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Backlog vs. Remaining Performance Obligations: Why a Company’s Order Book Has Two Very Different Numbers
Companies routinely cite a backlog figure far larger than the performance obligations disclosed in their filings. That gap is usually a definitional artifact rather than a red flag — but only an investor who understands what each number excludes can tell the difference.
East-West vs. North-South Traffic: Why Most Data Center Networking Never Leaves the Building
Networking engineers split data center traffic into two directions: north-south, which enters and leaves the building, and east-west, which moves between machines inside it. AI workloads have made the internal traffic dominant, and that shift is what pulled optics inside the data center.
NuScale Power (SMR): Simon Erickson Re-Bought at $12 in April. Quarterly Revenue Has Since Come In at $75,000.
In April 2026 Simon Erickson added NuScale Power back to the 7investing scorecard, three years after selling it. He called it a high-risk investment and said so on air. The results since show a company with $1.9 billion in cash, a negative gross margin, and $75,000 of revenue in a quarter.
Free Investing Insights
Backlog vs. Remaining Performance Obligations: Why a Company’s Order Book Has Two Very Different Numbers
Companies routinely cite a backlog figure far larger than the performance obligations disclosed in their filings. That gap is usually a definitional artifact rather than a red flag — but only an investor who understands what each number excludes can tell the difference.
East-West vs. North-South Traffic: Why Most Data Center Networking Never Leaves the Building
Networking engineers split data center traffic into two directions: north-south, which enters and leaves the building, and east-west, which moves between machines inside it. AI workloads have made the internal traffic dominant, and that shift is what pulled optics inside the data center.
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