$SPY AI Infrastructure β YTD Returns & Why They will keep going higher...
1. $SNDK +820.36% β Spun off from Western Digital, pure-play NAND flash exposure. AI data centers need massive storage capacity for training datasets and model checkpoints
2. $WDC+333.17% β Hard drive + flash storage for hyperscale data centers. Storage is the unglamorous but essential layer under every AI buildout someone has to hold all that training data.
3. $MU +297.32% β DRAM/HBM leader, direct beneficiary of the memory bottleneck Jensen Huang has flagged repeatedly. HBM feeds GPUs the bandwidth they need; without it, the chips wait.
4. $STX +288.62% β Storage infrastructure, same thesis as WDC. Mass capacity drives for AI data lakes and archival of training data.
5. $INTC +263.12% β Foundry + CPU maker repositioning around AI accelerators and U.S. domestic chip manufacturing (CHIPS Act beneficiary). Strategic national-security angle on top of the AI angle.
6. $DELL +225.31% β Builds the AI servers (with Nvidia GPUs inside) that hyperscalers and enterprises actually deploy. Picks-and-shovels exposure to AI server demand.
7. $AMD +150.92% β Nvidia's primary GPU competitor, plus growing data center CPU share. Diversification play for the AI compute layer as hyperscalers seek a second source.
8. $AMAT +140.13% β Semiconductor equipment maker. Every advanced chip GPU, HBM, logic needs AMAT's tools to get fabricated. Upstream of literally everything.
9. $LITE +130.61% β Optical components for data center interconnects. As AI clusters scale, data has to move between racks and buildings at light speed this is the bottleneck layer.
10. $LRCX +127.27% β Another core semiconductor equipment name, etch/deposition tools critical for advanced node and memory chip production.
11. $TER +126.25% β Chip testing equipment. Every AI chip needs to be tested before shipping; volume scales directly with chip production volume.
12. $ON +124.60% β Power semiconductors. AI data centers are power-hungry; ON's chips manage power delivery and efficiency at scale.
13. $GLW +122.61% β Fiber optic cable and glass substrate manufacturer. Physical backbone for data center networking and high-speed interconnects.
14. $KLAC +113.62% β Process control and inspection equipment for semiconductor fabs. Ensures yield on the advanced chips powering AI quality control layer of the supply chain.
15. $COHR +111.07% β Optical and laser components, datacenter interconnect and photonics exposure. Same bottleneck thesis as LITE bandwidth between AI clusters.
16. $FIX +110.80% β Mechanical/electrical contractor building out data center HVAC and infrastructure. Unsexy but critical AI data centers generate enormous heat and need cooling infrastructure installed.
17. $Q +106.96% β Electronics manufacturing; check ticker/sector specifics before publishing, this one's less universally recognized as a pure AI name.
18. $VRT +105.57% β Data center power and cooling systems specialist. Direct beneficiary of the AI data center buildout thermal management is a hard constraint on how dense you can pack GPUs.
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ALL IN TRADE (1k-100k challenge):
We played this perfectly...
After a 5% gain on $BRUN the first trade, and 10% gain on $OPTX the second trade, I'm going for a bigger % gain this time.
Back in $BRUN.
Here's what I'm seeing:
BRUN/OPTX looks bottomed here (means BRUN should outperform OPTX here).
$BRUN also just consolidated over ATH levels, finished its A-B-C wave lower, and is looking like it wants to go much higher.
It also just survived massive FUD.
TLDR; I just bought $BRUN and closed my $OPTX here.
Trade receipts posted below...
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*This is a very, very small percent of my portfolio. My long-term positions are in $BRUN, $OPTX, and the other AI stocks such as $ASYS, etc., which are active.
$SPCX is trading at $167 can hit $800-$1000+ in 2 years.
Here's 12 stocks under $12 that will do exactly the same:
1. $TE ~$9.00
Leopold's highest-conviction pick, AI infrastructure demand still massively underestimated.
2. $KEEL ~$5.96
Secured power assets, AI data centers, hyperscaler demand accelerating rapidly.
3. $ONDS ~$9.78
Private wireless networks becoming critical for defense and industrial automation.
4. $POET ~$13.25
Optical engines could solve AI networking bottlenecks at massive scale.
5. $CIFR ~$25
Converting cheap power into valuable AI compute infrastructure assets.
6. $WULF ~$27
One of the purest AI data center transformation stories.
7. $HIVE ~$4.00
Expanding from mining into high-margin AI cloud compute services.
8. $SATL ~$6.95
Satellite communications positioned for growing defense and government spending.
9. $NOK ~$15.10
Global telecom infrastructure beneficiary of AI-driven network upgrades.
10. $BTDR ~$18.97
Rapidly scaling AI compute business with attractive power economics.
11. $LAES ~$3.26
Quantum-safe cybersecurity becoming essential as AI adoption accelerates globally.
12. $CLSK ~$17.44
Strong balance sheet, growing infrastructure footprint, execution steadily improving.
If AI, memory, power, and space infrastructure continue expanding, several of these could be dramatically higher by 2030.
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