dot-com bubble vs. a possible AI bubble.
From the famous "Dean of Valuation", Professor Aswath Damodaran, of NYU Stern School of Business,
“And that’s the real big difference between the dot-com boom and bust and the AI boom. We don’t know whether there’ll be a bust. History suggests there will be a bust.
The dot-com boom and bust had no huge capital expenditure in that cycle. In fact, there was very little traditional CapEx, or even R&D, driving it. People started apps. They basically started going on it.
This has been the biggest infrastructure run-up I think I’ve ever seen in business. You can go back and compare it to the automobile business 100 years ago. The amount of money that’s being put into AI CapEx is immense, which means that when the correction comes, the pain will be more intense.
And herein lies the second problem. The dot-com boom and bust was almost entirely equity-funded. You think, so what? Well, when the bust came, those shareholders lost 60%, 70%, 80%, or 90% of their money. You felt sorry for them, but the loss was restricted to the shareholders.
The problem with the AI CapEx boom is that not only is it immense, but a big chunk of it is funded with debt, and the debt is coming from private capital rather than banks. There’s a very real chance that if there’s a correction and companies start having problems, that problem is going to show up as distress and default, and that really doesn’t stay restricted. It spills over into the rest of society.
I’m not saying it’s going to be 2008, but 2008 is an example of what happens when lenders overreach, when they lend money at too low a rate, and the correction comes. The pain spills over.
So that is my concern with this big market illusion: the potential societal cost of having to deal with debt coming due that you’re unable to pay. It’s much more painful than your share price dropping 90% and you feeling the pain."
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From "Excess Returns" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
🔴FRIDAY WAS A CLEAR WARNING TO THE MARKET SPECULATORS:
The trading volume of just four 3x leveraged ETFs spiked to a record $1.1 BILLION.
This includes long and short S&P 500 ETFs $SPXL and $SPXs, as well as long and short semiconductor ETFs $SOXL and $SOXS.
The trading volume of these funds has risen by over +1,000% since the start of the year.
For example, $SOXL dropped -31% on Friday and subsequently jumped +16% on Monday, underscoring historic swings of these risky products.
The US market has never seen this level of speculation.
Netskope remains one of the highest-quality growth stories in cybersecurity/SASE — executing well in a massive TAM with strong retention and product momentum. Long-term winner. 🚀
#NTSK#Cybersecurity $NTSK
$NTSK just delivered another strong beat — Q1 revenue +28% YoY to $201.6M (beating estimates) and ARR +29% to $845M. Gross margins expanded nicely to 77% non-GAAP, while the company continues to push its AI-native platform and enterprise adoption.
The next set of Multi Millionaires will have positions in every buildout of the future.
Those who listen to me and follow will be set for Life and RETIRE in the next 5-10 years.
Here are the top 3 stocks in every major sector for the next decade:
AI Compute
$NVDA $AMD $AVGO
Semiconductor Manufacturing
$TSM $ASML $AMAT
Networking & Connectivity
$MRVL $ANET $CRDO
Photonics
$LITE $GLW $AAOI
Memory
$MU $WDC $SNDK
AI Infrastructure
$IREN $VRT $NBIS
Next-Gen Power
$NVTS $BE $TE
Cloud & AI Software
$MSFT $PLTR $NOW
Nuclear Energy
$OKLO $SMR $NNE
Power & Electrification
$ETN $PWR $HUBB
Robotics & Automation
$TSLA $SYM $OUST
Defense & Drones
$AVAV $KTOS $OSS
Autonomous Flight
$ACHR $JOBY $EH
Space Economy
$RKLB $ASTS $LUNR
Satellite Connectivity
$IRDM $GSAT $ASTS
Quantum Computing
$IONQ $RGTI $QBTS
Position early and let time do the work.
Global Semiconductor / EDA >$50B ranking in FY2 PE/PEG
The cheapest names are still memory:
SK Hynix: 4.3x
Samsung: 5.1x
Micron: 6.4x
SanDisk: 9.6x
NVDA at 18.7x is cheap that most other stocks.
Note - directional data only, varies by sources.
THIS IS WHERE THE MARKET ROTATES NEXT.
I still believe AI goes much higher long term.
But right now:
• the market is stretched
• positioning is overcrowded
• and rotations happen FAST when momentum cracks
If AI hardware slows down even temporarily, this is where I think money rotates next:
DEFENSE / WAR $LMT $PLTR $BA $RTX $AVAV $KTOS
POWER / NUCLEAR $VRT $ETN $CEG $OKLO $SMR $UEC
SPACE / SATELLITE $RKLB $ASTS $PL $LUNR $IRDM
DEFENSIVE / STABILITY $WMT $KO $JNJ $PEP $XOM $NEM $JCI
ENTERPRISE AI / SOFTWARE $NOW $CRM $ORCL $MDB $SNOW $TEAM
AI INFRASTRUCTURE $ANET $NBIS $APLD $AVGO $MRVL
OPTICS / DATA MOVEMENT $LITE $AAOI $CIEN $COHR
STAGE 2 / ROTATION SETUPS $CRCL $CRWV $IREN $V
HIGH UPSIDE $SMCI $DAL
CURRENT RELATIVE STRENGTH $CGNX $APLD $RKLB $ASTS
I am also sitting in 30-40% cash now to buy dips.
Burning cash at ludicrous speed while trading at 130x sales on vaporware qubits. SkyWater deal stalled, Gen7 dreams delayed. This is classic hype stock math—growth at all costs until dilution/death. Short this clown show. 🚩💥” $IONQ
“ $IONQ just dropped another ‘blockbuster’ quarter: $64.7M rev (755% YoY beat!) but core ops are a dumpster fire. Adjusted EBITDA loss -$97M (worse 170% YoY), operating loss exploding to $272M. Massive non-cash warrant gains fake the GAAP EPS ‘profit.’
SELL