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$HLIT $IQE $AIRJ

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

The Moat is IQE is the primary pure-play foundry capable of handling advanced InP epitaxial growth at global scale. For any tech giant wanting to challenge Lumentum or Coherent without spending $600+ million on a factory, they go to IQE.

The Moat is IQE’s patented NanoImprint Lithography (NIL) stamps an entire array of multi-wavelength gratings onto a wafer simultaneously in a single step. For customers requiring dense, multi-laser arrays for co-packaged optics, IQE offers a massive, unmatchable cost-and-speed advantage.

The Moat is IQE allows hyperscalers and tier-1 system vendors to bring their proprietary laser designs to a neutral, third-party foundry. This protects the hyperscaler from being locked into Lumentum's or Coherent's standard product catalogs and proprietary margins, securing IQE's position as a critical infrastructure partner.

The Moat is... you get the idea.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@unfadv @mkfilko so Lumentum does outsource to IQE.

who is MACOM using? IQE. for? CW DFB.

who are the defense primes using? IQE.

who is sivers using? IQE.

who just announced multiple Tier 1 design wins
for their InP platform? IQE.

etc...

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@trueinvestings Much better take.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

From the CEO statement in the FY2025 report:

"In December 2025, we were pleased to announce a multi-year extension of our longstanding supply agreement with Lumentum Holdings Inc., for the supply of epiwafers supporting advanced sensing technologies. IQE's VCSEL expertise continues to support the advancement of 3D Sensing technologies across Lumentum's broad photonics product portfolio, including supporting consumer, automotive LiDAR and in-cabin sensing applications."

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@unfadv @mkfilko so you think Lumentum doesnt outsource their epi to IQE? they literally just signed a multi year agreement to do just that. so many things wrong with what you said but thats enough I think

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@Liathetrader Cash is a position.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@RosannaInvests @napoleon21st Same!

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

We know about $AIRJ and data centres.

But the MOF sorbent technology has other applications that aren't getting nearly enough attention.

1. Forward operating bases.

No water supply chain. No aquifer. Hostile arid terrain.

A passive atmospheric harvester running on solar with no moving parts is exactly what DARPA has been trying to solve for years. Defence procurement moves slow - but when it moves, it moves big.

2. Semiconductor fabs

Ultra-pure water is one of the most critical and scarce inputs in chip manufacturing. Fabs in Taiwan and Arizona are already under water stress.

Atmospheric sourcing with MOF purity profiles could be transformational for fab siting decisions.

3. Pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Same logic - highly regulated water purity requirements, high willingness to pay, concentrated facilities.
MOF sorbents don't just harvest water. They harvest clean water, without the contamination risk of ground or surface sources.

4. Agricultural irrigation in water-stressed regions.

The economics are harder at scale - but pair it with cheap solar in the Middle East, North Africa, or the American Southwest and the math starts working.

Water scarcity is already destroying crop yields. The alternative cost matters.

5. The data centre story is real. But it's the beachhead, not the ceiling.

The deeper thesis is that MOF sorbents decouple human activity from fixed water infrastructure entirely.

That's not a niche product. That's a platform.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$AIRJ - two massive signals the market is missing:

1. The Rice family is invested.
Who are they and why is this so significant?

Daniel Rice is the CEO of $NPWR NET Power, EQT board member, and co-founder of Rice Investment Group. And he has a stake in $AIRJ.

This is the man who:
→ Founded Rice Energy → sold to EQT for $6.7B → 3,200% return for early investors
→ Seeded Archaea Energy → sold to BP for $4.1B → 10x for seed investors
→ Took NET Power public — clean power from natural gas with carbon capture

Three ventures. Three massive exits.

All in energy transition infrastructure.

How does AIRJ fit into NET Power?

The Allam Cycle generates clean electricity from natural gas while capturing CO2. It also generates substantial waste heat.

AirJoule converts waste heat into purified water.

A NET Power plant paired with AirJoule = zero-water-consumption, carbon-captured power AND water for data centers.

Rice isn't just a passive investor. He's potentially building the full stack.

2. The insider buying signal

12 insider purchases vs 1 sale over the past 6 months.

CEO Matthew Jore (already a 10% owner) bought shares at $3.25 in January's offering rather than letting it dilute him.

A 10% owner adding personal capital at $3.25 when the stock is now $5+ is not ambiguous.

He believes the Nexus WPA is coming.

Putting everything together:
→ Nobel Prize-validated science ✅
→ GE Vernova 50/50 equity JV ✅
→ Carrier Global licensing ✅
→ Google + Microsoft consortium ✅
→ US Army active evaluation ✅
→ Nexus 600MW deployment 2H26 ✅
→ Rice Investment Group backing ✅
→ 12:1 insider buy/sell ratio ✅
→ CEO is a 10% owner adding shares ✅
→ Two analyst targets at $12 ✅

The Rice family doesn't take small bets on bad technology. Neither does GE Vernova.

Pre-revenue. Speculative. All the risks. Not financial advice.

But when the people with the best track record in energy transition infrastructure are buying alongside you...?

That's a bet I'm willing to take.

$AIRJ $AIRJW $GEV $CARR $NPWR $EQT

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@unfadv @mkfilko This is just a bad take. "No moat" lol.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@kingtutcap $AIRJ

https://t.co/xSebG3p8g5

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$AIRJ - two massive signals the market is missing:

1. The Rice family is invested.
Who are they and why is this so significant?

Daniel Rice is the CEO of $NPWR NET Power, EQT board member, and co-founder of Rice Investment Group. And he has a stake in $AIRJ.

This is the man who:
→ Founded Rice Energy → sold to EQT for $6.7B → 3,200% return for early investors
→ Seeded Archaea Energy → sold to BP for $4.1B → 10x for seed investors
→ Took NET Power public — clean power from natural gas with carbon capture

Three ventures. Three massive exits.

All in energy transition infrastructure.

How does AIRJ fit into NET Power?

The Allam Cycle generates clean electricity from natural gas while capturing CO2. It also generates substantial waste heat.

AirJoule converts waste heat into purified water.

A NET Power plant paired with AirJoule = zero-water-consumption, carbon-captured power AND water for data centers.

Rice isn't just a passive investor. He's potentially building the full stack.

2. The insider buying signal

12 insider purchases vs 1 sale over the past 6 months.

CEO Matthew Jore (already a 10% owner) bought shares at $3.25 in January's offering rather than letting it dilute him.

A 10% owner adding personal capital at $3.25 when the stock is now $5+ is not ambiguous.

He believes the Nexus WPA is coming.

Putting everything together:
→ Nobel Prize-validated science ✅
→ GE Vernova 50/50 equity JV ✅
→ Carrier Global licensing ✅
→ Google + Microsoft consortium ✅
→ US Army active evaluation ✅
→ Nexus 600MW deployment 2H26 ✅
→ Rice Investment Group backing ✅
→ 12:1 insider buy/sell ratio ✅
→ CEO is a 10% owner adding shares ✅
→ Two analyst targets at $12 ✅

The Rice family doesn't take small bets on bad technology. Neither does GE Vernova.

Pre-revenue. Speculative. All the risks. Not financial advice.

But when the people with the best track record in energy transition infrastructure are buying alongside you...?

That's a bet I'm willing to take.

$AIRJ $AIRJW $GEV $CARR $NPWR $EQT

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@ChairmansLedger Goals.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@AtlasShrug1 even more* concerning

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@mkfilko @accounting_ds Exciting! I think the warrants the best r/r here, tech looks pretty solid.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$AIRJ - two massive signals the market is missing:

1. The Rice family is invested.
Who are they and why is this so significant?

Daniel Rice is the CEO of $NPWR NET Power, EQT board member, and co-founder of Rice Investment Group. And he has a stake in $AIRJ.

This is the man who:
→ Founded Rice Energy → sold to EQT for $6.7B → 3,200% return for early investors
→ Seeded Archaea Energy → sold to BP for $4.1B → 10x for seed investors
→ Took NET Power public — clean power from natural gas with carbon capture

Three ventures. Three massive exits.

All in energy transition infrastructure.

How does AIRJ fit into NET Power?

The Allam Cycle generates clean electricity from natural gas while capturing CO2. It also generates substantial waste heat.

AirJoule converts waste heat into purified water.

A NET Power plant paired with AirJoule = zero-water-consumption, carbon-captured power AND water for data centers.

Rice isn't just a passive investor. He's potentially building the full stack.

2. The insider buying signal

12 insider purchases vs 1 sale over the past 6 months.

CEO Matthew Jore (already a 10% owner) bought shares at $3.25 in January's offering rather than letting it dilute him.

A 10% owner adding personal capital at $3.25 when the stock is now $5+ is not ambiguous.

He believes the Nexus WPA is coming.

Putting everything together:
→ Nobel Prize-validated science ✅
→ GE Vernova 50/50 equity JV ✅
→ Carrier Global licensing ✅
→ Google + Microsoft consortium ✅
→ US Army active evaluation ✅
→ Nexus 600MW deployment 2H26 ✅
→ Rice Investment Group backing ✅
→ 12:1 insider buy/sell ratio ✅
→ CEO is a 10% owner adding shares ✅
→ Two analyst targets at $12 ✅

The Rice family doesn't take small bets on bad technology. Neither does GE Vernova.

Pre-revenue. Speculative. All the risks. Not financial advice.

But when the people with the best track record in energy transition infrastructure are buying alongside you...?

That's a bet I'm willing to take.

$AIRJ $AIRJW $GEV $CARR $NPWR $EQT

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$AIRJ — the most important water story in AI infrastructure that nobody is talking about (and why I think it's a better buy today than $LWLG - NOT saying the two technologies are related)

Credit to @AtlasShrug1 for putting this on my radar.

1. The problem

Data centers consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day. In Arizona, Nevada, and Texas, municipalities are already denying permits and enacting sprinkler bans on hyperscaler campuses.

The water math is broken. The hyperscalers know it.

2. The solution - Nobel Prize-winning science:

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) harvest water vapor directly from air using waste heat as the energy source.

Server waste heat in → distilled purified water out. Net additional energy cost: near zero.

This is the science that won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

3. The DARPA origin

Developed under the DARPA (the premier research and development agency of the US DoD) AIR2WATER program. GE Vernova's Advanced Research Center was a named co-developer, working directly alongside Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi's Berkeley lab.

Not a licensing deal with a Nobel laureate. GEV's engineers were in the lab building this alongside him.

4. The GEV JV Significance

$GEV is a $90B industrial giant. They don't do 50/50 equity JVs with $375M public companies. Ever.

Except this one time.

GEV has equity on the line - not a supply agreement, not a royalty. If AirJoule fails, GEV loses too.

Their historical playbook ends in full acquisition - see Prolec GE, bought out at $5.3B. AirJoule LLC is early on that arc.

5. The validation stack

Nobel Prize 2025 ✅
$GEV 50/50 equity JV ✅
$CARR Carrier licensing deal ✅
Google + Microsoft Net Zero Innovation Hub ✅
US Army ERDC active evaluation ✅
Dubai, Arizona State University, rural California deployments ✅
Nexus 600MW campus Hubbard TX - named deployment 2H26 ✅
Advanced hyperscaler negotiations ongoing ✅

6. Field validation is already running

Nexus watched a 24/7 AirJoule system run on their own Hubbard campus for months before agreeing to advance toward a signed contract.
Not a pitch deck. Real performance data across real conditions.

7. The WPA Re-Rating Potential

AIRJ doesn't sell equipment. They sell water.

Water Purchase Agreements = solar PPA structure.

AIRJ owns the system, customer pays per gallon, no capex, multi-year contracted recurring revenue.

Multiple WPAs signed = re-rate from pre-revenue tech to water utility annuity model.

Completely different valuation multiple.

8. The Path

1–7 months: Nexus WPA signed → first revenue
2026–27: Hyperscaler qualification → de facto standard
Ongoing: CARR royalty ramp through $22B distribution network
Long-term: GEV acquisition optionality

9. $LWLG Comparison

LWLG is real technology - but $1.96B market cap, no named partner, no named customer, no deployment, no warrants.

AIRJ at $375M has GEV equity, Nobel science, Nexus 2H26, CARR licensing, and $AIRJW warrants at $1.30.

One-fifth the market cap.

Dramatically more de-risked.

10. How to play it

$AIRJW - $11.50 strike, March 2029 expiry, ~$1.30. 2.8 years of runway.

~4x leverage on the commons.

Pre-revenue. Speculative. Dilution risk. Nexus WPA not yet signed. Not financial advice.

But when GE Vernova (and the esteemed @AtlasShrug1) are in - it's worth understanding why.

$AIRJ $AIRJW $GEV $CARR $LWLG

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@ChairmansLedger @RKLBMan That's what she said.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$AIRJ — the most important water story in AI infrastructure that nobody is talking about (and why I think it's a better buy today than $LWLG - NOT saying the two technologies are related)

Credit to @AtlasShrug1 for putting this on my radar.

1. The problem

Data centers consume up to 5 million gallons of water per day. In Arizona, Nevada, and Texas, municipalities are already denying permits and enacting sprinkler bans on hyperscaler campuses.

The water math is broken. The hyperscalers know it.

2. The solution - Nobel Prize-winning science:

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) harvest water vapor directly from air using waste heat as the energy source.

Server waste heat in → distilled purified water out. Net additional energy cost: near zero.

This is the science that won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

3. The DARPA origin

Developed under the DARPA (the premier research and development agency of the US DoD) AIR2WATER program. GE Vernova's Advanced Research Center was a named co-developer, working directly alongside Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi's Berkeley lab.

Not a licensing deal with a Nobel laureate. GEV's engineers were in the lab building this alongside him.

4. The GEV JV Significance

$GEV is a $90B industrial giant. They don't do 50/50 equity JVs with $375M public companies. Ever.

Except this one time.

GEV has equity on the line - not a supply agreement, not a royalty. If AirJoule fails, GEV loses too.

Their historical playbook ends in full acquisition - see Prolec GE, bought out at $5.3B. AirJoule LLC is early on that arc.

5. The validation stack

Nobel Prize 2025 ✅
$GEV 50/50 equity JV ✅
$CARR Carrier licensing deal ✅
Google + Microsoft Net Zero Innovation Hub ✅
US Army ERDC active evaluation ✅
Dubai, Arizona State University, rural California deployments ✅
Nexus 600MW campus Hubbard TX - named deployment 2H26 ✅
Advanced hyperscaler negotiations ongoing ✅

6. Field validation is already running

Nexus watched a 24/7 AirJoule system run on their own Hubbard campus for months before agreeing to advance toward a signed contract.
Not a pitch deck. Real performance data across real conditions.

7. The WPA Re-Rating Potential

AIRJ doesn't sell equipment. They sell water.

Water Purchase Agreements = solar PPA structure.

AIRJ owns the system, customer pays per gallon, no capex, multi-year contracted recurring revenue.

Multiple WPAs signed = re-rate from pre-revenue tech to water utility annuity model.

Completely different valuation multiple.

8. The Path

1–7 months: Nexus WPA signed → first revenue
2026–27: Hyperscaler qualification → de facto standard
Ongoing: CARR royalty ramp through $22B distribution network
Long-term: GEV acquisition optionality

9. $LWLG Comparison

LWLG is real technology - but $1.96B market cap, no named partner, no named customer, no deployment, no warrants.

AIRJ at $375M has GEV equity, Nobel science, Nexus 2H26, CARR licensing, and $AIRJW warrants at $1.30.

One-fifth the market cap.

Dramatically more de-risked.

10. How to play it

$AIRJW - $11.50 strike, March 2029 expiry, ~$1.30. 2.8 years of runway.

~4x leverage on the commons.

Pre-revenue. Speculative. Dilution risk. Nexus WPA not yet signed. Not financial advice.

But when GE Vernova (and the esteemed @AtlasShrug1) are in - it's worth understanding why.

$AIRJ $AIRJW $GEV $CARR $LWLG

[John Galt @AtlasShrug1]

@stonksamiam Have you ever looked at $AIRJ? Really interesting little company with very smart money on the Board and insider buying here. Small company working on solving a big problem w/ JV/licensing deals w $GEV and $CARR respectively.

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$IQE $IQEPF

Figured I'd repost this. There's still so much more room to run....

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

$IQE $IQEPF vs LandMark

The market is paying 118x revenue for a Taiwan-based CPO epiwafer supplier with no defense relationships and 3 patents.

It's paying 6x revenue for a UK/US-based CPO epiwafer supplier with 15-year Raytheon qualification, BAE Gold Tier status, Lumentum and MACOM LTAs, Point72 and Artisan on the register, explicit government supply chain protection, and a £45M strategic anchor investment.

The gap between those two valuations is the IQE opportunity in one number....

[Draupnir @DraupnirAlpha]

@CKCapitalxx why shares? you need to be full porting calls here my guy