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Has long owned it. They have strong pricing power. It really benefited from the World Cup. Is up 30% this year. Pay a 2.3% dividend.

The preferreds of Microchip give you a little exposure to tech and still get income of 5.75%.

30% of the names in this are at 52-week highs, but is not an overbought sector.

Not worried about it. Apple does well when everybody worries about capital spending, then doesn't well when there are worries Apple is not spending on AI. Whatever's in vogue.

Messaging from Scott Bessent yesterday is that they're buying back money because the US economy has a major fiscal challenge. This tells us that we have some trouble ahead. You're probably misreading the tea leaves if you don't take some money out of your growth names and pivot to some defense.

People looking at these massive capex numbers see the spend side, but want to see the revenue side. Seeing explosive revenue from Anthropic and OpenAI. He's starting to pay much more attention to the return on investment among the hyperscalers.

GPUs have a longer life cycle than people are expecting (9 years vs. an estimated 6). So the payoff period can extend much longer.

She's been holding onto this since it was flat, but now it's rising which is sticking because there's optimism in tech and healthcare. This rotation into HC has been stable and durable. HS will be one of the next big beneficiaries of AI, but the cost of AI has to fall first. It will take a little while, but you are paid to wait. Enter HC now.

The Google chip deal is typical--the hyperscalers want customized chips. If Marvell builds the relationship with Google, will Google turn to Marvell for silicon purchases. This would hurt Broadcom. It's a good deal; it will lead to future purchases.

He loves the growth in AWS.

She sold it last June. Will definitely be driven by crypto, which is finally waking up, so HOOD could wake up too.

Right now he's attracted to companies that, for some reason, the market hates. Whether it's META, UBER, V, or NFLX. Some are at 52-week highs, but haven't done a lot over the last 4-5 years. Instead, money's been rotating into the hot areas. 

He sees so many opportunities in dislocated, high-quality companies. Growing really fast, but valuation is the cheapest it's been in a long time given the opportunities ahead.

He's held the hyperscalers as core holdings since 2015 and he still sees upside. The past quarter validated that with acceleration in the cloud business by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Margins increased. But there will be more competition for AI services and prices are reducing for best-in-class models. Meta's in the doghouse from regulatory issues and are spending a lot of money but their core advertising business is on fire, which may surpass Google Shopify is using AI to accelerate its core offerings. As for software, Microsoft's Co-Pilot keeps getting better, while ServiceNow will build AI functionality across all its platforms. End users will use software they already trust, but will use AI.