Equities to Watch This Week
561: Crowd Favorites and Trump Adjacent Home Run Candidates
Morning gents super quick note this morning (full post tomorrow).
I wanted to at least give you all a preview and primer of what this week might hold before markets open.
There’s been a number of stocks that have follow the same pattern. Either Trump mentions them OR online communities on X get the hype rolling and they proceed to do absurd runs.
INTC did it, IBM is doing it this week, ARM is on a run, the list is endless.
As I say on here frequently sometimes you have to ramp up the monkey side of your brain and stop asking so many questions. Logic left the chat a long time ago and many on the sidelines are simply watching stocks go vertical each day with no horse in the race.
It is fairly evident now (and we have outlined it countless times) what you NEED to hold. I would suggest re-reading this post below in conjunction with today’s list.
We’ve entered a similar paradigm to the Covid stock madness where names are pulling insane multiples and gains off sheer hype.
I polled some folks on our Instagram and poured over X to find the best chatter on equities people will be focused on this week.
I’m not saying these are guaranteed or continued winners but I want to put the most popular names in front of you so you don’t get to Friday this week and wonder why you missed out on another 50% OR we see some selling and you have to scramble to come up with a worthy shopping list.
These are the names people are hyper focused on right now.
High Traction Stock Names On The Radar Right Now
IBM - Big Blue is quietly finding new life as investors revisit legacy enterprise names with real AI integration potential. Up almost 12% in premarket trading
INTC - Intel remains a favorite turnaround and policy trade. Any renewed focus on domestic chip production, reshoring, or semiconductor nationalism could put it back in the spotlight. They just unveiled fresh AI chip initiatives aimed at competing more aggressively in the data center and inference market, reinforcing their ambition to claw back relevance in the AI race
ARM - One of the core names behind modern chip architecture. Expensive and crowded, but still viewed as a foundational layer of the broader AI and computing ecosystem. Up 11% in pre market trading
BBAI - A speculative defense AI name sitting at the intersection of analytics, government contracts, and national security themes. I think she is due for a big run. I hold call options and commons. BigBear just announced stronger backlog growth, including over $60 million tied to national security contracts, while continuing to lean hard into defense, border, trade, and mission focused AI
PLTR - One of the market’s clearest plays on defense software, sovereign AI, and government data infrastructure. Continues to attract strong institutional and retail interest and I really think this is next in line for the Trump Pump after INTC DELL and other names Trump has explicitly mentioned. I am max long on this going into this week
NOW - Getting huge retail momentum now. Enterprise software momentum has improved, and ServiceNow is benefiting from the growing narrative around AI driven workflow automation. Up 22% in the last week
SNOW - Went on a nice tear last week. key data infrastructure player that keeps finding its way into the AI conversation, particularly around enterprise data organization and analytics
KTOS -My third biggest defense holding. Defense and autonomous systems exposure continue to make Kratos a closely watched name in the drone and military technology trade
ONDS - You know the deal here. Absolute stellar week last week and some major clues online that this could be a big benefactor of Trump contracts and integration with PLTR and anti drone pushes domestically
MU - Be careful with this absolute unit. She breached $1,000 in pre market. One of the major beneficiaries of the AI hardware boom, driven by growing demand for advanced memory and data center infrastructure. Just an insane run, congratulations to those of you who caught it
DELL - The big story last week, when it ripped 57%. Once considered a slower hardware story, Dell has now clearly re emerged as a meaningful player in AI server demand and enterprise infrastructure
HPE - Another legacy technology name gaining traction. Usually boring but has a new spark, up 140% in the last year
CSCO - Investors seem to be rediscovering networking and infrastructure plays as AI expansion drives demand for connectivity and data center backbone equipment. Cisco is up 37% in the last month
WDC - Positioned around storage capacity and data center demand, Western Digital remains tied to the broader infrastructure side of the AI story and has crushed it in past year up 940%
STX - Already a huge winner in the last year. Data storage demand has revived interest in names that once looked firmly old economy but now benefit from AI expansion. A rising retail AI mania tide helps all the ships. STX might continue its run
NVDA - Still the dominant force in the AI market narrative and often the stock setting the tone for every asset on earth lmao. You have to own it.
MSFT - My third largest position in my brokerage and one I just keep adding to each week. The central player in enterprise AI, cloud computing, and software deployment with continued relevance across multiple technology themes. Do not write her off. I think she could go on a nice tear soon
CDNS - I think chip design software exposure makes Cadence a less obvious but important name tied to long term semiconductor growth
AVGO - Love me some AVGO. Broadcom remains one of the stronger infrastructure plays thanks to their exposure to custom chips, networking, and hyperscaler demand
LITE - Optical and networking technology
CRWD - Cybersecurity continues to hold up as a strong software theme, particularly as AI reshapes digital risk and enterprise security. Could be a major runner this week
PANW - Cybersecurity platform consolidation and AI driven security concerns continue to support interest in this name. Up about 2% in pre market trading right now
OKLO - This one just keeps popping up on my feed and in my DMs. Nuclear energy speculation remains active as investors connect rising AI power demand with long-term energy infrastructure needs
IONQ - Can’t forget quantum. Quantum computing remains a high risk, high attention speculative pocket of the market for traders looking beyond the AI craze. I own a bit of this right now
RGTI - A pretty volatile quantum computing name that continues to draw interest whenever next generation computing narratives manage to gain momentum and attention from degens
QBTS - Another quantum name benefiting from enthusiasm around future computing technologies
RCAT - Drone and autonomous defense themes continue to support interest in the stock
UMAC - A small cap drone and defense adjacent name that has generated attention among traders watching the domestic drone ecosystem. Ties to Trump’s sons and one of the more explicit beneficiaries of billions to come into the space soon. Careful, she’s been on a big tear as of late pulling ahead of other names in the space
AVAV - More established exposure to drones, loitering munitions, and defense technology demand. Higher risk than some of the other names on this list I think
OUST - Positioned around lidar, autonomy, and security related applications that connect to broader defense and industrial technology themes
RDW - Space and defense infrastructure exposure keeps Redwire tied to satellite, aerospace, and national security narratives. Pumped hard on the Trump drone theme last week
PL - Geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery exposure position Planet Labs within the broader defense and data ecosystem
IBM - Big Blue is quietly finding new life as investors revisit legacy enterprise names with real AI integration potential. Between hybrid cloud, enterprise AI deployments, and deep corporate relationships, IBM has found itself back in the conversation as a steadier “grown up” AI play with some solid Trump momentum
BB - No longer the retro smartphone story, BlackBerry has reinvented itself around cybersecurity, embedded software, automotive operating systems, and connected device infrastructure. Retail loves them. We might see a run back of the Covid meme craze as retail looks for “more affordable” bets in the market
NOK - Sneakily transforming from telecom legacy name into an AI infrastructure and networking play. Reports of heavy insider buying as well
VRT - I have mentioned Vertiv before and this seems to be a favorite in the discord and in DMs on the Arbitrage Andy instagram crowd. One of the cleaner second order AI infrastructure trades. While most investors chase chips, Vertiv sits behind the scenes supplying the power, cooling, and physical infrastructure needed
Global News
Iran remains in a deeply unsettled position. Nuclear negotiations are still hung up on major sticking points including sanctions relief, enriched uranium stockpiles, regional security guarantees, and the future of Iranian influence across the Middle East.
I think most people are kind of tired of this conflict (similar narrative exhaustion to Ukraine).
Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, proxy activity tied to Hezbollah and regional militias continue to complicate any diplomacy efforts we see each week. Iran has executed missile attacks on Kuwait over the weekend along with their classic “until every American leaves the region” rhetoric.
The Czech Republic is reportedly likely to miss its NATO defense-spending target (Polymarket)
Saudi Arabia has condemned Iranian strikes on Kuwait
Pro-Iran hackers gained access to the official Instagram account of John Bentivegna, the top enlisted guardian in Space Force (TaskandPurpose)
China launched patrols east of Taiwan in response to Japan and the Philippines opening maritime border talks (Polymarket)
Anyway tomorrow we delve into the continued destruction of Western countries by mass immigration which is a topic I have touched on over the years.
The grooming gangs in the UK, the infiltration of France and other parts of Europe, the mass H1-b ploys in corporate circles, and yes, the complete subversion of the US under the Biden years with millions and millions of people. Entire fabric of countries altered right under people’s noses.
You really had to look to further than the “celebrations” across France by “French” people in the wake of the Arsenal x PSG match to see this playing out live. Crowds in Paris and several other cities saw clashes with police, fires, vandalism, looting, and hundreds of arrests as authorities struggled to contain the chaos.
Political correctness, virtue signaling, and suicidal empathy have doomed Europe and the West.
People can no longer even call things out for what they are, which in this case is a full on third world invasion. It is intentional. It is designed this way, and the ramifications are dark.
Sad shit and truly irreversible if it is not addressed soon.
See you guys tomorrow morning. If you have names I missed feel free to plug them in the comments.
Have a great Monday.
Andy.
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Andy! The French riot for just about anything. It helps them keep their skills sharp for when they riot about things that matter. Other than that, great write up.