In short: The only disclosed trade on the show: Jim Lebenthal sold it outright. The reason is a mismatch between what he bought and what he owns: "as an investor, what I wanted was a plain vanilla utility, and what I got is something that's a piñata in California politics." The specifics: "they were not responsible for last year's terrible fires. However, they are likely to be on the hook, as we can see from bills that are pending and potentially will pass eventually in the California legislature. It's so bad that the company is now doing a strategic review that they've announced today. This is not what I signed up for, so I went out." Note he set this exit up earlier in the hour as the general September method — sell the idiosyncratic thing you no longer like, raise dry powder, don't try to time the index — and Wapner's send-off is "took the L, move on."
PG&E is the California utility. Lebenthal sold the entire position, and his reason is the cleanest sell discipline on the page: "what I wanted was a plain vanilla utility, and what I got is something that's a piñata in California politics."
A regulated utility is supposed to be a boring bond substitute — a monopoly with allowed returns set by a regulator. What he owns instead is a company that may be made liable by legislation for fires it did not cause, and which announced a strategic review that morning. Note the argument he does not make: he is not claiming the market is wrong or that the liability is unfair. He is saying the asset no longer resembles the one he bought, so the reason he owned it has gone.
The timing is the earlier method applied to himself. He said at the top of the hour that the right September move is not to sell the market but to cut the idiosyncratic holding you no longer believe in, and hold the cash as dry powder. This is that trade, and Wapner's "took the L, move on" is the appropriate attitude to it.
In short: The California half of the same point — "PG&E out in California just announced the same thing" — a ratepayer giveback funded by data-center load, offered against the "data centers raise your power bill" political narrative.
PG&E, California's big utility, announced the same kind of ratepayer giveback as CenterPoint. Talkington pairs the two deliberately: one red state, one blue state, both funding consumer rebates out of data-centre demand.
That is her answer to the misinformation campaign she describes — 200,000 bot accounts pushing anti-data-centre messaging — and the reason she thinks the build-out is real even though the stocks are falling.
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