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Equity Bottom-Up

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  <li>CMS Energy represents a classic regulated utility investment, offering stable, predictable cash flows from its electric and natural gas operations in Michigan, which serve as the foundation for consistent dividend growth.</li>
  <li>Significant long-term growth is driven by a dual-engine strategy: substantial capital investment in grid modernization and a leading role in Michigan's clean energy transition, targeting 100% clean energy by 2040.</li>
  <li>Emerging opportunities in serving large-scale, energy-intensive data centers provide a potential upside to load growth forecasts, complementing the company's established strategic initiatives.</li>
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  CMS Energy represents a classic regulated utility investment, offering stable, predictable cash flows from its electric and natural gas operations in Michigan, which serve as the foundation for consistent dividend growth.
  Significant long-term growth is driven by a dual-engine strategy: substantial capital investment in grid modernization and a leading role in Michigan's clean energy transition, targeting 100% clean energy by 2040.
  Emerging opportunities in serving large-scale, energy-intensive data centers provide a potential upside to load growth forecasts, complementing the company's established strategic initiatives.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Cms Energy Corp (CMS US) - Nov 2025

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Price action on SPX is extremely similar to prior major topping patterns in April 2000 and August 2007, which is why we recommended reducing risk near 5670-5783 last week.</li>
<li>Additional similarities to 2000/2007 (other than price action) include the Fed cutting rates, recession indicators such as the Sahm rule and Schannep Recession Indicator (SRI) triggered, and yield curve un-inverting.</li>
<li>SPX resistance is in the 5670-5783 range; if a major top is happening, that is where it would start from (using the 2000 and 2007 tops as comparisons).</li>
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Price action on SPX is extremely similar to prior major topping patterns in April 2000 and August 2007, which is why we recommended reducing risk near 5670-5783 last week.
Additional similarities to 2000/2007 (other than price action) include the Fed cutting rates, recession indicators such as the Sahm rule and Schannep Recession Indicator (SRI) triggered, and yield curve un-inverting.
SPX resistance is in the 5670-5783 range; if a major top is happening, that is where it would start from (using the 2000 and 2007 tops as comparisons).


Recessionary Signals as SPX Tests Resistance; Downgrading Energy to Underweight

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<li>The SPX is back near YTD highs and testing resistance in the 5670-5783 range, and we view this as an ideal time to reduce risk and shift to defensives.</li>
<li>We continue to believe that the SPX and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) are going through a 1- to 4-month pullback/consolidation that could end up being a topping pattern.</li>
<li>After laying out expectations in our 8/13/24 Compass report for a bounce and test of YTD highs, we now expect SPX to roll over near current levels </li>
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The SPX is back near YTD highs and testing resistance in the 5670-5783 range, and we view this as an ideal time to reduce risk and shift to defensives.
We continue to believe that the SPX and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) are going through a 1- to 4-month pullback/consolidation that could end up being a topping pattern.
After laying out expectations in our 8/13/24 Compass report for a bounce and test of YTD highs, we now expect SPX to roll over near current levels 


Upgrading Utilities to Overweight; Expecting $SPX to Roll Over; NVDA and SMH Topping?

Market Intelligence, ORTEX

ORTEX Market Intel

Market Intelligence

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ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Equity Derivatives

Bread Financial Holdings  / Equity Derivatives

<ul><li>Earnings season forced options markets to extremes this week.</li><li>Put/call ratios hit 52-week records across dozens of names - often in stocks simultaneously posting double-digit gains.</li><li>The divergence between rising prices and surging put demand was the defining theme of the Aug 3-10 period.</li></ul>

Earnings season forced options markets to extremes this week.Put/call ratios hit 52-week records across dozens of names - often in stocks simultaneously posting double-digit gains.The divergence between rising prices and surging put demand was the defining theme of the Aug 3-10 period.

Options Weekly: Bears Hedge Rallies as Earnings Season Drives Extreme PCR Readings

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc / Equity Derivatives

<ul><li>Options markets sent conflicting signals this week.</li><li>Defensive put-buying dominated earnings plays, yet a handful of names saw call positioning hit 52-week extremes.</li><li>The week of July 27 produced more than 60 high-severity options pulses, with earnings catalysts driving the bulk of the volatility in PCR readings.</li></ul>

Options markets sent conflicting signals this week.Defensive put-buying dominated earnings plays, yet a handful of names saw call positioning hit 52-week extremes.The week of July 27 produced more than 60 high-severity options pulses, with earnings catalysts driving the bulk of the volatility in PCR readings.

Options Weekly: Put Walls and Bull Bets: Options Markets Split on Earnings Week

United States

CMS Energy Corporation is an energy company operating primarily in Michigan. The Company, through its subsidiaries provides electricity and/or natural gas to its customers in Michigan. CMS Energy also invests in and operates non-utility power generation plants in the United States and abroad.

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Primer: Cms Energy Corp (CMS US) - Nov 2025

CMS Energy represents a classic regulated utility investment, offering stable, predictable cash flows from its electric and natural gas...

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Recessionary Signals as SPX Tests Resistance; Downgrading Energy to Underweight

Recessionary Signals as $SPX Tests Resistance; Downgrading Energy $XLE to Underweight; WTI Crude Oil Breakdown. Still expecting more downside. $XLB...

Vermilion Research

Upgrading Utilities to Overweight; Expecting $SPX to Roll Over; NVDA and SMH Topping?

Upgrading Utilities $XLU to Overweight; Many Indexes Testing Resistance $SPX $DJI $IJH $IWM $XRT $EEM; Expecting SPX to Roll Over; $NVDA and $SMH...

Vermilion Research

Options Weekly: Bears Hedge Rallies as Earnings Season Drives Extreme PCR Readings

Earnings season forced options markets to extremes this week. Put/call ratios hit 52-week records across dozens of names - often in stocks...

ORTEX Market Intel

Options Weekly: Put Walls and Bull Bets: Options Markets Split on Earnings Week

Options markets sent conflicting signals this week. Defensive put-buying dominated earnings plays, yet a handful of names saw call positioning hit...

ORTEX Market Intel

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