Coffee Grounds Trading Portfolio Update 4/28/26
☕ The Daily Brew — Tuesday, April 28, 2026 | Market Intelligence, Freshly Ground
📰 Market Commentary
Tuesday's tape was ugly — at least if you were holding optical or semiconductor names.
GLW dropped −9.1% in a single session. LITE shed −7.93%. AAOI fell −6.24%. TSEM lost −5.37%. The optical and semiconductor complex took a hard flush today, and it dragged overall portfolio performance with it.
We're not panicking. Positions built with conviction don't get shaken out by one bad session.
What a rough tape does do is create entry points on names you've been watching. So while the market was selling, we were buying. Nine new positions added to the Coffee Grounds Portfolio today — quality names across financials, real estate, healthcare, and materials. That's the Brew way: use volatility as a tool, not a reason to freeze.
Bright spots on the session: PTGX bounced +2.15%, PNW added +0.60%, and IRDM kept grinding higher at +0.21%. The compounders don't stop just because the sector du jour is hurting.
🔄 Trades Today
🟢 BOUGHT — Financials | JPM $312.39 · RY $177.58 · CUBI $77.23 · FULT $21.85
Four bank positions, one clean thesis: quality financials at prices we wanted.
JPMorgan Chase at $312.39 — the anchor. Best-run bank in the world, fortress balance sheet, and the market handed us a discount. Not a complicated call.
Royal Bank of Canada at $177.58 — Canadian mega-bank with a consistent profitability track record and a dividend history that's hard to argue with. North American banking exposure without the domestic noise.
Customers Bancorp at $77.23 — regional bank that generates solid returns on equity and flies under the radar. That combination is exactly where we tend to find setups.
Fulton Financial at $21.85 — Mid-Atlantic regional with a clean loan book and consistent earnings. Boring in the best possible way. No headlines, no drama — just a steady business at a reasonable price.
🟢 BOUGHT — Real Estate | BRX $30.26 · KRG $26.13
Brixmor Property Group at $30.26 — grocery-anchored retail REIT. Occupancy holding up, essential-retail tenant base, open-air format. This is not a mall play. The market keeps lumping all retail real estate together and we're happy to take the other side.
Kite Realty Group at $26.13 — same thesis as BRX. Open-air, necessity-based retail, durable cash flows. Two REITs, one idea: the market is wrong about this sector.
🟢 BOUGHT — Healthcare | GKOS $119.48 · AUPH $16.23
Glaukos Corp at $119.48 — eye care medical device platform with multiple product lines and a growing addressable market. Not a single-catalyst binary bet. We're playing the underlying business growth over time.
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals at $16.23 — commercial-stage biotech with an already-approved drug (voclosporin for lupus nephritis) actively generating revenue. This isn't an FDA gamble — the decision is done, the drug is on the market, and we're playing the revenue ramp.
🟢 BOUGHT — Materials | CMP $26.04
Compass Minerals at $26.04 — salt and sulfate of potash. Unglamorous, beaten-down, and quietly improving operationally. The market is asleep on the recovery. We sip, we wait.
No sells today. The core book stays intact.
📈 Portfolio Performance
Nine new positions. Optical and semi names took a hard hit. Portfolio is down −1.50% overall above cost basis.
On watch: LITE (−10.79% overall, −7.93% today), GLW (−9.70% overall, −9.1% today), AAOI (−5.50% overall, −6.24% today), PTGX (−3.46% overall), VIAV (−2.38% overall)
The compounders keep doing the work:
- ⭐ PLXS: +33.46%
- ⭐ IRDM: +29.69%
- ⭐ IVT: +5.78%
- ⭐ HPE: +5.22%
- ⭐ HG: +4.33%
One bad sector session doesn't undo what the compounders are building. That's the Brew way — let your winners run while you build the next layer.
💼 Coffee Grounds Portfolio
| Symbol | Name | Price | Day $ | Day % | Gain % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAOI 👀 | Applied Optoelectronics | $136.69 | −$9.09 | −6.24% | −5.50% |
| AUPH 🆕 | Aurinia Pharmaceuticals | $16.06 | −$0.18 | −1.11% | −1.05% |
| BRX 🆕 | Brixmor Property Group | $30.49 | +$0.23 | +0.76% | +0.74% |
| CE | Celanese Corp | $64.73 | −$0.37 | −0.57% | +0.73% |
| CMP 🆕 | Compass Minerals | $26.03 | −$0.02 | −0.08% | −0.04% |
| CUBI 🆕 | Customers Bancorp | $76.85 | −$0.38 | −0.49% | −0.49% |
| FULT 🆕 | Fulton Financial | $21.71 | −$0.15 | −0.69% | −0.64% |
| GKOS 🆕 | Glaukos Corp | $119.48 | $0.00 | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| GLW 👀 | Corning Inc | $152.72 | −$15.29 | −9.10% | −9.70% |
| HG | Hamilton Insurance Group | $32.52 | +$0.02 | +0.06% | +4.33% |
| HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | $27.84 | −$0.79 | −2.76% | +5.22% |
| IRDM ⭐ | Iridium Communications | $37.48 | +$0.08 | +0.21% | +29.69% |
| IVT | InvenTrust Properties | $32.77 | −$0.15 | −0.46% | +5.78% |
| JPM 🆕 | JPMorgan Chase | $311.44 | −$0.95 | −0.30% | −0.30% |
| KALV | KalVista Pharmaceuticals | $19.22 | +$0.06 | +0.31% | −1.03% |
| KIM | Kimco Realty | $23.83 | −$0.06 | −0.25% | +0.46% |
| KRG 🆕 | Kite Realty Group | $26.18 | +$0.04 | +0.15% | +0.17% |
| LITE 👀 | Lumentum Holdings | $791.48 | −$68.20 | −7.93% | −10.79% |
| LNTH | Lantheus Holdings | $83.07 | −$1.05 | −1.25% | +3.71% |
| PLXS ⭐ | Plexus Corp | $245.72 | −$3.43 | −1.38% | +33.46% |
| PNW | Pinnacle West Capital | $103.01 | +$0.61 | +0.60% | −1.11% |
| PTGX | Protagonist Therapeutics | $100.63 | +$2.12 | +2.15% | −3.46% |
| RY 🆕 | Royal Bank of Canada | $177.48 | −$0.10 | −0.06% | −0.06% |
| TSEM | Tower Semiconductor | $192.41 | −$10.92 | −5.37% | +2.90% |
| VIAV 👀 | VIAVI Solutions | $43.07 | −$1.85 | −4.12% | −2.38% |
| VIK | Viking Holdings | $79.39 | −$1.44 | −1.78% | −1.59% |
| TOTAL | Coffee Grounds Portfolio | −1.50% |
Good coffee doesn't wait to get cold. ☕
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Posted Apr 28, 2026, 8:35 PM UTC