Constellation Research Chairman Ray Wang went on CNBC Monday morning to argue that the AI capital cycle has split the megacaps into two camps: hyperscalers with a clear line of sight to AI monetization, and enterprise software names that have been sold off despite growing cash flows.
The host's argument on Investing Insights lands with a specific market backdrop: Large AI companies like NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) dominate indexes right now, but the buildout underneath is quietly minting a second tier of beneficiaries in power generation and industrial metals.
Artificial intelligence has fueled one of the strongest stock market rallies in recent years, with semiconductor companies leading much of the market's gains in 2026.
Artificial intelligence has been one of the market's most powerful investment themes over the past several years, helping propel the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks to enormous gains.
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TXN pulled in $850M in Q2 CHIPS incentives. Intel is ramping 18A high-volume manufacturing in Arizona and Oregon, backed by a US government equity stake and a $5B NVIDIA investment related to AI infrastructure.
So far in the Q2 cycle, several companies, including Micron and Citigroup, have been standouts, whereas preliminary results from IBM have been disappointing.
The Trump administration is pressuring foreign memory chipmakers to expand their U.S.
Data centers receive sharp criticism for their high water usage, but the impact on the broader water industry and for investors is also about infrastructure bottlenecks, regulation, and emerging technologies, among other things. Utilities companies must navigate significant changes when hyperscalers enter their territory—in some cases, a new data center operator may immediately become one of the largest customers in the region.
SCHD has returned just under 2% in the past month, outperforming the S&P 500 ETF SPY by almost 100 bps. Year-to-date, almost 30 SCHD holdings have a return that's more than double that of SPY which has returned 9.8% YTD. 31 SCHD holdings look to be trading for an attractive valuation, in that they are at least 10% undervalued but also have a potential future return of above 10%.
When a late-stage clinical trial misses a primary endpoint, the market reaction rarely distributes evenly across the board. The fallout often reveals undeniable fundamental truths about single-asset exposure, pipeline diversification, and the competitive moats protecting established treatments.