Micron HBM Sold Out, TSLA ATH, SpaceX Launch Year

Alphabet (GOOGL/GOOG)

• Market Performance: Shares gained approximately 1.7% in recent trading and closed in the green.

• AI Competition: Some investors are shifting focus toward "Alphabet winners" like Gemini as a driver of growth in the AI sector.

  
  

Amazon (AMZN)

• Market Performance: Shares gained approximately 1.7% in recent trading and closed in the green.

• 2026 Outlook: Identified as a "choke point" winner for 2026, as 4 out of every 10 e-commerce dollars move through its platform.

  
  

DataBricks

• Valuation: Valued at $134 billion following a Series L round co-led by JP Morgan.

• Growth: The company is reportedly growing at twice the rate of public high-growth software firms.

  
  

Meta (META)

• Market Performance: Closed in the green during the most recent session.

  
  

Microsoft (MSFT)

• Market Performance: Led major tech sector gains, rising approximately 1.7% in recent trading.

  
  

OpenAI

• Market Influence: Continues to be a primary driver of private market growth.

• Talent Loss: Top AI scientists are being recruited away by Chinese tech giants like Tencent.

  
  

Tencent (TCEHY)

• Recruitment: Successfully recruiting top AI scientists from Western organizations such as OpenAI.

  
  

Micron Technology (MU)

• Stock Performance: Shares surged 11% (marking its best day since April) following a "blowout" earnings report and guidance.

• Revenue & Supply: Reported a revenue outlook that significantly exceeded expectations; however, the company is currently unable to produce enough supply to meet major customer demand.

• HBM Status: The company is sold out of High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for AI chips through calendar 2026.

  
  

Nvidia (NVDA)

• Market Performance: Shares gained nearly 2% in recent trading.

• 2025 Volatility: Weathered a $600 billion sell-off early in the year due to fears that Deepseek’s R1 model training would reduce GPU demand, though these fears eased as inference demand remained high.

• China Sales: Reportedly set to begin shipping H200 chips to China by early 2026.

  
  

Samsung (SSNLF) & SK Hynix

• HBM Demand: Both firms are seeing massive demand for HBM chips essential for AI data centers.

• Market Position: South Korean firms (like these two) dominate the HBM supply chain, attracting diversified AI investments into Asian equities.

  
  

Blue Origin

• Mission Update: The NS-37 mission (16th human flight) was postponed or canceled due to high winds in West Texas.

• Accessibility: The mission intended to fly Mitchie Benthaus, who would be the first person to reach space using a wheelchair.

• New Glenn: The New Glenn rocket is expected to help enable orbital data centers and space manufacturing in 2026.

  
  

SpaceX

• Starship: Projected to be a key driver in the 2026 "year of mass to orbit," enabling new space-based industries.

• Government Contracts: Faces a potential shift in how NASA contracts lunar landing missions under new leadership.

  
  

Star Fighter Space (SFS)

• IPO Success: Shares surged over 100% during its NYSE debut.

• Technology: Uses Mach 2+ fighter jets as a "first stage" for aerial rockets to launch nano-satellites, providing rapid deployment for the Department of Defense.

  
  

Tesla (TSLA)

• Market Performance: Shares rose 3%, marking its first record high of the year.

  
  

Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT)

• Nuclear Pivot: Announced a $6 billion all-stock merger with TAE Technologies.

• Strategic Shift: The merger signals a move into the nuclear fusion sector to address the massive energy requirements of AI.

  
  

TAE Technologies

• Fusion Project: Aims to build a 50-megawatt hydrogen-boron fusion power plant, with construction starting in 2026 and "first power" targeted for 2031.

• Technology: Utilizes a process requiring temperatures of 3 billion degrees, which is considered cleaner and safer than traditional fission.

  
  

United Rentals (URI)

• Market Share: Holds a 17% market share in heavy equipment rentals.

• 2026 Outlook: Positioned to benefit from the $1.2 trillion U.S. industrial and infrastructure build-out.

  
  

Robinhood (HOOD)

• Prediction Markets: Expanding this segment following a successful 2025 election cycle that saw nearly 500 million contracts traded.

• Demographics: Seeing increased usage by young investors (average age early 30s) as a hedge for equity and crypto portfolios.

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