 earnings call.
Medpace (MEDP) is a global contract research organization (CRO) that designs and manages clinical trials for biotech, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies. It helps sponsors bring new drugs and therapies to market by handling the complex clinical, regulatory, and operational work needed to move candidates through all trial phases. The company provides a lens into biopharma R&D activity and funding health, especially across high-demand therapeutic areas like oncology, metabolic disease, and cardiovascular medicine. Medpace delivered another strong quarter, with revenue up 23.7% year-over-year to $659.9 million and record net bookings driving a 1.20 book-to-bill ratio. The backlog of awarded-but-not-yet-started projects rose 30%, highlighting strong biopharma demand despite lingering funding challenges. CEO August Troendle noted that recent weakness in bookings was cancellation-driven, not due to a lack of demand. Metabolic and GLP-1 obesity trials continue to be a major growth engine, fueling higher pass-through costs (about 42% of revenue). MEDP reported a triple play, its second in a row, and the stock was up around 10% on 10/23, following last quarter’s earnings reaction of +54.7%…
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Bespoke’s Morning Lineup – 10/24/25 – Out of Range
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US stocks are on pace to end the week on a positive note as S&P 500 futures indicate a 0.33% gap higher at the open, while the Nasdaq is up 0.50%. Treasury yields are higher as the 10-year yield is back above 4%, and crude oil remains above $60 with WTI trading up 1%. Gold, on the other hand, is down 1.7% and on pace to end its nine-week streak of gains. Finally, crypto is higher with Bitcoin up 0.6% and back above $111K, while Ethereum gets back up near $4K with a gain of 2.3%.
Overnight, Asia was mostly higher with Japan up 1.35% after declining 1.35% Thursday. For the week, most major indices were up multiple percentage points, although India and Australia only managed modest gains. The tone is less positive in Europe this morning as most major indices experience modest declines, but for the week, they’re all comfortably higher.
We finally got a government-run economic indicator as the BLS summoned workers back into the office to tabulate the September CPI, which came in weaker than expected across the board. While still well above the Fed’s 2% target, it’s moving in the right direction.
It’s been a while now, but after nine trading days bouncing around within the intraday range from 10/10, the S&P 500 is poised to test the upper end of that range at the open today. If the streak ends, it will be tied for the longest run of days trading within a prior day’s intraday range in at least 40 years. In our Chart of the Day from Tuesday, we covered these prior streaks and how the S&P 500 performed going forward, so make sure to check that out.
While the S&P 500 has been rangebound for two weeks now, like the rest of the world, it has been a positive week. The snapshot below from our Trend Analyzer shows the performance of various regional global ETFs. As shown, it’s been somewhat of a uniform move with every ETF trading higher to varying degrees over the last week, and all four moving into overbought territory. One of the biggest outliers, though, is in YTD performance. While every other regional equity ETF has rallied at least 27% YTD, the US is up barely more than half that, with a gain of ‘only’ 14.6%.
The Closer – What’s The Good Word? – 10/23/25
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Bespoke’s Weekly Sector Snapshot — 10/23/25
The Bespoke 50 Growth Stocks – 10/23/25
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Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call Recaps: CBRE (CBRE)
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Our latest recap available to Bespoke subscribers covers CBRE’s (CBRE) Q3 2025 earnings call.
CBRE (CBRE) is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. The company manages billions of square feet of client space and roughly $156 billion in assets under management. CBRE’s scale and global reach spanning over 100 countries give it unique insight into property market cycles, corporate occupier trends, and the intersection of real estate with technology, sustainability, and infrastructure development. Its work increasingly overlaps with megatrends like data-center growth, automation, and AI-driven building operations. CBRE delivered another strong quarter, with core EPS up 34%, prompting management to raise full-year guidance. Data centers were a standout, generating $700 million in quarterly revenue, up 40% year-over-year. Advisory Services leasing grew 17%, led by industrial (+27%) and office (+double digits), while sales jumped 28%. Japan and India posted 30%+ revenue growth. Project Management rose 19%, aided by government and hyperscaler demand. Executives expect a steady recovery in CRE transactions as interest rates stabilize and cited expanding facility-management pipelines. Management reaffirmed its M&A focus on resilient, high-growth sectors like data centers, life sciences, and healthcare. Shares were up as much as 1.5% on 10/23 in reaction to the triple play…
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Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call Recaps: Tesla (TSLA)
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Our latest recap available to Bespoke subscribers covers Tesla’s (TSLA) Q3 2025 earnings call.
Tesla (TSLA) designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery energy storage systems, and AI technologies that extend beyond the auto industry. The company serves consumers, businesses, and utilities through products like its Model Y, Powerwall, and Megapack, while advancing autonomous driving and humanoid robotics through its AI and hardware. Tesla’s deep vertical integration, custom chip design, and manufacturing scale make it a bellwether for the intersection of mobility, energy, and artificial intelligence. Elon Musk called this quarter a turning point as Tesla accelerates real-world AI deployment. The company confirmed plans to remove safety drivers in parts of Austin by year-end and expand Robotaxi service to 8–10 metro areas. Tesla unveiled its AI5 chip (40× more powerful than AI4), manufactured by both TSMC (in Arizona) and Samsung (in Texas). Energy storage reached record deployments, with strong hyperscaler demand offsetting $400M in tariff impacts. The Optimus humanoid robot remains a central focus, with a production-intent prototype coming in Q1 2026. Musk reaffirmed a path to 3M vehicle capacity within two years, driven by Cybercab and AI integration across products. TSLA missed EPS estimates on stronger revenue as the stock opened 4.4% lower on 10/23, though shares rallied back into positive territory intraday…
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Bespoke’s Morning Lineup – 10/23/25 – Stuck in the Middle
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We may be starting to sound like a broken record, but once again this morning, futures are little changed with a downside bias, and the government is still closed. With the Fed in blackout ahead of next week’s rate decision, the only data the market has to focus on domestically is earnings. Overall, the pace of reports continues to come in positively with EPS and sales beat rates in excess of 70%. Also on the subject of broken records, it’s now been eight trading days where the S&P 500 has been stuck within the range it traded in on 10/10.
While the government may be closed, Washington is far from quiet, with the latest news being reports that the Trump Administration is in talks to acquire stakes of up to $10 million in various quantum computing stocks, including IonQ, Rigetti Computing, and D-Wave Quantum. Obviously, these stocks are surging in reaction to the news, and as a result have mostly erased yesterday’s declines. It’s worth pointing out, however, that after the gains these stocks have seen in the last couple of years, their market caps are all at or above $10 billion; a $10 million investment works out to less than 0.1%.
Outside of equities, crude oil is surging 5% and back above $60 per barrel after yesterday’s latest round of sanctions against Russian oil companies. Gold is also trying to regroup after the sell-off from the last couple of days, rallying 1.5% and back above $4,100 per ounce, while silver and platinum are both up at least 2.5%. Even Bitcoin and Ethereum have managed to rally more than 1%.
In international markets, Asian stocks were mixed overnight, with the Nikkei falling 1.4% and the Kospi dropping a percent. Hong Kong (0.7%), China (0.2%), India (0.2%), and Australia (0.1%) all managed to finish higher. The tone in Europe this morning is skewed more positive, with the STOXX 600 rallying 0.3% with little in the way of catalysts besides earnings driving the action.
The 10-year yield remains below 4% this morning after trading yesterday at its lowest level since the tariff-tantrum in April. While it wasn’t enough for a 52-week low on an intraday basis, on a closing basis, it was the lowest level since early October of last year. Since peaking at just under 4.6% in May, the 10-year yield has been stuck in a very consistent downtrend channel, and has been moving towards the lower end of that range all month.
