In a different era, Jung Hoo Lee’s numbers would have the baseball world’s full attention.
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Jung Hoo Lee’s 18-game hit streak has helped ignite SF Giants’ offense

Giants right fielder Jung Hoo Lee collects his fourth hit of the game Monday against the Washington Nationals at Oracle Park.
Most notably, his batting average — a statistic that has lost some of its historic luster with the introduction of advanced metrics that can explain more thoroughly a player’s impact at the plate on his team’s run-scoring.
Nevertheless, through Wednesday Lee was batting .338 for the San Francisco Giants, the second-highest average in baseball behind Miami’s Otto Lopez. Lee’s MLB-leading 18-game hitting streak dating to May 14 — interrupted by an eight-game absence due to a back strain — against the Los Angeles Dodgers pushed that average from .265 at the streak’s start.
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Lee is the first Giant since Angel Pagan in 2016 to keep a hitting streak alive at least 18 games; Pagan’s lasted 19. It’s a streak so impressive and timely that Lee could hit his way into All-Star consideration.
“I just notice Jung Hoo’s comfortability in his own skin,” manager Tony Vitello said.

Giants right fielder Jung Hoo Lee rounds second base against the Washington Nationals on Monday at Oracle Park.
That simple statistic is enough to explain Lee’s impact on the Giants offense, which leads the league in some evaluative stats since Lee’s hitting streak began last month. Over 26 games since May 14 the Giants lead with 133 weighted runs created-plus (where 100 wRC+ is the average), .839 OPS, .362 weighted on-base average and, yes, a .284 average. They’re scoring over 5.5 runs per game in that span, good for third in MLB. And their strikeout rate also dropped to 19.5%, albeit while carrying a league-low 6.8% walk rate.
In a lot of ways, the offense has been following Lee’s lead: They’re staying aggressive, generating plenty of contact and making it count. Few walks, few strikeouts, but lots of pressure on opposing pitchers and defenses, creating opportunities.
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That’s Lee’s game, as the Giants banked on when they signed him for $113 million over six years out of the Korea Baseball Organization in 2024.
“I think the feel is there. I’ve been swinging aggressively on strikes,” Lee said with Giants translator Justin Han interpreting on Monday, after one of his four games with four or more hits during this streak. “The timing and balance are there at the same time. I’m getting good results out of what I’m doing right now.”

Giants right fielder Jung Hoo Lee gestures to teammates Tuesday after hitting a single against the Washington Nationals at Oracle Park.
Lee has been an offensive engine, but other Giants are heating up alongside him. Matt Chapman had a four-hit, two-home run game in their unlikely comeback win on Wednesday, and over his past 26 games (since May 14), he ’s batting .319 with five home runs, nine doubles and 23 RBIs. Bryce Eldridge, Wednesday’s hero for his walk-off grand slam, is along for the ride, batting .397 with a 1.175 OPS in the 17 games he’s played since becoming a regular.
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Lee’s hot hitting is a driver for this team-wide offensive success. He and Luis Arraez — who has maintained a high batting average all season and sits fourth in baseball with a .327 average — are showing that a potent offense doesn’t have to depend on over-the-fence power alone.
Admittedly, Lee’s time in San Francisco has been erratic. A dislocated shoulder requiring season-ending surgery cut short his rookie year in 2024. His second year was consequently one of adjusting to MLB’s demanding workload and the more consistent quality of pitching in the majors compared to the KBO.
Lee spoke candidly about how his trouble adjusting led to an ultimately disappointing 2025 in which he batted .266 with a .327 on-base percentage, while also handling center field in one of the worst defensive outfields in baseball. But he’s made the adjustment and started coming into his own.
“I think the full season last year helped a lot,” Lee said. “Last year was really good and I feel that I’m still adjusting to the league right now.”

Giants right fielder Jung Hoo Lee said he began to feel more comfortable in 2025 in his second major-league campaign. “Last year was really good and I feel that I’m still adjusting to the league right now,” he said.
Within this 18-game hitting streak, Lee has nine multi-hit games while batting .500. He has three total strikeouts, while also contributing five doubles, a triple and a home run. And one walk, a couple of times hit by a pitch and three stolen bases.
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Statcast estimates that Lee has some of the best contact tendencies in baseball. His 10% strikeout rate is in the 98th percentile and his 12.9% whiff rate in the 97th percentile. When he does swing, he’s squaring the ball up at a high rate of 37.5% (98th). His .319 expected batting average is in the 100th percentile.
The numbers document what’s happening in his at-bats. Pitchers who once flummoxed him, he’s seeing a lot better now. No moment best captured that than when he challenged and got overturned a strike call that was a ball — by less than a one-10th of an inch.
Lee is well aware of the zone, and now, having settled into life as a big-league regular — and potentially a star — it shows.
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Tyla Performs Reps Jeffrey Campbell for FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony
Tyla embraced the clear heels trend while performing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony in Mexico City, where she sang the South African national anthem before her home country faced Mexico in the tournament’s opening Group A match.

Tyla sings the South African national anthem during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group A match between Mexico and South Africa at Mexico City Stadium on June 11, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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The “Chanel” singer performed the song while in Jeffrey Campbell‘s Booyah style, a sandal with a wedge heel featuring a cutout in it and an upper consisting of a wide transparent vinyl strap. The shoe also features a metallic ring detail around the heel which helps to further distinguish it. From Jeffrey Campbell, the Booyah style in white retails for $170, while the tan suede version is $195.
Tyla paired the shoes with a color-blocked body-con dress that was sleeveless with a knee-length hemline that flared slightly. She wore her hair in an updo with a lock falling down from the bun.

A closer look at Tyla’s shoes.
Tyla is never one to shy away from a bold or unexpected shoe choice. For the 2026 Met Gala, the singer and Pandora ambassador was outfitted in head-to-toe Valentino Garavani, including her aquamarine-hued Open Toe Révélé Pumps, which featured a dramatic front cutout. She has also favored more classic styles, like Christian Louboutin’s So Kate Pump and Miu Miu slingback pumps for red carpets and more formal settings.
When it comes to performance shoes, however, her style runs the gamut. At the 2025 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, where the “Chanel” singer both hosted and performed, she cycled through several silhouettes, from Rene Caovilla’s Cleo Satin Crystal Snake Wrap sandals to Nike Dunk Low sneakers to Gladiator-style sandals.

Tyla at the 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art” held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York.
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Tyla’s World Cup appearance also connects to “Game Time,” her track with Future from the official FIFA World Cup 2026™ album, which she is set to perform on Friday. The project includes songs from artists including Daddy Yankee, Jelly Roll, Shakira, the Rolling Stones and more. “Being part of the official FIFA World Cup 2026™ album feels like a full circle moment — from South Africa hosting the World Cup in 2010. I’m so excited to perform at the opening ceremonies! Let’s go Bafana Bafana,” Tyla said in an official release.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off June 11 and runs through July 19, with 48 countries participating in 104 matches throughout the tournament. Tyla is also slated to appear at the U.S. opening ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday, where she joins a lineup that includes Katy Perry, Future, Anitta, Lisa and Rema before the U.S. Men’s National Team faces Paraguay in Inglewood, Calif.
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Is It Time To Reassess Figma (FIG) After Recent Share Price Swings?
Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St.
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If you are wondering whether Figma at US$22.51 is a bargain or a value trap, you will want to understand what the current price actually reflects.
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The stock has been volatile recently, with the share price falling about 4% over the past week but rising around 15.9% over the last month, while year to date it is down roughly 40.1%.
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Recent coverage around Figma has focused on the stock’s sharp swings and how investors are reassessing growth potential and risk after these moves. This context matters because sentiment can move faster than the underlying fundamentals that ultimately anchor valuation.
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Simply Wall St’s valuation framework currently gives Figma a value score of 1 out of 6. Next, you will see how different valuation methods each frame the stock, before looking at a more complete way to think about value that ties everything together at the end of the article.
Figma scores just 1/6 on our valuation checks. See what other red flags we found in the full valuation breakdown.
Approach 1: Figma Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis
A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model estimates what a stock could be worth by projecting the company’s future cash flows and discounting them back to today’s dollars. It is essentially asking what all those future cash flows are worth right now.
For Figma, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach, based on cash flow projections. The latest twelve month Free Cash Flow is about $235.1 million. Analyst estimates and Simply Wall St extrapolations project Free Cash Flow reaching $1,177.4 million in 2035, with interim years such as 2026 and 2029 sitting at $154.8 million and $500.7 million respectively. All of these figures are in $.
When these projected cash flows are discounted back, the model arrives at an estimated intrinsic value of about $27.25 per share. Against the current share price of $22.51, this implies the stock trades at roughly a 17.4% discount. On this DCF view, Figma appears to be undervalued.
Result: UNDERVALUED
Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Figma is undervalued by 17.4%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 47 more high quality undervalued stocks.
Approach 2: Figma Price vs Sales
For companies where earnings are not the main focus yet, the P/S ratio is often more useful than P/E, because it compares what you are paying directly to the revenue the business is already generating.
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OpenAI IPO: Major AI companies will soon be put to the test
OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX will soon have a new boss to answer to: Wall Street.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is the latest AI giant to announce plans to go public, coming after Anthropic said it confidentially filed for an IPO last week. SpaceX, which includes Elon Musk’s AI company xAI, is set to make its market debut on Friday. The three public offerings are expected to provide the closest look yet at the state of the AI market – and potentially rack up hundreds of billions of dollars in massive stock sales.
It also means their AI businesses, which are already approaching valuations in the trillion-dollar range, will be subject to more scrutiny than ever as Wall Street demands explosive growth every three months.
“Expectations that seem manageable in private markets can become relentless under the glare of public ownership,” Nigel Green, CEO of financial advisory firm deVere Group, said in an email to CNN.
Wall Street already has sky-high expectations for AI, leaving no room for anything short of blockbuster growth each quarter. For example, Broadcom, which previously struck partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, reported jaw-dropping earnings: revenue growth of 48% for the second quarter and expected semiconductor growth of 180% compared to last year. But that wasn’t enough to impress investors; Broadcom shares were down over 13% last week, marking its worst week since September 2024.
AI chip stocks sank along with it late last week, with the Nasdaq falling for three consecutive days and the S&P 500 experiencing its worst day since October. An exchange-traded fund that tracks memory chip stocks was down 15% last week.
“People want more,” Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with Bernstein tracking the semiconductor market, told CNN last week when discussing chip stocks. “They always want more.”
Even Nvidia, the world’s most valuable public company, has faced similar scrutiny. In January 2025, the AI chipmaker lost a record $600 billion in market value in a single day, after DeepSeek, a new Chinese competitor, emerged in the market.
OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be held to a similar standard, with the state of their businesses serving as the bellwethers of AI industry growth. Wall Street will also be looking for signs that both companies have the cash to back up their massive spending on AI infrastructure.
Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have provided some signals about their growth.
But they’ve chosen to share those statistics publicly rather than out of legal responsibility.
OpenAI said it raised $122 billion in March, pushing its valuation to $852 billion. It also said that month that it’s generating $2 billion in revenue every month, a jump from the $1 billion it was previously generating every quarter.
ChatGPT also became the fastest app to reach one billion users last month, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. It took apps like Google Maps, TikTok and YouTube five to eight years to achieve that milestone, while ChatGPT reached it in about three, the firm said.
Anthropic’s valuation jumped from $380 billion in February to $965 billion in May, surpassing OpenAI, the company said in May. It also said last month that it achieved $47 billion in run-rate revenue, a metric that estimates future annual revenue based on current financial data. More businesses used Anthropic than OpenAI for the first time in May, according to fintech firm Ramp.
The IPO could indicate OpenAI and Anthropic have grown confident enough in their respective paths to profitability to face Wall Street. OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment regarding the timing of their IPO filings.
But the numbers are just the beginning. Analysts will likely grill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about the future of their businesses and upcoming products on earnings calls, looking for signs that they have endless potential for growth.
That means they may have to answer publicly about things like delays in upcoming model releases, and how they plan to translate those models into paid products. Product pivots, like OpenAI’s decision to shutter its video app Sora, will likely face much more questioning.
“Private investors can back a vision and wait years for results,” Green wrote. “Public markets rarely offer that luxury.”
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