September Monthly Roundup: 5 Focus Areas as Portfolio Keeps Its YTD Lead
We raised cash early, put some back to work late in the month, locked in gains on Meta and kicked off our quarterly EPS All-Stars reconstitution.
We raised cash early, put some back to work late in the month, locked in gains on Meta and kicked off our quarterly EPS All-Stars reconstitution.
Storage, networking and optical infrastructure may be less glamorous in the world of AI, but these 8 names keep the traffic moving.
An updated look at S&P 500 support levels as we stick to the sidelines.
Plus, Ciena gets an upgrade, market index changes, and Well Fargo on diesel prices.
– $AEMD +403% (merger agreement with North Immunology adds an IL-13 x IL-18 bispecific-antibody program for atopic dermatitis)
– $GNRC +30% (Amazon supply agreement includes $2.4B of backup-generator deliveries expected during 2027-2028)
– $VEEA +30% (non-binding combination term sheet with NovaGen targets a $750M AI-health platform)
– $DTSS +12% (strategic cooperation expands into AI-powered elderly-care robots in China)
– $MEDS +12% (Helomics acquisition expands its cancer-diagnostics and precision-oncology platform)
– $VICR +12% (licenses its vertical power-delivery technology to a leading AI OEM)
– $NBIS +9.0% (reported AI-compute price increases signal stronger pricing power amid constrained capacity)
– $IREN +5.5%, CIFR +6.3% (AI-compute peers gain on the pricing-power read-through from NBIS)
– $APLD +5.8%, HUT +5.0%, WULF +4.7% (Wells Fargo initiates the data-center infrastructure names at Overweight)
– $NOK +5.0% (expands its Microsoft partnership by integrating network-automation data tools with Microsoft Fabric)
– $BE +4.5%, $GEV +3.3% (data-center power names gain as the Amazon-GNRC agreement reinforces hyperscaler power demand)
– LCID +4.2% (partners with Bolt to deploy at least 25,000 Level 4 autonomous vehicles across Europe)
– QGEN +3.5% (traders circulating German press report saying Qiagen attracts interest from KKR, Advent, TPG)
– GLW +3.7%, ANET ($ANET) +2.7%, CIEN +3.2% (AI networking and optical names rise as compute pricing points to continued infrastructure tightness)
– MRVL ($MRVL) +3.5%, LRCX +3.6%, INTC +3.2%, TER +3.6%, AMAT +3.2%, KLAC +3.2% (semiconductors rebound with technology shares after the Fed decision clears a major policy-event overhang)
– LGVN -49% (Phase 2b ELPIS II trial in hypoplastic left heart syndrome missed its primary efficacy endpoint)
– DLXY -45% (reverses sharply after a non-binding LOI covering up to a 48% interest in a Kazakhstan oil-field project)
– FLNC -22% (cuts FY guidance as supply-chain issues and delays ramping its Houston manufacturing facility drive a much larger expected loss)
– S -3.9% (no clear fresh catalyst identified; notable liquid cybersecurity move)
– BDX -3.5% (no clear fresh catalyst identified; unusually large premarket move in the medical-device name)
– LEN ($LEN) -1.3% (quarter missed and forward guidance disappointed as affordability pressure continued to weigh on homebuilding demand)
Source: Trade The News
Boeing CEO on production ramp, CruxAI funding and other headlines moving the market this morning.
Here are consensus EPS figures, RSI levels, potential pickup points and more for the Portfolio’s holdings.
A tried and true bullish pattern is emerging.
Let’s scan through the headlines for the stories of the week that speak to our Pro Portfolio holdings.
During a week of outperformance vs. the S&P, we closed out one holding, locking in substantial gains that rebuilt our cash position.