Very positive. My opinion is that the optical sector underperformance recently from $AAOI to $SIVE has been absurd.
The demand visibility... is just way too stupidly high.
AOI: “Even combined AOI, Coherent program altogether, is still very tough to meet the customer demand in the next 3 years” (2029)
Elazr GM: "entire optical supply chain was facing major shortages." "The shortage will continue to the next few years"
Sivers CEO said the same thing about InP laser demand imbalances expected for the next 3-5 years.
Can go on and on about $LITE, $MTSI and other comments.
We haven't even hit the inflection point with 1.6T, NPO, CPO scale out/up, and optics with memory (as seen with SK Hynix).
Yet the industry is already bottlenecked by EML/CW and all your other upstream components from PDs/TIA/DSPs, transceivers, and soon FAU + others when CPO scales…
I'm personally extremely comfortable watching this all play out, but just a little confused that markets don't know how to math a year or two ahead.
“Memory is a bubble.”Explain this then, KOSPI bears:
Samsung has reportedly reserved ~70% of its memory production capacity through 2031 via LTAs with $NVDA, $MSFT, and $GOOGL as main counterparties.
Five years of demand visibility…
Just taking a look at Leopold's Situational Awareness Q2 13F latest holdings as of June 30th:
1. $SNDK - $5.674B
2. $MU - $5.574B
3. $BE - $1.899B
4. $TSM - $1.265B
5. $NBIS - $1.232B
6. $CRWV - $744.5M
7. $CORZ - $665.6M
8. $STM - $584.3M (new)
9. $APLD - $469.0M
10. $RIOT - $468.2M
11. $SHAZ - $456.8M
12. $IREN - $433.3M
Less material positions includeed $CLSK, $KEEL, sei-network:native, $WYFI, $BTDR, $TE, $HIVE, $VSH, and others.
Seems like Situational Awareness concentrated around memory (Sandisk, Micron), that have low forward multiples but high visibility into 2030.
As well as Anthropic/energy/power adjacent from colo/neoclouds + Bloom.
Some of the bottlenecks like the MLCC trade, he couldn't see play out (Taiyo Yuden, etc). due to July's liqudation. And some are new like $STM (eg. MCU price hikes).
With core winners of everything such as $TSM (but less high-beta).
This looked similar to my H2 2026/early 2027 portfolio with Nebius, Micron, TSM, colo players and others as core focus. (I've heavily concentrated on upstream networking/legacy memory currently, with a lot of name overlap).
But always cool to see what others are doing.