SharkWater Trading • Semiconductor Desk • Insider Filing Nvidia Executive Corrects a Form 4: 172,507 Shares Becomes 160,418, a 12,089 Share CutOctober 14, 2026
What Changed
Source: SEC EDGAR. Original: accession 0002152188-26-000005 (filed Sep 11, 2026). Amendment: accession 0002152188-26-000007 (signed Oct 13, 2026). Percentage computed by SharkWater from the two filed figures. Both filings code the award A at $0 and show direct ownership. Everything else matches. Same grant date, same vesting schedule: 10 percent vests December 9, 2026, then quarterly, with tranches of 7.5, 5 and 2.5 percent over the following quarters, fully vested near the four-year mark. Neither filing checks the Rule 10b5-1 box, which fits an award rather than a market trade. Why It MattersForm 4s are the public ledger for insider equity. When the ledger is wrong, anyone tracking ownership, dilution or the value of an executive grant is working from bad inputs. A 7 percent error on one executive is small in dollars against a company this size, and I will not put a dollar value on it because I do not have a verified NVDA price series for this week. The more interesting angle is the pattern. This desk flagged on October 12 that a Tench Coxe trust balance fell by 1,000,000 shares across filings while the filings show only one 500,000 share gift. This correction is a different insider and a different type of error. It still says the same thing: the filing chain at this company is not self-checking, and the corrections arrive weeks late. A harbor chart that is off by a few feet is fine until you are the boat that draws the most. Most readers never touch the number. The ones who model insider supply need it right. The Bull Case
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Nvidia Executive Corrects a Form 4: 172,507 Shares Becomes 160,418, a 12,089 Share Cut
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Nvidia and Cisco Announce USFP, a 400G-Per-Lane Optics Standard With No Ship Date
SharkWater Trading • Semiconductor Desk • Networking Nvidia and Cisco Announce USFP, a 400G-Per-Lane Optics Standard With No Ship DateOctober 13, 2026
What Was AnnouncedThe format targets Ethernet AI fabrics moving from 200Gb/s to 400Gb/s per lane. It ties to Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet and Cisco Silicon One networks. TE Connectivity and Amphenol are named as partners on cages, connectors and modules. The release says more partners are expected.
Source: NVIDIA Newsroom, "NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce New Pluggable Optics Form Factor to Scale AI Factories," October 12, 2026. All specifications are vendor claims from the release, not independent measurements. The mechanical detail is a two-dimensional array connector with two-step insertion, which the companies say reduces contact wear and protects signal integrity. The design can expand to 32 or more lanes later. What Is MissingThere is no availability date, no price, and no named optics supplier beyond the connector makers. The open specification is described as an upcoming community-led multi-source project. That means the standard does not exist yet in finished form. I did not find any SEC filing tied to this announcement as of the October 13, 2026 morning check, and I have no verified price or volume data for NVDA or any networking name this morning. Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) is on my watchlist, and the release does not mention it. Whether USFP helps or hurts any switch silicon vendor outside Nvidia and Cisco depends on who joins the project. The release does not say. I will not guess. A new connector standard is a harbor survey, not a ship. The chart tells you where the channel will be dredged. It tells you nothing about who gets paid to dredge it, or when. The Bull Case
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Monday, October 12, 2026
Nvidia Director Tench Coxe Gifts Another 500,000 Shares. It Is Not a Sale, and the Share Count Does Not Add Up
SharkWater Trading • Semiconductor Desk • Insider Filing Nvidia Director Tench Coxe Gifts Another 500,000 Shares. It Is Not a Sale, and the Share Count Does Not Add UpOctober 12, 2026
The Filing
Source: SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings by Tench Coxe, issuer NVIDIA Corp: accessions 0001197647-26-000005, -000007 and -000011. All three cite a 10b5-1 plan adopted March 19, 2026. Coxe is a director only. The trust shares are held indirectly; he disclaims beneficial ownership beyond his pecuniary interest. A code G is a gift without consideration. Nothing is sold and nothing hits the tape. The same filings show Coxe also holds 57,378 shares directly and 4,852,480 shares through a profit sharing plan trust, both unchanged. His June 25, 2026 Form 4 showed a routine 1,211 share board RSU grant, a different animal. The GapThe trust held 25,671,360 shares per the June 29 filing. After the July 1 gift it held 25,171,360. After August 5 it held 24,671,360. The October 7 filing shows 23,671,360. That is a million shares down from August 5, and the filings list only 500,000. Coxe's own EDGAR feed shows no Form 4 between August 7 and October 9. Possible explanations include a September gift filed late or under another filer, or a correction I did not reach. I did not resolve it and I will not guess. It matters because insider forms are only as good as the chain of balances. Reading a Form 4 chain is like tracking a tide gauge. One odd reading is a bad sensor. Two in a row is the harbor changing. The Bull Case
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Sunday, October 11, 2026
Micron's 10-K: $133.2 Billion in Revenue, $59 Billion in Free Cash Flow, and Capex Nearly Doubled
SharkWater Trading • Semiconductor Desk • Annual Report Micron's 10-K: $133.2 Billion in Revenue, $59 Billion in Free Cash Flow, and Capex Nearly DoubledOctober 11, 2026
The Year in Four Columns
Source: Micron Technology Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 3, 2026, filed October 9, 2026 (accession 0000723125-26-000023), financial statement pages R3 and R7. Fiscal 2026 had 53 weeks. Cash flow cells were read by an automated page reader and the source flagged some run-together cells in the prior-year columns; the FY2026 column was not flagged. What the Filing Adds Over the Press ReleaseThe September 30 earnings release gave the quarter. The 10-K gives the full year, audited, and the year is the bigger story. Revenue rose 3.56 times. Gross margin on the filed GAAP numbers was 80.7 percent for the year, against 39.8 percent in fiscal 2025. Net income was 63.8 percent of revenue. All three are desk arithmetic on the filed figures. Capital spending rose 94 percent to $30.71 billion, but fell as a share of revenue to 23.1 percent. That is the number to watch. A memory maker spending a quarter of revenue on fabs is normal. The prior two years in the table above show nothing like this combination. The segment split is concentrated by size. Fiscal 2026 revenue by business unit was CMBU $43.09 billion, CDBU $37.59 billion, MCBU $36.60 billion and AEBU $15.89 billion. By product, DRAM was $100.68 billion and NAND $31.79 billion. The business section says roughly half of revenue has come from the top ten customers in each of the last three years. A reservoir that more than triples in a wet year tells you about the rain. It does not tell you what the next dry year looks like. Balance Sheet and Capital Return
Source: Micron Form 10-K, balance sheet page R4, filed October 9, 2026. Cash and investments total ($73,453 million) and debt totals are desk sums of the filed lines. Net cash of about $68.3 billion is a desk calculation. Debt fell by $9.4 billion in the year. Capital return was small: about $610 million of dividends and $650 million of program repurchases in fiscal 2026, per the cash flow page (some cells in that table were flagged as garbled by the reader; verify before quoting). Against $85 billion of net income, that is a rounding error. The dividend declared on September 30 is $0.15 per share, payable October 29, 2026. Shares outstanding were 1,131,423,212 on October 2, 2026, per the 10-K cover. What Is Still OpenThe filing text I could read covers risk factors, segment and product revenue, and the financial statements. It states that HBM3E 12-high was the majority of fiscal 2026 HBM shipments and that HBM4 36GB 12-high began volume production in 2026. I did not read MD&A, so there is no sourced fiscal 2027 capital spending outlook in this post. I also have no verified MU price series. Pre-market data for October 1 is an aggregator figure from the prior scan and is not used here. The Bull Case
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Saturday, October 10, 2026
Nebius Insider Tape Sorted: One 500,000 Share Plan Sale and Four Routine Ones
SharkWater Trading • Data Centers • Insider Filings Nebius Insider Tape Sorted: One 500,000 Share Plan Sale and Four Routine OnesOctober 10, 2026
Who Sold, and Why
Source: Nebius Group N.V. Forms 4 and Forms 144 on EDGAR: accessions 0001513845-26-000126 (Nave), -000120 (Volozh), -000118 (Boynton), -000122 (Shtan), -000124 (Korolenko, role per its Form 4), and Form 144 0001950047-26-010048 (Nave) and 0001950047-26-009868 (Boynton trust). Nave average price and all dollar totals computed by this desk from the filed rows. Sizing the PileNave's sale is 6.1 times the three tax sales combined. Against the 238,400,165 shares outstanding cited on the Nave Form 144, his sale is about 0.21 percent of the company and the tax sales together are about 0.03 percent. Neither moves the float. The tax sales are mechanical. Each Form 4 says the shares were sold when restricted share units vested, solely to cover estimated withholding, under automatic sale instructions in the unit agreement and not as a discretionary trade. After the sale the CEO still held 785,236 shares directly. The Boynton trust is a drip, not a surprise. Its September 29 Form 144 lists three earlier plan sales in the prior three months: 6,958 shares on July 15, 5,296 on August 14 and 6,364 on September 15, 18,618 shares for $4,144,629.26 in total. The 50 share sale is a stub on a monthly schedule. Five boats left the harbor this week. Three were ferries running on a timetable, one was a rowboat on its usual route, and one was a trawler hauling out half its direct catch. What Is Still OpenNave's Form 4 remarks state that no further sales will be made under his plan. That is the issuer's own filing, but a new plan can be adopted later, and the filing does not say when. This desk has no verified NBIS price or volume series for the week, so any market reaction to this selling is NOT VERIFIED. The Goldman Sachs 13G/A cut covered here yesterday sits alongside this paper but is a separate and unrelated filer. A correction to this desk's October 7 post: it gave October 7 as the Nave Form 4 filing date. The EDGAR feed shows filing date October 6, 2026, and the filing is signed October 6. The Bull Case
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