If I Could Only Buy 4 AI Stocks, These Would Be Them

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2:03Want to drive? CarMax. Let's go through the best AI infrastructure, please. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. And you know what I'll do for them? because I feel like we've spoken about these individually, maybe by sector, by sector, inside of AI. And so I'm going to run down the ones we've spoken about on the show. And I know Jensen likes to talk about that five-layer cake when it comes to AI. So we'll start with energy. GEV, GE Vinova, I think is going to be a leader and has been a leader. We've been talking about this since it was in the 500s. It was probably sitting over$1 ,100 or somewhere in that area now.

2:44Now, we know the data center story is real. We know energy is vital to the story, but who can deliver that at the fastest pace? Who's going to be able to create turbines that could be sold? Who can do it from an international standpoint to satisfy the needs on a global demand? So GE, Renova is one. Caterpillar is another. We're talking about gas turbines. And Bloom, I know people have been asking me, what about BE? What about BE? Very similar to that energy story. So BE, that would be three right there in energy that if you don't have on your watch list, you should. Cooling. We spoke about this and shout out to everybody at NVIDIA again.

3:21And if you were part of that group, session one or session two, you saw it firsthand. The company that they're partnering with in terms of liquid cooling, and that would be Verti VRT. We've spoken about this plenty of times on the show, but it's definitely in the portfolio. And a lot of y 'all have calls on it. If you don't, let's put it on your watch list because I think that's going to be one that's going to be a leader. networking and connectivity we spoke about Arista ticker is A-N-E-T again understanding how a rack is put together understanding the components and understanding the wiring connectivity that's going to be needed to have that function at the highest rate they're going to be part of it L-I-T-E that is the ticker Lumentum we'll talk about that later yeah yeah yeah again connectivity is going to be how can we make data travel at the fastest and most efficient way a light's going to be at the forefront of that corning which we spoke about glw will be at the forefront of that and fabricant i had a call with shawty earlier about fabricant we put this in the first place i ever spoke about that was in red panda so shout out to red panda that was what last november that was last november and i said look i'm telling y 'all before i'm telling eyl university i'm telling before market mondays i'm telling y 'all that's the company They actually reported today, pulled back a little bit, but they've been on a tear since November.

4:44So that would be in networking and connectivity. And then you have compute. And I think those are players we know, right? We know AMD, we know Broadcom, AVGO, we know NVIDIA. And we can put TSM, and there's going to be something interesting that's happening with TSM. You got to keep on, and maybe we'll get to that. Maybe I'll save it for next week. And then memory, obviously memory. We can't go anywhere without that. We talked about the importance of it. So you got Micron, you got Sandisk, you got Western Digital, you got Seagate. I'll run around the tickers really quick. MU, S-N-D-K for Sandisk.

5:16Western Digital is WDC. And Seagate is STX. And then we spoke about this. And Shadi was like, Troy, I need you to do this clip. And I was like, all right, man. You know, I like to just stay low and keep firing, being in the research. But we talked about EDA, Electric Design Automation. And we talked software. And so if you watch software companies, specifically, I want to say Oracle could fit in that category. They do. But Salesforce fits in that category. Snowflake fits in that. They've been hit pretty hard, right? But if you look at the software inside of the AI story, when we're talking about Cadiz and we're talking about Synopsys and who they're partnering with in terms of hyperscalers.

5:53Oh, my God. Look at how they perform. And I know we did this at the Mastermind. And people are like, what should we do? It's down 20%. I haven't got too many texts about what should we do now. We're up 80, 93%. Believing in the story, understanding the story, and having conviction in the story is important. So that's EDA. And then the last category is assembly and packaging, and I am going to save that. That's going to be the focus of the next class. So assembly and packaging is going to be part of that infrastructure. There's companies that we should know if we don't know, but I'll break that down in Thursday's class.

6:26How's that? Can I go over a few of y 'all left? Let's do it. Mike, can you play the video real quick?

6:34Good day, good day, good day, my beautiful people. It's a beautiful Monday today. And I'm so happy and grateful and thankful of all the things that I have, will have, and is currently manifested. I woke up this morning and looked at my stocks today. Lamentum. Okay, one year ago, it was$81. Today, one year later, it's$996, almost$1 ,000. So imagine if you took that$100 and put it in this stock one year ago, you would have about$900 today, profited$900. Wouldn't you rather spend that on some stocks and get$900? I was like, this Cardi here, probably$1 ,000. I could have put that in and been.

7:38So I'll go through a couple that I love. Just Rashad, on your same vibe, preponderance of evidence is a quote. Word of the week, preponderance. Preponderance, love it. Word of the week. I like Caterpillar for sure. I like Arm, Bloom, Energy is in Stock Club, but Lumentum is one that I talked about quietly last year. It's done incredibly well. The question is, what do I invest in outside of NVIDIA for the AI infrastructure? And it's like, I want to bring you back to, you don't need more than four. Some of you are going to rotate out of the best companies in the world, switching one company for another.

8:21but caterpillar love arm i like a lot um this one that the queen thank you queen talked about i like a lot and bloom energy is one that i like a lot as well so um pick your four put them in chat now but the most important thing i'm begging you as a person who's been in this game for a long time i don't want you guys to have 50 and 80 shares of 25 companies a piece you need to pick four and have thousands or tens of thousands of shares that same investment in that company ticker l-i-t 10 grand would have been 90 000 100 grand would have been 900 000 just from the time she got in um some people are up 1400 but the most important decision you're going to make is which four are you going to pick back to you jordan rashad word of the week because i know big words trigger some of you preponderance of evidence yeah and for the um people that said that she misspelled uh the word i think you're missing the point i'm gonna say it yeah if we get to monetize i'll pay the little fee but the vig in between who look at the return yeah yeah exactly if you up 900 a thousand percent don't matter you can afford this misspell a word some of you have misspelled what to invest in

9:55stay focused on what matters yeah you know real quick i just want to i'm gonna give him a little extra i'm gonna put on extra because people like well you know she did that with light but what does that even do so i try to explain it like this think of cars on the highway and think of the highway right and so when we talked about gow talking about fiber optics right we're talking about glass how are we going to have data be transmitted at the highest level to be more efficient uh right now people copper is was being used right but that takes a lot of energy to to keep uh at a functioning level and high speed and so glass and laser has now been the technology that people are talking about.

10:33And so when you talk about that, Corning would be the glass that would be used like for fiber optics right now. It's on your iPhone. It's the glass for your iPhone now. But Lumentum Light is part of that laser process that's going to transfer the data, right? So you think of the road, which would be Corning, GLW, and think of the cars that are traveling. That would be like what Lumentum does. They are the cars that are going to be on that highway. And so you can understand why that would be something that's going to be definitely forward thinking. If we're trying to figure out how much data can we move at the fastest rate and the most efficient rate, those type of companies are going to be at the forefront.

11:12Yeah, I just think they're selling to data centers. And also, we kept saying this, as the world changes, the world's greatest companies are going to adapt. So even Caterpillar was a great company pre-AI, but they became more valuable as data centers was being built. A lot of you also need to figure out too, if data center correction happens and everything isn't built, how will your portfolio be affected? In 2020, I came on and talked about CGW, investing in water. What the off or side effect of investing in data centers is, it's going to mess up the water supply by design. So CGW, of course, has gotten more valuable over time.

11:53Talked about that in 2020. But once again, please put this in chat. You only need four. you only need four and that's why you got to look ahead to what technology is being built who's doing the infrastructure I know Bloom was it's an interesting company because when we talk about power, when we talk about energy their focus is on staying off the power grid the grid is probably the biggest bottleneck in terms of the infrastructure of the energy infrastructure and so if they've figured out a way to not be on that grid and still create turbines that can power data centers, that's something that's very interesting, which is why you've seen them being rewarded with the stock the way it is moving now.

12:36Can I give them one more tidbit? Let's do it. There's only three sectors that matter. Write this down. Tech, healthcare, and energy. A lot of your problems will go away because somebody had messaged me earlier today, like you haven't talked about consumer discretionary. I'm like, tech is going to outperform a lot of segments anyway. If you just focus on tech, healthcare, and energy, that's always been the three sectors that have mattered the most and that have yielded the highest returns. You'll be A-OK. And even in healthcare, there's probably 12 or 13 great companies in energy. There's probably 14, 15 great companies in tech.

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