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Something is off with how investors are reading AI earnings right now, and two of the biggest chip stocks just proved it.

InvestorPlace analyst Louis Navellier and guest Tiernan Ray break it down in this week's Navellier Market Buzz.
https://t.co/cbIKYzdilQ

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

While memory and chip leaders were getting hit, the Invesco Dividend Achievers ETF $PFM quietly closed at a new all-time high last week.

The contrast is the story. Micron $MU is down 22% over the past month. Coherent $COHR is off 32%. Qualcomm $QCOM and Intel $INTC are down 22% and 24%. Hypergrowth pays big, but the volatility is real.

Money rarely leaves the market. It sloshes from sector to sector looking for a home where it will be treated well. This week that home was quality and income.

Dividend Achievers are an elite class of companies that have raised their dividend for at least 10 straight years. The club includes Johnson & Johnson $JNJ, PepsiCo $PEP, Walmart $WMT, Visa $V, Procter & Gamble $PG, Coca-Cola $KO, Chevron $CVX, and ExxonMobil $XOM.

Many have raised payouts for 30, 40, even 50-plus years straight, through recessions, bear markets, and a pandemic.

$PFM is built to own exactly these firms. When fear grips the fast-moving corners of the market, this is the kind of steady, cash-generating quality that tends to attract the flows.

There is always a bull market somewhere. Last week it was boring, reliable dividend growth.

[MarketWise @MarketWise_Inc]

The stock market is flashing a huge warning sign about Oracle $ORCL right now.

After hitting relative peaks twice over the past two years, the stock has since plummeted, despite Oracle’s heavy spending on AI.

Here are three reasons Oracle could face trouble ahead—and what investors should watch.

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[Jonathan Rose @JRoseTrades]

Straddles and strangles. Today on Masters in Trading Live, I break down how to profit from a stock's movement without ever picking a direction.
I also made a cheat sheet on this and I'll drop the link.
Premieres at 11AM ET: https://t.co/2XVljTDVVl

[Being Exponential | Luke Lango @exponentialluke]

AI biotech is coming alive.

$BMY is expanding its $NVDA partnership by deploying a Vera Rubin-powered DGX SuperPOD, making it the first life-sciences company to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI architecture and giving it one of the industry’s most powerful supercomputers. Bristol is upgrading from an older Nvidia system because it is already producing tangible returns. AI has reportedly shortened the time to make medicines for clinical trials by 20% to 30% and could eventually cut them by 50%. It has also helped uncover a sickle-cell therapy now in development, and is embedded across all of Bristol’s small-molecule and most large-molecule research. That is real-world ROI driving repeat infrastructure spending.

This is bullish for the AI infra trade. Demand is broadening beyond hyperscalers into industry-specific AI factories, creating more demand for GPUs, HBM, networking, storage, power and cooling. $SMH $SOXX and the whole stack from NVDA to $MU to $ANET to $GLW to $APLD remain winners.

For biotech, it suggests AI is becoming a genuine productivity engine that can accelerate discovery, expand pipelines and improve R&D economics. With Bristol joining $LLY and $AMGN in building dedicated Nvidia infrastructure just as $XBI breaks to new highs and biotech stocks have been dominating the leaderboards, the fundamental and technical stories are converging. Capital is rotating back into biotech as AI begins creating measurable value across the industry.

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

Union Pacific $UNP, CSX $CSX, Norfolk Southern $NSC, Canadian Pacific Kansas City $CP, and Canadian National $CNI all reached new all-time highs last week.

That is not a coincidence. It is one of the more bullish economic signals out there.

Railroads are mission-critical to the U.S. economy. They haul coal, chemicals, grain, lumber, cement, electronics, clothes, and building materials.

They do well when America is making things, buying things, building things, and moving things. When the whole group breaks out together, the real economy is healthier than the headlines suggest.

Railroads are not alone. Over the past eight months, economically sensitive groups have been quietly soaring: trucking stocks, regional banks, manufacturers, diesel engine makers, steelmakers, mall operators, and hotel chains.

These are real-world indicators, and they usually tell the truth about the economy faster than any economist or media outlet.

Market prices are the sum of everything industry insiders, money managers, and operators actually know. Their knowledge shows up in their buying, and that buying sets prices. Right now those prices are pointing up.

You can listen to whoever you like. The transports are voting bullish on America.

[MarketWise @MarketWise_Inc]

Marc Chaikin warned investors about $NFLX just nine days ago.

Now, after earnings, the stock has plunged.

Here's how the Chaikin Power Gauge saw this coming, and the tech investment to watch instead.

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[InvestorPlace @InvestorPlace]

@InvestorPlace Markets Analyst Thomas Yeung just named his No. 1 stock to buy this summer, and AI has nothing to do with it. Insiders are buying, the company just turned its first profit ever, and a seasonality system flagged this exact week as one of its best buying windows all year.
https://t.co/LBNmOyndBk

[Jonathan Rose @JRoseTrades]

Markets just pulled off a sharp reversal after a breakdown that looked bearish. I'm watching one key level today to see if this turns into a real rally.

Also breaking down why I'm long copper and silver right now.

WATCH @ 11AM ET: https://t.co/2XVljTDVVl

[Navellier Growth @NavellierGrowth]

Inflation just cooled fast, and oil reversed almost as quickly as it spiked. Everyone wants to call the threat over. I don't build my portfolio around the latest headlines, and I'm not ready to do that yet.

Here's what I'm watching: https://t.co/XO2Q4Rb9JY

[InvestorPlace @InvestorPlace]

Gen Z ditched the bar for the gym... and it's rewriting an entire sector.
InvestorPlace analyst Luke Lango has the trade behind the shift:
https://t.co/aYnhnax2Ri

[Jonathan Rose @JRoseTrades]

Today's show: NASDAQ coiling ahead of a likely breakout. Refiners still my highest conviction trade as the crack spread keeps ripping. And why ASTS options are priced for a move that isn't coming.
WATCH @ 11AM ET: https://t.co/2XVljTDVVl

[MarketWise @MarketWise_Inc]

Should AI companies be required to give away half their stock?

A new survey found 69% of Americans support a government-run AI sovereign wealth fund financed by AI companies.

It's an idea gaining attention across the political spectrum—and one investors can't afford to ignore.

https://t.co/tqHsedwNZv

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

Cloudflare $NET just notched a new all-time high this week, adding fresh fuel to the bull market in securing the world's AI, computers, and data centers.

Back in March, we introduced our Agent Supernova thesis, the idea that AI is now advanced enough to take over everyday tasks, from managing factory schedules to running financial analysis to writing software.

Over the next 12 to 24 months, that list keeps growing. Within two years, the number of AI agents operating in the American economy isn't likely to grow 10X or even 1,000X. Try 10,000X.

That kind of expansion needs infrastructure, security, and traffic management at scale, and that's exactly where Cloudflare $NET sits.

Cloudflare is one of the world's leading Content Delivery Network firms, speeding up website content and cutting latency and bandwidth costs. Add in its cybersecurity services, AI agent management tools, and AI agent transaction services, and Cloudflare starts to look like an AI agent conglomerate.

The numbers support the thesis. Cloudflare's revenue grew 29% in 2024 and 30% in 2025. Wall Street projects revenue near $2.79 billion in 2026, roughly 29% growth, rising toward $3.6 billion by 2027.

After ten months of sideways consolidation, the stock broke out to new highs today. If the Agent Supernova unfolds as expected, Cloudflare's diversified position in security and agent management should keep driving growth well past this breakout.

[InvestorPlace @InvestorPlace]

He helped build the internet.
Now he's giving AI agents a passport to cross company walls.
That could expand the AI trade. $NET may sit at the center.
https://t.co/kbwvpXGiOl

[Jonathan Rose @JRoseTrades]

US markets are stuck in the summer doldrums. The Qs are coiling, waiting to break one way or the other.
Meanwhile a basket of Chinese stocks is surging while nobody's watching.
I'm breaking down the setup.
WATCH @ 11AM ET:
https://t.co/2XVljTDVVl

[Keith Kaplan @KeithTradeSmith]

Forget the doom headlines about a "tapped out" consumer. Markets tell a different story, and markets tend to know more than pundits shouting on TV.

Start with real estate. Shares of mall operators Simon Property Group $SPG and Macerich $MAC have both hit new all-time highs this year. That only happens when shoppers are showing up and spending.

Now look at the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF $RSPD, a broad basket of spending-sensitive names including Carnival Cruise Line $CCL, Chipotle Mexican Grill $CMG, and Marriott International. These are the companies that profit when people book $5,000 Caribbean cruises, buy $6 lattes, and pay $100 for leggings.

$RSPD is in a clear, multi-year uptrend, up 24% over the past three years. The broad market gained 77% over that same span, so this isn't a runaway outperformer. But an uptrend is an uptrend, and it confirms consumers are spending, not hiding.

After 28 years of watching markets and reading financial research, one pattern keeps repeating: pessimists keep forecasting the death of the American consumer. Not the dot-com crash, not the 2008 financial crisis, nothing has managed to actually knock the consumer out for long.

Right now, the price action across $SPG, $MAC, and $RSPD is telling the same story: the American consumer is doing just fine, regardless of what the headlines want you to believe.

[MarketWise @MarketWise_Inc]

Another AI chip giant is emerging.

SambaNova just raised $1 billion from investors, giving the AI inference chipmaker an $11 billion valuation.

After Cerebras' $CBRS blockbuster IPO, could SambaNova be next?

https://t.co/oDt6jRLGRI

[Being Exponential | Luke Lango @exponentialluke]

$AEHR delivered another powerful confirmation that the AI infrastructure boom continues to expand. This time, confirmation came from the production-test layer of the semiconductor supply chain.

Q4 revenue rose 34% to $18.8 million, adjusted EPS reached $0.11 versus a year-ago loss, gross margin expanded 1,000 basis points to 45%, and bookings surged more than 500% to a record $60.7 million. Effective backlog now stands near $101 million, supporting fiscal 2027 revenue guidance of $130-150 million, representing 160%-200% growth, and roughly 66% above consensus at the midpoint.

AI processors generated approximately 71% of annual revenue, silicon photonics contributed another 20%, and together they accounted for more than 80% of Q4 sales.

Aehr's lead AI processor customer doubled its installed systems and shifted all production screening to wafer-level burn-in. A hyperscaler placed a $41 million order supporting high-volume AI-chip production. A separate top-tier accelerator, CPU, and networking supplier completed a benchmark that exceeded expectations and now wants to move a current high-volume device into pilot production. Crucially, guidance largely excludes that new customer, HBM, and high-bandwidth flash, leaving meaningful upside.

That's a "good-as-it-gets" quarter. Stacked up against what $ASML $TSM and Samsung have said in the last two weeks, we're getting confirmation of fundamental strength across the whole AI supply stack. ASML confirms equipment orders and fab expansion, TSMC confirms record advanced-chip production, Samsung confirms booming memory demand, and Aehr confirms those chips and optical interconnects are entering volume manufacturing.

That full-chain acceleration is difficult to reconcile with "peak spending" fears. The remaining question is still hyperscaler spending durability. That's why AI stocks still aren't catching a bid. If $META $AMZN $GOOGL $MSFT etc. reaffirm or raise forward capex, the combined evidence should decisively undermine oversupply fears and confirm that recent semiconductor weakness was a positioning-driven buying opportunity, with no operating downturn underway.

[InvestorPlace @InvestorPlace]

Two AI earnings reports landed the same week. One posted its best quarter in years. The other had its worst day in decades. Guess which one investors are dumping.

@InvestorPlace analyst Luke Lango on why the selloff and the fundamentals don't match: https://t.co/bZbW79YuiV