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AI needs more than Nvidia chips. Here are the companies ‘powering’ the AI buildout.
Finally, investors started to show some concern on Thursday, but by Friday, they were back and getting excited about the semis, which concerns me.
– $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
GE Aerospace offers a predictable business that features a massive backlog.
No end in sight for renewed U.S.-Iran pressures, Jensen Huang on China AI models and other headlines are moving stocks this morning.
This remains an either/or market. But the semis are at an important point and we’re watching to see if they can rally here.
A big down day yesterday, followed by a rally today. Let’s check in to see how investors are feeling.
Between new lows and an increase in downside volume it’s safe to say selling picked up quite a bit Wednesday.
I’m reducing some positions, but adding this highly speculative, low-priced data center name.