ECB and BOJ rate increases combined with the dollar increase over the last few months are slowing global dollar liquidity. US M3 continues to expand (global liquidity is 4x USM3 though.)
$ORCL profits are expected to triple over the next three years while the stock trades below 10x 2029 earnings with OCI growing 93% and backlog reaching ~$640B.
If $META and OpenAI demand turns that backlog into revenue then Oracle could emerge as the fourth major AI cloud before the market fully prices it in.
$ASML is one of the cleanest ways to own the AI semiconductor buildout because every major chip trend ultimately requires lithography.
Memory rose to 51% of net system sales in Q1 2026 (up from 30% in Q4) while the average EUV system price has nearly doubled in five years as customers move toward more advanced tools.
As $MU, $SKHY and Samsung expand HBM and advanced DRAM capacity, ASML benefits upstream without needing to pick which memory supplier wins the most share.