🚨 Trade Update: MARA β€” Both Price Targets Hit βœ…βœ…

We recommended MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA) on April 6, 2026, at a buy level of $9.10, with price targets of $12.50 (PT1) and $15.00 (PT2) and a stop-loss at $7.20 on a closing basis.

Both targets have been achieved β€” PT1 and PT2 were both reached by June 1, 2026 β€” delivering gains of approximately 37% and 65% from the entry level within eight weeks. The stock is currently trading around $12.92.

Bottom line: MARA hit both targets for potential peak returns of up to ~65% in about eight weeks β€” with both targets in the books, this trade is complete. And now, on to today’s featured setup…

Everpure, Inc. (NYSE: P) β€” the data storage company formerly known as Pure Storage β€” just broke out of a two-month symmetrical triangle and followed through with a +11.15% single-session surge β€” and looks headed even higher.

As we’ll get to just ahead, the combination of a blowout growth forecast that came in well above Wall Street’s expectations, a second major supply deal with one of the world’s biggest tech giants, and a fresh technical breakout makes P one of the more interesting setups on the board. Here’s what’s going on…

The Themes Behind the Move

Everpure is a Santa Clara, California-based data infrastructure company (it changed its name from Pure Storage in February 2026) that designs and sells all-flash data storage systems, data-management software, and subscription storage services to enterprises, cloud providers, and β€” increasingly β€” AI data centers. Its lineup includes the FlashArray and FlashBlade hardware families, the Purity operating software that runs across them, Portworx for cloud-native applications, and its Evergreen storage-as-a-service subscription programs.

In plain English, every app, AI model, and database runs on data β€” and that data has to live somewhere fast, reliable, and affordable. When a large bank, hospital network, or tech giant needs to store and move enormous amounts of it, Everpure is one of the go-to vendors. Its newer DirectFlash technology is designed to pack more storage into less space while using less power β€” two things AI data centers are desperately short on. Its business hinges on enterprise upgrade cycles, the growth of its subscription revenue, and how quickly its deals with hyperscalers (the handful of giant cloud and internet companies that run the world’s biggest data centers) ramp up.

P’s latest move reflects a powerful confluence of developments β€” strategic, commercial, and structural β€” that have come together in rapid succession to fundamentally reframe the company’s growth trajectory.

Theme / Catalyst What Happened Why Traders Care
Blowout long-term outlook at Analyst Day At its September 23, 2026 Financial Analyst Meeting, Everpure reaffirmed FY27 revenue guidance of $5.03–$5.07 billion (+37–38% YoY), then introduced preliminary FY28 targets of $7.0–$7.3 billion in revenue (+39–45%) and $1.7–$1.9 billion in non-GAAP (adjusted) operating income (+80–100%). Everpure’s fiscal year runs roughly February through January, so FY28 is essentially calendar 2027. Piper Sandler said the FY28 revenue outlook came in about 16% above prior Street expectations, and the stock jumped +11.15% the next day. Big companies rarely speed up as they get bigger β€” yet this outlook implies growth accelerating again on a much larger revenue base, with profits expanding even faster. When management guides this far above Wall Street’s numbers, analysts have to rewrite their models β€” which is exactly what happened the next morning.
Second top-five hyperscaler win + industry validation On August 10, Everpure announced a design win and supply agreement with a second top-five hyperscaler for DirectFlash β€” meaning another of the world’s largest data-center operators has chosen its technology β€” building on its first large hyperscale win in late 2024. The customer remains unnamed, but Everpure expects the program to become a material revenue contributor beginning in FY28. Separately, on September 23, Everpure was named a Leader in research firm Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services for the second consecutive year. A second top-five customer turns DirectFlash from a single-customer proof point into a repeatable business with access to a much larger hyperscale market. The Gartner recognition adds third-party validation that Everpure’s platform is winning on execution, not just marketing.
Sector tailwinds: AI needs storage, not just chips The AI buildout increasingly requires high-performance, power-efficient storage and data management alongside GPUs and networking. Everpure’s DirectFlash pitch is built around reclaiming power and rack space in hyperscale AI environments, and its June launch of Data Stream β€” based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design β€” extends the platform toward AI-ready data ingestion, governance, and inference workflows. The offset: the same buildout is tightening flash memory supply and pushing component prices higher. Data centers are running short on power and floor space, so storage that does more with less is becoming a priority purchase rather than an afterthought. That helps Everpure reposition from a traditional flash-storage vendor into a broader AI-infrastructure platform β€” though supply tightness is a margin risk to keep an eye on.
Eight straight quarters of accelerating growth Everpure reported Q2 FY27 revenue of about $1.19 billion (+38% YoY), with product revenue up 54% to $687 million and subscription-services revenue up 20% to $499 million. Subscription ARR (annual recurring revenue) reached $2.1 billion (+20%), RPO (contracted revenue not yet recognized) hit $4.1 billion (+44%), and non-GAAP operating margin came in at 19.4%. The company ended the quarter with roughly $1.0 billion in cash and marketable securities, guided Q3 revenue to $1.325–$1.335 billion, and called it the eighth consecutive quarter of accelerating revenue growth (full quarterly results). Growth has gone from +16% in FY26 to a guided ~+38% in FY27 and a preliminary +39–45% for FY28 β€” the kind of acceleration that’s rare for a mature infrastructure vendor. A $4.1 billion contracted backlog growing faster than revenue also gives visibility into the quarters ahead.
Analyst coverage Post-Analyst Day revisions on September 24 were unusually broad, with nine firms raising targets: BofA to $180 (from $150, Buy), Northland to $167, Piper Sandler to $162, Citi to $160, Needham to $150, Evercore and Wells Fargo to $145, Morgan Stanley to $137, and Lake Street to $130. BofA’s $180 β€” the highest of the new targets β€” implies roughly 48% upside from the September 24 close of $121.88. Dissent remains: Barclays sits at Equal Weight with a $110 target, and UBS maintains a Sell (see the full forecast). When nine firms raise targets on the same morning, it tells you the outlook forced a genuine rethink rather than a routine tweak. Most of the new targets cluster between $145 and $167 β€” comfortably above current levels β€” though the spread underscores the central debate: accelerating earnings power versus how much growth is already priced in.
Market conviction signal Everpure joined the S&P 500 effective before the September 21 open, and the stock rose 9.14% that day. Then on September 24, options traders piled in: by about 1:40 p.m. ET, 19,103 contracts had traded, with calls outnumbering puts roughly 2-to-1 (12,856 calls vs. 6,247 puts). The largest identified trade was a 2,380-contract October $130/$140 call spread β€” a structured bet on further upside. Index inclusion means funds that track the S&P 500 now have to own the stock, broadening its shareholder base and raising its visibility with institutions. And multi-leg call structures are more deliberate than one-off call buying β€” they suggest traders are positioning for a sustained move, not a quick pop.
Upcoming triggers Traders are watching Q3 FY27 earnings, estimated for late November to early December (no official date yet β€” watch the company’s investor relations page), with the $1.325–$1.335 billion revenue guide, hyperscaler ramp commentary, and flash-memory cost trends as the key checkpoints. Beyond that: formal FY28 guidance (the September figures are explicitly preliminary), the start of the second hyperscaler’s revenue contribution in FY28, and any additional hyperscale design wins. A staggered set of catalysts β€” earnings, formal guidance, and potential new customer wins β€” each capable of independently moving the stock through the rest of 2026 and into 2027.

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Put it all together, and P is looking less like a mature storage-hardware vendor that’s already had its run and more like an AI-infrastructure growth story that’s still accelerating β€” with a second tech-giant customer locked in, a fresh seat in the S&P 500, and a preliminary FY28 outlook that implies yet another step up in growth.

The story is getting stronger by the week, but the chart is what could determine whether this move has more room to run in the near term. Here are the bullish technical signals traders should be watching now.

Bullish Technical Signals

#1 Symmetrical Triangle Pattern Breakout: P spent roughly two months coiling inside a symmetrical triangle on the daily chart, marked in purple. Lower highs off the mid-August peak near $120 met higher lows along a steeply rising support line, which squeezed volatility into a progressively tighter range. Price first pushed through the upper trendline last week, retested it from above on a brief pullback, and held. Thursday’s session was the follow-through: an 11.15% advance on 11.66M shares, well above the stock’s typical daily turnover. That retest-then-launch sequence is what separates a real breakout from a false poke through resistance, because it shows the old ceiling now acting as a floor. The pattern also formed after a powerful July–August advance, so the upside resolution fits the textbook behavior of a continuation triangle. The one caveat is Thursday’s long upper wick. Price tagged $131.41 before settling at $121.88, which marks the $126–$131 zone as near-term supply that still has to be absorbed.

Everpure P stock daily chart showing symmetrical triangle pattern breakout

P – Daily Chart

#2 Price Above the 50-Day and 200-Day Moving Averages: P trades well above both its 50-day SMA ($94.87) and 200-day SMA ($76.82), and the averages are stacked in golden-cross order. The 50-day crossed above the 200-day in early August and has been climbing steeply since. Its slope matters more than the crossover itself: the 50-day has tracked the triangle’s rising lower trendline almost tick for tick, so trend support and pattern support are reinforcing each other. The flattish but upturning 200-day, sitting some $18 below the 50-day, adds a deeper second layer of structural defense. The honest nuance is extension. After Thursday’s surge, price sits roughly 28% above the 50-day. That gap argues against chasing and toward a patient entry, either on confirmation above resistance or on a pullback toward the breakout zone.

#3 Bullish ADX and DI: The directional read is decisive. +DI at 42.68 sits more than 30 points above –DI at 10.91, a spread that shows buyers in near-total control of daily price direction while selling pressure is drying up. The more telling detail is ADX’s position and trajectory. At 17.54, it has turned up from a compressed base below both DI lines and has now climbed above –DI, while still sitting well beneath +DI. ADX measures trend strength regardless of direction, so a rise from a suppressed reading means a new trend is starting to gather force rather than an old one running out of steam. With ADX still below the 20–25 threshold that typically marks a mature trend, the move is in its early innings and has meaningful runway before trend strength itself becomes stretched.

#4 Bullish Aroon: Aroon has hit its most bullish possible configuration: Aroon Up (orange) at 100% and Aroon Down (blue) at 0%. An Aroon Up reading of 100 means P printed a fresh 14-day high in the latest session, which is the mechanical fingerprint of the triangle breakout. Aroon Down at zero shows the most recent 14-day low has aged to the very edge of the lookback window, so sellers have not set a new low in nearly three weeks. Aroon Up has also held above 70 since mid-September, apart from one brief dip, so this is a persistent pattern of higher highs rather than a one-session spike. Taken together with the ADX read, two independent trend gauges now agree that buyers own the daily tape.

#5 Uptrend Channel Test with Price Above the 50-Week and 200-Week MAs: The weekly chart places the daily breakout inside a much larger structure: a rising channel, marked in pink, that has guided P higher since early 2024. The lower rail caught the 2025 and mid-2026 pullbacks almost exactly, while the upper rail capped the late-2025 peak near $100 and rejected the August 2026 advance near $119. This week, price probed through the upper rail to $131.41 before closing back at it, so the breakout is close but not yet confirmed. A weekly close above roughly $126.30 would mark an acceleration of the long-term trend, since demand would be outrunning the channel’s already-rising slope. The backdrop supports that attempt. P trades far above both its 50-week SMA ($78.73) and 200-week SMA ($55.07), and both averages are rising in a clean bullish stack. The $110 area sits inside the recent consolidation range and lines up with the daily triangle’s breakout zone, which makes it the logical level to defend on any retreat.

Everpure P stock weekly chart showing uptrend channel test and bullish RSI

P – Weekly Chart

#6 Bullish RSI: Weekly RSI sits at 67.44, comfortably above the 50 midline and above its own signal average at 57.99. This is a two-part confirmation. Holding above 50 means buyers have controlled momentum on a sustained basis, not just for a few sessions. The fresh upturn after the late-summer dip shows momentum re-accelerating rather than rolling over. That matters here because it confirms the daily triangle breakout on the higher timeframe, and when daily and weekly momentum agree, the signal carries more weight than either would alone. The nuance is proximity to 70. The prior two momentum peaks, in late 2025 and August 2026, formed in the low-to-high 70s, so a push through that zone needs to come alongside a confirmed channel breakout to read as strength rather than exhaustion.

#7 Bullish Stochastic: On the weekly stochastic, %K (85.49) has crossed back above %D (72.97) after both lines reset from overbought readings in August toward the 60s. The location of that crossover is what makes it meaningful. In an established uptrend, a crossover from mid-range signals that a shallow pullback has run its course and the trend is resuming. That is a higher-quality continuation signal than a bounce from oversold, because it comes from a position of strength. It also lines up with the weekly RSI upturn, so both higher-timeframe oscillators are turning up together. The honest caveat is that %K is back above 80. Strong trends can keep the stochastic overbought for weeks, so this does not argue against the trade. It does favor buying on confirmation or on a pullback rather than chasing an intraday spike.

Risks to Consider

Even strong setups can fail, especially in a fast-moving AI-infrastructure name like Everpure. A few things could knock the stock off course:

  • A breakdown back below the symmetrical triangle breakout zone on heavy volume would invalidate the breakout thesis and could signal a broader trend reversal
  • Negative company-specific news, broader market weakness, or regulatory changes in the sector β€” any rotation out of AI-infrastructure names would likely hit a stock that has repriced this sharply
  • Valuation and event exhaustion β€” P trades at roughly 150–170x trailing earnings (high-30s to mid-40s on forward estimates), and after the S&P 500 inclusion and Analyst Day repricing, even modest execution slippage could trigger significant multiple compression
  • Negative free cash flow β€” despite strong earnings growth, Q2 operating cash flow was -$136 million and free cash flow was -$238 million, so converting rapid revenue growth into sustained cash generation is worth watching
  • Insider activity β€” recent SEC Form 4 filings involving founder and Chief Visionary Officer John Colgrove and CEO Charles Giancarlo warrant monitoring, though these filings aren’t automatically bearish without knowing whether they reflect planned, tax-related, or discretionary sales
  • Hyperscaler execution and concentration β€” FY28 acceleration depends partly on large hyperscale deployments, which bring qualification, timing, customer-concentration, and bargaining-power risks
  • Flash memory supply pressure β€” tight NAND (the flash memory chips inside storage systems) availability and rising flash prices could constrain shipments and squeeze gross margins, even though Everpure argues its DirectFlash architecture uses raw NAND more efficiently
  • Competition from Dell, NetApp, HPE, IBM, cloud-native storage platforms, and the hyperscalers’ own in-house designs remains meaningful β€” Gartner leadership doesn’t guarantee uncontested market share

The Bottom Line

P is breaking out of a two-month symmetrical triangle on the daily chart while pressing against the upper rail of a rising channel that has guided the stock higher since early 2024 on the weekly β€” a dual-timeframe technical setup that historically signals the start of a sustained move higher.

The fundamental story underneath the chart is just as strong: a preliminary FY28 outlook of $7.0–$7.3 billion in revenue, a second top-five hyperscaler design win, and eight straight quarters of accelerating revenue growth.

Combine that with multiple catalysts staggered through the months ahead β€” Q3 earnings in late November or early December, formal FY28 guidance, the hyperscale revenue ramp slated to begin in FY28, and broader institutional ownership following its S&P 500 debut β€” and P looks like one of the more compelling risk-reward setups on the board right now.

If this is a trade you want to get in on, here’s how we’d play it. Below you’ll find our two entry levels β€” one on a breakout and one on a pullback β€” both price targets that imply 19%–50% potential upside depending on your entry, and the stop-losses we’re using to manage the downside.

Recommended Trade Setup

Because P is extended after its big September run β€” trading roughly 28% above its 50-day moving average β€” we’re offering two ways to play this setup. Pick the one that best fits your trading style.

Option 1: Buy the Breakout

This entry is for traders who want confirmation: a move above $126.30, the level that would mark a breakout above the upper rail of the weekly uptrend channel.

Item Detail
Buy Level Above approximately $126.30
Price Target 1 $150.00 β€” Potential upside: 19%
Price Target 2 $165.00 β€” Potential upside: 31%
Timeframe Next 3–6 months
Stop-Loss $113.50 on a closing basis
Trade Invalidation Void if price hits stop-loss before entry triggers

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For a risk of approximately $12.80 per share, the target rewards are about $23.70 and $38.70 per share. That makes this roughly a 1:2 and 1:3 risk-reward trade. In other words, the setup offers nearly 2x to 3x more potential upside than downside.

Note on Trade Invalidation: This recommendation stays active as long as the technical structure holds. If P drops to or below the $113.50 stop-loss before the $126.30 entry triggers, the trade is automatically void β€” the support underpinning the thesis would have broken, and the risk-reward setup would no longer justify entry. Option 2 below runs on its own separate levels.

Option 2: Buy the Pullback

If you’d rather not chase, the $110 area β€” which lines up with the daily triangle’s breakout zone and sits inside the weekly chart’s recent consolidation range β€” is where we’d look to buy on a pullback.

Item Detail
Buy Level On a pullback to approximately $110.00
Price Target 1 $150.00 β€” Potential upside: 36%
Price Target 2 $165.00 β€” Potential upside: 50%
Timeframe Next 3–6 months
Stop-Loss $92.00 on a closing basis

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For a risk of approximately $18.00 per share, the target rewards are about $40.00 and $55.00 per share. That makes this roughly a 1:2 and 1:3 risk-reward trade. In other words, the setup offers nearly 2x to 3x more potential upside than downside.

Happy Trading!
Tara and Greg

πŸ₯ˆ Almost Made the Cut

Today’s featured trade, Everpure, Inc. (NYSE: P), was our top pick of several breakout candidates we evaluated. The following two stocks were strong candidates that made it to the final round β€” they came up just short of the top spot, but remain on our watchlist and could be featured soon:

Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ: NBIS) β€” The AI cloud provider reported rapid revenue growth and more than $40 billion in customer commitments while raising its year-end target for contracted power to 5 gigawatts. Its shares have recovered strongly, but the chart still faces a nearby resistance test around $250 β€” and heavy infrastructure spending plus the time needed to bring contracted capacity online kept it just behind Everpure.

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) β€” The launch of Muse and new shopping integrations give Meta fresh ways to build on its enormous consumer reach, and strong volume accompanied its September rally. But with the stock advancing quickly toward a prior high area and AI infrastructure spending weighing on free cash flow, a period of consolidation would offer a clearer swing-trade setup.