Conviction through cycles.
I’ve been buying Apple for years —
monthly, and on meaningful pullbacks.
Held through inflation, COVID,
factory shutdowns, and multiple sell-offs.
Yes, I trimmed some.
No, the thesis hasn’t changed.
Core intact.
~7,000 shares.
Cash ready.
Conviction intact.
I know what I own.
$AAPL
Great to be featured in Reuters today discussing why the market’s lens on the Mag 7 changes now that $SPCX is public.
The next leadership group will be defined by who controls the infrastructure behind AI and the physical economy:
• $NVDA controls the accelerated compute layer
• $TSLA controls autonomy, robotics and physical AI
• $META controls proprietary data, global consumer distribution & AI-driven advertising infrastructure
• $SPCX controls launch, satellite communications, space infrastructure & eventually orbital compute
• $AAPL controls consumer hardware distribution, on-device AI & operating system layer across billions of devices
• $MSFT, $AMZN & $GOOGL control cloud platforms and AI distribution with Amazon and Google also owning custom silicon through Trainium, Inferentia and TPUs
Apple isn’t trying to win the AI model race.
It’s trying to make AI work across the entire Apple ecosystem without giving up user privacy.
That’s a different game.
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The biggest Apple announcement wasn’t a new feature.
It was Siri connecting the entire Apple ecosystem.
One conversation. Every app. Every device.
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The winner doesn’t have to own everything.
Sometimes owning the platform is enough.
More than $1.4 trillion of economic activity now runs through the App Store ecosystem.
$AAPL
Cash flow and visibility matter more than short-term valuation.
Nearly 98% on $PANW.
The earnings beat was nice.
The guidance and visibility were even better.
Phase matters.
SAP partnering with Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir is a bigger signal than it looks.
AI is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure now.
I added a small position in SAP today.
$SAP
Most people focus on who builds the AI.
I’m also watching who owns the relationship with the user.
Sometimes the relationship matters as much as the technology.
$NVDA $AAPL
Apple $AAPL price target raised to $380 from $330 at BofA
BofA raised the firm's price target on Apple to $380 from $330 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares.
In an agentic world, value accrues to the platform that controls user intent, personal context, app access, permissions, identity, authentication, payments, and trust, argues the analyst, who thinks Apple should have "meaningful leverage" over model providers, app developers, merchants, advertisers, and payment networks if AI assistants become the new front door to search, apps, commerce, scheduling, payments, and workflow completion.
When confidence drops, money usually stops chasing stories and starts paying for cash flow.
Some businesses don’t need excitement. They just keep generating cash.
$AAPL $ADP
Most people confuse safe code with a secure system.
AI can improve code quality,
but most breaches come from identity theft, misconfiguration, and runtime exposure — not syntax.
More code means a larger attack surface.
Security demand isn’t going away in the AI era.
It’s expanding.
$PANW $CRWD
Alphabet $GOOGL price target raised to $445 from $425 at Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer analyst Jason Helfstein raised the firm's price target on Alphabet to $445 from $425 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares.
The firm cites higher GCP estimates as its 28 times 2027 EPS multiple remains unchanged, or 12% upside potential. Oppenheimer continues to see more capacity unlock for Alphabet through the remainder of 2026.