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Group 01

Semiconductor

AI models run on silicon. This is the stack that designs and builds it — the GPUs and custom accelerators that train and serve models, the foundry that fabricates them, and the lithography monopoly that makes leading-edge chips possible at all.

NVDA

NVIDIA · NASDAQ

$198.95

+2.00%
Market cap $4.72T

Designs the GPUs and full-rack systems that power nearly every frontier AI model. Its CUDA software and NVLink networking keep customers locked in.

Still the default choice for AI compute — data-center revenue keeps setting records.

3Y · Daily+332%

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices · NASDAQ

$472.12

-2.73%
Market cap $844B

Nvidia's chief GPU rival. Instinct accelerators and EPYC server CPUs give data centers a second source for AI compute.

A 6-gigawatt Instinct GPU partnership with OpenAI re-rated the stock within a year.

3Y · Daily+305%

AVGO

Broadcom · NASDAQ

$387.45

-0.10%
Market cap $1.71T

Builds custom AI chips (XPUs) for hyperscalers like Google and Meta. Also supplies the Ethernet silicon that links giant AI clusters.

The main alternative to Nvidia at hyperscale, with an enormous custom-chip backlog.

3Y · Daily+323%

MRVL

Marvell Technology · NASDAQ

$185.58

+1.24%
Market cap $215B

Designs custom AI accelerators for hyperscalers. Also makes the optical and networking chips that move data inside AI clusters.

A core custom-silicon supplier for AI data centers — big upside, big swings.

3Y · Daily+184%

TSM

Taiwan Semiconductor · NYSE

$404.00

+0.17%
Market cap $2.25T

The world's largest contract chip maker. Nearly every advanced AI processor is physically manufactured in its fabs.

The indispensable backbone of the AI boom — leading-edge capacity is effectively sold out.

3Y · Daily+311%

ASML

ASML Holding · NASDAQ

$1,625.19

-1.59%
Market cap $682B

Dutch maker of the EUV lithography machines needed to print the most advanced chips. A true monopoly at the leading edge.

Every leading-edge fab depends on ASML — the ultimate choke point of the AI-chip supply chain.

3Y · Daily+130%

In the news

Record AI capex keeps chip orders flowing

The big cloud providers have guided to another record year of AI infrastructure spending in 2026 — hundreds of billions of dollars combined — and nearly all of it flows through to advanced chips.

Company guidance

Leading-edge capacity is sold out

TSMC's most advanced nodes are booked out and it is pushing through price hikes, while ASML's EUV machines remain the sole gateway to making those chips. The supply chain has very little slack.

Industry reports

A sharper, pickier phase

One strategist warns the "lift-all-boats" AI semiconductor rally is giving way to a tougher phase where profitability separates winners from laggards — and "Big Short" investor Michael Burry has disclosed fresh shorts against Nvidia. Expect volatility.

24/7 Wall St. / Invesco

Group 02

Hyperscaler

The cloud giants racing to build AI data centers — and rent out the compute inside them. Their combined capital spending, running into the hundreds of billions a year, is what funds the entire AI build-out downstream.

MSFT

Microsoft · NASDAQ

$461.85

+2.38%
Market cap $2.90T

Sells AI three ways: Azure cloud, frontier models via OpenAI, and Copilot inside Office. AI flows through apps businesses already pay for.

Azure AI demand keeps outrunning the data-center capacity Microsoft can build.

3Y · Daily+38%

GOOGL

Alphabet · NASDAQ

$354.20

+6.16%
Market cap $4.35T

Runs Google Cloud, designs its own TPU chips, and builds the Gemini models. A fully integrated AI stack from silicon to software.

One of the few players that owns every layer, and its capital spending keeps climbing.

3Y · Daily+171%

AMZN

Amazon · NASDAQ

$270.50

+14.86%
Market cap $2.61T

Operates AWS, the world's largest cloud platform. Its own Trainium and Inferentia chips cut its reliance on Nvidia.

AWS is the single biggest renter of AI compute on the planet.

3Y · Daily+106%

META

Meta Platforms · NASDAQ

$553.90

+2.76%
Market cap $1.48T

One of the largest builders of hyperscale AI infrastructure. Its data centers and custom silicon power the Llama models and its ad engine.

Among the world's biggest AI spenders — the payoff shows up in sharper ad targeting.

3Y · Daily+73%

ORCL

Oracle · NYSE

$129.17

+1.26%
Market cap $404B

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has become a surprise AI-cloud winner. It signs huge multiyear deals to host AI training workloads.

Landed some of the largest cloud contracts ever signed, though the stock has pulled back from its highs.

3Y · Daily+10%

CRWV

CoreWeave · NASDAQ

$71.28

-3.55%
Market cap $44.6B

The leading "neocloud" — a pure-play AI hyperscaler. It rents Nvidia GPU capacity at scale to AI labs and enterprises.

A pure bet on AI-compute rental demand: explosive growth, high volatility.

3Y · Daily+79%

In the news

Hundreds of billions in AI capex

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta are collectively guiding to record data-center spending in 2026 — the capital that funds the entire AI supply chain downstream.

Company guidance

Power is the new bottleneck

McKinsey & Co. warns that current energy supply cannot keep up with data-center demand. Increasingly it is grid access — not chips — that decides where AI gets built.

McKinsey & Co.

Big Tech goes nuclear

Microsoft signed a 20-year power deal with Constellation to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1; Amazon and Google have signed nuclear and SMR deals of their own. The hyperscaler theme and the nuclear theme are becoming the same trade.

Constellation / Microsoft

Group 03

Nuclear Power

AI data centers need firm, carbon-free, around-the-clock electricity — exactly what nuclear provides. A new generation of small modular reactors (SMRs) is racing to plug that gap, with Washington firmly behind it.

OKLO

Oklo · NYSE

$38.80

-5.58%
Market cap $9.1B

Builds compact Aurora fast reactors sold as power-as-a-service to data centers. Sam Altman took it public in 2024.

Won a key U.S. safety approval for its first Idaho reactor and locked in fuel for a Meta data-center project.

3Y · Daily+276%

SMR

NuScale Power · NYSE

$8.36

-2.79%
Market cap $2.9B

The only small-modular-reactor design approved by the U.S. nuclear regulator. Its 77 MW factory-built modules stack into full power plants.

Construction on its 6 GW Tennessee Valley Authority program could begin later this year.

3Y · Daily+12%

CEG

Constellation Energy · NASDAQ

$266.30

+1.04%
Market cap $85.9B

Operates the largest nuclear fleet in the United States. The default partner when a hyperscaler wants firm, carbon-free power.

Signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft to restart Three Mile Island purely to feed AI data centers.

3Y · Daily+173%

CCJ

Cameco · NYSE

$85.93

-2.61%
Market cap $42.0B

One of the world's largest uranium producers and co-owner of Westinghouse. A picks-and-shovels play on any nuclear build-out.

Every new reactor needs uranium — Cameco supplies the front end of the fuel cycle.

3Y · Daily+150%

LEU

Centrus Energy · NYSE

$176.00

-0.42%
Market cap $3.1B

The only company enriching uranium on U.S. soil. Also the first licensed Western producer of HALEU, the fuel most next-gen SMRs need.

HALEU supply is the choke point for the whole SMR industry, and Centrus is the first mover.

3Y · Daily+377%

VST

Vistra · NYSE

$148.30

-0.21%
Market cap $50.9B

One of the largest independent U.S. power producers, pairing nuclear with gas and batteries. Increasingly contracted straight to data centers.

A go-to merchant supplier of firm, carbon-free power for round-the-clock AI demand.

3Y · Daily+431%

In the news

Trump's race to criticality by July 4

President Trump's executive orders set a goal of three new reactors reaching criticality by Independence Day 2026 — America's 250th birthday. The first, from Antares Nuclear, went critical on June 4, a month ahead of the deadline.

Washington Examiner / NPR

$17.5B in federal loans for nuclear

The Department of Energy is making up to $17.5 billion in conditional loans available to expand the U.S. nuclear supply chain, as the administration targets 400 GW of nuclear capacity by 2050 — roughly four times today's fleet.

U.S. Department of Energy

Stadium-scale power, in perspective

An analysis of the 2026 FIFA World Cup estimates Dallas will use about 900,000 kWh of electricity across its nine matches. A single 77 MW SMR module generates that much in roughly half a day — one small reactor could power the world's biggest football tournament many times over.

Payless Power World Cup analysis

Group 04

Memory and Storage

AI doesn't just need compute — it needs somewhere to hold the data. High-bandwidth memory sits beside every GPU, and the flood of AI data has to be stored somewhere. A multi-year shortage of DRAM and NAND has turned the memory and storage makers into one of the most leveraged plays on the same build-out.

MU

Micron Technology · NASDAQ

$812.48

-7.11%
Market cap $1.10T

The only U.S.-based maker of DRAM and NAND memory. A leading supplier of the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) beside every AI accelerator.

Record results and unprecedented multiyear contracts as DRAM and NAND stay in acute shortage.

3Y · Daily+1063%

SNDK

SanDisk · NASDAQ

$1,205.00

-5.86%
Market cap $258B

Pure-play NAND flash maker spun out of Western Digital in 2025. Supplies the flash inside SSDs, devices and AI data centers.

The best-performing large-cap of early 2026, riding a multi-year NAND shortage.

3Y · Daily+3275%

WDC

Western Digital · NASDAQ

$537.00

+0.74%
Market cap $186B

Now the pure hard-disk-drive leader after spinning off SanDisk. Its high-capacity drives store data-center and AI-training data.

Bulk hard drives are the cheapest home for AI's exabytes, and hyperscalers are buying every drive.

3Y · Daily+1582%

STX

Seagate Technology · NASDAQ

$850.39

-0.15%
Market cap $184B

The other hard-disk-drive giant. Its HAMR technology packs ever more capacity onto each drive for hyperscale storage.

HAMR drives command premium pricing, pushing Seagate to record highs.

3Y · Daily+1211%

SIMO

Silicon Motion · NASDAQ

$252.00

-1.22%
Market cap $10.1B

Designs the controller chips that make NAND flash usable in SSDs and memory cards. A picks-and-shovels supplier to every flash maker.

Rising NAND demand lifts controller volumes across the whole SSD market.

3Y · Daily+300%

NTAP

NetApp · NASDAQ

$178.00

+2.31%
Market cap $30.2B

Sells enterprise all-flash storage arrays and hybrid-cloud data management. The systems layer that turns raw drives into AI-ready infrastructure.

All-flash and AI workloads keep its storage systems in demand.

3Y · Daily+126%

In the news

A memory supercycle, not a blip

Micron says DRAM and NAND are so tight it is signing multiyear take-or-pay contracts — unheard of in a famously boom-and-bust industry — and expects demand for high-performance memory to run through at least 2027.

Micron / The Motley Fool

SanDisk leads the whole market

SanDisk was the best-performing stock of the first half of 2026 as a NAND flash shortage repriced the entire memory complex. Analysts argue the shares still aren't expensive given a multi-year shortage outlook.

The Motley Fool

The bear case: Burry is short

"Big Short" investor Michael Burry disclosed new short positions against Micron and Nvidia, and one strategist warns the "lift-all-boats" AI trade is over as capacity eventually catches up. Memory is the most cyclical corner of the AI trade — a reminder these are volatile names.

24/7 Wall St.

Group 05

Software

The application layer of AI — the platforms and tools that turn raw models into products enterprises and governments actually use, from data operating systems to autonomous AI agents to cybersecurity.

PLTR

Palantir · NASDAQ

$122.76

+0.41%
Market cap $297B

Sells AI operating platforms — AIP, Foundry and Gotham. They put large language models to work inside governments and Fortune-500 workflows.

One of the purest software plays on enterprise AI adoption.

3Y · Daily+516%

CRM

Salesforce · NYSE

$183.44

+1.51%
Market cap $136B

The largest customer-relationship-management platform. Now pushing Agentforce, autonomous AI agents inside its enterprise apps.

Betting its next leg of growth on AI agents sold on top of the customer data it already hosts.

3Y · Daily-18%

NOW

ServiceNow · NYSE

$110.37

+0.27%
Market cap $110B

Runs the workflow platform big enterprises use for IT, HR and operations. AI is layered across every module.

A leading pick for AI agents embedded in day-to-day enterprise systems.

3Y · Daily-6%

SNOW

Snowflake · NYSE

$291.11

-2.34%
Market cap $90B

The cloud platform where enterprises store and query their data. Now adding AI and analytics tools on top.

Enterprise AI needs data in one place, and Snowflake is where much of it lives.

3Y · Daily+66%

CRWD

CrowdStrike · NASDAQ

$190.74

+2.98%
Market cap $198B

The leading cloud-native cybersecurity platform. Uses AI to stop threats across endpoints, cloud and identity.

AI powers new attacks too, keeping AI-driven security in durable demand.

3Y · Daily+360%

DDOG

Datadog · NASDAQ

$267.00

-0.58%
Market cap $93B

The observability platform that monitors cloud apps and infrastructure. Increasingly the tool teams use to watch AI systems in production.

As AI apps go live, monitoring those workloads becomes its own growth driver.

3Y · Daily+133%

In the news

Software left for dead — wrongly?

After the market rotated into AI hardware, one veteran analyst argues investors have "wrongly left software for dead," betting the application layer is where AI value ultimately accrues.

24/7 Wall St.

From models to agents

The enterprise-AI story is shifting from chatbots to autonomous "agents" that take actions inside business systems — the reason Salesforce, ServiceNow and Palantir are racing to embed them.

Industry reports

Data is the fuel

Enterprises can't deploy AI without their data organized and governed first, keeping data platforms like Snowflake central to nearly every AI project.

Industry reports

Group 06

Data Center Infrastructure

Chips and capital don't become AI on their own — someone has to build the data centers. This is the physical and operational backbone: the buildings, the power and cooling, the networking, the servers, and the specialized "neoclouds" that rent it all out.

VRT

Vertiv Holdings · NYSE

$240.71

+5.81%
Market cap $115B

Supplies the power, cooling and thermal systems that keep dense AI racks running. A direct picks-and-shovels play on the data-center build-out.

Liquid cooling for AI racks is a fast-growing product line.

3Y · Daily+811%

NBIS

Nebius Group · NASDAQ

$186.75

-0.89%
Market cap $51.7B

An AI "neocloud" spun out of Yandex. Builds and rents GPU cloud capacity to AI developers.

A pure-play bet on renting AI compute, backed by an Nvidia investment.

3Y · Daily+852%

ETN

Eaton · NYSE

$414.00

+7.01%
Market cap $155B

A power-management giant. Supplies the switchgear and backup systems that feed power into data centers.

Its data-center order book has swelled with the AI build-out.

3Y · Daily+90%

ANET

Arista Networks · NYSE

$179.06

+4.70%
Market cap $201B

Builds the high-speed Ethernet switches that link thousands of GPUs into one AI cluster. The networking backbone of large training systems.

The hyperscaler favorite for solving AI's networking bottleneck.

3Y · Daily+289%

SMCI

Super Micro Computer · NASDAQ

$28.16

+1.56%
Market cap $17.6B

Assembles AI servers and full racks, including liquid-cooled systems. Ships Nvidia and AMD silicon to data centers at speed.

A high-beta way to play AI server demand — the most volatile name in this group.

3Y · Daily-16%

DLR

Digital Realty · NYSE

$188.60

-2.38%
Market cap $62.0B

A data-center REIT that owns and leases the physical buildings. The real estate AI compute actually sits in.

Landlord to the AI boom: demand for space is outrunning supply.

3Y · Daily+53%

In the news

Power is the real constraint

McKinsey warns that energy supply — not chips — is increasingly what decides where AI gets built, putting a premium on the power and cooling that Vertiv and Eaton supply.

McKinsey & Co.

Cooling gets harder

AI racks draw so much power that air cooling no longer keeps up; the shift to liquid cooling is reshaping data-center design and demand for specialized equipment.

Industry reports

Neoclouds race the giants

Specialized GPU clouds like Nebius and CoreWeave are spending heavily to rent AI compute to labs and enterprises — high growth, but also high cash burn and share-price volatility.

Industry reports

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