$NVDA bear case
- trading at a forward PE over 30 - assuming 50% growth in ‘26, 80% gross margins
- competition coming (AMD, INTC, AWS, others)
- Data center spend growing slower (15-20%) so needs even higher share to sustain growth
- PE of 30 at $3.7T valuation implies future cash flows sustainable for DECADES
- MSFT only tech company to remain atop most valuable companies for decades (AAPL has notched one decade)
- buy from pessimists, sell to optimists — no pessimists left
Either we get a continuation of yesterday’s bear market rally tomorrow or we take our next leg lower.
Possible exception: another day with a huge range in the VIX/SPY, in which neither hits a new high/low and both close in the post-liberation day range
$spy $qqq
Macro positives:
- All data this week supports idea economy still growing
- earnings have been good
- US policy should become more friendly
Negatives:
- macro numbers nearly all came in below expectations
- $GOOGL missed revenue, $AAPL $AMZN $MSFT were inline. All show slowing growth
- DOGE likely to affect overall employment
- $AAPL and $AMZN trade at multiples that suggest massive earnings growth - how if revenue growth slowing?
- DeepSeek not yet reflected in capex or semiconductor valuation
- DeepSeek reaction underscored headline risk to equity prices — still priced for perfection
Terrible sentiment - "high fees" "falling crypto markets" "no moat" etc - but it has trust, users, and a mission that main street appreciates and the cryptoeconomy benefits from. A business that profits by strategically amplifying a huge secular evolution.. $coin is a no brainer
Bears have been nearly vanquished.
Volatility is cheap.
Most sectors seem fairly to fully valued.
But who knows, optimism usually pays. Time will tell…
$SPY $QQQ
Feelings are not facts
That said, I feel like this leg up is the start of a major top forming process
$NVDA likely will hit $3T market cap
$MSFT is already over $3T
$AAPL is right behind
$TLT rising reflecting steepening inverted yield curve
If the market holds/grinds for a bit before the next real pullback, $nvda seems like it could top $1000. Interestingly right around there equals $2.5T in market cap
Also: in the last two major BTC runs in 2017 and 2021 led to tops that became support in the next run, suggesting
1) much higher $BTC from here
2) much larger asset base trading crypto, with no exchange capable of tightroping regulators and competitors like $coin
I am slowly moving money into various crypto assets, especially my trading money, as I think there's still arbitrage opportunities from so many haters whose reasoning and knowledge is remarkably superficial when probed relative to their conviction they're right
$META will fail on mobile (craters to $20 despite dominance in fastest growing space)
$NFLX low margin distribution and can’t compete against dominant players (mkt cap fell to $3B)
$AAPL just a hardware company
$CMG will never recover from E. coli scare
And on and on…