Consumer Crunch Intensifies… And International Opportunity 5/11/26

11 May 2026 · 43 min · 30 chapters

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The episode is a Fast Money market segment focused on a “consumer crunch” and what could offset it with international opportunity. Hosts discuss retail weakness (XRT down ~3.5% with Target down ~5% and Dollar General down ~8%), upcoming Q1 retail earnings (Home Depot, Target, Walmart), and how high gas prices, tariffs, and AI-driven job cuts may weigh on discretionary spending. They debate whether the consumer is truly deteriorating versus “K-shaped” effects (strong labor share, weaker white-collar confidence). They also pivot to commodities and global markets: copper hitting fresh highs, emerging markets ETFs gaining, and international relative strength versus the U.S. Key examples include TJX and Walmart momentum tests, Nintendo Switch price increases ($450 to $500), and oil/gas price forecasts.

Guests

Jim Caron (Morgan Stanley Asset Management CIO, Portfolio Solutions Group) and Mike Schlesser (FormFactor CEO). Additional guest-like segment: Katie Stockton (technical analyst) and Megan Casella (reporting on Trump China CEO list).

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Retail Sector Performance Overview

1:46 to 2:26

An analysis of the current state of the retail sector amidst market highs.

“Well, Socks, ending the day marginally higher with the S &P and NASDAQ closing at fresh records, but not every sector taking part in this record-breaking rally.”

Impacts of Earnings on Retail Outlook

2:26 to 3:09

Discussing upcoming retail earnings and potential impacts on consumer sentiment.

“I think you're going to hear that for sure because there's no reason for them not to say that, number one.”

Consumer Health Insights

3:09 to 4:04

Exploring insights on consumer health and spending amid economic pressures.

“And the street is comfortable keeping them up here at this multiple because of technology, because of the grocery business provides a lot of resilience.”

Job Market Dynamics and Consumer Behavior

4:04 to 4:50

Analyzing job market trends and their influence on consumer confidence.

“Yeah, I'd point you to the banks, though.”

Discretionary Spending vs Necessities

4:50 to 5:46

The contrast between discretionary spending and essential purchases in the market.

“But if that's where you're starting to see a lot of job cuts, that's where you could see some pressure on a higher-earning consumer.”

Impact of Fuel Prices on Consumer Sentiment

5:46 to 7:11

Discussing how rising gas prices affect consumer behavior and spending.

“So if you took those out, it's a totally different picture.”

Retail Valuations and Market Trends

7:11 to 8:37

Examining the valuations of major retailers and their market performance.

“And what we heard from the energy companies, too, is that they think that gas prices are going to be 50 to 75 cents higher a year out the road.”

Brand Resilience in Tough Times

8:37 to 10:56

How certain brands maintain consumer loyalty and perform well during economic strain.

“So when you think of that valuation, I think that's a big part of it.”

Consumer Insights with Jim Caron

10:56 to 11:47

Insights from Jim Caron on consumer behavior and economic conditions.

“It's fascinating, too, because, you know, Starbucks has actually done OK in here, right?”

Outlook on the Consumer and Market Trends

11:47 to 14:00

Discussing the outlook for consumers and identifying market trends for investment.

“So, look, we always have to be worried about the consumer because it's such a large part of GDP.”
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Analyzing Consumer Sentiment and Market Trends

14:00 to 15:55

Understand the current market dynamics and investment strategies in consumer sectors.

“But I think from a cash flow perspective, when I do just kind of cash flow analysis and come back to present value, at 475, I start to look at some of these valuations.”

Discussing Oil as a Hedge and Market Performance

15:55 to 18:14

Explore the use of oil futures as a hedge and the implications for market volatility.

“I think it's a fascinating dynamic, although I just worry whether at this point, first of all, you've already seen some of the energy names give back something.”

The Copper Market and Commodity Trends

18:14 to 20:18

Examine the recent performance of copper and broader commodity trends.

“So if you're going to actually put, we saw this 30 years ago.”

CEO Snubs and Tech Industry Dynamics

20:18 to 21:46

Learn about the implications of CEO omissions from significant events and their effects on tech companies.

“We'll ask the traders if the stock can bounce back or if the streaming giant has more room to fall.”

NVIDIA's Absence and Market Concerns

21:46 to 24:25

Discuss the potential market impacts of NVIDIA's absence from key discussions with the U.S. government.

“Who is who if CEOs set to join President Trump on his trip to China for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, BlackRock's Larry Fink, Boeing's Kelly Ortberg, among the biggest names there.”

NVIDIA Breakout Potential and Market Analysis

24:25 to 25:56

Analyze NVIDIA's stock performance and its breakout potential in the current market environment.

“And so when you think about Jensen not being there, and you think about what they want to do, right, they want their technology to be embedded all over the world.”

Netflix's Performance and Future Outlook

26:54 to 28:00

Investigate Netflix's recent stock decline and potential strategies for recovery.

“OnDeck's loans up to$400 ,000 make it happen fast.”

Netflix Market Outlook

28:00 to 31:11

Discussion on Netflix's current market position and future strategies.

“Tim flagged this on the call earlier today.”

Introduction of Form Factor CEO

31:11 to 32:02

Introduction of CEO Mike Schlesser and his insights on the semiconductor industry.

“Starting the week in the green, the Dow climbing 95 points.”

Semiconductor Industry Dynamics

32:02 to 38:00

Mike Schlesser discusses the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry and current demand trends.

“You've been CEO since 2014, so you've seen this industry through cycles.”

Future of Capex in Semiconductors

38:00 to 39:24

Insights on future capital expenditures and the effects of Moore's Law in the semiconductor space.

“You know, this parabolic move, it's a five-bagger, I think, since September of last year, which is extraordinary and deservedly so.”

The Soane Conference Announcement

39:24 to 40:10

Announcement of the upcoming Soane Conference and its focus on childhood cancer.

“Coming up, charting abroad, what Katie Stockton sees in the international technicals and how it's holding up to the market stateside.”

International Market Trends

40:10 to 42:02

Analysis of international market performance and emerging market opportunities.

“ETS for the international market continue to make gains this year.”

Emerging Markets vs. Developed Markets

42:02 to 42:40

Explore why emerging markets are outperforming developed ones, particularly in tech.

“There is a math equation here that's helping.”

Upcoming Topics on Fast Money

42:40 to 42:58

Preview of upcoming discussions on Circle and Bitcoin mining.

“The hundreds of millions being raised by the stablecoin issuer and what Katie is seeing in the Bitcoin miner technicals.”

Circle's Growth and Market Sentiment

42:58 to 44:17

Analysis of Circle's market performance and broader crypto sentiment.

“Circle shares surging 16 % today after beating EPS estimates for the quarter.”

Performance of Coinbase and Robinhood

44:17 to 45:35

Discussion on the performance and future outlook for Coinbase and Robinhood.

“Exceptionally high beta, so high risk in a way.”

Final Trades and Market Predictions

45:35 to 46:22

The hosts share their final trade recommendations and market outlooks.

“At this EM discussion, Kate Webb, going higher.”

Final Trades and Market Predictions

46:40 to 46:58

The hosts share their final trade recommendations and market outlooks.

“You should not treat any opinion expressed on this podcast as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of an opinion.”

Final Trades and Market Predictions

47:02 to 47:16

The hosts share their final trade recommendations and market outlooks.

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1:28Tim Seymour:over the past year. And charting overseas, a top technician takes her technicals abroad, the opportunities she sees in the international trade and emerging markets. I'm Melissa Lee, coming to you live from Sudiubi at the NASDAQ. On the desk tonight, Tim Seymour, Dan Nathan, Guy Damian, Katie Sockton, founder and managing partner at Fair Lead Strategies. Well, Socks, ending the day marginally higher with the S &P and NASDAQ closing at fresh records, but not every sector taking part in this record-breaking rally. Check out retail. The group betting hit hard today, the XRT down over 3.5%, riding a three-week losing streak into today's session.

2:00Tim Seymour:All but five constituents in that ETF ended in negative territory. Target dropping over 5%. Dollar General sinking nearly 8 % for its worst day since August 2024. Ralph Lauren off by more than 4 % in Home Depot, down almost 2%. Now at November 2023 lows. All of this as we are waiting for Q1 earnings from retail, which start next week with the aforementioned Home Depot, Target, and Walmart. So, well, the commentary from these companies about energy, food prices, potential shopper, added stress to an already crunched consumer. What do you think, Guy?

2:35Melissa Lee:I think you're going to hear that for sure because there's no reason for them not to say that, number one. Number two, I think they're telling a bit of a story here. We had a call. I said Home Depot at a 52-week low. Tim corrected me correctly and said it's actually a multi-year low. That, to me, is somewhat problematic, and it speaks to a consumer, despite what you hear, that's not in the great shape that I think a lot of pundits want to make you believe they are. It's interesting, too, because as we get into Walmart and even Target, I mean, the bar is high. And I know it doesn't sound like it's high for Target, but I mean, and I know Target's had a tough couple days, but is up almost 30 % year to date.

3:09Walmart's trading anywhere from 40 to 43 times, depending on your number. And the street is comfortable keeping them up here at this multiple because of technology, because of the grocery business provides a lot of resilience. But it's just fascinating. Meanwhile, discretionary, talk about being early for trade. I thought like three years ago, we were going to see the move that we've seen in names like Anan and Lulu and whatnot. And at one point after being short, I covered Lulu way too early. My point is discretionary looked like it was going to topple a long time ago. To me, on fundamentals that are the same ones that we have today, it hasn't been that way.

3:46But if you look across apparel and you look across athleisure and you look across a very, I think, competitive space there, I don't think you're going near those names. Lulu continues to set new lows. And remember, a lot of these names were going into this downdraft at margin profiles for their businesses that were extremely high. They're not going to hold them.

4:05Melissa Lee:Yeah, I'd point you to the banks, though. You know, we heard from the money center banks, it feels like it was a month ago, right? And all of them talked about the resilience of a consumer. But, you know, at that point, we hadn't seen oil climb to the prices that it's been for as long as it's been. So it'll be interesting to see if we see any of those companies kind of update that view. And then on the flip side of that is if you look at like Capital One, and we've been talking about this, if you look at American Express, and those are different ends of that K-shaped, and neither of those stocks act particularly well, right?

4:33Melissa Lee:And so when I think about what's been going on in the labor market, we've seen a lot of layoffs in areas where it's not blue-collar. It's not lower earners. These are white-collar jobs at big tech companies and some big industrial companies, and they're kind of speaking to AI for all intents and purposes. I know that that's not something that a lot of folks are out there think politically makes a lot of sense. But if that's where you're starting to see a lot of job cuts, that's where you could see some pressure on a higher-earning consumer. And make no mistake about it. I mean, the wealth effect from the stock market is certainly helping that upper sort of K.

5:07Melissa Lee:Should I stop saying the K thing? It's fine. Yeah. I mean, it's the third time. Well, let's not do it three times. But, you know, I mean, that's something that could actually end up avoiding or kind of really weighing on the higher earning.

5:19Tim Seymour:I mean, GM just today announcing that it's going to be laying off 500, 600 salaried workers because of a reorganization of their IT department. You got Cloudflare, Upwork, Coinbase, PayPal, all citing AI as reasons behind their cuts. And these are all salaried workers here. So you got to wonder when is that going to start to trickle in in terms of even just the mentality of the consumer feeling whether or not their job is safe. As for the consumer discretionary, I mean, that index masks a lot because of the presence of Amazon and Tesla. So if you took those out, it's a totally different picture.

5:54It's really very diverse. And when you compare it to the staples, so XLY divided by XLP, you don't see much. It's not that informative because it's really a neutral bias. So I feel like this tug of war doesn't tell the whole story, which, of course, is that the discretionary space is quite weak once you dig under the surface. If you look at that XRT ETF, the retailers, they look a bit like the early stages of a head and shoulders top formation. So we'd need to see downside follow through for that to be confirmed. but the momentum is obviously poor. It is somewhat nice to not talk about the semiconductor sector, though, I have to say.

6:32Melissa Lee:You know, it makes sense. That'll come soon enough. We'll bring it up tonight. But you think about consumer confidence, and I think part of the reason why consumer confidence is as poor as it is, one, because inflation is still a problem, two, with the things you just cited, people are worried what AI is going to do in terms of their job security, and I think that's a valid argument right now. We're clearly not seeing it in the jobs numbers, but it's just a matter of time before it finds its way in. But I do think it's made its way into the psyche for sure.

6:57Tim Seymour:I mean, Memorial Day is around the corner, and you know what happens around then. People drive places. And that's when you're really going to feel it at the pump. When you're driving long distances, you're paying$4.50 a gallon or maybe higher by that time. I don't think there's any question that that's starting to feed into people. And what we heard from the energy companies, too, is that they think that gas prices are going to be 50 to 75 cents higher a year out the road. What we're hearing also just from the analysts on the street in terms of the oil industry, there's no question that if we got the Straits to open, we've done all this math, oil prices and therefore gas prices are staying high until the end of the year.

7:35We talked about the labor market. It's been actually remarkably stable to this point. And I think you're right to be getting into the confidence factors. I just think it really is a case where there's so much that people don't need to buy. There are needs versus, so necessities versus, you know, kind of that discretionary purchase. And I think that's really what it's boiled down to. It's also interesting to me, like a name like TJ Maxx, that was one of the great charts, one of the great success stories in retail for a long time. That chart's rolled over. I mean, that chart's now through the 200.

8:06That was as great of a chart as you could have seen. I think the real test will be. Walmart's going to have great things to say, but I would just get back to the big box stores. I mean, that is in the hard lines. That's where you're going to see if there's any chance that the market wants to sniff out the leadership starting to fail.

8:25Tim Seymour:I mean, I think a question for Walmart is should it be trading more expensively than an AI company, more expensively than an NVIDIA?

8:33Melissa Lee:I don't know. Well, I think there's so few places to go right now in retail. And I think that's been a very consensus trade, right? So when you think of that valuation, I think that's a big part of it. It's just, you know, these guys are just mentioning all these stocks that are making 52-week lows. Look at Best Buy. I mean, Best Buy sells a lot of stuff that's also in Walmart, right? And so a lot of these companies are just, I mean, we just saw earnings growth, X retail. That was really good. I mean, we went into earnings season and expectations were for like mid-teens EPS growth year over year.

9:01Melissa Lee:I think it came in at like 18 or 19%. So for all intents and purposes, either margins are doing really well at the expense of consumers or at the expense of other businesses that don't have, you know, the pricing power. or we're about to see what looks like a really interesting barbell approach to very crowded names like Walmart, which does look like a semi, but there's very few that look like that in the sector. You know, I think we don't want to see these names fall below their 50-day moving averages in general and targets the most recent example following TJX and Walmart could be next. I think it's information right there where I wouldn't even put them in the same category as tech at all in the way they look or the way they've been behaving.

9:45But when you see that 50-day moving average taken out, it's a very simple and straightforward gauge of a loss of intermediate-term momentum, not just short-term.

9:52Melissa Lee:The commentary around a lot of these things, I go back to the Domino's CEO, but we heard from Shake Shack. I mean, there's concern around the health of the consumer without question. I mean, we had people talking about consumer sentiment that mirrored what we saw during COVID, which is obviously problematic. TJX on the 20th, Tim is right, over the last couple of weeks, it's had a sharp decline. it's been able to get itself off the map. But if people start looking at valuation, they're going to start looking at this a lot more close.

10:17Tim Seymour:And what did Nintendo announce today? Price increases for the Switch console because of memory price increases and tariff impacts. So it goes from$450 to$500. It's a big deal. A big percentage, right? Especially for a gamer-like guy. I mean, you don't have a lot of... No, but that's a small price for a big gamer-like guy because it's going to put so much use into the console. And like the Nintendo has also suffered from just this age segmentation. And we can really choose who are either the folks that are too young or the people that might be a little too. The point being, a lot of these things are going to be more expensive for a consumer who does not want to pay more or cannot pay more for PCs or phones or consoles.

10:56I think there are places where, as we've seen, there are brands that are able to carve out their space. It's fascinating, too, because, you know, Starbucks has actually done OK in here, right? We got a nice guide out of Starbucks and a resilient just outlook in terms of where they're going. I think those brands that have that ability to hold the consumer, you're going to pay for your coffee. Yeah. Last thing.

11:16Melissa Lee:I mean, we haven't even mentioned tariffs. Right. We're going to talk about the president going to China. But this is a real one to punch. If you think about like really what's happened here, we've been talking about who eats that tax. Well, it looks to me that the consumer is eating, especially when you kind of figure out what's going on with earnings. And it's been that way for a couple of quarters here.

11:33Tim Seymour:For more on the markets, let's bring in Jim Caron. He's the chief investment officer of Morgan Stanley Asset Management's Portfolio Solutions Group. Jim, great to have you with us. Thank you. Are we all being too Debbie Downer about the consumer? I mean, is this something that you're concerned about or you think everything is fine? Because on at least the headline level, it's not showing up in the data. Yeah. So, look, we always have to be worried about the consumer because it's such a large part of GDP. I have a slightly more optimistic outlook. So, look, I know gasoline prices are high. That's going to weigh on the consumer.

12:03But as you're pointing out, it's not really showing up in the data. So the other thing that we have to look at is jobs. Jobs is going to be a very, very big part of this. So we can look at the nonfarm payrolls data. I prefer to look at the weekly jobless claims. The weekly jobless claims, I think, has just a better signal. That's been rock solid. Now, when we think about the consumer overall, we also have to think of two segments. And I like to break this down into two parts of GDP. One's the capital share of GDP, so that's a lot of the white-collar work. And then one's the labor share of GDP.

12:32The labor share of GDP, which is the majority of people, is actually really strong right now. So try to get an electrician to come to your house. Try to get a plumber to come to your house. Try to get your car fixed, right? There are help-wanted signs everywhere, and these are relatively high-paying jobs. And I think that's flying under the radar.

12:49Melissa Lee:Why are you grimacing? Well, because last week Tim brought up that I'm on one of these websites. Because he's job stacking. I mean, look, things that pass money, you know. I mean, look, you got to always do. I'm just kidding. Things are great here.

13:02Tim Seymour:So in terms of the capital share, I mean, we see all these headlines. Do you think that's going to eventually show up? Because if AI is going to be worth the money, it should save you money on labor, theoretically. So ultimately higher productivity. But it's also going to, I think personally, you know, AI, I think, is going to create a lot of jobs. There's a lot of opportunities. There's something called the Jevons paradox, right? You know, where things get cheaper, so therefore you need more of it. You know, you can just do it more efficiently. I think a lot of that is happening right now. So yes, there is a transition period.

13:35Things are going to start to hurt, and you're going to see the headlines that are going to come out. But ultimately, I think that, you know, on a longer-term basis, what the markets are telling you is that we're going to look through this, and there's going to be a lot of creative destruction. And that's a really big theme right now for us. Jim, when do 10-year yields start to hurt? 475, in my opinion. So it doesn't mean that we don't notice it if 10-year yields go above 450, because it's kind of a nice, even number that we like to look at. But I think from a cash flow perspective, when I do just kind of cash flow analysis and come back to present value, at 475, I start to look at some of these valuations.

14:11And some of the valuations aren't so bad, but it still starts to make it a bit more challenging. And if you start to make progress to that level, people are gonna start talking about 5%, and then it can take on a life of its own. Jim, ex-tech, you just said

14:23Melissa Lee:you're generally optimistic about a consumer. Where do you go? Because we know that tech has been driving a lot of the performance, a lot of the EPS growth that we're seeing year over year? So I think it's pretty broad, right? So we tend to think of things in terms of themes, like where is the money going, right? And we try to get ahead of the money. We don't want to follow the money, right? So there's a lot of capital. There's a lot of changes that are taking place. Areas that we like are financials, but primarily in the regional banks, healthcare, right? So mainly the managed care sectors. I like looking at value companies that are using AI to unlock operating leverage, right?

14:56So there's a lot of companies out there, traditional value, old world industrial companies that are doing that really, really well. Caterpillar is an example of that, right? You know, so we can look at that as a stock that's done really, really well. And a lot of it's because they're using a lot of that technology. So is it a growth stock? Is it a value stock? The lines are pretty blurred. So we're not looking at any one particular sector, but we are looking company specific and we create thematic baskets to express these views in our strategies.

15:26Tim Seymour:And you're using oil as a hedge. Oil as a hedge, right? Because look, I mean, if things come unraveled, oil's going higher, right? So we bought in this last dip that we had, we bought some oil futures and we just figured, look, if we can't get to an agreement, those prices are going to go up. But just like any hedge, if it starts to work, you don't own enough of it. It can, at the margin hedge of the portfolio, but it can definitely reduce the volatility in some of the walkier periods of time. Jim, great to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Jim and Karen. What do you think of that as a hedge?

15:58Oil. I think it's a fascinating dynamic, although I just worry whether at this point, first of all, you've already seen some of the energy names give back something. I think there's a consensus view that oil prices remain high to the end of this year, but then they're going to go back to, you know, I'll call it 15 percent north of where they're going to go. I don't think you're going to see the kind of response out of energy stocks as a straight hedge. I What Jim and his group do is fascinating. There are different periods where thematically you really can navigate a market like this that's over its skis in some places.

16:33I think what we saw with this market near the bottom, remember how we were seeing that individual stocks were really underperforming on the way down. It was the last 5 % or so of the market move that was really great to use index hedges, whether they be triple Qs or hedging ETFs. ETFs. I think we're in an environment right now where, as we've seen, individual stock performance is really the underperformance. And I'd be careful about trying to match with indices.

17:00Melissa Lee:Yeah. And I'll go to the bond market. You know, 4.4 percent, for whatever reason, has been this line in the sand where the administration starts saying things to sort of assuage the concerns that are out there. And it's worked. But here we are back at 440 again. And Jim mentioned four and three quarters. I think we're going there. Now, maybe we're going there for the right reasons. Maybe we're going there because growth is better than people expect. That might be part of it. I think the bigger part of it is the inflation concerns. Yeah, you know, Caterpillar is a name that's, you know, often used as a big beneficiary.

17:28Melissa Lee:Listen, every company that we know of is going to be a beneficiary. The question is, what is the cost right now to get up to speed to use this technology? I mean, we're seeing token pricing go up with consumption, right? And he just used Jevin's paradox. I mean, right now it's expensive and it's exploding, right? the cost right here. So you got to be able to get that return on investment at some time really soon. These stocks are being rewarded for that right now. And when you think about like Caterpillar in particular, their power and energy segment, like what do you think is going to be the most demand right now off a really small base or at some point in the future, once they've already met a lot of this demand.

18:06Melissa Lee:So when I look at a lot of stocks like this, it's a great narrative, but the pull forward, at least in the price right now is dramatic. And I think that the valuations that we're talking about, this stock has never traded like that. So if you're going to actually put, we saw this 30 years ago. Okay. We saw this when a lot of these companies started talking about the internet and what was going to mean for their business. And then the old economy stocks joined the new economy stocks. And then it was all over because everything got silly. And this is like an example of that right now.

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18:34Tim Seymour:Meantime, let's get to copper. That's been on a tear, closing at a fresh record high, now up almost 11 % in just the last week. the rally extending to the copper miners, MMG, Faraday Copper, Capstone Copper, Southern Copper, up double-digit percentages over the past five sessions. Katie, what do you see in the charts here? I think it's a breakout underway, and it feels like part of the broader sort of commodity bull cycle to us. We feel that we can see upside follow-through for copper, especially if it gets to an actual new high based on the generic contract, and there are no signs of upside exhaustion.

19:08So we're trying to respect the very meaningful long-term momentum shifts that we've seen in that area. That includes crude oil, which has a long-term momentum buy signal. And if we dial back to yields, they also are on the verge of that same signal. So the charts would definitely enhance what Guy is saying there with the yields potentially moving higher just in this longer-term slow shift. Look, commodities super cycle for sure. And I know it It seems like all we do is talk about gold and silver and things like that. How about iron ore? How about every part of the CRB rind? How about all types of feed inputs?

19:43And yes, copper is inflationary and it is Dr. Copper. And BHP and Rio Tinto, if you want an integrated miner, those are great charts. They're breaking out. That COPEX ETF is breaking out. Emerging markets, we're going to have a great conversation about this. I'll save it. I'll just say there's certain parts of the world that produce a lot of copper and they are in Latin America. So I think we've seen this trade before, and I think they go together, and I think you can find different pieces.

20:08Tim Seymour:Coming up, a CEO snub, President Trump being joined by CEOs of some of the largest companies. But there is one notable name that apparently didn't make the cut. Got more on that next. Plus, a binging beatdown as shares of Netflix continue to slide this month. We'll ask the traders if the stock can bounce back or if the streaming giant has more room to fall. Don't go anywhere. Fast Money is back in two.

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22:11And when Jim asked about the China trip, Jensen was a little coy. He said he'd let the president announce his decisions, but that if invited, he said it would be a privilege and a great honor to represent the United States and go to China with the president. Now, though, the list is out, and Jensen Huang is not on this list. And remember the timing. This trip comes as NVIDIA is awaiting approval from the Chinese government to be able to sell its H200 chips to Chinese firms. The U.S. government formally gave the green light back in January on that, but China has reportedly been blocking its companies from buying the chips.

22:43So what you would think be a lot to talk about there. Now, if you take a look at this list again, a range of industries are represented here. Micron and Qualcomm from the chip space, as well as Citi and Goldman, MasterCard and Visa, Cargill here as well. The expectation is that each of these executives may be signing some sort of an agreement with China, but we don't have much by way of specifics on that as of now. The White House is saying simply to expect deals in the aerospace, energy, and agricultural industries to come out of this trip.

23:10Tim Seymour:Melissa? All right, Megan, thanks. Megan Casella on that big trip. Do you think that it says something about whether or not NVIDIA will actually be able to export to China?

23:20Melissa Lee:No, I personally, I don't think so. I mean, I don't know why there's this omission, but I don't think it's a tell on the way NVIDIA is trading. And Tim's been talking about it. Certainly, the market doesn't seem to care. Well, it's a tell, though, because NVIDIA was very much a part of the Middle East trip in May of 25 when it was all about securing investment. All we talked about was like sovereign AI and where that was really you were starting to see a lot of follow through. So I just I think it's very complicated with NVIDIA. I think it might be a lot easier to have conversations because let's face it, what is China most concerned about?

23:52Yeah, you know, oil and stuff like that. It's all about supremacy of the internet and technology and innovation. That's all they care about. And NVIDIA is complicated right now.

24:03Melissa Lee:Well, I think the whole thing is complicated, right? If you think one wrong word about China and Taiwan, and it puts, you know, the president, and it puts us in a very difficult situation. If you look at the list of names, they all rely on this AI trade, or they're all involved in it. Even when you look at a Blackstone, you look at a Goldman Sachs, I mean, they're financing, they're banking, you know, and you can go, Boeing relies on, I mean, the list goes on and on. And so when you think about Jensen not being there, and you think about what they want to do, right, they want their technology to be embedded all over the world.

24:33Melissa Lee:And if China is not buying those chips, it makes it very difficult for certain parts of the world that are relying on China, like a digital belt and road for all intents and purposes. So to me, I think there is a scenario here where the wrong word about Taiwan could really be a difficult spot for us, for China, for Taiwan and Taiwan Semi.

24:53Tim Seymour:Taiwan Semi in particular. I mean, it is at the heart of all of the manufacture of all the chips. The hottest IPO, chip IPO that's going to come this week, Cerebris, makes its chips at Taiwan Semi. I mean, that's how intertwined this sort of trade is. We're talking about NVIDIA, And finally, it's broken well above 200, which is sort of like that line in the sand. So what do you see here? Well, it is a breakout, but it's not a confirmed breakout. And in this environment, we're always very adherent to our methodology because of how steep these rallies have been. So NVIDIA is up against this 212 resistance level.

25:26If it posts a couple of weekly closes above, that confirms a breakout. That would be a bullish intermediate term development within the long term uptrend. There are some minor signs of exhaustion from the DeMarc indicators, but breakouts can overrule those.

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25:44Melissa Lee:Netflix chilling out as shares continue to slide since its last earnings report. But can the streaming giant turn things around or is it time to say goodbye to the binging? Plus, talk about good form, the massive run in one semi-testing company, and what the CEO sees in store for the stock after rallying more than 400 % over the past year. You're watching Fast Money live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. We're back right after this.

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27:56Tim Seymour:And since the reported earnings on April 16th, Netflix is now down around 20 percent. Tim flagged this on the call earlier today. Well, it's seemingly one would have thought, let's get through this WBD thing. Let's get an outlook. There was a sense that when we got a 26 outlook, you know, a few months back, it was going to be better. In fact, it was soft and it was certainly not full of catalysts. And when a stock trades north of what basically all time highs on multiple, although not back where it was at 130 a share, it's certainly discounted from that. But the question is, what's going to get Netflix going?

28:30And I think we're going to need to see what's the next thing in terms of what are they what are they pushing in terms of new events? It's not going to be the traditional sports model. We got kind of excited that they were getting involved in these Christmas football games and whatnot. I think we're still all about their pricing power, what's going on internationally and the ad supported tier. But right now I've been adding to weakness over the last couple of weeks. It's not been a lot of fun. What do you feel about charts? You know, it's kind of a classic bearish reversal. Longer term, if you look at the monthly chart, you see all the indicators having rolled over.

29:06And then the relief rally off of that February low was very much characteristic of a countertrend move in how fast and furious it unfolded, came right up against the resistance at the 200-day moving average, which, of course, has also rolled over. And now it's pulled back already below initial support. So there's another 10 percent downside to the next support.

29:26Melissa Lee:Reed Hastings headline, I think, concerned a lot of people, maybe rightly so. I'm not sure, but, you know, I was one that thought once there was clarity on the Warner Brothers Paramount thing, the stock would get the 125, 130. It did not. It got to 107, I think. Now, all of a sudden, people are focused on valuation, which I don't think is ridiculous, but maybe it's expensive in an environment where growth is not there. Yeah, growth decelerating, I think, next year is probably what's kind of weighing on folks. But if you think about some of the options here, you know, I look at, you know, the Warner Brothers and the Paramount.

29:55Melissa Lee:I'd much rather own Netflix than this. I'd much rather own Netflix than most things in the entertainment space. Because to Tim's point, some of the things, some of the initiatives that they were putting in place prior to that bid, these are the things that are going to take a long-term sort of view. And that's what Reed Hastings was so good about. But I think the CEO who's been there the whole time, Sarandos, I mean, this is kind of the DNA in a way. So in many ways, I think they're probably going to use this unsettling period in media to kind of establish what the next 10 years are going to be like.

30:26How about this versus Disney? Well, I think what Dan is saying in terms of confidence, it's hard not to be confident in Netflix, given the execution that they've had. And again, I would just go out and say almost 70 percent of their engagement is non-English speaking in terms of, again, both the content and the hours engaged. But I think Disney has been clearly for what has been an investment for me. I've been an investor. This is a trader stock. And right now, I think the trade in Disney is a better trade.

30:57Tim Seymour:Coming up in equipment, Quintupling shares a semi-testing company. Form factor surging more than 400 percent over the past year. Can the rally keep running? The CEO will join us next, fresh off ringing the closing bell right here at the NASDAQ. Don't go anywhere. Fast Money is back in two.

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31:29Tim Seymour:Welcome back to Fast Money Stock. Starting the week in the green, the Dow climbing 95 points. The S &P and Nasdaq both with small gains, notching fresh record closes. Some after hours action, shares of hims and hers lower after missing estimates on the top and the bottom lines. Form Factor ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq today, holding its investor day as well. The$11 billion company makes testing and measurement products that are used to test chips before they're added to circuits. Its customers include NVIDIA, Intel, and Samsung. The stock has been surging alongside the AI chip trade up more than 400 percent over the last year.

31:59Tim Seymour:CEO Mike Schlesser joins us now on set. Mike, welcome. Thanks for having me. You've been CEO since 2014, so you've seen this industry through cycles. And I'm just wondering, for those who say it is different this time around, that it's less cyclical because of things like subscription memory. I mean, is it less cyclical? Is this different, do you think? I think structurally the semiconductor industry is cyclical. Now we're in a very strong upcycle right now. No question about it. Demand, a whole new vector of demand from the high-performance compute silicon powering AI has really driven demand from our customers and their customers to unprecedented levels to a place where the whole supply chain is catching up.

32:41Now, if that demand continues, we'll continue to be in a strong upcycle, right? And all the indications are that demand is going to continue. So all of us in the supply chain are investing.

32:51Tim Seymour:So, but you do believe that it is, will we see it the same sort of boom and bust cycle that we've seen in the past or is it smoothed? I don't know whether it's smoothed. If you look at the underlying dynamics, but the semiconductor industry certainly is more broad, right? First, we had PCs a couple of decades ago, then we added mobile. Now you see semiconductors being pretty pervasive, powering high-performance compute, but in all kinds of consumer applications as well. And that should help the cyclicality of the industry.

33:20Melissa Lee:So as quickly as you saw this demand and this kind of capacity constraint, right, couldn't it go the opposite way if there was kind of a pullback in demand and then you'd have a situation where you'd have such overcapacity? Like, isn't that like you just said, it's traditionally very cyclical. The booms and busts are the thing that makes this kind of industry a really interesting one and probably challenging for you. But when you think about like your stock, it's gone parabolic. These are not normal moves. And so you could assign that to some of the behavior that you're seeing in ordering. You know, there is gravity, right?

33:52Melissa Lee:There is something like that. So we should expect at some point demand to come back in and then overcapacity. How does the industry deal with that? Well, I think the industry has gotten a lot harder to add capacity in this industry, right? Moore's Law, you're all familiar with, made it really easy for our customers to produce twice as many transistors every two years. Moore's Law is basically dead, right? And so resorting to the way to add capacity now is not to shrink chips, it's to build big factories. And it takes years to build these big factories, as you've seen with TSMC in Arizona, Samsung in Korea.

34:26These things now take a long time to come online, especially at the scale that the industry is operating at today.

34:32Melissa Lee:Mike, you have 36 percent of market share of a growing pie. My question to you is, what's the barriers of entry to get into your business? Yeah, the barriers are pretty high, right? Most places in the semiconductor supply chain, there's a ton of technology, and that technology is applied to some of the key customers you talked about. We work with those customers every day on optimizing our R &D spend, our technology, applying it to problems that they want us to solve. That becomes a pretty sticky business, right? And so those customer relationships, as we shared with people at the Investor Day today, are really important to the long-term sustainable competitive advantage.

35:11There's also a ton of intellectual property and innovation in the products we build. And so there's a competitive moat there as well. Do we have competitors? Sure. But it's pretty concentrated, just like it is in the wafer fab space. Mike, help us, your customer base run a bit of a kind of a gamut within the semiconductor space, even though some of them are in the exact same business. But as we've seen in the markets, this rotation within the semiconductor space, can you impute from some of what you're seeing with your customers. You talked about more consumer applications. And is there something more we can read from this and from what you're seeing on the demand side?

35:48Yeah, it's typically a very hard, short-term forecast to read. That's one of the reasons why our strategy's been to partner with all the leaders and build a diversified revenue base. It's very difficult to play catch-up when an application takes off. So HBM, great example, driving our business today. hey, we shipped our first HBM probe card, our first HBM product to our number one customer over a decade ago, right? And that stickiness, that continued evolution of the relationship, you know, those are the places you have to be when the demand takes off because these things are so complicated, it's just impossible to pedal and catch up.

36:25Tim Seymour:I'm just wondering from your standpoint, you said Moore's law is dead, which is a very interesting statement to hear from somebody in the industry, but how should we think about how chips are becoming more efficient, maybe not by compute power when it comes to Moore's Law, but in terms of efficiency and the buildout, the associated assumed buildout that is happening around the data center, whether it be power or cooling systems and things like that. I mean, shouldn't we believe that chips will become more energy efficient, for instance, and so therefore that buildout may be overstated at this point?

36:57Tim Seymour:I mean, how should we think about the development? Yeah, there's a couple of different ways we think about it anyway. When I said Moore's Law is dead, I mean shrinking transistors, getting faster, cheaper transistors, but this is a very innovative industry. And so us and our customers continue to work on other ways to make more efficient, more capable compute chips. So things like advanced packaging, which you may have heard of, kind of taking over the mantle for Moore's Law. It is one of the reasons why our business is, as strong as it is, test becomes absolutely enabling for advanced packaging.

37:31Won't get into the details here, but the industry is super innovative. And so all these different tricks to continue to increase compute efficiency, co-package optics, another one, right? Now the semiconductor industry, not just running on electricity or electrons, optics and photons becoming a big part. And I think that's one of the reasons people are enthusiastic about us as well. We've got a great position with co-package optics.

37:56Tim Seymour:Mike, great to see you. Thank you for coming by. Keep us posted. Thanks for having us. are a form factor. F-O-R-M is a ticker on that. How does the chart look? Great. You can imagine. Parabolic.

38:07Melissa Lee:Yeah. Good momentum. Look, great story. That's the question. You know, this parabolic move, it's a five-bagger, I think, since September of last year, which is extraordinary and deservedly so. But I think the average price target, according to the facts, that is about 150. That's where the stock closed today, about 151.

38:23Tim Seymour:I feel like the part of the commentary that you hung on to is, yes, it is still cyclical. Yeah.

38:28Melissa Lee:I mean, we know this is going to happen. It's just a matter of when, right? And it demands, I guess, how bad it is. And when you think about, you know, the end of Moore's law, I mean, Jensen has been talking about that, I think, for five years or so. So if you're thinking about double the capacity of, right, transistors and, you know, power, and you're going to have roughly the same price, well, he's in a caper seed for that to happen. But you know who's not going to be? Micron, Intel, AMD, right? We've moved away from GPUs. That's what the story is right now. It's clusters of CPUs. Well, CPUs traditionally have also been very cyclical because we've seen lots of consumer-led downturns.

39:04Melissa Lee:Well, right now, if we see less demand for AI servers, then all of the capacity that's gone online is going to be, not all of it, but a whole heck of a lot of it is going to be idle. And that's why these things are so cyclical. So to me, as much as you might see overshooting to the upside as far as orders, it's going to go the opposite way, too, when we see a pullback in demand. Totally my own interpretation, but I heard, you know, sixth inning tops, maybe fifth inning from his interpretation of where we are on this cycle. And we know it's cyclical.

39:33Tim Seymour:Coming up, charting abroad, what Katie Stockton sees in the international technicals and how it's holding up to the market stateside. More of that when Fast Money returns.

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40:18Tim Seymour:Welcome back to Fast Money. ETS for the international market continue to make gains this year. The iShares Emerging Markets ETF is now up nearly 25 % since January. So Katie's been taking a look at the charts with the grip. How do they look? Well, we have seen good participation broadly in the uptrend around the world. When we look at the ratios, that's where we find more points of interest. If we're comparing the IFA countries, which has developed global versus the U.S., and then also emerging countries versus the U.S., I think that's where the fascination is, because we have seen a pretty distinct long-term turnaround in those ratios that began last year, and we think will persist this year.

40:55I don't think it will be a dramatic phase of outperformance, but certainly a more balanced phase of relative performance between international and the U.S. And that is a change and it is a positive one for international managers, of course. And it does, you know, sort of draw attention to the concentration of the leadership here in the U.S. as potentially a risk in relative terms.

41:16Tim Seymour:Is there an emerging market specialist in the house?

41:18Melissa Lee:There has to be. Oh. Oh. Oh, hi. Oh, there is one. Oh. Well, it took a long time to get here, right? The relative underperformance of emerging as an asset class was over a decade. You can make an argument, it kind of peaked really when the pigs started coming out. That was the Southern European countries. But it started to create a concern around emerging markets and some of the trickle-through. But more importantly to the present, countries that are very exposed to the commodity super cycle, remember EPU, Peru, ECH, Chile, these are interesting places. I think EWZ in Brazil is going to continue to outperform.

41:54Remember, also, Taiwan Semi and Samsung are pulling up emerging markets. The size of these companies are making a greater weighting. There is a math equation here that's helping. And remember, Taiwan and South Korea, even though they could be and should be, are not developed markets. And it's partly its accessibility and it's less about governance. Really, we can't buy Samsung here. So it's part of the reason why it remains emerging. It's part of the reason why emerging is really outperforming. Think about the biggest memory companies in the world. So EM has outperformed, developed by 10%, U.S., by 10 % over the last two months.

42:28Tim Seymour:I mean, SK Hynix and Samsung are more than 50 % of the KOSPI. So that's a waiting.

42:32Melissa Lee:Real quick, EWZ, lower left, upper right, there have been pullbacks, but banks, resources, and energy, you get it there. I still like EWZ.

42:39Tim Seymour:All right. Coming up, a growing circle. The hundreds of millions being raised by the stablecoin issuer and what Katie is seeing in the Bitcoin miner technicals. More Fast Money in two.

42:57Tim Seymour:Welcome back to Fast Money. Circle shares surging 16 % today after beating EPS estimates for the quarter. The company also announcing it raised over$200 million in the pre-sale of ARK, the native token of its new blockchain. The CEO of Circle joined Squawk Box this morning to discuss the quarter. Here's what he had to say. We saw about$30 trillion of on-chain transactions in Q1. That's up, you know, multiple hundreds of percent year on year. And USDC now represents about 80 percent of all dollar digital currency transactions in Q1. Other crypto related stocks, Coinbase, Robinhood, Strategy, all moving higher today.

43:36Tim Seymour:And that's something that you were flagging earlier today. I think it is meaningful and Circle's chart looks great. It has this kind of basing phase shape to it. But even more broadly, Bitcoin has certainly found a footing. And that has carried over to sentiment in the space of the Bitcoin mining companies as a source of relative performance right now and actually more steady countertrend moves, which are the stuff potentially of longer term lows. So we highlighted today in a CNBC Pro article, Strategy. And Strategy had reacted positively to a couple of countertrend signals. Now it's got better upside momentum, better relative performance, about 13%, 14 % to the next resistance.

44:17Exceptionally high beta, so high risk in a way. But we believe that the turnaround is the start of something potentially meaningful. All right.

44:24Melissa Lee:I have a friend of mine who's a good crypto trader, young guy. He says, why don't you tell your buddies to take some of that semiconductor P &L and start buying crypto? Is this BK? No. He's not a young guy. He's not a young guy. He's a dox BK. I said young, by the way. But I just think that's interesting that the crypto guys want this equity market guys to use the profits in NVIDIA to start buying crypto. Bearish or bullish reversals, Katie's right. Average price target is$1.35, I think. So analysts might be behind the curve here. Big valuation, but big EPS growth as well.

44:54Tim Seymour:Should Coinbase and Robinhood be up, though? I mean, crypto trading was it should be. Yeah, absolutely. And I think, again, this is kind of the trade. You move from the center out to the plays that are more derivative plays. But Coinbase, I think, has underperformed here. I'm long Coinbase and I'm long hood. Yeah, I would agree. It's just all within the ecosystem. and certainly there's outperformers and underperformers. But if you think about a strategy, it's really a leveraged play on Bitcoin. So you know what you're getting with that. For Coinbase and others, these are turnarounds. And I do think that their short-term breakouts, mostly above our cloud-based resistance levels, are pretty promising to suggest that at least Q2 overall will be a decent quarter for them.

45:37Tim Seymour:Up next, final trades.

45:53Tim Seymour:Final trade, Tim. At this EM discussion, Kate Webb, going higher. Katie. I'm going with EWA, which is an Australia exposure v. that I shared. Dan.

46:04Melissa Lee:I'm going with Tim FXI. Guy. My dear friend, Mrs. Andolino, is in the hospital. She's not feeling well, but she asked the nursing staff to get CNBC's Fast Money on. So feel better, Mrs. A. Feel better, Mrs. A.

46:16Tim Seymour:Get well, Sarah.

46:17Melissa Lee:Seriously. On that note, EWZ, Mel, I think that goes higher.

46:22Tim Seymour:All right. Thank you for watching Fast Money. See you back here tomorrow at 5. Mad Money at Jung Pamer starts right now.

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