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Loves Starlink and even the AI component. He's looking at this years in the future.

He's buying weakness as it goes through price discovery. This has evangelical support for this. Any news will see a huge price rise.

They bought back shares, 10% of the float, the past year which raises earnings. So what is their growth? Also, Adobe hired an insider as the new CEO. So, did an outsider not find Adobe more attractive enough for a CEO from another company to leave their current role? Doesn't know. This is why Adobe is in the crosshairs.

Has good momentum.

Good question. Succinct answer:  not a chance. AI is driving 2/3-3/4 of overall US economic growth. Canadian banks are a levered play on economic growth, always have been and always will be. If the AI bubble bursts, it'll be a macro headwind.

To one degree or another, Canadian banks are all operating in the States. Provisions for credit losses would likely pick up, which would impact earnings. Capital markets businesses are all making money hand over fist. If that were to fizzle and dry up, would be a headwind. Wealth management fees are predicated on value of assets managed; if markets tanked, fees would go down. Overall market multiple would compress, and banks now are trading at elevated PE ratios.

Real question:  would they weather the storm better than other parts of the market? Probably better than some, but wouldn't be immune.

The Canadian AI equity story is real, but different. In the States it's all about the AI ecosystem, and sitting at the top of the hill are the hyperscalers.

In Canada, it's more of a multi-theme portfolio rather than a single AI stock or ETF. It's more about the infrastructure enablers. We don't really have hyperscalers here, but we have some fantastic enablers. Think of CLS. The poster child for industrial AI software is SHOP. We also have power and data centre beneficiaries, such as ENB, FTS, EMA, and H.

You can drill down further into space and defense AI. The first one that comes to mind is MDA.