Tech giant SoftBank is up nearly 73% so far this year
AI demand powered the country’s stocks to an all-time high and helped Masayoshi Son’s company dethrone Toyota after more than 20 years at the top. Source: FT
South Korean stocks have more than quadrupled over the last 17 months, trouncing every other country.
The reason? 2 South Korean companies in the AI memory space, both of which now have a market cap above $1 trillion: SK Hynix & Samsung. Source: Charlie Bilello
The current market frenzy is far beyond the 2021 MEME STOCK MANIA
Retail investors are now spending a record 4.9 TIMES more money on semiconductor options contracts than the average seen since 2020, according to Citadel data. This is also exceeding the 2024 record by ~25%, when the AI chip frenzy first drove a surge in retail semiconductor options activity. In other words, retail investors are making record bets on semiconductor stocks. Source: Global Markets Investor, Citadel securities Afficher la traduction
Space ETF assets
Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg
Nasdaq at 875 trading days after the release of Netscape on 12/19/94: +144.55%.
Nasdaq at 875 trading days after the release of ChatGPT on 11/30/22: +144.77%. Past performance is no guarantee of future results! Source: Bespoke
Forward P/E Ratios...
Costco $COST: 45 Walmart $WMT: 36 Nvidia $NVDA: 17 Which one is the bubble? Source: Charlie Bilello
AI Race To Return On Investment
Only **Amazon** is expected to generate a positive return on its massive AI capex through 2030 — even under the most generous assumptions (zero costs). Microsoft: -9.2% Alphabet: -15.7% Meta: -28.8% Oracle: -35.6% The AI arms race is getting expensive. Source: FT BraVoCycles Newsletter
This market is all about tech. That goes for US as well as global markets.
Source: UBS, TME
