December 18, 2025
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.
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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